By Dr. Layne Garrett, Au.D., FAAA, ABAC, CH-TM, CDP (About | YouTube | Podcast | LinkedIn) Date Published: July 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM MDT Red light therapy is everywhere right now. You can buy a device on Amazon, walk into a spa, or spend thousands at a clinic promising it will restore your damaged…
Summer in Utah sounds like a good time — and that’s exactly the problem. Between the fireworks at the Stadium of Fire on the Fourth of July, the concerts at USANA Amphitheatre, the lawnmowers and leaf blowers every Saturday morning, and the boat engines echoing off the reservoir, your ears are working overtime from June…
By Dr. Layne Garrett, Au.D., FAAA, ABAC, CH-TM, CDP | About | YouTube | Podcast | LinkedIn Date Published: June 23, 2026 3:00 PM MDT Costco is genuinely good at a lot of things — and hearing aids are on that list for some patients. But the question most people are really asking when they…
By Dr. Layne Garrett, Au.D., FAAA, ABAC, CH-TM, CDP Date Published: June 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM MDT You can hear people talking. You know a conversation is happening. But the words don’t land. And when you finally got your hearing checked, someone told you it was fine — or close enough. That answer isn’t…
By Dr. Layne Garrett, Au.D., FAAA, ABAC, CH-TM, CDP (About | YouTube | Podcast | LinkedIn) Date Published: June 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM MDT Most people know that hearing loss raises dementia risk. And most people know that depression is bad for the brain over time. What almost nobody explains is what happens when…
By Dr. Layne Garrett, Au.D., FAAA, ABAC, CH-TM, CDP (About | YouTube | Podcast | LinkedIn) Date Published: June 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM MDT Almost every week, I see the same thing. Someone comes into our clinic—usually with a spouse sitting right next to them—and says: “I don’t really think I have a problem….
By Dr. Layne Garrett, Au.D., FAAA, ABAC, CH-TM, CDP (About | YouTube | Podcast | LinkedIn) Date Published: May 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM MDT You sat in the booth. You pressed the button when you heard the beeps. Twenty minutes later, someone looked at a graph and told you your hearing is normal. But…
By Dr. Layne Garrett, Au.D., FAAA, ABAC, CH-TM, CDP (About | YouTube | Podcast | LinkedIn) Date Published: April 13, 2026 at 3:30 PM MDT Table of Contents Most fall prevention programs focus on the usual suspects: weak muscles, vision problems, slippery rugs, and medications that cause dizziness. Hearing loss rarely makes the list. That’s a problem — because the research says it…
By Dr. Layne Garrett, Au.D., FAAA, ABAC, CH-TM, CDP (About | YouTube | Podcast | LinkedIn) Date Published: April 2, 2026 3:30 PM MDT Table of Contents Most people think of hearing loss as a nuisance — something you push through, adjust to, or deal with later. After 20 years in audiology, I’ve seen what “dealing with it later” actually looks…
By Dr. Layne Garrett, Au.D., FAAA, ABAC, CH-TM, CDP (About | YouTube | Podcast | LinkedIn) Date Published: March 20, 2026 Hearing loss doesn’t always feel like silence. For most people it starts quietly — missing the ends of words, struggling to follow conversation in a restaurant, turning the television up a little more each year, feeling unexpectedly exhausted after a family dinner….
