# Interesting Article on Hearing and Brain Health **URL:** \ **Category:** Everything Else\ **Created:** [December 31, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582 "2019-12-31T13:21:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/1 "2019-12-31T13:21:59Z")
> **[For Better Brain Health, Preserve Your Hearing](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/well/live/brain-health-hearing-dementia-alzheimers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share)** > > Hearing loss is the largest modifiable risk factor for developing dementia, exceeding that of smoking, high blood pressure, lack of exercise and social isolation. ---
**Author:** ![Elk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/elk/32/1240_2.png) [@Elk](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Elk)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/2 "2019-12-31T14:46:15Z")
Fascinating. ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/3 "2019-12-31T15:10:28Z")
Amazingly suggestive of links we don’t understand. ---
**Author:** ![JeffofArabica](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/jeffofarabica/32/135_2.png) [@JeffofArabica](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/JeffofArabica)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/4 "2019-12-31T16:18:19Z")
Well, hell. Here I was worried about being a lazy, fat, stressed, chain smoking introvert. ---
**Author:** ![brett66](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/brett66/32/92201_2.png) [@brett66](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/brett66)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/5 "2019-12-31T16:28:28Z")
What? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/6 "2019-12-31T16:38:08Z")
All you have to do is stop cranking the tunes, and its all good bruh. ---
**Author:** ![kcleveland123](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/kcleveland123/32/45645_2.png) [@kcleveland123](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/kcleveland123)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/7 "2019-12-31T17:08:11Z")
Heresy … ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/8 "2019-12-31T17:15:24Z")
Given that you have a BOC tat, I’m assuming you’re a lost cause ; ) ---
**Author:** ![kcleveland123](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/kcleveland123/32/45645_2.png) [@kcleveland123](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/kcleveland123)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/9 "2019-12-31T17:16:00Z")
Correct. And happy to be “lost”. ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/10 "2019-12-31T17:21:00Z")
The plus side being you can apparently regain stuff by getting hearing aids. I imagine you can get them custom painted… ; ) A friend of mine has awesome ones that are app-operated, Music settings, custom EQ, etc. ---
**Author:** ![jazznut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jazznut](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/jazznut)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/11 "2019-12-31T18:38:03Z")
Thanks much beef, those articles apply to my mother seriously and this matter is a very actual one in a lot of conversation within my extended family. ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/12 "2019-12-31T18:41:25Z")
The whole notion is a bit of a stunner to me. The implications are pretty crazy. ---
**Author:** ![JeffofArabica](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/jeffofarabica/32/135_2.png) [@JeffofArabica](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/JeffofArabica)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/13 "2019-12-31T19:27:38Z")
Market opportunity? 🤔 Audiophile hearing aids for the non-hearing impaired. DSP, EQ, and much, much, more! ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/14 "2019-12-31T20:39:24Z")
Nuh-uh. Not until they can implant a hi-fi endpoint in my skull. Not holding my breath on that one in my lifetime. Kurzweil’s “The Singularity is Near” was, what…15 years ago? BTW…how did it get to be the Eve of 2020? “In the year 2525…” ; ) ---
**Author:** ![1cdfoley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/1cdfoley/32/101112_2.png) [@1cdfoley](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/1cdfoley)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/15 "2020-01-01T03:11:47Z")
I made it to 75. Based on my misuse of Bayesian probabilities, I am predicting that I will run out of component money before any hearing loss. Chas ---
**Author:** ![mazarine1643](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mazarine1643](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/mazarine1643)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/16 "2020-01-01T16:44:49Z")
Bose has patent applications for ‘hi-fi’ hearing aids and is rumored to have a prototype in trials. They are waiting for the FDA to finalize guidelines for clinical approval which may take through 2022. I wait with bated breath. ---
**Author:** ![emailists](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc348/32.png) [@emailists](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/emailists)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/17 "2020-01-03T10:09:24Z")
I’m waiting for the Beats audiophile hearing aides with upgraded synergistic research battery holder and rhodium coated contacts. Also I think that article is fake news from the failing NY times. LOL (I couldn’t resist) ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Gary\_M](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Gary_M)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/18 "2020-01-04T16:57:15Z")
> [@badbeef](#): > > Hearing loss is the largest modifiable risk factor for developing dementia, So does that mean deaf people have a higher incidence of dementia? ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/19 "2020-01-04T17:00:50Z")
Got me. Doesn’t necessarily follow, I would think, assuming deafness since birth. Not to mention it generally not being a “modifiable” risk factor. ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/interesting-article-on-hearing-and-brain-health/14582/20 "2020-01-04T17:09:50Z")
As a side note, this is the second time this morning I’ve noticed that when one uses the “quote” function to reply to someone who was quoting from something else (as I was), it now looks like the quoted Forum member was the one who wrote/said it.