Feeling more youthful can be accomplished in many ways. But protecting your hearing is one way that is often ignored.
For years, enhancing and increasing your life has been connected to a good diet and exercise. These practices also help you manage your weight and help prevent cancer and heart disease. But good hearing is just as important to keep you healthy and young.
The advantages you’re not considering regarding hearing maintenance
Check out all of the ways that healthy hearing increases confidence, provides a better love life, and helps you stay young.
1. More fruitful interactions
Hearing loss has a tendency to cause people to become alienated from friends and loved ones. They allow their impairment to separate them from people and information. How can you communicate during your pickleball match if you have difficulty hearing? You may not even detect the issue until you’re already isolated from friends and loved ones. Better hearing leads to more confidence.
2. Better learning
Many individuals stimulate their minds by going back to college. You will learn more and enjoy yourself more when you’re in school if you have healthy hearing. You won’t have to sit up front and ask the instructor for repetition on every concept. You’ll comprehend concepts easier and have a smoother ability to communicate with your fellow students.
3. Better sex
Seniors have better social lives if they have healthy hearing or use hearing aids. Thanks to that, they’re able to maintain better general health and more independence. All of these things lead to a surprisingly better sex life.
4. Improved blood flow
Exercising is beneficial for many reasons, and one of them is better hearing. Nutrients nourish and preserve the ears and when there is good blood flow, more of these nutrients get where they need to go.
5. Reduced risk of falling
Spacial awareness is diminished with hearing loss and that can cause a loss of balance. Seniors who have lost only 25 decibels are 3X more likely to have a fall than those with no hearing loss.
6. Better reaction time
Our senses stimulate our instincts including reaction time to danger or alerts. You will keep yourself and others around you safer if you can react quickly to alerts, sirens, fire alarms, and other warnings which good hearing will help you do.
7. Fewer hospital stays
A senior’s danger of inactivity, depression, falling, and accidents are all elevated by hearing loss. Depression and accidents are frequently reasons that seniors end up becoming hospitalized and they can play a role in other reasons for hospitalization.
8. Increased confidence
Difficulty communicating causes insecurity and lack of confidence. It’s not uncommon for a person with this type of confidence issues to avoid social gatherings and to seclude themselves. This behavior further isolates the person which creates a continuing cycle.
9. Better job satisfaction
It makes sense that someone without hearing loss does better at work. Things like safety measures, instructions, and important information can get lost. Not to mention the difficulty you had when trying to comprehend and follow along with your teammates during your last Zoom call. Good job performance and results depend on participation.
10. Decreased chance of cognitive decline
Loss of hearing has been connected to the onset of cognitive decline because of loss of mental stimulation and interaction. As we age our brains tend to shrink and that is one factor in the onset of cognitive decline. Greater brain shrinkage contributes to an increased potential of dementia.
Enjoy a better quality of life
Interacting and communicating with your family members will improve self-confidence, leading to your ability to go out there and enjoy the things you enjoy doing. It’s best to address your hearing loss and protect your ears if you want to remain youthful. We can help, give us a call.
