Bits & Peaces — Hearing Health

Don't Forget Your Sense Of Hearing Hearing is one of our most under-appreciated senses. Without sight, most of us would come to a dead stop. Our ‘hearing’ doesn’t hurt like when our sense of touch experiences a sunburn. We relish and spend huge amounts of time preparing and consuming our favorite foods - enraptured in our sense of taste and smell. Our hearing is something most of us just take for granted or it’s a terrible annoyance that keeps us from sleeping. We should not. The reality is that compromising our sense of hearing is as profound as any other....

Our hearing is a miraculous sense - it’s worth keeping. Chris Schweitzer shares his take on how all of it - everything in the cosmos - is sound.

Ch-ch-ch-changes In less than 12 months, the novel coronavirus has transformed every conceivable aspect of our lives in increasingly dramatic ways. Everything from work processes to public safety precautions to personal health accountability have had to adapt to life in a global pandemic. While it’s nice to imagine we’ll get back to normal (and there’s a very strong chance we will), our understanding of what is normal may be changed forever. But as difficult as this is, health systems around the world are rallying to create solutions with promises of positive change. The Spanish flu epidemic of the early 20th...

Most of us assumed that COVID-19 primarily affected the respiratory and muscular systems. However, as time goes on and more research comes out, one thing is clear - COVID-19 is an entirely different strain of virus. It's now thought to be a cardiovascular disease, which both complicates and explains many of the symptoms, including tinnitus. Read the post to learn more about how tinnitus may be the not-so-silent symptom of COVID-19.