man, because if we lose too much of it all wrong, we mess things up, risking brain damage. so let's stop this self sabotage, humans and multitasking watch. now on youtube, v. w documentary, the things we hear, some are pleasant, but others are such that you wish you were somewhere else. for example, somewhere like this. here that rustling, then you're not hard of hearing. this time the show is all about here. so it's in and out and questions like, should you or shouldn't you clean the, what do you do if you can't hear very well and how does hearing actually work? welcome to in good shape. what the,

what they're large pointed for round part years are uniquely formed so uniquely that the shape of our ears can be used to identify us like fingerprints . but still they have some shared characteristics that are found in old people. the elastic structure made of cartilage, for example, the curved valleys and ridges amplify certain frequencies, mainly so we can pick out voices better and everyone has your low. whether they serve a purpose though, isn't clear. it's possible that their tissues well supplied with blood help keep the outer ear warm, not powder years are not enough to be able to hear. a long time ago, the ability to turn sound waves into perceptible signals arose in fish. in the

course of evolution, it stopped their gill arches became the bones of the inner ear, commonly called the hammer. and bolt can stir up. they function as amplifiers, converting the vibrations of the air into mechanical vibrations, thanks to the large ear drum and the leverage of the bones the signal less than strong enough to cause the fluid inside the cochlea to move the inner wall. as a calculator is lined with thousands of auditory here. so, unlike normal hairs, they're silly, don't grow back. that's why too much noise austin causes irreparable hearing damage . here, cells in the inner ear or sensory cells, they convert some movement of the silly into electrical signals. these then travel to the brain via the auditory nerve. but they're the journey is far from over.

the auditory nerve transmits the signal to the brain stem. the auditory cortex localized as the sound source, as well as pitch and sound and 10 today. but it's only in areas like the cerebral cortex, that sound becomes a conscious perception. our hearing is a complex and sophisticated apparatus that gives us access to a whole world for sensory perceptions. it's only shortcoming is that it's always active and can't just be turned off. when we want some peace and quiet, we sometimes have no choice, but to help it along. to music phone calls podcasts, there's lots to listen to nowadays and thanks to headphones, it's all available around the clock. it's too loud around you. no problem. just turn up the volume. put specialist say that about 85 decibels so things get

critical. sound should be know louder than a lawn mower or a busy road. and pin your headphones can be especially dangerous. they're everywhere. usually wireless and hard to spot connected via bluetooth in ear headphones are inconspicuous, comfortable, and can even reduce the noise. but the popular ear bonds have there's down signs of warning. things are found to get a little gross. users on social media have reported fungal infections in the ear canal that are sent to have been caused by their ear buns. but the period because you sweat a lot with that. maybe because of that, if you don't wash them regularly, i can imagine that definitely what time is love to say, i guess it probably sticks to the your phones and that's why it might cause an infection of assistance to steal vs. so that's what shape on your, your bunch a. ringback bad enough that i probably wouldn't wear them off on whether we ask

them, you know, throat specialist at dusseldorf, university hospital, how information's in the ear canal develop. that's what's often called. so it's not really the dirt on your phones as they're basically stero, even though they don't have to be. the problem is how they're fixed in the ear canal stuff. this happens by pressing or squeezing something imaged where the skin is pressed or squeezed. it disturbs a bio film and can cause a small chair in the skin, and that's where the inflammation occurs. hold daughter to dtn single. if you we're earphones for hours on end, even while exercising the gear canal can become an incubator for bacteria. so put them in your ears carefully, don't wear them for long periods and trust the protective effect of your works. you can even swap earphones in a group if you want to listen to the others music. there's nothing wrong with that . nothing should happen initially. you know, just coming, always bound up with you. that's my next. and if you get an earache,

go to the doctor immediately and get the treatment. and maybe give the in ear headphones. a risk for a while. can you hear the crickets? no. then maybe you should have a professional perform a hearing test. hearing loss doesn't usually happen suddenly it's generally a gradual process. first, the high pitched tones and sounds disappear. then you start to suspect that other people are mumbling on purpose. and parties are especially bad at them. you can't understand anything. so what then people with impaired hearing can find solutions here at an audiologist. hearing aids come in all shapes and colors, but the young people especially, are often reluctant to wear them is because with the oldest, i don't think i need a hearing aid yet. maybe i will at some point, but i'd rather be completely deaf and where one of the top rated so i should have

the feeling that a hearing aid is still just an old people. thing for me, i to like to do everything just because it made me really sad that he thought i'd think it's ugly. he has one that goes over the back like this. so it may be visible to interstate. is there a hearing a to blew in germany? especially among young people, not for all of them. as everyone knows i, we're hearing aids, but they're cool. i've warned them for over 2 years and hadn't regret it at once knocked off one of us before we want to meet with levy panell to talk about his experiences with hearing aids. because of that they're cool. you can turn them off for peace and quiet and use them to cheat on tests and listen to music was the trunk. we made love and berlin after a lecture. he's only been wearing hearing aids for 3 years. although his hearing loss is congenital, even at age 6, it was clear that living needed acoustic support. it's always done much since i

just like i refused to wear hearing aids back then because i thought they looked silly. oh, there were a lot bigger and hearing aids for kids were in color 5 and also am but i decided to get some because one's online classes during the endemic world. over on i went back to university and couldn't understand the professor at home. i could turn up the volume to talk from that made me realize how much my hearing loss limits me, and that's why i got them. they would cut off. i just think once the speaking how has been on the how going to go would be also has to now i guess which has been causing him problems for years. a visit to the doctor gave him the decisive impetus on the n t. did a routine test and told me it's more common for people with hearing loss to develop tonight as part of your focus and hearing aids could help and leave it with us instead of opened in the address. the biography to levy often notices in everyday life that young people don't like to talk about hearing problems or hearing aids,

maxwell. i'm done friends with i noticed it when i talk to others with hearing difficulties now cuz people also notice it little get i know what it's like when you can't hear. well just do that and the other is also know they don't hear. well have this done ok, but refuse to go see a doctor because they don't want to. we're hearing aids, much, much to be in by the kind of those type of avoiding hearing aids were interested in experiences that bmt doctors who vehicle coast has had with young hearing impaired people. from philadelphia, they want to be as inconspicuous as possible. there are teenagers who tell me they'd love a less noticeable hearing aids that they can wear in their air or part. we don't give them those while they're still growing because we'd have to repeatedly adjust them longer. obviously having this, that survey shows that people who notice hearing problems don't necessarily go to the doctor, one and 5, don't have their hearing tested, even if they noticed problems that can have consequences, a lindsey funds mazda,

sometimes hearing doesn't get worse for a few years, but speech comprehension done. so we measured that separately. here you can say that if the brain is no longer fed, it's less is getting through than speech comprehension. also get the horse, but hearing doesn't offer, and that's what convinces everyone to get a hearing aid. and that's about 4 times this other than the on farm. ok. doctor's fear, that hearing loss will keep rising. and the coming years, especially among the young, the reason constant exposure to noise in every day in life, always wearing headphones on high volume, and attending extremely loud concerts without hearing protection. all of this can lead to noise induced hearing loss. it's triggered in the inner ear where find sensory hair cells and the conch. leah are found. when a sound wave hits the air, the cell is converted into electrical signals. the auditory nerve then transmits them to the brain. if the hare cells are damaged because noise is too loud for too

long hearing impaired, and the damage is permanent. finding the right hearing aid for each individual. it's a job for hearing aids specialist and then a funding escapes. and so there are 2 categories, devices that sit behind the air, which ideally are held to the air with a custom made air mold, and then devices that are placed in the year. but you can differentiate further and distinguish between devices that have everything technologically on board ones that use bluetooth and other devices that are somewhat more limited in technological terms that are much smaller people taking notes on this. and i think that is definitely what do i just don't understand. i know awesome. the 1st thing people notice is that they're hearing suffers and noisy environments. lots of conversations, loud background noise for example, in a crowded street cafe. even with hearing aids, levy have to concentrate you. so don't you ever go to crowded campaigns use

um i might, i wouldn't say i avoid them. cuz when i'm there with people, i try to sit at a quiet or table and if it's too loud, i really have to concentrate a lot. or sometimes i need a minute where i don't take part in the conversations because has that conference, you would have called the gentleman's name, that he has been posting humorous videos since the beginning of 2024 and has grown very successful in a short space of time his 1st video about hearing aids now has 6 and a half 1000000 views. someone said almost a death in my right year, never wanted a hearing aid, but this convinced me like living where sits hearing aids every day. even when playing the piano. he believes that they could become the catching up the future. the yes can you, i was hearing aids, can now play music description and there's already a on i that translate scott's life of what i also think will increase the

acceptance of hearing aids. is that more and more people are walking around with the bluetooth headphones. now besides, this is all so it's no longer so strange to see people walking around with something in their ear, 2 of them. and i think that's a positive development for young people. we're hearing aids, lots to hold on. so small gadgets in the year could become a trend that replaces a to bu noise cancelling headphones. so they good for your years and how do they actually work? we've already explained this on our tech top channels. it's just practical signs. don't high pic, you know when you add 5 and minus 5, they cancel each other out well, and you can do the same thing with sound weeks waste. has chris truss, if we copy and paste that weight, move the copy of the to the side. so the crests align with the traps. i'm the original wave accounts only told her out, and we get notes out. that's when your headphones are doing. analyzing the know is

around you on computing the mirror image version of it and then peeping into your ear. so that means your headphones are actually playing additional sounds to noise counseling works best with constant and no pitch, no, it's got it. now another question, what about cleaning your years? how does that work? cuts and swaps. many people believe that the popular hygiene art schools adjust the right tool to clean it deeply and thoroughly, but fall from it. because cotton swabs push the wex deep into the deluxe, we squeeze together and it can become clumped. there's also risk of injury because then i can well remember a patient who is using a cotton swab, stiffened someone from outside, opened the bathroom door of the car, and swap was pushed through the drum and the entire media was broken into one desk because i'm to walk up with we don't need to cushion swaps anyway,

because this is the self cleaning. it works of both to protect and, and cleanser. never the less candles are often used to clean is a candle this band with one end. and it can, this is suppose to create a vacuum and pull the walks out of the but doesn't even what, what's unusual doesn't. it doesn't work at all, that they're also studies the show that use do not become cleaner and the risk of complications isn't minutes. when that has been type on, we see quite severe injuries in the area of the auditory canals just caused by the use of your channels as well as damage to the address i'm in the said that some of us thomas has so it's special to avoid this technique together. what should you do if you is pitch? many of us reach for all kinds of objects to storms it king. the old ears are often

seen and patients who wants to keep their use especially clean. i recommend 1st of all that you clean, you're using very light on yourself because they clean themselves is on the line. and the 2nd thing is you can try and using your finger to wrap a little oil based cream around your opening. and that spreads itself out a little bit too, as a gift to investigate, has this done often. but since the greatest danger for that is, is noise. continuous exposure to loud noise can lead to hearing loss. and genesis very loud fun can even close deafness. you should also where it plugs a concepts them and i get if you end up at a concert, i'm thinking, crap, i don't have anything with me, but it's getting too loud for my eyes done, it always works out great with tissues i also have that's what i do to, i roll the dishes together and put them in my here so, and then you have great protection depending on how hard you squeak for the why.

it's important to protect children's hearing. that is a particularly sensitive and con, totally right. now defense with that coming to to you can't put anything in children's years, they have much smaller. you can opt out of everything falls out again. but you should really use your mouse and i think this is what hearing protection for children looks like. by the way, quiet walks, especially after noise events are also get to the is swimming and bathing announced a problem for healthy is but after basing any water should be removed as a vessel some one after you get the water out of the year. after bathing the holding your head at an angle and then you can wiggle, elizabeth, or hop on one leg, depending on what works. and then you can use a towel to dry off the wall, turn into the patients are always afraid that the walter can get further into the year and then disappears somewhere into the head and cut. so that doesn't happen

because you can think of the drum as a barrier. if you were leaving. the water comes in for the you're here, the food, the external auditory canal and, or the only reaches the drum pump. that's why it's not the dangerous thing. is this office to few hours so it's really not that difficult to keep your is clean and healthy. you've got a tricky decision to make scientist say your brain doesn't just rely on site and sound to choose, but also makes assumptions about what you're about to see and hear that constantly compares to production. what's your actual perception? this often doesn't work all that well for people with poor hearing and makes it hard to make decisions and situations like these hearing aids or cochlear implants can improve hearing. but you also have to learn to hear with them. my. my name is eda, because i like to laugh ito has have the same name since kindergarten at the state

education center. now she's in elementary school and has to learn math. first teacher, you to fuck and back connect. you does cochlear implant to the microphone. the other children also were implants or hearing aids just as i do this so the children can hear me directly through the system in their ear so they can concentrate better on me. my voice and the gestures a loud speaker also amplifies the teacher's voice. in case the direct connection to the kid's ears doesn't work the best of products, but it's always best when they're linked directly to me. and there is little background noise that they hear me exactly hearing what the others in the room are saying, a big challenge for the children, which requires a lot of concentration. that's why it's important that everyone can see one another . in addition to modern technology used a fucking bug also uses sound accompanying gestures slim down form of sign language . the special facility for the hearing impaired help is

also readily available. for instance, if there are difficulties with an implant or if someone's hearing gets worse, to really explore, think about where the noise could be coming from and then point to the speakers flexible. i'm off the most pressure there. right on disposition. although you know it's fitted with implants her hearing is not perfect as calling shots, test show, their good stuff looks like yes, it's very important in traffic that you also look with your eyes because it's difficult to hear through your ears. so you can't just rely on technology, there are situations where it either has to make do without it either lunch. i have to take them off when i go swimming and then my mom has to sign with me. that's why children ito's age also receive lessons in german sign language so they can

communicate and understand each other for both sound and sign language of around one and a half 1000000000. people globally have hearing problems. the world health organization fears that number will suit doubled, the world has grown louder. this puts young people in particular at risk due to their habits. but diseases such as poto, sclerosis can also lead to hearing loss. it's not yet clear exactly how the disease develops, but something can be done about it. many people take the sounds of everyday life for granted, but hardly anyone has comparative values. what is normal hearing? people like loudly said, becca can live for years with a mass of hearing impairment at not know, it can always just comes from us on the phone at this. i don't know exactly when it

started. it was a gradual process and abby's on the whole. at 1st i thought i had to night is systems of this. i always had this phones in my area. and in everyday life it felt a bit stressful. whenever the background noise was louder, situations got stressful. a little faster. she was into the trap system, and in the end i could hardly hear anything on the right side gunsmith who is item when her hearing loss got worse, lisa had herself examined the year is a complex oregon, and sudden hearing loss can have many concepts. she was diagnosed with also, if occasion of the stroke, also known as auto sclerosis. the attempt and the patients with auto sclerosis here less well may have a slight ringing in the years. and, and exceptional cases, also dizziness and lots of records. auto sclerosis is genetic, the disease is very complex and is related to the faulty interaction of the auditory bones and her in her ear shall come to

a small bush and the sound 1st passes through the auditory canal and hits the ear dropped out. would you call us has to be a singular change that is to hammer and, and bill and including the stir. the moment i saw the business case, the problem was that the strip was also fine. that's the smallest article here. and that means that the sound was not transmitted to the inner ear because the stroke couldn't move stuff in and off. load the chicago, considering the vague and calmed hearing tests confirm noddy subject us off the vacation. and thus her hearing loss is getting worse and worse. she will soon need an operation. until then, she'll use a hearing aid, a taste of what she has missed so far, a spot for the coupon. it's been great for the interim. i've got on very well with the hearing aid. i've also been glad that i had it prior to surgery. and i really realized how bad on hearing actually was in the act of useless by just the doctor. done. yellow science performs the procedure on nothing. so becca that it involves

replacing the ossified stirrup with an implant done, never diesel unable. then we take a prosthesis like list to hang it carefully on the anvil so that it reconnects to the inner air fluid also, and the sound can be transmitted just as well. the chain has been been rebuilt, and as mo bile again let the cut to z to a cons 3 of the or the procedure takes about an hour, and it's usually performed under general anesthesia, the f o shots on. so the chances of success are very good, so that from a loss of 40 decibels, you'll have between 0 and 10 decibels and loss, which is actually normal hearing. and i know my list is in rare cases. complications such as inflammation occurred. patients often experience ringing in the ears and the dizziness after surgery, but these generally disappear after a short time. both of the button, if a patients don't want in operation are afraid or too ill or have other problems, the operation is said to be too dangerous and not to get in this case. the hearing

loss can also be compensated for with a hearing. aid on often has so little stores and hook up at alkali and cases like locks of echoes. he, an aide is not a long term solution sense if left untreated also if occasion of the affected auditory bone can progress, but the prosthesis can permanently improve for hearing. that's all, thank you. you're no longer gross or changes in science and if no other problem arises, such as inflammation, prosthesis remains forever to josephine and after the operation, the ear canal is closed and protected with bandages, which i removed after 2 weeks, however, amounting. so becca was allowed to leave the hospital after just 2 days to pay the surgery itself went rather quickly, but i spent 2 nights in the hospital just because of the dizziness and then i came here to the doctor's office for check ups. after that, things steadily improved fitness that actually got better every day in touch with, the dizziness almost vanished. i had no pains,

and my hearing is about 100 percent movement. so you know, when i put $10000.00, lisa becker will probably also have to have an operation on her left ear next year . she's happy that she can hear properly again and is confident about the upcoming surgeries. thanks for joining us. we hope to hear from you soon bye for now the

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