Diet is not likely to have a significant effect on causing or treating BPPV. The Epley maneuver, like other repositioning maneuvers, is designed to move the crystals out of the semicircular canals.

Diet is not likely to have a significant effect on causing or treating BPPV. The Epley maneuver, like other repositioning maneuvers, is designed to move the crystals out of the semicircular canals.

Normally, this matrix of crystals is a reliable motion-sensing map. However, it all goes wrong when the crystals break free and start drifting into one of the ear’s semicircular balance canals.

Diet is not likely to have a significant effect on causing or treating BPPV. The Epley maneuver, like other repositioning maneuvers, is designed to move the crystals out of the semicircular canals.

Each ear contains an organ of balance, also called the semicircular canals, which work by the movement of hair cells inside those fluid-filled bony structures. Sometimes small crystals (called ...

These crystals move in the channels of the semicircular canals bumping into the walls, thereby stimulating nerve endings, and sending a signal to the brain as to which direction we are moving.

Urciuoli and his team investigated the evolution of the semicircular canals in the Neanderthal clade using diffeomorphometry (DMorph), an approach that allows direct comparison of continuous ...