Finding Peace and Quiet

Recent research on everyday ototoxicity and the long-game strategy for protecting your hearing.

Johnny Jung
Nov 6 · 5 min read

In the US, around 15% of adults report a significant degree of hearing loss and the majority of cases are represented by presbycusis or age-related hearing loss.

But you don’t have to be thinning and graying or getting AARP marketing mail for presbycusis to affect you– it’s simply the result of irreversible, accumulating damage to the structures responsible for hearing.

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