How Soundbites helps
Care for the cells. Keep the connection.
Soundbites is designed to support the cells that translate sound into hearing.
Take a look inside
The story in three steps
An extraordinary process. An everyday opportunity.
Start with the cells that make hearing possible.
Small cells. An extraordinary job.
Inside the cochlea, tiny hair cells help turn sound into signals your brain understands. This is where sound becomes hearing.
A little more detail
Sound waves travel through the ear canal and middle ear to the fluid-filled cochlea. Outer hair cells amplify sound vibrations; inner hair cells pass information to the auditory nerve.
Hear it. See the difference.
Louder sound. Less time.
Choose a familiar sound and watch the two measures change. Explore the relationship between sound energy, exposure time and oxidative stress.
As sound energy climbs, recommended exposure time falls.
Keep your device volume low. Clips are illustrative, not played at the displayed decibel level.
Selected example · approximate real-world level
Maximum exposure guide
Approximate daily limit under the NIOSH model. Not a damage countdown.
Oxidative stress
This meter shows the sound-energy driver, not measured oxidative stress. The logarithmic scale keeps both quieter and louder examples readable.
Every 3 dBA increase halves the recommended exposure time. Turn it down, step away or use hearing protection. Soundbites does not make loud sound safe.
How to read these measures
The time guide uses NIOSH’s occupational reference of 85 dBA for 8 hours and a 3 dB exchange rate. It is not a universal safe threshold: individual sensitivity and exposure across the day matter. Below 85 dBA we show no countdown; above 115 dBA we do not extrapolate a time allowance.
Sound intensity rises tenfold with each 10 dB increase. The second meter uses a labelled logarithmic scale for that energy relationship as an illustration of the increasing challenge to inner ear cells. It does not calculate reactive oxygen species, personal damage or a treatment effect.
NIOSH exposure guidance ↗NIDCD noise and hearing information ↗The evidence
Science you can look into.
ACEMg came out of the University of Michigan Medical School and has been studied for nearly four decades.
Explore the research libraryWhere the research began.
The 2007 study examined the ACEMg combination in guinea pigs exposed to noise. An animal result is not a human result.
Read the original paper 02 / Human research190 people.
Objective measurements.
The peer-reviewed study used otoacoustic emissions, an objective measure of outer hair cell function. It was observational; the authors state that alternative explanations cannot be excluded and further investigation is warranted.
Read the published studyKeep exploring