A head-to-toe check in for your health
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You're listening to Life Kit from NPR. Hey, it's Marielle. A lot of us treat our bodies like they're our employees. You know, they work for us. And when they don't work for us, we get mad. We say mean things about them. We're frustrated. We're disappointed. The way I see it though, our bodies don't work for us, they work with us. And if we want to give them the best chance at doing that, we have to take care of them, to give them regular attention so they can support us. Now, I need to do a quick plug here for going to the doctor. Make sure you're getting your annual physicals and checking in with your healthcare providers as needed. Because as we know, a podcast is not the same as professional medical advice.
But beyond that, we want to help you take care of your bodies. So on this episode, Life Kit reporter Andy Tagel has put together some of our favorite health tips from head to toe. We've got advice from an audiologist, an ophthalmologist, a dermatologist, and more. That's after the break.
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Alright, first up on our tour through the body, Magic School Bus style, shout out to all my fellow millennials who will forever adore Miss Frizzle. Our ears. Feels appropriate since you're listening to a podcast right now. How's the volume on this episode, by the way? Is my voice coming through loud and clear? Good. So you can listen closely to our first reminder for hearing health. Learn the signs of noise-induced hearing loss and don't forget to protect your ears. Especially when you know you'll be around loud noises for a long time. Now, when you think about hearing loss, you might assume it's an older person's problem. But with the advent of personal audio devices Perhaps like the one you're listening to right now.
Over one billion young people aged twelve to thirty five are at risk of hearing loss due to prolonged and excessive exposure to loud sounds at dangerous levels. This is according to a twenty nineteen report from the World Health Organization. And the WHO projects nearly 2.5 billion people will have at least some degree of hearing loss by the year 2050. So, how do you know if you're at risk for noise-induced hearing loss? And what can you do about it? Well, it sounds different for everyone. But it often happens gradually. And there are a few common symptoms to be on the lookout for.
When we have hearing loss, that becomes harder to filter out the speech from the noise. Or I should put it as the sound source that we want to hear versus the sounds that we don't want to hear.
This is Ariela Naeem, senior audiologist at Audio Help Hearing Center in New York City. Talking here in her office to life kit producer Margaret Sereno, who originally reported on this topic.
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