My name is Dr Butch Levy; a medical physician and practitioner of Chinese Medicine with forty plus years of patient experience. My practice has evolved from a family medicine clinic to providing integrative care for those with complex diseases.
Once a medical diagnosis is made, the complexity of the symptoms and systems involved cannot be addressed with a single treatment approach. Traditionally, a disease name may point to specific signs and symptoms, but it does not specify the level or severity of an individual’s disease or the related causative factors.
Environmental burdens and hidden infections comprise the initiating causes of chronic disease; resulting in chronic inflammation and oxidative stress. But beyond this, there is also collateral damage to many bodily systems. These include mitochondrial dysfunction, hormonal imbalance, impaired immunity, nutritional depletions, poor detoxification and more. Evaluating when and how to treat each of these issues can determine your success in healing and recovery. It requires a broad perspective with attention to detail. Traditional laboratory testing, hormone screening, GI functioning, mold evaluations, heavy metal testing and immune antibody evaluations can provide necessary information to assess the current problems and set a priority for treatment.
An important issue is the length and scope of your treatment. If your illness has been ongoing for years, two factors come into play: first is the level of bodily depletion and secondly the resulting system imbalances. Commonly, improving the systems with supplements, acupuncture and herbs requires several weeks at a minimum. It’s a lengthy process taking three to six months before significant improvement can be expected.
I would be happy to discuss your illness in a brief telemedicine visit. Then review your past history and previous treatments, update needed information and data and discuss the short term goals and long term prognosis.
Hippocrates
Uncover the initiating causes and effects attributed to chronic illness. Integrate Western, Chinese and Functional Medicine evaluations, combined with natural therapies for supportive care and treatment.
Virtual office visits are available via Zoom.
For information please contact Dr. Levy
ABOUT Dr. Levy
His direction utilizes his diverse skill set to provide expertise in:
CHRONIC ILLNESS
If you experience Chronic Illness, your time is often occupied with practitioner visits, additional testing and the vast array of supplemental treatments attempting help reduce or control disabling symptoms.
To achieve success beyond just symptom relief, requires a recognition that complex diseases are initiated by complex causes. And these causes left unchecked, cascade into unwanted consequences on the immune, hormonal, detoxification, energy and metabolic systems. I recognize from my four decades of clinical practice, that no one paradigm can resolve these multi-factorial causes and effects. The greatest opportunity for improvement requires a combination of healing traditions.
My goal therefore is twofold: pinpoint these multiple disease instigators and their effects and develop a personalized treatment that offer an integration of my Eastern and Western healing approaches to promote recovery.
Butch Levy MD, L.Ac
Dr. Levy’s direction of treatment uses multiple modes:
These modalities of treatment are all supported by laboratory evaluations and western medications if necessary.
Declining cognition, poor digestion, disrupted sleep, chronic fatigue, allergies and pain are all symptoms of persistent inflammation.
Current models of treatment have a limited impact on providing sustained improvement and recovery. Therefore, complementary alternative therapies become necessary to create a real change in improved health.
Dr. Levy’s direction of treatment uses multiple modes:
These modalities of treatment are all supported by laboratory evaluations and western medications if necessary.
nEWLY PUBLISHED – by Dr. Butch Levy
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Recommended FOOD & PRODuCT SOURCES
Dr. Levy’s choices for quality, healthy food products.
“These are my opinions, having tasted and used them
and based on my wife’s research and sophisticated palate.
We have no affiliation with any of these companies.”
Real organic granolas that are gluten free and some that are grain free; tasty and hearty.
An array of clean quality superfoods including beef and turkey snacks, bars, and greens.
Great teas that are cold extracted to preserve the active phytonutrients, screened for toxins and delicious. A little pricy but a great choice. The Puer Teas are mold free and flavorful and in this day of myocotoxin illness worth trying.
Single origin spices in partnership with small farmers in an equitable sustainable way. Obtained from unique environments where the highest quality cleanest sources can be found.
Cereals that are the adult versions of the really sugared processed ones of childhood. They are great. High protein, gluten/grain/wheat, and soy free with natural flavors.
Electrolyte replacement drink mix with higher amounts of what you need and no sugar, fillers or unknown ingredients.
Gourmet seed crackers and roasted nuts; organic, gluten free and delicious.
Plant based skin care products. Free of all the chemicals you want to avoid and handmade. Check out their commitment to safe and luxurious products.
Recommended Readings
The Block Center Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment
by Keith Block
A New Approach to Treatment and Healing
by Dr. Emilia A. Ripoll, MD & Mark B. Saunders
Alternative Therapies That Treat and Prevent Cancer
by Mark Dr. Stengler
A Biography of Cancer
by Sidhartha Mukherjee
The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline
by Dale E. Bredesen, MD
The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
by John J. Ratey, MD
by Aaron L. Mattes
Identification and Natural Treatment of Diseases Caused by Common Pollutants, 1st Edition
by Walter J. Crinnion and Joseph Pizzorono
How Hidden Poisons in the Air, Water, Food and Products We Use Are Destroying Our Health – And What We Can Do To Fix It
by Joseph Pizzorono
Get Rid of the Toxins That Make You Fat
by Walter Crinnon
An Action Plan for Treating Resistant Lyme & Chronic Disease
by Richard Horowitz, MD
A guide to the natural treatment of three coinfections of Lyme disease
by Stephen Harrod Buhner
An Alternative Treatment Strategy Developed by Zhang's Clinic
by Dr. Qingcai Zhang and Yale Zhang
5 Tools to Conquer Mold and Take Back Your Health
by Dr. Jill Crista
Life in the Era of Dangerous Building
by Ritchie C. Shoemaker, MD
Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and Chronic Environmental Illness
by Neil Nathan
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