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Vitamin hearing video

Supers:
Gainesville, FL
Colleen Le Prell/UF hearing researcher

SOT: "With something like what we’re developing, which is vitamins, minerals, things that are known to be safe already available over-the-counter, someone could easily take a daily supplement. That’s ideal for someone who works in a noisy environment or someone who knows that periodically they’re exposed to noise."

SOT: "We did a study where we looked at a combination of salicilate, which is the active agent in aspirin combined with vitamin E, and we found that even up to about three days post noise exposure, we could prevent the permanent changes that are otherwise evident a week to ten days later."

Note: Downloadable videos are encoded at 720x486 using the Photo-JPEG codec. Audio is encoded at 44.1 kHz and unmixed.