Show 1108: Surprising Solutions to Help You Hear Better

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Do you wish you could hear better? Do you have trouble hearing what others are saying? Many people find it difficult to follow a conversation with multiple voices, especially in a crowded restaurant. In fact, by 2060, more than 70 million Americans will probably be experiencing hearing loss. Most of them will be over 70. […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Grady. I'm Terry Grady.
0:03.3	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the
0:08.8	health headlines. This podcast is brought to you by Reddex Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.0	800, 345, 7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:39.0	Millions of Americans suffer some degree of hearing loss. Do you have trouble following conversations in a noisy restaurant? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden.
0:43.0	A lot of people who could benefit from hearing aids don't use them.
0:50.0	One reason might be the A lot of people who could benefit from hearing aids don't use them.
0:53.6	One reason might be the high cost.
0:55.9	A high tech set of hearing aids can run over $5,000.
0:59.6	What about a less expensive over-the-counter personal sound amplification system?
1:04.9	Are they any good at all?
1:06.8	Can you train your brain to distinguish sentences when the background sound is noisy?
1:11.9	Our guest today ran a study showing that an audio game can help
1:15.7	people make sense of spoken speech despite background noise. Coming up on the
1:20.8	people's pharmacy surprising solutions to help you hear better.
1:25.0	First, this news.
1:27.0	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,
1:33.0	Influenza continues to make millions of people sick around the country.
1:37.0	There have been many deaths.
1:39.0	Some of these are complications of respiratory infections,
1:42.0	but others could be due to heart attacks.
1:44.0	A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that people are
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