Brian talks to Lowell Scott -Acute Hearing

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Hey forty three here pewy five krsee talk station and
it's time to ask an expert and wanted ex where
he is. If you have hearing issues, you need to
talk with Lowell Scott, my guest in studio with a
cute hearing.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Welcome, Law, it's good to have you in. Good morning,
it's good sea.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
I love you.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Before you get to a cute hearing, I want you
to explain my listeners about about your business. But my
experience with hearing loss my late mother in law, and
it got so bad that she basically lost a sense
of connection with anybody. Yeah, and it was a form
of isolation. You could be in the room with her,

(01:30):
but she could didn't and it was so heartbreaking. She
knew you were talking, she could not hear you, and
she felt isolated, like she was being intentionally excluded. It
was her hearing that was the issue.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Though, right It's it's really debilitating and it's isolating. You
know you're there, but you can't communicate. It's it's one
of the communication and that connection that we have is
one of the things that you know makes us human
is being able to express the ideas back and forth
and that kind of stuff, and you really lose that
If I can't hear you. You know, it's just you know,

(02:01):
you have to repeat constantly, and then I start to
get disengaged. And you'll you'll see people set in a
room and they're by themselves, isolated in a room with
everybody else talking and because they can't understand what's being
said around.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, in essence, you are in a room by yourself,
even though you're surrounded with people. Doesn't that ultimately result
in cognitive decline, like your ability to even recognize words
and remember meanings and things.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yes, it's called auditory deprivation. What starts to happen is
that the brain starts to lose the ability to understand language.
The spoken word. You can still read it, you can
still speak it, but it doesn't mean anything to you
when it's spoken. So it'd be like me screaming Japanese
or Chinese. If you don't understand the word, it doesn't
mean anything to you.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, And that's a real heartbreaking component of it as well.
So obviously early intervention is I would maybe critical.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Oh for sure, the earlier you get into it, the
better I've been wearing hearing it since I was in
my twenties. Because of knowing this, you know, they've done
a lot of studies lately that show Alzheimer's dementia.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yes, cognitive decline.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
You can reduce cognitive climb, but up to seventy percent
by wearing hearing instruments.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Do you have hearing aig in right now? Yeah? Oh
my god. Yeah, they're small.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
You can't say they never would have even known it. Yeah,
but they have really gotten small these days, haven't they.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Wow? So and you know what the other component that is.
I think there was at one point time there's some
sort of social stigma associated with hearing aids, and people
were embarrassed to have them, and they put off getting
them because they didn't want to be that person. I mean,
come on, baby boomers, we all grew up rock concerts
and all that, and everybody's losing their hearing. I know
a lot of people they have hearing aids. So we
got that moved away. It's no longer a stigmation.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
And you know, with you know, iPods and everything, everybody's
wearing something in their ear now anyhow, So it's not
really that it's not really that negative anymore. So. It's
more of a mindset that you are trying to fight
off aging. We none of us want to look like
we're getting older.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
All right, So what are I mean? I think I
could answer sort of the question. But how do you
know when you should start considering your hearing? I mean,
is there I go to a dentist twice a year.
I see the eye doctor like once a year. So
should someone prophylactically go out and get a hearing test
at some given age? I mean before you recognize, like

(04:12):
your wife's yelling at you, you don't hear me. You can't
hear a word. I'm saying, that's one thing, right, maybe
you're just not listening to her, right, But how do
you when do you start?

Speaker 4 (04:22):
Well, the AMA recommends that if you're at the age
of fifty, you should have your hearing check to get
a baseline so you can know where you're at and
go from moving forward. Hearing loss comes on so gradually
that you just don't really start to recognize, you know,
the birds just start to fade. I'm producing you don't
hear you don't you don't hear those things. So, but
if you're misunderstanding in restaurants, if noisy areas are struggling,

(04:42):
you know, if the TV's up a little bit, louder.
If you hear people but don't understand them, those are
all indications because what what happens with most people is
we lose our high frequencies first right two thousand and up,
and that's where all the consonants sounds. So the difference
between feet, seat, and heat becomes eee, and so it
doesn't make any sense. You can't understand what the person's saying.
You know, So when it's just you just missed one

(05:04):
sound in a sentence, you can.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Get through it. The brain can put that in there.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
It's part of how the cognitivity is right if you
can get through different different phases. But as you miss
two words in a sentence, now you don't know what's
being said, and you get confused and your answer wrong
and it comes out wrong. So if you're misunderstanding people,
that's the first step.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Okay, your website Acute Hearing Centers dot com. I see
your video there on the front page. Now I just
have to ask this directly, what's the point of your
or what's the personalized carr your approach it at acute
hearing as opposed to like me going to Amazon right
now and just typing in hearing aids and having them
deliver to my door. Is that even a practical solution.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
No, it's not a practical solution. But you can do that,
and what you get is you get an amplifier. We've
had all the you know, everybody here has heard about
over the counter hearing as has just come out in
the last couple of years, right, but we've had peace
apps forever, which they've just reclassified which are those are
person sound amplification devices. They just reclassify those into over

(06:05):
the counter hearing aids, so you have over the counter
and prescription hearing. It's the difference is if I put
my hand up like this, it adds up five dB.
It clicks like your hand behind your ear. Yeah, that
increases sound by five dB. But that's not a therapeutic measurement.
What you have to do is then what we do
that's different is that we verify that we give you
back to hearing that you're missing. So we'll guarantee that

(06:26):
we give you your best hearing by protocols and testing
that we do through real ear other stuff. It's able
to customize it and make you hear the best that
you can.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well, that's the benefit of seeing an expert. It's supposed
to do it in yourself, right, all right, I understand
that now these are all programmable.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yes, everything anymore is basically little computer chips. They're amazing
and what they can do really.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Are the Internet of Things devices as well.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
They Bluetooth, the compatible they'll cook into your phone. You
can actually get transcription of depending on your connection, of
language if you're traveling, and different things like that.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
So they have a lot of different What all they
can do?

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Okay, well, all I've dave had to do is Internet
of Things advice, Internet of Things device comments. But are
you I'm trying to throw what you just said? You mean,
if I have those hearing aids in, it'll do speech
to text translation real time.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
It depending on your connection. Yeah, they're they're pretty quick.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
That's pretty wild. Yeah, Mike, My mother and I had
to rely on the telephone transcription and it was terrible.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Right, they can do it and see to me, that
stuff is and it works pretty well, I mean, because
you can actually translate languages and that kind of stuff
with it. But to me, the most important part of
it is I've tried not to get hung up in
those things because sure, really the most important thing is
feeding the brain. If I don't feed the brain with
a proper amount of electricity and the proper amount of heat,

(07:45):
then what it starts to accelerate the aging process and
stuff like that. So there's a lot of little neat
things about the hearing aids. They're awesome, and the technology
it's moved tremendously forward, and the amount of amplification we
can do, and how we can control feedback now and
some stuff we didn't used to be out of control.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
But the big thing is getting that heat and energy
to the brain, all right.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
And in terms of hearing testing assessment, when someone comes
in and says, you know, I want to get that baseline,
how does that work? What's your approach to that? I mean,
is it done into a soundproof room? Is it sort
of a real life experience kind of thing, like, No,
it's like your kitchen table sitting environment. How does that
work so you can achieve that real, real baseline.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
So when you first come in, we'll look down in
your ear. We'll show you what the inside of your
ear looks like. And the reason we do that is
because if you're full of wax, we can't get a
true test and we look down there, yeah, and then
we put you in a booth and we run through
a series of a lot of tests. You know, we
test both ears, We test them for tones, we test
them for a speech, We test for speech and noise.
So there's a lot of different things because there's a

(08:45):
lot of different like to measure, like a quick send
test measures how what your cognitive ability is to pull
sound out of noise right, because it could be a
hearing loss, but it also could be the processing powers
of the brain, you know, and you start to lose that,
and some people have to have deteriorated their ability to
understand a noise And if we know that in advance,
then we could we can make adjustments for it and

(09:07):
do directional mics and things like that to help with it.
So if you have ten itis, we can help with that.
There's just a lot of different things that goes into
place in the process of figuring out what's happening and
not just hanging hearing it on your ear and heading
out the door.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
That's where you know, we've been doing that forever.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
And when I got started this, they had an electny
fifty that fit in the ear and it was thirty
nine dollars, you know, and you just hit and turn
it up.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
So it's it's been eve been doing that forever.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, I understand that. Now, what about crowded room settings?
Are these modern hearing aims that you have from at
acute hearing do they focus on the conversation component that
you're having, because like I think about being in a
room maybe like the illustration of my father when he's
in the Dimension facility, You're in a cafeteria and there's
a lot of people around chattering, you know, the den

(09:53):
of the chatter around which can you know, be off
putting or make problem make it more problematic for someone
who's struggling with hearing loss. Do the hearing aid deal
with that situation?

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (10:02):
They what they they can reduce the noise, They process
the signals around them and process that and then they'll
actually pull the speech out as best that it.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Can, sort of like a noise canceling headphone kind of concept.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yes, similar, Yeah, a little more complicated, and the last
they go into they go into edge mode. The problem
is that this is why we had all a really
hard time historically with it, is the fact that the
size of it, you know, if you so when you
try to do those mics where they have the boom mics,
you have the big circle around them and stuff. You
can't put that in the hearing of the size of
the mic and the location of it creates that. That's

(10:37):
where directional mics they have to be a certain part
of distance apart so they can hear you and not
her over here or that that kind of scenario. So
but yes, it helps tremendously. Now the edge mode lessens
the noise, allows you to hear the speech out of it.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
All right, So in early intervention important. So if you're
fifty and you never gotten your hearing tech, you need
to get into Cute Hearing and talk to Low on
the team there and get a baseline. At minimum, you
may find out that you have hearing loss. I've actually
done that baseline testing because my wife did accuse me
of not hearing things and what she was saying, everything's fine,
or at least it was about ten years ago. I

(11:10):
came back and it's like, hey, honey, I guess I
am not listening to you. So that's my bad. But
get that baseline, take care of your your your benefits,
and definitely see an expert on this because clearly this
is not an off the shelf kind of concept, is.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
It right now? It's similar to me and it's like.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
You would never think of getting a pacemaker off the
shelf or something like that, you know what I mean.
It's like it's the the the technology that we use
is that helps us do our science. You know that
the hearing aid is basically our tool to solve your issues.
It's a it's it's a much more complicated than just
putting a hearing aid on.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Okay, and real quick, as someone who's spent a couple
of hundred concerts over my life, can you do damage
to your ears years and years ago that manifests itself
later in life? Like, for example, have I called is
perhaps some sort of yet to be manifested harm in
my ears? And I'm going to end up needing hearing
aids because of the damage I've done in the past. Yes, Okay,

(12:08):
that's not what I wanted to hear.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
If you ever if you ever left a situation with
your ears ringing, yeah, you've damaged your hearing. Now it
depends on where and the frequency. You know, where you
really start to worry about is when you start losing
two three and four thousand cycles per second because that's
where all the consonants fall in speech. You're right, the
altra high frequencies, you know, we don't hear them till
they get Now, they help with fidelity when you're listening

(12:33):
to music. But if you're still going to concerts, you
should get a musician plugs and they're better than they're
different than they're just putting a plug in your ear,
because what happens when you put just a plug in
your ear you intenuate all the highs and all you
hear is the base and so it distorts the music.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Right, Yeah, that would be a bad concert experience. So yeah, ah,
cute hearing. Yeah, cearingsetters dot com. I think i'mbout to
get myself a set of this. You have to I
appreciate it, and I will definitely do that. Well'll tell
you what again, my listeners get the base one a minimum.
You already struggling with hearing loss. Acute Hearing Centers dot
Com eight seven seven three eight five forty one sixty one.

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That's number's on the site. Is that way you be
once again? Eight seven seven three eight five forty one
sixty one, Lowell Scott, appreciate what you're doing for all
your patients out there, keeping us all alert and cognitively well,
free from cognitive impairment. And that's definitely a real thing, folks,
So don't let that happen to you or a loved one.
If you know of a loved one, it is not nearing.

(13:31):
You got a cute hearing to take care of you, Lowell.
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