WHAT TYPE OF IMPACT DOES UNWANTED NOISE HAVE ON YOUR
HEALTH AND WELL-BEING?
THIS IS AN INTERESTING QUESTION THAT WAS RECENTLY BROUGHT
UP IN A PRETTY COMPREHENSIVE PIECE DONE BY MOTHER JONES
AND WHAT THEY REALIZED WAS AS THE POPULATION IN THE
UNITED STATES INCREASES, THE AMOUNT OF UNWANTED NOISE OF
COURSE IS ALSO GOING TO INCREASE.
IN FACT JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME NUMBERS, UNWANTED SOUND
DOUBLES EVERY 30 YEARS.
IF THAT DOESN'T SOUND CRAZY TO YOU, ROAD TRAFFIC IN THE
UNITED STATES HAS TRIPLED OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS.
BY 2032, THE NUMBER OF PASSENGER FLIGHTS IS EXPECTED TO BE NUMBER
– 2011 FIGURE.
AT HOURS, PLANES OR EVEN AUDIBLE OVERHEAD 70% OF THE TIME IN THE
REMOTE BACKCOUNTRY OF GO CITY NATIONAL PARK.
YOU CAN EVEN ESCAPE THE NOISE ANYMORE EVEN IF YOU GO TO
REMOTE PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
UNWANTED NOISE IS ANNOYING, BUT OTHER THAN BE ANNOYING TO
REALLY HAVE ANY REAL RAMIFICATIONS ON HER HEALTH?
THERE BEEN A NUMBER OF STUDIES AND YES IT DOES.
BEFORE I GET INTO THE DETAILS, TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK.
TWO THINGS ABOUT THIS.
THAT IS AN AMAZING STAT THAT TRAFFIC HAS TRIPLED OVER
THE LAST 30 YEARS.
3 TIMES AS MANY CARS ON THE ROAD.
THAT AIN'T NO SMALL THING.
MORE TO THE POINT OF THE STORY, I LOVE THIS STORY BECAUSE
WHAT THEY CALL NOISE POLLUTION, IT FEELS LIKE A GOOFY TERM,
NOISE POLLUTION BUT I HATED THAT I CAN'T STAND IT.
I THINK LEAF BLOWERS OF THE SCOURGE OF THE EARTH.
WE SPENT SO MUCH ENERGY AND SCREED SO MUCH NOISE TO TAKE
LEAVES AND BLOW THEM FROM ONE PART OF THE PLACE TO THE OTHER
PART AND FOR EVERYBODY, NONSTOP FROM EIGHT IN THE MORNING AT
LEAST UNTIL NIGHTTIME.
EVERYWHERE YOU GO.
AND IF IT IS NOT A LEAF BLOWER, IT'S A LAWNMOWER.
I GET IT.
OR SOMETHING ELSE.
THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING CONSTANTLY.
CONSTRUCTION, PLANES, CARS, AMBULANCE.
IT'S ESPECIALLY WORSE IF YOU LIVE IN THE CITY WHICH I DO.
HAS A HUGE IMPACT ON THE AMOUNT OF TIME YOU SLEEP TO WHICH
I PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED.
I NEVER REALLY PUT THOSE TWO TOGETHER.
I GUESS IT'S COMMON SENSE.
AS SOON AS I MOVE FROM THE SUBURBS TO THE CITY I WENT
FROM SLEEPING SEVEN OR EIGHT HOURS A NIGHT TO NOW I'M
LUCKY IF I GET 5.
IT'S JUST HOW MY BODY IS NOW.
THIS IS LA WHICH IS KIND OF LIKE A BIG SUBURB.
IN NEW YORK IS ATROCIOUS.
I COULDN'T LIVE THERE.
THE FIRE ENGINES, AND I LIVED THERE FOR THREE YEARS AND
THERE IS A LOT I LOVE ABOUT NEW YORK A MAN AS A GROWN MAN,
IT IS HARD TO DEAL WITH ALL OF THAT NONSTOP NOISE AND AS
IT TURNS OUT OF COURSE, WE ARE NOT BILL FOR THAT.
WE AREN'T.
LET ME GIVE YOU THE DETAILS ON WHAT STUDIES INDICATE IN
THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 20
INTO THE IMPACTS ON UNWANTED NOISE UNDER HEALTH.
IT HAS BEEN PROVEN TO BOOST YOUR HEART RATE, YOU BREATHE LESS
DEEPLY AND IT ALSO RELEASES THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT HORMONES.
LIKE CORTISOL.
IT IS TERRIBLE.
HAS ALL KINDS OF NEGATIVE AFFECTS ON YOUR BODY ONCE
YOU START RELEASING TOO MUCH OF IT.
YOU OVEREAT, YOU JUST FEEL STRESSED OUT.
LET ME OVERSIMPLIFY HERE.
IT'S BASICALLY OUR OLDEST INSTINCTS.
WHEN YOU HEAR A LION OR AIR ROLLER, YOU HAVE TO GET THE
HELL OUT OF THERE.
WE ARE PROGRAMMED TO WHEN WE HEAR A LOUD NOISE FOR STRESS TO
GO THROUGH THE ROOF BECAUSE IN THE PAST THAT SAVED OUR LIVES.
YOU HEAR IT, YOU'VE GOT GO OR YOU ARE MEET, LITERALLY.
NOW IT'S GETTING TRIGGERED NONSTOP WHEN THERE IS
ACTUALLY NOTHING TO RUN FROM AND YOU CAN'T RUN FROM IT
BECAUSE IT SURROUNDS UTAH
FLORENCE WILLIAMS IS THE PERSON WHO WROTE THE MOTHER
JONES PIECE AND SO FLORENCE ACTUALLY WENT TO A RESEARCH THAT
FOCUSES PRIMARILY ON THIS AND FOUND SOME INTERESTING THINGS.
SHE WAS PART OF ONE OF THE STUDIES.
TO SEE HOW DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOUND AFFECT MY ABILITY TO
RECOVER FROM LIFE'S ORDINARY STRESSES, SMITH FIRST HAD
TO STRESS ME OUT: KEUKA PUBLIC SPEAKING.
HE ASKED ME TO DELIVER A SHORT EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEECH IN
FRONT OF A LARGE MEMBER BEHIND WHICH SMITH TOLD THE SAD
PANEL OF JUDGES.
SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE FIVE MINUTE SPEECH, A LAB
TECHNICIAN INTERRUPTED AND TOLD ME TO SPEAK UP.
OF COURSE, THAT IS GOING TO BE A STRESSFUL SITUATION BECAUSE
IT IS AN UNWANTED NOISE.
YOU ARE TRYING TO GIVE A SPEECH AND SOMEONE IS INTERRUPTING
YOU REPEATEDLY.
THEY KEEP TELLING YOU PEOPLE ARE WATCHING BUT EVEN THOUGH YOU
KNOW THEY AREN’T, IT STRESSES YOU OUT THAT.
IT WOULDN’T WORK ON ME.
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YOUR FIVE MINUTES ARE UP, LET'S WRAP IT UP.
THE REPORTER HERE IS ATTACHED ALL SORTS OF TECHNOLOGY THAT
MONITOR VARIOUS LEVELS OF THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO HER BODY.
SHE FOUND HER HEART RATE CLIMBED FROM THE MID 60S
TO THE MID-90S, HER CORTISOL, AN IMPERFECT BUT SUGGESTIVE
MARKER OF STRESS, ALMOST DOUBLED.
ISN’T THAT INSANE?
ANOTHER STUDY EXAMINED HOW THE OPENING OF A NEW AIRPORT IN
MUNICH AFFECTED NEARBY CHILDREN.
IN 18
MONTHS AFTER FLIGHTS COMMENCED THE RESEARCHERS OBSERVED
SOARING LEVELS OF STRESS HORMONES IN THEIR SUBJECTS.
BEAR WITH ME HERE.
THE CHILDREN'S EPINEPHRINE LEVELS ROSE 49%, THAT IS
ADRENALINE, THEIR NOREPINEPHRINE MORE THAN DOUBLED, THAT HAS TO
DO WITH ALERTNESS AND BEING AWAKE, AND THEIR SYSTOLIC
BLOOD PRESSURE ON AVERAGE WENT UP FIVE POINTS.
WE ARE UNDER ATTACK.
DUDE.
BY NOISE.
WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT STRESS FROM WORK OR FAMILY ARE
PLAYING THE BILLS.
STRESS FROM THE NOISE THAT WE ARE ATTACKED WITH ON A
DAILY BASIS.
IT'S INCREDIBLE.
YOU CAN ACTUALLY UNDO SOME OF THE DAMAGE
BY LISTENING TO THINGS THAT ARE MORE SERENE LIKE BIRDS CHIRPING
OR SOUNDS OF NATURE.
BUT IT’S A BIG PROBLEM.
THE ONE THING I CAN'T STAND AT
WORK IS LET'S SAY THAT I'M HAVING A MEETING
HAS?
YEAH LIKE WHEN I’M TRYING TO READ AND HE’S TALKING AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS.
WE ARE HAVING A MEETING AT TWO PEOPLE ARE TALKING AT
THE SAME TIME.
THAT IS LITERALLY THE HARDEST THING FOR ME TO DEAL WITH.
I CAN'T HANDLE IT.
I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
BECAUSE WE ARE NOT PROGRAMMED FOR IT.
IF I WERE TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT, I WOULD WIN IN A
LANDSLIDE WITH ONE SIMPLE PROMISE.
I WILL BAN LEAF BLOWERS.
THEY’RE ILLEGAL.
YOU KNOW HOW MANY VOTES I WOULD GET?
THE RAKE IS AWESOME BY THE WAY.
SAID THE PERSON WHO DOESN'T HAVE TO THE RAKING.
I GET IT, BUT STILL.
I CAN'T HAVE IT.
LEAF BLOWERS, GONE.
YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN BEFORE I WIN?
EVERYBODY IS GOING TO PANIC AND BUY LEAF BLOWERS FOR CHRISTMAS.
BEFORE THEY’RE BANNED.
SALES WILL TRIPLE.
WHAT IF THERE IS A LEAF BLOWING LOBBY AND THEY COME AFTER YOU?
THEY WILL BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I WILL DO?
I WILL BLOW THEM AWAY.