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How Quitting Smoking & Lowering Blood Pressure Could Support Healthy Hearing
While medical researchers must often focus on one system in the body when conducting a study, the additive effect of that research always seems to point to a few lifestyle recommendations that improve health overall. Importantly, hearing ability emerges as something like the “canary in the coalmine” of the body’s systems—the things that harm our…
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This November, Test Your Hearing in Honor of American Diabetes Month
In the hearing care industry, we often think of hearing as the “canary in the coal mine” of the body’s systems. The delicate structures in the inner ear—which are responsible for converting mechanical sound into the electrical impulses that can be understood by the brain—are more easily harmed in the early phases of medical issues…
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How Often Should I Get a Hearing Test?
Most of us are used to seeing our general practitioner on a regular basis, whether we are ill or not. General checkups are understood to be an important part of maintaining our best health and well-being. We dutifully visit the dentist once a year, and get a regular vision test. However, hearing tests are not…
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How a Heart-Healthy Diet Supports Better Hearing
Yes, a heart-healthy diet helps you keep your hearing in better shape over time. This may not come as much of a surprise, since a healthy diet is good for just about everything when it comes to your physical, mental and emotional health. When we make sure to eat a diet full of important vitamins…
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Tips for Video Calls and Group Chats for Hearing Loss
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, most workplaces went online in order to continue operations. Meetings that would have been held in person became virtual, almost overnight. The service provided by the company Zoom became the most popular of these virtual meeting places. While many workplaces are returning to something more like “normal” operations,…
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Tips to Help Your Hearing Aids Last Longer
Hearing aids are crucially important devices that help us lead healthy, happy lives, just like a pair of glasses. Once hearing loss enters the picture, hearing aids are the best thing we can do to ensure that hearing loss does not control our lives. Hearing aids are, however, a significant expense for most people.…
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Tips for Cleaning Your Ears
We all have our ways of making sure our ears feel clean, but it may be worth asking at some point: Is there a better way? A few of the most common cleaning techniques might be doing more harm than good! What Is Earwax? Most of the time when we feel the need to clean…
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Seeking Hearing Loss Treatment Could Help Prevent or Delay Dementia
About 48 million Americans, or 14% of the population, are living with some type of hearing loss. Among those aged 60–69, the percentage climbs to about 33%, and to 66% for those aged 70 and up. If you don’t have hearing loss yourself, it’s likely that you know someone who does! Still, hearing loss…
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Treating Hearing Loss Could Improve Mobility & Quality of Life
Hearing loss is much more than just struggling to hear during conversations. Communication issues can affect every aspect of life, including putting a strain on your most cherished relationships, your ability to succeed at work and can cause chronic depression. In addition to these far-reaching effects on mood and mental health, untreated hearing loss affects…
