About Hear Well After Fifty

I started this site because of a gap I ran into while trying to help myself. Search for hearing supplements and you mostly find two kinds of writing: manufacturer copy that promises everything, and one-off reviews that stop after a single bottle. Almost nobody sits with a product for months and writes down, honestly, whether it changed anything during an actual phone call or a crowded restaurant.

Hear Well After Fifty is my attempt to close that gap, one week of notes at a time. If you are newly wearing hearing aids, weighing a supplement to use alongside them, or simply tired of nodding along in conversations you did not fully catch, this is written with you in mind.

Here is what you will find: plain accounts of what a supplement did or did not do over weeks of ordinary use, set against the situations that actually matter, restaurants, phone calls, family dinners, and the small habits (where you sit, how loud the television really needs to be) that often move the needle more than any pill does. Here is what you will not find: dosage advice, clinical explanations of how the ear works, or a claim dressed up to sound like a study.

The site is written by Robert Ashworth, a retired school principal from the Boston area who began keeping this log not long after his own hearing aids arrived. You can read more about him and how this project started on the author page.

Every post here follows one rule: if a product did nothing worth mentioning, the post says so plainly. This is one household's log, meant as a starting point for a conversation with your own audiologist, not a replacement for one.

Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you buy through them, I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only write about products I have personally tested alongside my hearing aids.