Jeremy Clarkson shares dementia fears as health declines My body doesnt work
Clarkson’s Farm star Jeremy Clarkson shared an update on his health as he revealed that “most of my body doesn’t really work anymore,” and his worst problem is his hearing.
The 63-year-old said his hearing issues have plagued him for 12 years but that he had been able to cope.
However, after discovering the connection between hearing loss and dementia, Jeremy decided to take action.
He wrote in his new column for The Times: “This has been going on for 12 years and, being a tolerant sort of guy, I’ve coped.
“But I was told after my most recent medical that hearing loss will double the chance of me catching dementia. Maybe it’s already happening. That would explain why I can never find my spectacles.”
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According to the NHS, the risk of getting dementia almost doubles if you have an untreated mild hearing loss. With moderate hearing loss, the risk triples and severe untreated hearing loss means you are five times more likely to develop dementia.
The health service says it is not fully known why there is a link between dementia and hearing loss but that wearing hearing aids sooner could help reduce the risk.
After learning about the connection, Jeremy decided to seek medical help and was told that he is worse at hearing certain words. And, unluckily for his girlfriend Lisa Hogan, “dishwasher” is one of them.
The former Top Gear host continued: “My brain is having to use a huge amount of computing power trying to fill in the bits of speech it hasn’t been able to hear. Which is hard when it’s simultaneously trying to remember where I put my spectacles.
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“That’s why, sometimes, when I’m asked to get some coal from the bunker, what I hear is: ‘Would you like some more wine?’”
Jeremy has now got himself a “snazzy” set of hearing aids which will hopefully mitigate his problem.
This is not the first time Jeremy has had a concerning health update this year as a doctor warned he would suffer an “agonising and premature death” if he doesn’t quit chewing nicotine gum.
Writing in August, the Grand Tour host explained that he started chewing nicotine gum in an effort to ween himself off cigarettes. But, while giving up smoking may have given his lungs a break, nicotine gum has still had a worrying effect.
He told The Sun: “Six years ago I bit the bullet and replaced my 40-a-day habit with sheet after sheet of full-strength nicotine gum. And this week a doctor said it’s causing a worrying rise in my blood pressure and that if I don’t pack it in soon, I will suffer from an agonising and premature death.”
On top of this, Jeremy is also suffering from mobility issues, particularly with his knees and back.
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