How to Improve Hearing Naturally: Techniques That Really Work

Hearing loss can happen so gradually that most of us don't notice we have a problem until we're struggling to understand friends at restaurants. Or worse, we realize it because our spouses get angry that we're constantly asking, "What? Pardon? Can you repeat that?"

If this sounds familiar, you could be suffering from a hearing problem – and you might benefit from the natural hearing remedies below. The best thing about these techniques is that they really do work. If you're lucky, they will help get better hearing dramatically.

Even better, when you combine the following techniques with an affordable, high-quality hearing aid from Cearvol, you'll be unstoppable! Let's take a look:

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1. Apps and Games That Literally Train Your Brain to Hear Better

Most hearing loss patients have physical problems with their ears that prevent them from detecting the sounds around them. However, your brain is just as important for voice comprehension as your ears. Your brain is what distinguishes between sounds and interprets their meanings.

While hearing loss in the ears is permanent, patients may be able to heal some of their loss of hearing comprehension by exercising the brain with a special smartphone app from Lace Listening. Here's how the Lace Listening app works to improve your listening comprehension (paraphrased from their product video):

Hearing aids can restore audibility and maximize understanding in noise better than ever before. But there's a missing piece to this puzzle – a second obstacle to communicating in noise: It's the aging process.

As a part of normal, healthy aging, everyone is negatively affected in the areas of distractibility, processing speed, and working memory. This can drastically reduce their listening comprehension abilities, especially in noisy environments.

Ultimately, it's our brain that keeps us hearing better in noise, even with the best hearing aids. So doing the right kind of brain-training exercises can lead to hearing better in noise.

According to Lace, their app "assists in developing listening and communication skills and strategies that will help compensate for those situations when hearing is inadequate." They claim it will improve hearing comprehension in noisy environments by 30%, and if you have hearing aids, it will help you get the most out of them.

In addition to the LACE app, we recommend that you try some cognitive gaming apps – like those from HappyNeuron and Lumosity – to boost your overall brain capacity and listening comprehension. These apps are fun, healthy, and addictive!

2. Low-Tech Exercises That Improve Hearing Comprehension

Using a tech device is great, but hearing is all about socializing and connecting with the people around you. We recommend you work with a partner or friend to strengthen your ability to perceive and understand voices:

• Listen to someone reading aloud: Ask a friend to read to you. Repeat each line you hear, and have your friend point out the mistakes. As your comprehension improves, do the same exercise in a noisy environment like a restaurant to deepen your skills.
• Practice sound directionality exercises: Close your eyes and have your partner move to different areas of the room while they talk to you. Guess which direction they're coming from and how far away they are. This will improve your ability to perceive sound directionality, which helps understanding in group conversations and being aware of your environment.
• Have more conversations in noisy environments: Turn on the radio or television and try to have a conversation with your partner. Do the same in a noisy restaurant or bar; don't let your hearing issues turn you into a homebody who never goes out. Intentionally practicing your listening comprehension in areas with a lot of ambient noise will strengthen your abilities.

3. Hearing Concentration Exercises to Do When You're Alone

Regardless of your age, some people are more "distractible" than others, but "getting distracted," "losing focus," and "spacing out" can be a part of the aging process for some of us. Since a lack of focus will destroy your ability to understand a conversation – and worsen the hearing loss you already have – we recommend the following concentration-building techniques when you're alone:

• Sound isolation techniques: Practice listening to ambient sounds and focusing on individual noises like a bird, the wind, or traffic. This will strengthen your concentration abilities during conversations.
• Meditation techniques: Sit comfortably, focus on your breath, and when your mind wanders, bring it back. This simple practice can help you concentrate better in conversations.

4. Vitamins and Supplements to Improve Hearing

Practicing the above cognitive techniques will improve your listening comprehension skills – we can almost guarantee it. But what about vitamins? Scientific research shows that certain vitamins can help, prevent, or delay hearing loss:

• Fish oils: Consuming two servings of fish per week can reduce the chances of age-related hearing loss by 42% in adults over 50.
• Magnesium: This mineral has been scientifically shown to protect against noise-induced hearing loss.
• Folic Acid: A 2007 study found that consuming folic acid delayed age-related hearing loss in the lower frequency ranges.

As for vitamin C, E, B12, and beta carotene, the jury is still out. According to one scientific study, higher intake of these vitamins does not reduce the risk of hearing loss in adult males. Men 60 years of age and older may benefit from higher folate intake to reduce the risk of developing hearing loss.

Remember to consult with your doctor before taking any vitamins or supplements to improve your hearing condition.

5. Get an Earwax Cleaning

Earwax is healthy and natural, protecting the sensitive parts of our ears from bacteria, dust, and debris. However, too much wax can cause conductive hearing loss. Therefore, anyone with hearing loss should visit a medical professional for earwax cleaning.

Just don't perform the earwax cleaning yourself! Only a trained medical practitioner can safely clean your ears.

6. Quit Smoking (and Tell Your Partner to Quit Smoking Too)

A JAMA study showed that smoking increases your chances of hearing loss by 1.69 times. Nicotine consumption also leads to tinnitus, and second-hand smoke from your partner can cause hearing loss in you, even if you've never smoked a cigarette in your life!

Here are the most important findings from the study:

After adjusting for other factors, current smokers were 1.69 times as likely to have hearing loss compared to nonsmokers. Nonsmoking participants who lived with a smoker were more likely to have hearing loss than those not exposed to a household member who smoked.

Smoking restricts blood flow to the ears, causing inner ear cell degradation. It also interrupts neurotransmitters that deliver messages from the hearing nerve to the brain, disrupting speech-language comprehension.

7. Cearvol: Improve Your Hearing With High-Quality, Affordable Hearing Aids

We hope these techniques help you improve your hearing naturally and inexpensively. However, remember that hearing damage is permanent, and there's only so much we can do to treat hearing loss without a hearing aid.

If you want hearing aids but can't afford the prices, Cearvol offers high-quality, medical-grade, FDA-registered hearing aids at a fraction of the price. Each Cearvol product comes with a 100% money-back guarantee.