The USA Wealthcare System Part IV Dental, Vision & Hearing Care

Most health insurance plans do not cover routine dental, vision, and hearing care. Millions of Americans cannot afford insurance for routine dental, eye, and hearing care or the cost of care without insurance. This can reduce their quality of life and increase healthcare costs years later.

In this video:

• Routine dental care. 00:42
• Routine vision care. 4:51
• Routine hearing care. 7:04

USA Wealthcare System Part III: Prescription Drugs

American’s pay the highest prices in the world for prescription medications. Politicians campaign to lower drug prices and then accept billions of dollars in campaign contributions from the drug industry. The drug industry spent $100 million to defect legislation giving Medicare the right to negotiate lower drug prices. Although the legislation passed, the drug industry is waiting for Republican control of Congress to repeal the legislation.

Millions of Americans ration or do not fill their prescriptions because they cannot afford them. That can result in higher medical costs due to complications from controllable chronic diseases.

The U.S.’s high prescription drug costs is all about profits than actual drug costs.

In this video:

• The highest priced drugs money can buy. 00:54
• Big Pharma wrote the Medicare Part D laws. 2:55
• Putting wealth and profit before people. 4:17
• The doctor prescription drug monopoly. 6:40
• Prescription drug prices. 8:33
• Insurance company formularies. 10:00
• Generic versus patented drugs. 11:12
• The risk of online pharmacies. 12:09

Clinically Proven Dietary Supplement Facts & Myths

When it comes to dietary supplement, clinically proven has little or no meaning since supplement makers are not required by law to prove efficacy before they can sell their products. With the exception of vitamin and mineral supplements, a supplement’s mental and physical benefits are largely due to the placebo effect.

In this video:

• Why food should be your medicine. 00:32
• What are dietary supplements? 1:43
• The unregulated dietary supplement industry. 2:55
• Company funded versus independent research. 3:49
• Clinically proven and peer reviewed! 4:54
• Marketing supplements most people do not need. 6:23
• Common dietary supplement myths. 8:01

Upward Cock Pose

Although Upward Cock pose has the same difficulty level as Side Cock, you may find it easier to get into and maintain Upward Cock.

Like Cock and Side Cock poses, if you are unable to get into Lotus pose or hold Lotus pose more than a few seconds, Upward Cock pose may be too challenging for you.

Upward Cock pose provides the mental and physical benefits of Cock and Side Cock poses.

English Name: Upward Cock

Sanskrit Name: Urdhva Kukkutasana

Difficulty Level: 9

Start Position: Seated Lotus

Instructions:

Step 1.

From Lotus pose, bring your knees towards your chest and place both hands on the floor in front of you.

Step 2.

Bend your arms and place your skins into your triceps (upper arm muscles).

Step 3.

Lean your body forward and straighten your arms balancing on your hands.

Step 4.

Hold the pose for 4 or 5 breathes, or as long as it feels comfortable. Slowly lower  your legs to the floor and return to seated Lotus. Repeat if desired.

Physical Benefits:

  • Stretches the spine
  • Strengthens arms and wrists
  • Improves balance and upper body strength
  • Increases hip and knee flexibility
  • Opens up the hips
  • Tones abdominal muscles
  • Improves digestion

Mental Benefits

  • Improves mental acuity
  • Reduces stress

Contraindications:

  • Wrist, arm, or shoulder injury
  • Low back injury
  • Ankle, hip or knee injury
  • Leg, arm, or back injury

The USA Wealthcare System-Medical Care Part II

The U.S. healthcare system has evolved from doctors in private practice to corporate medicine that still does not practice preventative medicine. Sick people equals profits as well as replacing high salary doctors with lower salary nurse practitioners (NP) and physicians assistants (PA).

In this video:

• Fee for service to “practice medicine. 00:49
• The high cost of conservative healthcare. 3:46
• “The NP or PA will see you now. 4:39
• U.S. wealthcare versus universal healthcare. 7:18

The USA Wealthcare System-Medical Care Part I

The USA has the worlds most expensive healthcare system providing below average healthcare contributing to declining life expectancy.

With $4 trillion in healthcare spending each year, the U.S. is the only major industrial country without universal healthcare from cradle to grave.

In this video:

• The most expensive healthcare money can buy. 1:12
• Wealthcare accomplishments. 3:32
• HMO’s manage corporate profits not healthcare
costs. 4:59
• The not so free market healthcare system.7:00

Marketing Tricks: Dietary Supplement – Help or Hype

With the exception of vitamin and mineral supplements, most heavily marketed dietary supplements have no proven health benefits beyond the placebo effect.

In this video.

• What are dietary supplements? 00:43
• An unregulated U.S. industry. 1:43
• Support versus prevention or cure. 2:22
• Using meaningless terms and labels. 3:58
• Diet and lifestyle versus dietary supplements. 7:48

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Side Cock Pose

Side Cock pose is a more advanced balance pose than Cock pose. Like Cock Pose, Side Cock is a hand balance pose. In requires concentration (focus) and good upper body arm strength. The hands and arms are used to lift one off the floor. Unlike Cock Pose, your center of gravity is shifted to one side increasing the difficulty obtaining and maintaining your balance.

Like Cock Pose, if you are unable to get into Lotus pose or hold Lotus pose more than a few seconds, Side Cock pose may be too challenging. Side Cock pose provides the mental and physical benefits of Cock pose.

English Name: Side Cock

Sanskrit Name: Parsva Kukkutasana

Difficulty Level: 9

Start Position: Seated Lotus

Instructions:

Step 1.

From Lotus pose, twist your body to your right side and place both hands on the floor.

Step 2.

Transfer your weight to your hands and lift your legs hooking your left thigh onto your right tricep (area above elbow).

Step 3.

Lean your body forward and straightening lower arms balancing on your hands.

Step 4.

Hold the pose for 4 or 5 breathes, or as long as it feels comfortable. Unhook your legs and return to seated Lotus. Repeat twisting to your left side if desired.

Physical Benefits:

  • Stretches the spine
  • Strengthens arms and wrists
  • Improves balance and upper body strength
  • Increases hip and knee flexibility
  • Opens up the hips
  • Tones abdominal muscles
  • Improves digestion

Mental Benefits

  • Improves mental acuity
  • Reduces stress

Contraindications:

  • Wrist, arm, or shoulder injury
  • Low back injury
  • Ankle, hip or knee injury
  • Leg, arm, or back injury

The Placebo Effect

In clinical trails a placebo, it can be a sugar pill, is used as a control to evaluate the positive and negative effects of a new drug, diet, or treatment. The placebo effect can affect both mental and physical health. In many cases the positive health benefits dietary supplement makers claim are due largely to the placebo effect.

In this video:

• What is a placebo? 00:43
• What is the placebo effect? 1:10
• Is the placebo effect real or imaginary? 1:48
• The placebo effect and diet. 3:57
• The nocebo effect. 6:41

Human Growth Hormone (HGH) Facts & Myths

Human growth hormone (HGH) is essential for healthy growth. Its production declines with age. People reach gigantic height and proportions due to high HGH production.

HGH boosting dietary supplements for claiming to reduce fatigue, increase sleep, and reduce the signs of aging (wrinkles, aging skin). They are marketing primarily to women. Apparently males with low HGH levels do not concern makers of the products. HGH dietary supplement have no HGH. Synthetic HGH requires a doctor’s prescription. HGH supplements are a combination of herbs and amino acids. Amino acids come from dietary protein. Most Americans eat too much protein.

Like most dietary supplements, there are no independent research studies validating any claimed health benefits.

In this video:

• What is human growth hormone (HGH)? 00:47
• Prescription HGH versus dietary supplements. 2:39
• Prescription HGH health benefits. 5:39
• Prescription HGH side effects. 6:02
• Why food should be your medicine. 6:21

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