Brandon Sawalich
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And you start forgetting sounds.
Right, that's the one thing people don't recognize is once you lose it, you're not getting it back.
And it could continue, obviously, to get worse, whether it's genetic or more noise-induced.
But you have one in six teenagers right now have hearing loss.
Really?
It's a quiet pandemic.
No pun intended.
One in six teenagers, because they're blown out there, whether it's headphones and just loud music.
Well, you know, you could obviously you're going to go see an audiologist or a hearing health care professional that could do the test, look inside the air, make sure it's healthy, functional.
You know, sometimes air wax is the problem or gets in the way.
It's rare, but it does happen.
And then, you know, they talk about the solutions to treat the hearing loss.
And it's the two words that always gets everybody because of the stigma associated with it.
And that's, you know, the hearing aid.
You know, this.
And it's not what it was.
It wasn't your grandfather's hearing aid.
It's like the size of a coffee bean what's going in your ear.
There's 310 components in here.
that has to work all at once and withstand with sweat, hairspray, you name it.