Tinnitus: Managed by Habituation, Not Cured by a Supplement

Summary

Tinnitus is a real phantom auditory percept, usually tied to hearing loss, and its evidence-based management genuinely helps but the honest frame is **reduce the distress and habituate, not eliminate the sound**: cognitive behavioural therapy reliably lowers tinnitus-related distress, treating coexisting hearing loss with hearing aids and sound therapy can make it less intrusive, the "tinnitus miracle / tinnitus formula" supplement market (Ginkgo, zinc, melatonin, proprietary blends) is unsupported and explicitly recommended against, and the one line that must never be buried is the red-flag r