275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
Gary Brecka
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You have one in six teenagers right now have hearing loss. It's a quiet pandemic because they're |
| 0:04.6 | blown out there where there's headphones and, you know, just loud music and a lot of reasons. Once you damage them, they don't come back. It's a health issue, but it's not one that's alarming people because it's quiet and it's invisible. When you have this kind of hearing loss and you don't get an explanation for it, it makes people feel hopeless. Hearing connects you with people. It connects you with your environment, your day job, your kids, and it's the fitness for the brain. |
| 0:24.1 | It makes people feel hopeless. Hearing connects you with people. It connects you with your environment, your day job, your kids, and it's the fitness for the brain. It makes sense to me from the standpoint of isolation. You mean, as you lose your hearing, you become increasingly more isolated from your family, from your environment. Hearing is essential. If you want everything to be balanced at work, you got to feed that brain and exercise the brain, |
| 0:39.3 | and that's how you do it. |
| 0:40.3 | Let's say that you go in and you get a hearing assessment and you start to notice that |
| 0:43.3 | certain frequencies are beginning to degrade. |
| 0:46.3 | What are the things to mitigate to stop that slide? |
| 0:48.3 | They talk about the solutions to treat the hearing loss. |
| 0:50.3 | And it's the two words that always gets everybody because of the stigma associated with it. |
| 0:55.0 | And that's... |
| 0:56.0 | Hey guys. Welcome back to the Ultimate Human podcast. I'm your host, human biologist Gary Brecker, |
| 1:12.9 | where we go down the road of everything, anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. |
| 1:18.9 | And today's a particularly interesting topic to me because having been in the space for so long |
| 1:24.3 | and run with so many of my peers on all of the different biohacking modalities that we use. |
| 1:29.3 | We measure our VO2 max. We do clearly heart scans, full body per novo. We eat a whole food diet. |
| 1:36.0 | We monitor our BMIs. We monitor our heart rate variability. We have so many measurement tools to see if we're on track. |
| 1:42.3 | But we rarely talk about today's topic. |
| 1:45.5 | And there is a very interesting study recently published in The Lancet that I want to bring up on the podcast that really shifted my entire mindset around hearing loss. |
| 1:54.5 | And the impact it has on longevity, isolation, neurocognitive decline, even dementia. |
| 2:01.4 | And so today's guest is Brandon Sowellich, Sowalich. |
| 2:05.3 | Sowalich, Brandon Sawalich, from Starkey Hearing Technologies. |
| 2:10.1 | And he's here to talk about this study amongst other things, what you can do about it, |
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