StartupNation 2012 Home-Based 100 Competition

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healthEAR LLC

  • Category Entered Most Innovative
  • Location houston, TX
  • Year Business launched 2012
  • Website www.myhealthear.com
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healthEAR LLC

Contestant's Case to Win

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My husband and I started healthEAR LLC in April of 2012. We invented a custom device that people can wear in their ear, fitted with acupressure nodules to stimulate the different acupressure points in the ear. We have devices that can help you lose weight by controlling your appetite, quit smoking by controlling nicotine cravings, treat insomnia by helping you fall asleep and stay asleep, and relieve stress and anxiety. For example, if you were hungry, you would put the device in your ear, and your hunger would subside. Likewise, you would wear the insomnia relief device to bed if you had trouble sleeping, and it would help you have a restful night.

These are all custom devices with custom acupressure nodules fitted by a licensed acupuncturist. We send our customers a kit to take an impression of their ear, and they return it to use. Our acupuncturist then examines the impression and adds the nodules to the correct places on the ear, and returns it to our customer.

We believe that we can help people get healthier with the use of healthEAR devices in a natural, and drug-free way. There would be no need to take harmful drugs which could cause bad side effect. Depending on which acupoints are engaged, the device encourages that part of the body to re-balance and naturally return to a healthier state. Our invention is so novel that many people are surprised by it when we tell them about it, and are relectant to believe that it would work. However, it is based on acupuncture and Chinese Traditional Medicine. The acupoints in the ear have been proven to be effectice through thousands of years of practice. Furthermore, our test market and customers have had great success using the healthEAR devices.