An enhanced diet is likely to help curb hearing loss due to genetic abnormality that is most commonly responsible for childhood deafness new research suggests. A study found that an antioxidant regimen of beta carotene (precursor to vitamin A) vitamins C and E and magnesium helped slow progression of hereditary deafness in mice with a deletion in Connexin 26 gene -- a protein found on the gene and the most common cause of innate hearing loss. Connexin 26 alterations are responsible for at least 20 percent of all genetic hearing loss and 10 percent of all childhood hearing loss. Our
