Age-Related Hearing Loss Is Preventable, So What Causes It?
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Why do some populations retain their hearing into old age? How might we prevent age-related hearing loss?
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I always put the volume way down before I start a Nutrionfacts video so I don't get hearing damage from the overloud intro jingle. Then I raise the volume when the talking starts. Also put the volume down before the loud outro if I can remember. It is a habit after 10 or more years of putting up with this.
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If you are listening on an iPad or iPhone, (possibly other devices, I don’t know), you can set the maximum volume (down), in settings. You are then never surprised if you forget or lower the volume with buttons but the RUclips overrides it.
@@mellocello187 I'm not sure this is the point in question. When I used an iPod I had it permanently set on ¾ of possible sound and never moved it because changing anything on those wretched things was difficult. I can remember frequently being on a train and being able to clearly hear the sounds of music/early podcasts/radio of someone sitting next to me, usually younger.
On Android devices you can do the same adjustment very easily. You have two approaches: system settings and an adjustable sound bar which I think is what the original comment is referring to.
Meanwhile, I could not agree more about the uncomfortable variable sound on every presentation on this website. The opening is super loud and when Dr Greger says "until they put it to the test" it is also frequently uncomfortably loud. I don't watch these videos using earphones.
The point is not how you have your settings, but rather it is how variable sound can be on different RUclips channels and that we are *forced to take remedial action* on this website in particular.
@@mellocello187good to know! Thank you!
I developed severe sensorineural low frequency hearing loss in my left ear OVERNIGHT at age 32. I was a WFPB vegan following a starch-based diet at the time. My total cholesterol was around 110. Sometimes random things happen, and even the best lifestyle can't save you from it.
Thank you for discussing this topic. My parents both have some hearing loss, and at the age of 40 I have some tinnitus in my right ear (probably due to loud music exposure). I really don't want to follow in their footsteps.
Audiologist here - hearing loss is common as we age, but it is never ‘normal’. The healthier you are in general, (blood pressure, circulation, diet, etc) the better your hearing tends to be. Regular NSAID use particularly affects women’s hearing over time. Those with diabetes are 30% more likely to have hearing loss. I doubt the animal studies for sounds over 60dB contributing, as conversational speech is typically recorded at 55-60dB. 70dB is loud speech. 80dB is a shout.
How exciting. I can't wait for part 2 of the supplement research! ❤ This is awesome. Thanks!
Really interesting, thank you Dr Greger for keeping us young and healthy! I wish I had become whole food plant-based earlier in life, I am 57 and switched over 3 years ago, best decision of my life, healed me physically and mentally and I am slim and look good in clothes for the first time in my life!
I always carry a pair of audio attenuators when attending a concert or church. You never know when an amateur will be left in charge of the audio equipment. It doesn't take a long exposure to certain wave lengths at high volume for my ears to be ringing for days.
ahimsa, thx for saving people ears
I remember reading years ago that something called aldosterone can be used to help hearing loss.
This is very timely Doctor, as I have just been diagnosed with hearing loss, after two totally separate tests at different clinics. I turned 65 this year and am finding it hard to accept. I was also told not to wait too long before using hearing aids as the longer one continues with the loss, it becomes greater in other areas too, like the brain. I don't know much and have no medical background, so I am trying to learn more.
i am a former smoker and way back in the day of factory work I listened to music using headphones to drown out the machinery noise that was present for 8 hours a day. That can't have been good.
I wish you well, consider changing the way you eat if you haven't already done so, you are only 65, it is not old so you can prevent your hearing loss getting worse.
@@luluandmeow hi and thank you for your well wishes. I feel I do eat pretty good on a plant-based diet with lots of fresh veggies and fruits, some grains and things like nuts, tofu and lentils. I would love to know more about specific foods I can add that would target hearing loss.
This is very old knowledge but try training as much as I and many others like me without music.
We don't need to know how to prevent it but how to treat it. Awesome of Greger to provide a little insight there!! 🙏💪
I took Ritalin ti study for an exam once and have had Tinitus ever since then. Do I regret it? No. It was worth the trade-off.
Diet is not a reason for me. I have been a poster child for healthy vegans for almost 4 decades since the age of 10 incl. pro athletic career.
I have headphones in right now and I know I must be in trouble…
Doing yoga is going to contribute positively either. 😂
Not necessarily, right? Depends on the volume I'd say. Active noise cancelation also really helps.
@@bartklYep. I use noise isolation iems.
I love this channel!
I hear ya.
Me too! I love it so much.
@@Joseph1NJha!
The thing is everyhere you go in the US, they play music on speakers even in public bathroom !!
To reduce ambient sounds you could wear headphones with nothing playing. Headphones would look better then construction grade ear protection but those do reduce sounds more.
musak not music
I hear you , Dr.
i hope its reversible! that'd be good news but also i bet 99% of people wouldn't believe you or take the advice and just keep being deaf
Awesome video!!! Thanks for sharing Dr. Greger.
Like always, excellent delivery of science based information. I have a topic suggestion. Eye sight degeneration with age. Is my need for glasses around age 7 caused by diet?
Our pediatrician suggested we research prepubescent nutrition needs or seek a local nutrition. Because Im a visual learner and learn best by video, does the Nutrition Facts group know of You Tube channel that documents child nutrition as well as you deliver information?
Thanks Dr. G!!!
So fascinating! Thank you so much
...... WHAT?????
Most important thing is to use EAR PLUGS even when you're young. A DJ destroyed one of my ear with a high frequency constant sound for 5-6 secs (he was mad, intentionally damaging our ears), now I have a tinnitus for life. Dont do the same mistake
Agree about using hearing plugs at loud venues, but don't be so sure it's "for life". I wouldn't be surprised if tinnitus becomes a very treatable disease this decade or the next. Not guaranteeing anything, though. There are many relay points between the cochlea (which you probably damaged) and the auditory processing area in the cerebral cortex, but I suspect that if a device that manipulates the auditory cortex can be created and safely implanted, then not only can tinnitus be cured, but you will also be able to listen to music or podcasts without even needing headphones. Also, gene therapy may sometime soon be able to regenerate damaged hair cells in the cochlea, and hopefully this can restore the damaged hearing pathways.
As a brain cancer patient I was thought to have tinnitus but I was sure it wasn’t due to the fact that I had been involved in music.
@@benzost920 It would all be so simple, but under the current circumstances we should not get our hopes up. The institutes looking for a cure can be counted on both hands, worldwide. At this rate, it will be decades, if not centuries, before a cure is found. The human auditory system is the most neglected organ in medical research. This is not going to work. Millions of people are being plagued by hearing loss and tinnitus and medical research is simply ignoring the problem. What a bad joke!
i always use hearing protection for loud tasks like a table saw or running a high powered vacuum. i do use headphones but the volume is always low.
Dr Greger - I like watching your video. But can you please talk little slowly
I have something playing at all times even when i sleep but i try to keep the volume low. I wonder how much this will affect my earing compared to power tool use like a grinder wich can be very loud for long periods of time.
We don't know for sure, but studies suggest it can affect your spelling.
@@Joseph1NJreally did something there bud, really came for his spelling. Haha he spelled something wrong, what a silly goofy looser, right? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tools like grinders and chainsaws even air compressors are going to be high risk if you run them more than a couple minutes without protection, always remember if you go shooting to wear ear plugs AND ear muffs rated for firearms
What????
Leaving me on another cliffhanger!!! Lol.
can someone from nutritionfacts please answer this because I can not find it anywhere... I want to eat the daily dozen but I am new to this. Can I eat 1 1/2 cup of rolled oats (I measure the 1 and a half cups when the oats are still dry) but can I eat this amount everyday or is that to much oats .. kind regards from Joyce (from The Netherlands ps love all the books can not wait for how not to age... preorderd ) :)
so that would be about 150 grams of dry oats...
it would be too much for most people, 1 cup after cooked is more than enough
@@paulabrown5243 but dr greger calls for 3servings and with the rest of the daily dozen the protein per day would not ad up if you eat so little whole grains may I ask how you do that?
I eat dry oats every day. 1 1/2 cups as the daily dozen indicates. I add 1 tbl of flaxseed, half a cup of berries, one banana, Fourth of a cup of walnuts. One cup of unsweetened almond milk.
@@JB-xd1fo so you measure the one and a half cup of oats dry?? Before you eat them ? So is it oke to eat so many oats a day? I read something about antinutricion in oats that block other vitamines etc being blocked by eating so many oats dr greger has no video about this that why i asked! Have a nice day.
+1 to the benefits of sourghum: preserves hearing and normalizes blood pressure, if sourghum comprises 80% of your diet.
I'm an enjoyer of sour gum myself 😎 Slightly too low on nutrients for me personally though... 😏
@@movement2contact I believe that any starchy food, consumed as 70%-80% of your calorie intake, is healthy and won't lead to deficiencies.
After all, it is a world of dietary excess we're living in.
So falling into the "where do you get your X (nutrient)" trap is much more dangerous, than becoming deficient in any particular nutrient.
@@Apollo440 I was making a joke about the food I've never heard about sounding like a different edible substance... 🙄
@@movement2contact xD omg sour gum! Don't eat that ;)
Is it just my imagination, or did you record this with lower sound quality? cos i had great difficulty hearing and understanding until i turned the volume up, you sounded garbled unlike the videos i was listening to prior.
On hearing loss, I would think wax build up due to diet would be a contributing factor also wouldn't it. i know when i op my ears i can hear a lot better, unfortunately it doesn't last long though. So if i can hear better after i pop them, which punches a hole in the wax, then its not follicle related, its wax related.
"It's the food!"
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I wear headphones constantly it's likely not a good idea. But I don't want to give up the convenient and private listening of music, podcasts, audio books, and videos.
I use shokz bone conduction headphones. It is said they are less harmful to hearing bc they don’t go in the ear, they vibrate through the head. I don’t know whether this has been put to the test in studies tho
I find the concept of soundscapes helpful to dealing with this. This concept originates from a branch of musicians, who expanded on the idea of aleotropic music, where part of the music was the sound around the performer. The idea expanded to become a way to understand the communal auditory experience of a space - in other words, to understand how people interact with their environment, listen. Thinking about normal sounds as a form of music that connects people and helps explain their relationship to the world and eachother reduces my temptation to listen to private sounds, even when there a podcast or audio book that I am really into!
I have irreversible tinnitus, it's so loud it actually affects my hearing and sleep..😞
I listen to audiobooks to help me sleep. But my tinnitus is not always very intrusive. Could you try that? I don’t want to teach anyone to suck eggs, of course.
@@AtheistEve could help.👍🏼🙂
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Completely complacent, the medical profession believes that habituation and hearing aids are sufficient for the treatment of tinnitus and hearing loss. Patients are not taken seriously and sent home with statements like "learn to live with it". The level of medical development of ENT specialists has not evolved and there has been little progress. Some tests that are still used today are over 120 years old. Example: the Rinne test and the Weber test. It is primitive and backward! We know more about the moon than we know about human auditory system! In the 21st century, mind you! It can't work out this way. Human hearing is the most neglected organ in medical research. The institutes searching for a cure for tinnitus and hearing loss worldwide can be counted on both hands. At this rate, it will take decades, if not centuries, before a cure is found.
Eh?
Eh sonny? ::Holds up ear trumpet:: come again young feller? You say eat the foods that fix all my other health problems and I can hear?!?!?
Maaban means “big ear” tribe.
Before you do anything check for ear wax.
AND......we end w/ "CLIFFHANGAR . 😮💨...(join us in next episode when DrG reveals THE supplement..... that slows age related hearing loss).....
All those rock concerts I went to……..
Probably folate, or omega-3.
Apart from Dr. G said here, I believe that many people have dirty ears, which hampers their hearing ability. There is a procedure, involving heat, such as burning a special candle or other type of wax. I haven't tried that, only heard good things. But I have tried a procedure, prescribed commonly before, involving 3% hydrogen peroxide (5 drops) and water (50ml). Pouring this mixture into your ear with a small syringe (needle removed, of course), tilting your head, and letting it sizzle for a minute, then pouring it out, seemed to help me quite a bit.
Ear candles are a hoax. Placebo effect. I think Dr G maybe even did a video on them several years ago.
Respectfully, this is not advice to be given on a comment. If someone does as you suggest, they must use distilled water and not tap water. Unless the ear canal is examined, we have no idea what's going on in there. Anyhow, I have always really liked the Debrox Ear Wax Removal Kit. It uses Carbamyl Peroxide. I put a few drops in, wait five minutes, then use warm distilled (or boiled, cooled to warm but never cold) water using the bulb syringe to flush out the wax. I'm not an ENT doc but I am an Internist with 40 years experience and have treated countless patients with impacted ear wax. Great care must be taken to avoid perforating the eardrum. ENT docs tend to prefer a professional suction device which works like magic. Lastly, all those candles and such devices are useless.
@@OnlineMD why does the water need to be distilled? Frankly, it seems like an unnecessary complication to this method. I used filtered water with good results.
And sure, there are many other procedures, but at what cost? Debrox is 12 USD on Amazon. Carbamyl peroxide is 7.73 USD.
The 3% hydrogen peroxide will cost you 0,003 USD for one procedure (you can do it 3 times at the cost of almost one cent).
I'm no MD, but doctors with no less experience than you mention practice and recommend this cheap and proven method.
@@Apollo440 there are documented reports of amebic brain abscesses in people who did nasal irrigation with tap water. So I am very wary of tap water used into the sinuses and ears too. But to go along with what you said, when my nurse and I did ear syringing, we always added hydrogen peroxide to the distilled water we used. This was after we put Debrox drops first. It really is fantastic in dissolving wax.
I found that more ear wax is created when I wear earbuds. I don't like it but the doctors say ear wax is a good thing.
its psychosomatic, there is too much one can hear that has an effect on ones emotional state. as we grow older our bodies lose the capacity to handle stress. so maybe its psychosomatic.
They don't EAT processed foods ether. So you can't say it is the animal protein. It being the processed food is more likely the cause.
No proof of that, no scientific evidence.
@@JakeRichardsong yea nobody is going to make money creating scientific evidence that donuts are unhealthy.