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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[boh]

I'm gonna read the subtitles instead of listening to this video

[sebastianb.]

Suggestions for improving sound environment start at 7:00

[Lunareon]

Thank you for speaking up about this important topic. It's high time we stopped sacrificing our health in order to accommodate the noise terrorists. Noise cancellation should become a central part of any building project and we need regulations which protect people's right to live without being constantly exposed to health-degrading levels of noise. As the speaker expressed it, it's most effective to regulate noise at the source, so that's obviously what we should do.

[JC-zfsx]

I’m an RN and I work in a major metropolitan level 1 trauma center/emergency department every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The amount of noise is staggering and comes in the form of constant telephones ringing, paging, monitor alarms, yelling/screaming/crying, ambulances, police officers, paranoid schizophrenics, vomiting, coughing, etc. The best therapy is to spend copious amounts of time on my mountain bike in the forest by myself, where I’m truly happy. I really hate noise.

[cheapgrooves]

To me it seems like the majority of people are becoming oblivious to unnecessary sounds. They don't seem to mind anymore. Mowing the law on sunday, loud phone calls in the office, bringing loudspeakers to the beach, construction sites that go on during the weekends. When I tried headphones in the office I was seen as strange and unreachable. This gave me stress as well as it feels bad to be frawned upon. It seems a change in cultural mindset is needed. But I do not have too much hope to be honest :). Have a great day everyone!

[rmydclk]

One thing that was very interesting for me to learn is that at first, after living with background noise, it was very scary to be in full silence. I got anxiety a lot but tried to teach myself to do it anyway because I believe that spending certain amounts of time in a quiet spot each week is good for our health. It took me 2 and a half, actually almost 3 years, but now, for the most part, I crave silence as relaxation and tranquility, and when the noise goes off, like a power outage or we turn everything off, my body doesn’t get anxious anymore. It just calms down and I get so happy. I seek silence now. I think learning to relax and quiet down is a skill and an art in itself, and if we devote practice to it, we can get really good. And it will benefit our health!

[DOWNTIME.WITHIN]

This is a very important lecture for our current times where mental health has never been this popular of a topic. Let's hope people don't think it's too far-fetched to link noise to the detrimental health effects in our lives

[legarsdesplantes]

100% agree! So Much noise, i feel like I'm always in seach for quiet space even when im at home with my roomate...

[Toppu]

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?' :D

[diego-wnvk]

please help raise awareness on the damage that dogs that bark incessantly can have on human health. im miserable because of being exposed to this for around three years. we need laws against this and we need owners who do nothing to stop it go to jail and lose their dogs. if they arent being trained to behave or being properly taken care of, they must go to someone who can provide the education and environment a dog needs to not destroy the health of neighbors. this cant be tolerated anymore. we need to talk about the types of noises that invade our houses. sometimes we just cant escape from the noise. thats the worst type of noise pollution. if its outside and its stay there, it wont affet those inside. so we have to talk about the ones that do affect us even inside our houses, that were supposed to be safe places from all of this noise.

[MindlessTube]

Pls make a law to ban music from work places, i have to listen to the same songs over and over again for the rest of my life, i pretty sure its destroyed my mental health.

[jonathanmeisel]

I have slept with a sound machine since I was a baby. I’m 19 now. During periods of my childhood I slept with a sound machine app, always with the setting as “tropical rainforest with thunderstorms”.

[gammalight]

*Neighbors dogs that never stop barking at all or random hours every day and night*

[alejandracabrera]

Noise can drive a person crazy. I worry about the young people who listens music right from earphones extremely loud.

[seansmythe]

As a guy with tinnitus, I appreciate this video. Not enough people are educated hearing loss and it’s sad.. neither was I until I got tinnitus. Should be taught in highschool

[BlueTulipe]

I wish my neighbor would listen to this...

[CreatiVastARTS]

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.

[nashta_]

I live in a factory
Full of noises
Basically is duplex so it of two floors above my factory there is another factory which is full of advanced sewing machine so over the ceiling i hears the vibration whole day till 3 am each night
And it starts again at 7 am
And just stops for an hour in the afternoon for lunch
So basically i dont know what is silence now after 3 years with this schedule i am started feeling depressed and frustrated and i am angry for each and every single moment
I wish i will die soon
I feel like i

[elsamedalla]

The Philippines is very bad for loud uncontrolled noise especially in and around baranggays where inconsiderate people play extremely loud so called music nearly on a 24/7 time scale....this loud music accompanied with dogs barking non stop and elderly are deprived of their sleep and is all over the Philippines and I often wonder why there is no law against I know that this loud noise is and has caused a tremendous amount of hearing and learning problems amongst young children. Silence is golden.

[christophergruenwald]

You want low noise? Don’t have kids is the best preventive measure to noises that cause high levels of stress.