Why noise is bad for your health — and what you can do about it | Mathias Basner

Silence is a rare commodity these days. There's traffic, construction, air-conditioning, your neighbor's lawnmower … and all this unwanted sound can have a surprising impact on your health, says noise researcher Mathias Basner. Discover the science behind how noise affects your health and sleep — and how you can get more of the benefits of the sound of silence.

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30 Comments on Why noise is bad for your health — and what you can do about it | Mathias Basner

    • When you think about the many who have unsubscribed (or never subscribed) because of the biased non-scientific agenda, This has to be be an echo chamber compared to the real world, so any pushback should be multiplied by 100, and any conformity should be divided by 10.

  1. When I worked an offshore storage tanker there was a flare burning the excess gas of. The noise from that flare was deafening and there was no escaping it. We were on 4wks on/4wks off rotation. 12hr to 16hr days, no days off during our 4wks rotation.
    The psychological effect of that constant roaring noise, the heat that came off that flare was huge. There was nothing green on board that installation, no grass, no trees, not even a weed growing in a crevice.
    The pay was good, but I do not see how it is possible for anyone to remain sane after 20 or 30 years of doing that job as a career.

  2. I went to see a hearing doctor a month ago and there was a guy waiting in line, so I asked him if he was there to see the doctor too. He was like, ‘what?’. I repeated my question and he said ‘yeah, I’m waiting too’. And then I was like ‘what?’ 😀

  3. My Channel was originally called “My Tinnitus Journal” it was my self induced therapy. I have severe tinnitus and severe hyperacusus, both hearing disorders.
    One evening my prayers were why is my life so shallow now because of these conditions,, I hated my conditions and the situation I came to see as my life with little mind activity.
    The next day after my therapist I was on the way to the acreage I was calling home, I stopped in the rural foothills of a on going mountainous range heading north. Well my stop gave me my answer to that prayer and it had me Earn the channel’s new nickname as a Tracker of the forest Being’s & my tales of the Bigfoot adventure started as “My 21 days with Bigfoot” just on this 15 acres of forest I plotted as the best study area & in turn about 24 days I realize many of the tracking marks I figured out to be linked in this family are in the new grounds I was looking into,, then another location just days later and my patterns of finding live locations of forest Being’s is constant. I teach others to know the new found information. Ian Armstrong building relationships with Bigfoot aka Tinman Bigfoot Tracker Channel Canada BC British Columbia.

  4. Achieving silence and a happy home is unrealistic when you have neighbors. I’ve put myself through so much stress trying to sustain silence. These days I use loud brown noise to achieve peace and sanity.

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