Re: bizarre hearing loss
Check out magnesium deficiency and hearing loss... I think that the supportive minerals with the
Iodine protocol should be helping you and am a little surprised that it is not (I know you do ES baths)... even if there is some physical damage.
Just yesterday my kids said "man your hearing is good"... when I picked up on a whispered conversation they were having across the house.
I am not sure that ES soaks are a good way to stabilize the magnesium levels unless you are taking low dose baths more frequently as apposed to high dose baths once or twice a week.
Both vision and hearing can be affected by chronic zinc deficiencies along with other nutrient deficiencies. Actually, zinc deficiencies are known to increase the permeability of the BBB.
Check this out...
http://www.innvista.com/health/ailments/earail/hearnutr.htm
then do searches on any of the nutrients and hearing loss... if it were me, I would determine my dietary intake of the nutrients here, focusing on and stabilizing mineral and elemental intake first and the others should fall into place.
You said you are in the middle of apple squeezing time? Get your hands on the best and have at it... We just went through the last of what was coming in around here... it will be citrus out the wazoo here in a few months.