20 Everyday Habits That Are Silently Shortening Your Lifespan

9. Using Headphones at Full Volume

For sure, that music listening session during your travel or exercise, which is supposed to be your safe mental break, may be compromising more than just your ears if you are playing the music at full volume.

Noise of high volume for long durations kills the small hair cells in your inner ear—cells that are not able to regenerate.

As a result, you get permanent hearing loss over a period of time, and here is the surprise: hearing loss has been associated with accelerated cognitive decline and dementia.

What can begin as sporadic ringing or dull sounds may become a very serious condition.

And the scariest thing? Most probably you will not feel it until a lot of harm has been done.

By lowering the volume of your music, you will be able to safeguard your brain and memory function in the future.

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