If you have hearing loss, then you may be aware of how exhausting it can be. While you aren’t expending physical energy when you strain to hear, it can put more stress on our mind to fill in blank spaces in words. This can be surprisingly exhausting. Listening fatigue is a very real issue for those of us with hearing …
The Role of Ears in the Balance System
We walk through the world every day without giving a second thought to how we stay upright—that is until we get dizzy or suffer vertigo. It takes a lot to keep us from falling over daily and so much of it surprisingly has to do with the ears. How We Balance We hear with our ears but besides the auditory …
A Link between Hearing Loss & Cardiovascular Disease
At the center of everything is our heart, supplying blood throughout our body from our toes to our brain. The heart not only supplies blood throughout the body but when working at its most efficient supplies oxygen and essential nutrients to every cell and organ throughout the body. To ensure opal health for the heart it’s recommended to stay active …
How to Prevent Swimmer’s Ear
Even though January is one of Hawaii’s cooler months, the ocean temperatures are still warm enough to allow you to swim comfortably. This means it’s a great time of year to swim, snorkel, and surf! However, it’s important to be mindful of some of the dangers which lie just below the surface. Aside from Sharks and barracudas is swimmer’s ear! What is …
Start Your New Year with Better Hearing!
The holiday season is here, and this means for many large gatherings with family and friends. At the last big gathering did you notice that you struggled to hear people more than usual? It’s common to struggle to hear at a noisy party. In fact, if it was so loud that you had to shout to talk to someone standing …
A Link between Hearing Loss & Osteoporosis
One of the hardest things for many of us to accept as we age is that even if we maintain muscle mass as we age, our bones will inevitably become weaker. The body naturally removes old bone and replaces it with new bone and in our younger years, bone is replaced much more quickly than it is lost. It’s actually …
Watch Out for Dangerous Decibels in Exercise Classes
There is no denying the benefits of regular exercise. Whether you like to work out in the gym or get out into the great outdoors, exercise can boost your mood, build muscle, endurance, and cardiovascular health. Regular exercise can also boost your hearing health, by ensuring your blood flows through your entire body- including the fragile cells of your inner …
The World Health Organization Estimates 2.5 Billion with Hearing Loss by 2050
It is a noisy world out there and it only seems it is getting noisier! With continued industrialization across the world and an increase in access to unlimited information and media, via internet streaming, the world just seems to be getting louder and louder. This may not seem like a problem at first but currently there is an estimated 1.5 …
Exposure to Loud Noise During a Work Shift Can Harm Your Hearing
We don’t always want to go to work but it’s how we feed ourselves and support our families. In the best case scenario, our work even defines us and inspires what we do. Regardless, most Americans spend a large portion of their life working – eight hours or more, often five days a week, year-round. With this often comes exposure …
This November, Test Your Hearing in Honor of American Diabetes Month
Do you feel tired, more than usual? This time of year, that’s totally normal, as the days grow shorter and cooler. However, if you are also struggling with blurry vison or extreme and regular thirst, it could signal diabetes or even prediabetes. Currently 37 million people in the US have diabetes and the numbers keep rising. One in five with …