The AudioCardio app trains your ears with the goal of delaying hearing loss and reducing ringing

How would you like to delay the effects of your hearing loss?

There is new technology that can help.

And it’s in an app on your phone.

For decades, Grammy-nominated producer John Brown has worked with notable musicians.

“I worked with the Black Eyed Peas for a while and did some music with Pink and Eminem,” he said.

However, the loud music took a toll on Brown’s hearing in the form of tinnitus.

“If you can imagine ringing in your ears 24/7, it turns out you have mild hearing loss,” Brown said.

Hearing loss can lead to tinnitus, but science says that once the hair cells in the inner ear die, they don’t regenerate. But Brown heard about a sound therapy app called “AudioCardio” designed to enhance hearing. Provides specific, customized sounds that intrinsically stimulate auditory cells and pathways to the brain.

“We’re not trying to revive dead hair cells. What we’re trying to do is stimulate hair cells that have become desensitized or damaged over time,” says Chris, co-founder of AudioCardio. Ellis says.

Ellis began researching ways to improve hearing after her grandfather became deaf and eventually demented.

A new study in the Journal of American Medical Association suggests that maintaining or restoring hearing can help prevent the progression of dementia.

“The ability to improve hearing, especially in middle age, may actually reduce the risk of age-related dementia,” says William Slattery, Ph.D., of the House Institute Ear Clinic. “At least that’s the theory.” increase.

At about $10 a month, the app allows you to do a self-assessment. Then train your hearing by transmitting sound frequencies.

“This sound, which you can’t actually hear, is played over and over again to stimulate cells in your ears. And when those cells are stimulated, they start to fire, sending signals to your brain. I will,” said Ellis.

AudioCardio partnered with researchers at Stanford University to test the app.

“Over 70% of the people we treat with sound therapy have had a 10 decibel increase in hearing,” Ellis said.

Acoustic therapy may improve hearing thresholds slightly, Slattery said, but hearing aids remain the standard of care.

“The biggest thing we have to do is keep telling people that they need to protect their ears,” he said.

Slattery says anything you can do to actively train your hearing has some benefits for your brain. It’s like solving a word puzzle or maintaining a social relationship.

Tinnitus is one area where sound therapy has been shown to help, according to Slattery.

Brown is happy with his results.

“Immediately. Within a few weeks, my tinnitus really subsided,” says Brown.

He said even his hearing improved.

Now Brown can get back to making music.