Feeling younger can be accomplished in numerous ways. However, one method of staying young that isn’t usually mentioned is to protect your hearing.
Diet and exercise have been promoted for years as a confirmed way to increase your lifespan while improving your quality of life. These practices also help you control your weight and help prevent heart disease and cancer. But good hearing does just as much to keep you healthy and young.
The benefits you’re not considering about hearing maintenance
Take a look at all of the ways that healthy hearing improves confidence, gives you a better sex life, and helps you remain young.
1. Interacting in a more healthy way
People with hearing loss often become estranged from society. They allow their impairment to separate them from people and information. If you’re having a tough time hearing, how will you hear what your pickleball partner is saying? It’s an easy problem to go unnoticed until you find you’re estranged from friends, relatives, and colleagues. A boost in confidence will also result from better hearing.
2. Improved learning ability
Many people go back to school to activate their minds. 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 concept. You’ll comprehend instructions more readily and have better social interaction with other students.
3. Better sex
Seniors have stronger social lives if they have healthy hearing or wear hearing aids. As a result, 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 helpful for many reasons, and one of them is better hearing. Increased blood flow helps nourish the ears with nutrients that preserve your hearing.
5. Reduced risk of falling
Hearing loss also reduces spatial awareness and potentially leads to worse balance. Seniors who have lost just 25 decibels are 3X more likely to have a fall than those with normal hearing.
6. Increased reaction time
Our senses stimulate our instincts including reaction time to danger or alerts. With better hearing, you’ll react to fire alarms, sirens, and other alerts more rapidly creating better safety for yourself and those around you.
7. Fewer hospital stays
Hearing loss increases a senior’s danger of accidents, falls, and depression not to mention inactivity. Seniors frequently become hospitalized as a direct or indirect result of accidents or depression.
8. Increased confidence
Insecurity and a lack of confidence are frequently the outcomes when someone has a hard time communicating. It’s not uncommon for a person with this type of confidence issues to steer clear of social gatherings and to seclude themselves. This can become a vicious cycle of self-consciousness and isolation.
9. Better job satisfaction
It makes sense that someone without hearing loss does better at work. You may miss important information, safety precautions, or instructions. Not to mention the trouble you had when trying to comprehend and keep up with your teammates during your last Zoom call. Participation is key to good job performance and evaluations.
10. Decreased risk of cognitive decline
Loss of hearing has been linked to the onset of dementia because of loss of mental stimulation and interaction. As we get older our brains usually shrink and that’s one element in the onset of cognitive decline. An increased possibility of cognitive decline comes from increased shrinkage of the brain.
Enjoy a better quality of life
Interacting and communicating with your loved ones will improve self-confidence, leading to your ability to go out there and enjoy the things you enjoy doing. If you want to feel youthful, it’s best to manage your hearing loss and safeguard your hearing. Call us, we can help!
