Did you know that there is a hormone that diminishes with age that sometimes gives patients significant hearing return, when it's taken in bio-identical form? Trying to find some info online -- try here:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james46.htm Follow up with more research on your own. It sounds fascinating. So much of what we call normal aging is really just a loss of a hormone or another, and replacing them bioidentically can help sometimes.