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Podcast: Life Happens
Episode: Your Hearing and Your Brain Health
Description: How you hear is with your brain. The ear is just a tool to get the information to your brain. And what happens over time is hearing loss as it goes down, that processing is affected. So essentially your brain once you can't hear will rewire itself to find information in other methods. I like to tell my patients that generally speaking, it's kind of like, they're always playing wheel of fortune. They're missing bits and pieces. Sometimes they get the puzzle quickly and easily. Other times they're trying to rely on other things like context clues. So that's...