In 2011, a World Health Organization report called noise pollution a modern plague and concluded that “there is overwhelming evidence that exposure to environmental noise has adverse effects on the health of the population.”

We’re constantly filling our ears with noise, TV and radio news, podcasts, and, of course, the multitude of sounds that we create nonstop in our own heads. Think about it: How many moments each day do you spend in total silence? The answer is probably very few.

The nineteenth-century British nurse and social activist Florence Nightingale once wrote, “unnecessary noise is the most cruel absence of care that can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.” Nightingale argued that needless sounds could cause distress, sleep loss, and alarm for recovering patients.

Decades later, research has shown noise can lead to high blood pressure and heart attacks as well as impaired hearing and decreased overall health. Loud noises raise stress levels by activating the brain’s amygdala and causing the release of the stress hormone cortisol.

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