Feeling more youthful can be accomplished in numerous ways. But protecting your hearing is one way that is frequently ignored.
For years, enhancing and increasing your life has been linked to a healthy diet and exercise. It also helps prevent heart disease, cancer, and promotes weight control. But good hearing does just as much to keep you healthy and young.
The benefits you’re not considering regarding hearing maintenance
Healthy hearing boosts confidence, improves your love life, and helps you remain young in the following 10 ways.
1. Interacting in a more healthy way
People who have hearing loss tend to become estranged from society. They allow their impairment to isolate them from people and information. If you’re having a difficult time hearing, how can you hear what your pickleball partner is saying? It’s an easy problem to go undetected until you find you’re estranged from friends, relatives, and colleagues. A boost in confidence will also result from better hearing.
2. Enhanced learning ability
Many people activate their minds by going back to school. If you’re in school, you will learn more and will have more fun if you can hear well. You won’t have to sit up front and ask the instructor for repetition on every idea. You’ll comprehend concepts easier and have a smoother ability to communicate with your fellow students.
3. Better sex
Senior citizens who have no loss of hearing or use hearing aids have a more fulfilling social life. More independence and better overall health are the results. All of these things result in a surprisingly better sex life.
4. Increased blood flow
Exercising is helpful for many reasons, and one of them is better hearing. Nutrients feed and preserve the ears and when there is strong blood flow, more of these nutrients get where they need to go.
5. Reduced danger of falling
Hearing loss also decreases spatial awareness and potentially leads to worse balance. Seniors are three times more likely to have a fall with a hearing loss of just 25 decibels than seniors with normal hearing.
6. Increased reaction time
Our instincts are triggered by our senses and that includes how we respond to danger. With better hearing, you’ll respond to fire alarms, sirens, and other alerts more rapidly creating better safety for yourself and others around you.
7. Fewer hospital stays
Hearing loss increases a senior’s risk of accidents, falls, and depression not to mention inactivity. Depression and accidents are often reasons that seniors end up in the hospital and they can contribute to other reasons for hospitalization.
8. Increased confidence
Difficulty communicating leads to insecurity and lack of confidence. This lack of confidence could result in a reluctance to go to get-togethers, parties, meetings, and events. This behavior further isolates the person which causes a repeating cycle.
9. Better job satisfaction
It makes sense that somebody who doesn’t have 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 attempting to comprehend and follow along with your teammates during your last Zoom call. Participation is key to good job performance and assessments.
10. Decreased onset of dementia
Because of a loss of social interaction and overall stimulation, hearing loss has been connected to dementia. As we get older our brains tend to shrink and that is one element in the onset of cognitive decline. Increased brain shrinkage contributes to a greater potential of dementia.
Enjoy a better quality of life
You will feel more confident when you’re able to communicate with your friends and family members and that will allow you to go out and enjoy your favorite activities. If you want to feel younger, it’s best to deal with your hearing loss and safeguard your hearing. Call us, we can help!
