Why does a person start to get sicker in transport with age?

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Yes, I would not say that everyone is more sickly. On average, motion sickness disappears with age. That is, motion sickness occurs most often in children. Then it decreases with age. But some older people get motion sickness again. This is not a relapse of normal childhood motion sickness, but rather a problem with the vestibular apparatus.

Here it is necessary to shout again that motion sickness is not a problem with the vestibular apparatus. No. It is rather a war in our head between the sense of balance and vision. That is, when there is a discrepancy between what we see and what our vestibular apparatus feels.

You can peacefully sit at home in virtual reality glasses and suddenly turn you inside out. Or you can calmly read a book in a moving car and turn it over too. All because of the inconsistency of sensations.

So if the vestibular apparatus breaks down with age and requires repair, then motion sickness can return again. Because vision will more and more often conflict with the damaged vestibular apparatus.

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The older a person is, the more problems he has in his head. His blood vessels also deteriorate, which makes different parts of the head work worse. And hearing will weaken. And when hearing weakens, balance often suffers. Because our vestibular apparatus is closely related to hearing.

In short, swing training is useless. From this, motion sickness does not go away. Because motion sickness is not just a loose vestibular apparatus, but rather the result of the interaction of the eyes with the vestibular apparatus.

Read my other articles about the vestibular apparatus here at these beautiful links below. These are my own illustrations. Click on the link, and a big picture will come out. For some reason, many admit that their eyes do not cling to these new links. Or clings?

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