Vertigo, Tinnitus and Joint Pain Often Share One Root

Ringing in the ears, a room that spins, joints that ache. Dr. Martin does not treat those as three separate problems. Oftentimes they are related to insulin resistance. Who knew, as he puts it.

So in clinic he went after the diet instead of the symptom. Make the patient more insulin sensitive, then wait and see what happens. What came back was not a lab result. It was patients telling him the pain they had lived with for years was gone, the ringing had stopped, the vertigo had not returned.

That is the part worth sitting with. When those three keep turning up together, the useful question is not which one to chase first. It is what your body is doing with sugar.