Dr. Konstantina Stankovic

In fact, we exposed the entire inner ear, and it was striking to see that they were preferentially taken up by hair cells.

What that means for function, we don't know, but it was striking.

So we don't even know what we are doing to ourselves.

And it's scary because plastic is everywhere.

It's released at very high levels at extremes of temperature.

So you definitely don't want to put a food-containing plastic container into a microwave to heat it up because then even more plastic gets released.

And auditory neurons are the most active because they have spontaneous firing rates that are really high, hundreds of spikes per second.

They have to be active all the time because then it's easier to respond quickly.

Because if you are completely turned off and now a sound comes, it's a higher activation energy than if you're always...

and then sound comes in, so the threshold of detecting that is lower.

And all of those drugs in that category, non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory medications, that includes acetaminophen as well.

You're a physician, so I mean... So if you need to take drugs, you take them.

It's just not good to develop a habit of taking a drug on a regular basis if you don't need it.

And that has become sort of a norm.

For example, there's this Tylenol PM where they put Benadryl into it so that it would help...

people sleep.

Well, that's a bad habit.

Do you need Tylenol or do you need Benadryl?

What do you need?

Or do you need either?