Guys,
I have collected some info on how to improve your hearing based on my experience and some research over the years. Hope you find this helpful.
1). Treat your ears with care - Don't go to place where it is very loud. If your work place is where they make jet engines or work at train station or what not, quit that job. It will damage your hearing and you won't be able to enjoy your sound of music.
2). Rest - Get plenty of rest. Sleep at least 8 hours a day minimum. If you missed an hour, make up that hour of sleeping next day, or by the end of the week. Your body is sensitive and will be affected depending on the number of hours slept over a period of time. If you missed 10 hours of sleep in a month, you need to make that up as soon as you can. This will improve your hearing and you will be able to enjoy listening to the sound of music better. Your ears will detect things better when you upgrade / downgrade your audio system. This way you know you are getting better sound or worse sound. This will also keep your body healthy and also lower chance catching cold as the winter is coming now.
3). Healthy Food - NO SWEETS / Junk Food (sugar from coffee, candybar, ice cream, cake, pie, cookies, biscuits, chocolate, etc). Eating these foods will make you get sick and have a huge impact on health. Your hearing will be lost as your body is not in good working state. This is also a great way to get cancer. Eating processed food (off-the-shelf) should also be avoided. Eat fruits and vegetables. The following are great for your body hence your hearing will be improved. All from produce, not the pre-made / processed off-the-self items:
- Carrots
- Broccoli / Cabbage
- Apples / Pineapples
- Spinach (good for your brain, improves your ear drum to function better too)
- Berries (Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, cherries, etc)
- Oranges (don't eat limes as they are too sour)
- Pears / plums / peaches / apricots
- Grapes (with seeds, mix all in the blender for maximum health benefit)
- Pomegranites (I choose this because it damn tastes good, and extremely healthy)
4). Exercise - If you exercise your blood will circulate faster and get your organs well fed. Your organs will function better hence you improve hearing. Ear drums have serious impact on this. They need blood to survive. This is highly effective. Say you are listening to music and got a little tired / lousy. Turn off the music and go do some push ups or / and sit ups for 5~ 10 minutes. It doesn't have to be a long exercise. Take a break for a few minutes. Resume the exercise for a few minutes. You then go back to music listening and you will notice you can hear better = more enjoyment for music listening. Your body is stimulated. You don't want to make your body exhausted as that can also have negative impact to hearing. Little bit of exercise is what you are looking for. Make sure your body is fed with proper nutrients (food (fruit / veggy juice), NOT chocolates and ice cream) well before exercising.
5). Coffee - This is somewhat "controversial" as you get mixed response from the doctors / nutritionists / users. It has good things and bad things. Drinking coffee stimulates your mind so you can listen to music better as your brain isn't going to fall asleep. But drinking in moderation with spring water, no sugar, no cream any of that non-sense is good. No more than a teaspoon of coffee should be added into a cup, one-half teaspoon is recommended. You don't need too much of caffeine.
6). Don't touch your Ears - While you are listening to music don't rub your ears or stick your finger and rubbing your ear canals... this *numbs* your ear and lose hearing capability significantly. Don't scratch your ears either. Just don't touch at all. If your ear canals are itching (due to ear wax or bug got inside) while listening to music try to hang tight. No matter what you do.. just don't touch the ears! Once you are done enjoying listening to music you can go clean your ears. Don't do any scratching / rubbing ears at least several hours prior to music listening. It takes time for the numbness to go away which is why you need several hours... What's even worse is when trying to scrap off wax out of your ear canals with your finger nail.... very dangerous to ear drums as they can get damaged / wounded. When that happens your hearing ability will go down to 30%. This happened to me and my ears got numb for 3 days!! I felt crap because I couldn't have eargasm out of my hyper-end audio system. If you have wax issues take proper procedure to clean your canals. Use proper tools such as Q-tips with proper solvent for cleaning. Consult your doctor for details. Don't go ask me what you should use to clean....
Also taking shower can have negative effect to your hearing depending on how much of water got in your ear canals and how you went about removing the moist out of your ears. Remember, you rub that ears and your music listening experience will be ruined. If shower is taken carefully (without touching ears and no water getting inside) it can actually have positive effect to hearing as your body is well soothed from the hot water of bathing... This is a hit and miss. Sometimes I get great hearing after the shower... sometimes totally jacked up I can't enjoy music as my ears got numbed.....
7). Keep the music volume low - Don't listen to music too loud as that also numbs the ear drums, and can hurt them if played too loud. Get used to listening with lower volumes. Start low, increase volume by a notch or two as needed. Once you find the level to be a sweet safe spot, leave it at that. If you set it loud you will not likely be able to enjoy music due to ear numbness and you gonna want to turn it up even more. Bad habit. Especially when you are listening to music with a lot of high frequencies it's a good idea to let your ears to take a break for 10~ 15 minutes. By that I mean turn off the music and go do something else (take a dump, eat, go outside and take out trash, pat / play with your pussy cat, watch TV / videos, etc) and come back to music listening. It recharges your ears to full working state and you will be able to enjoy the high frequency in the music.
Umm... is there anything else to add? Contributions?
Now keep in mind that your mileage will vary. This is because it depends greatly on the audio system you have and what your music source is (recording). If you have crappy system that puts out a lot of edginess (almost distort) you will hear the bad sound more clearly. It won't make your music sound better, it's just that your ears can hear better that's the difference. You may experience ear fatigues... You can also catch details in the music better if you have a good audio system. Use your ears as a monitoring tool for music performance.
thanks,
I have collected some info on how to improve your hearing based on my experience and some research over the years. Hope you find this helpful.
1). Treat your ears with care - Don't go to place where it is very loud. If your work place is where they make jet engines or work at train station or what not, quit that job. It will damage your hearing and you won't be able to enjoy your sound of music.
2). Rest - Get plenty of rest. Sleep at least 8 hours a day minimum. If you missed an hour, make up that hour of sleeping next day, or by the end of the week. Your body is sensitive and will be affected depending on the number of hours slept over a period of time. If you missed 10 hours of sleep in a month, you need to make that up as soon as you can. This will improve your hearing and you will be able to enjoy listening to the sound of music better. Your ears will detect things better when you upgrade / downgrade your audio system. This way you know you are getting better sound or worse sound. This will also keep your body healthy and also lower chance catching cold as the winter is coming now.
3). Healthy Food - NO SWEETS / Junk Food (sugar from coffee, candybar, ice cream, cake, pie, cookies, biscuits, chocolate, etc). Eating these foods will make you get sick and have a huge impact on health. Your hearing will be lost as your body is not in good working state. This is also a great way to get cancer. Eating processed food (off-the-shelf) should also be avoided. Eat fruits and vegetables. The following are great for your body hence your hearing will be improved. All from produce, not the pre-made / processed off-the-self items:
- Carrots
- Broccoli / Cabbage
- Apples / Pineapples
- Spinach (good for your brain, improves your ear drum to function better too)
- Berries (Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, cherries, etc)
- Oranges (don't eat limes as they are too sour)
- Pears / plums / peaches / apricots
- Grapes (with seeds, mix all in the blender for maximum health benefit)
- Pomegranites (I choose this because it damn tastes good, and extremely healthy)
4). Exercise - If you exercise your blood will circulate faster and get your organs well fed. Your organs will function better hence you improve hearing. Ear drums have serious impact on this. They need blood to survive. This is highly effective. Say you are listening to music and got a little tired / lousy. Turn off the music and go do some push ups or / and sit ups for 5~ 10 minutes. It doesn't have to be a long exercise. Take a break for a few minutes. Resume the exercise for a few minutes. You then go back to music listening and you will notice you can hear better = more enjoyment for music listening. Your body is stimulated. You don't want to make your body exhausted as that can also have negative impact to hearing. Little bit of exercise is what you are looking for. Make sure your body is fed with proper nutrients (food (fruit / veggy juice), NOT chocolates and ice cream) well before exercising.
5). Coffee - This is somewhat "controversial" as you get mixed response from the doctors / nutritionists / users. It has good things and bad things. Drinking coffee stimulates your mind so you can listen to music better as your brain isn't going to fall asleep. But drinking in moderation with spring water, no sugar, no cream any of that non-sense is good. No more than a teaspoon of coffee should be added into a cup, one-half teaspoon is recommended. You don't need too much of caffeine.
6). Don't touch your Ears - While you are listening to music don't rub your ears or stick your finger and rubbing your ear canals... this *numbs* your ear and lose hearing capability significantly. Don't scratch your ears either. Just don't touch at all. If your ear canals are itching (due to ear wax or bug got inside) while listening to music try to hang tight. No matter what you do.. just don't touch the ears! Once you are done enjoying listening to music you can go clean your ears. Don't do any scratching / rubbing ears at least several hours prior to music listening. It takes time for the numbness to go away which is why you need several hours... What's even worse is when trying to scrap off wax out of your ear canals with your finger nail.... very dangerous to ear drums as they can get damaged / wounded. When that happens your hearing ability will go down to 30%. This happened to me and my ears got numb for 3 days!! I felt crap because I couldn't have eargasm out of my hyper-end audio system. If you have wax issues take proper procedure to clean your canals. Use proper tools such as Q-tips with proper solvent for cleaning. Consult your doctor for details. Don't go ask me what you should use to clean....
Also taking shower can have negative effect to your hearing depending on how much of water got in your ear canals and how you went about removing the moist out of your ears. Remember, you rub that ears and your music listening experience will be ruined. If shower is taken carefully (without touching ears and no water getting inside) it can actually have positive effect to hearing as your body is well soothed from the hot water of bathing... This is a hit and miss. Sometimes I get great hearing after the shower... sometimes totally jacked up I can't enjoy music as my ears got numbed.....
7). Keep the music volume low - Don't listen to music too loud as that also numbs the ear drums, and can hurt them if played too loud. Get used to listening with lower volumes. Start low, increase volume by a notch or two as needed. Once you find the level to be a sweet safe spot, leave it at that. If you set it loud you will not likely be able to enjoy music due to ear numbness and you gonna want to turn it up even more. Bad habit. Especially when you are listening to music with a lot of high frequencies it's a good idea to let your ears to take a break for 10~ 15 minutes. By that I mean turn off the music and go do something else (take a dump, eat, go outside and take out trash, pat / play with your pussy cat, watch TV / videos, etc) and come back to music listening. It recharges your ears to full working state and you will be able to enjoy the high frequency in the music.
Umm... is there anything else to add? Contributions?
Now keep in mind that your mileage will vary. This is because it depends greatly on the audio system you have and what your music source is (recording). If you have crappy system that puts out a lot of edginess (almost distort) you will hear the bad sound more clearly. It won't make your music sound better, it's just that your ears can hear better that's the difference. You may experience ear fatigues... You can also catch details in the music better if you have a good audio system. Use your ears as a monitoring tool for music performance.
thanks,
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