Reminder to Take Care of Your Hearing

11/17/20 • 21 min

This week’s show is a rebroadcast of one from the middle of 2019. I’m running it again because hearing and hearing loss is such an important subject, especially during this pandemic. We are all staying close to home and even more so for us older people. We are the ones who are most at risk for hearing loss and not getting it checked regularly and/or taken care of can make us more vulnerable to brain issues.

There are many studies showing that people with hearing loss who don’t get some kind of “intervention” such as a hearing aid or implant tend to have increased brain shrinkage and are more likely to develop dementia.

Hearing loss can be caused by ear wax or fluid buildup in the ear, by a punctured ear drum, various health issues like diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, etc., and heredity / genetics. The long term effects of hearing loss can be self-isolation, faster decline of cognitive abilities, and as I said previously dementia.

Any one of those items should be enough of a reason to get your hearing checked on a regular basis or when you feel like you’re not hearing as well as you used to. The latter is what got me to go and I’ve been wearing a hearing aid for more than 3 years now - it made a big difference in my life and it could in yours as well.

For more information go to my website to read my blogpost Hearing Loss for Older Adults https://healthytipsafter50.com/hearing-loss-older-adults/

Reminder to Take Care of Your Hearing

For more information go to my website to read my blogpost Hearing Loss for Older Adults https://healthytipsafter50.com/hearing-loss-older-adults/

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Getting Stronger As We Age

Getting Stronger and Healthier As We Age

My guest today is Joseph Oniwor. Joe is a pro arena football player turned transformation trainer who has been in the fitness industry for 28 years. His mission is to help women 48 years old and older to take back control over their bodies while they are dealing with the energy loss and weight gain that typically comes along with menopause.

Listen in as we talk about what family and personal health issues brought him to become a health coach and to work with menopausal women in particular. I know from personal experience that we can be a bit moody and temperamental during that age.

Joe and I also talked about how to keep your fitness and strength during Covid and exercising at home. He has some very helpful suggestions for how to set up a kind of gym in a small space inside your own home.

Continuing, we talked about how people need to find a “why” for making healthy changes and choices in their lives. Switching to healthy foods, starting or continuing an exercise regime, while creating and maintaining a mindset that allows them to confidently take care of themselves first in their lives (one of my favorite topics).

This podcast is one of my longer ones but I think you’ll find it full of good advice and information. Let me know what you think. If you’d like to get in contact with Joe I’ve added his website and other specific information about some of his programs and free information below.

Website: https://jocoaching.life/blog/ FB: @JOCfitlife IG: https://www.instagram.com/jocfitcoach/ Free 7 Day Challenge - This has 26 exercises in 6 different workouts included, https://jocoaching.life/free-resource/

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The Naturopathic Path to Health

My podcast guest this week is Dr. Cris Azzola, ND. Dr. Cris is a licensed naturopathic doctor in San Francisco, CA, and is a descendant from a long line of physicians who believed in balancing conventional medicine with natural healing techniques.

From early childhood, she was inspired by her family’s dedication to helping others and became curious about the natural remedies her family used to stay healthy, always wondering “how grandma’s stuff worked”. That’s why she decided to go the naturopathic route instead of the traditional MD route.

Cris specializes in helping people prevent and treat chronic conditions, including stress and burnout, and re-optimize their health. We had a great conversation about the different types of conditions and complaints that she has been treating during Covid and before. I really liked the way that she supports each person she sees as the unique person they are tries to make their healing journey as engaging as possible.

Another area we talked about was food and how important healthy food is to keeping us strong. She suggested looking at the book The World’s Healthiest Foods by George Mateljan if anyone is specifically interested in learning more about different foods. Per Cris’ recommendation, the book provides a great index and helps us identify foods high in specific nutrients and other details. The book can be bought on Amazon here or on his website at http://www.whfoods.com/

If you want to get in touch with Cris for more information about her naturopathic practice you can go to her website at www.DrAzzola.com or email her directly at [email protected]