hearing loss

How do we hear?

Typically a restaurant’s background sounds vary from around 65 decibels (dB), everyday conversation, office chatter, to 85 dB, consistent with city traffic, neari

Hearing Loss

“Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.” Helen Keller

Ringing in the ears, aka tinnitus, already extremely common, is now being linked to COVID.

Being balanced is a complicated “dance” of sensory inputs from our nerves, indicating where there is more or less pressure, the vestibular system’s “little stones,” the otoconia, and our visual system that knows the horizon should be horizontal.

Ask yourself how often you ever think about your ability to hear? How much you value it? How much you—and your loved ones—would be impacted if it were gone or profoundly diminished?

An untreated iron deficiency could lead to various health problems, one being Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA). Now, researchers have discovered IDA itself could be linked to another potential problem — hearing loss.