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I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today author David Owen joins us to talk about what happens once you've lost your hearing and how much

technology can actually help. Then you'll learn about the psychology behind our

reactions to a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. But satisfy some curiosity.

Over the last couple weeks on Curiosity Daily, you've heard author David Owen talk about

why it's so important to protect your ears when you're young. And some tips for keeping your hearing happy and

healthy for as long as possible. You can find links to those episodes in today's

show notes, but for today's conversation let's say you feel like you've already

started to lose your hearing. What are the symptoms?

And can technology help you do something about it?

Here's the third and final part of our interview with David Owen,

author of the new book Volume Control, Hearing

and A Deffening World. We'll start with how you can diagnose hearing damage in the first place.

You know, there are lots of, there are lots of tips. And sometimes, sometimes you know we get warnings early on and we ignore them

For example you can go to a show a really loud show you come out your ears are ringing you have trouble hearing for dare to but then then everything's fine. A couple days later you can hear. And the conventional thinking was always that this was a temporary hearing problem that took care of itself.

Now the concern is that even hearing problem like that,

which seems to go away a couple of days later,

is actually a result of permanent nerve damage

that doesn't go away. And it's hard to detect from a standard hearing test, but once again, it accumulates and the problem becomes worse the older you get with more exposure. So I think that even

even exposures that we're accustomed to thinking of as you know this is a temporary

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