Can vitamins and minerals prevent hearing loss?

About 10 million people in the United States aloneצrom troops returning from war to students with music blasting through headphonesסre suffering from impairing noise-induced hearing loss. The rising trend is something that researchers and physicians at the University of Michigan Kresge Hearing Research Institute are hoping to reverse, with a cocktail of vitamins and the mineral magnesium that has shown promise as a possible way to prevent hearing loss caused by loud noises.