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Physician Profile

The Arthritis Trust of

Canada Newsletter

Dedicated to Eradicating Rheumatoid Disease From the Earth

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Warren Levin, M.D.

Warren M. Levin, MD, has been a family physician since 1959, and has specialized in nutritional,

preventive and orthomolecular medicine since 1974. He has been certified by four separate Medical

Specialty Boards: Family Practice, Chelation Therapy, Environmental Medicine, and Bariatric

Medicine (weight control), and he has been a member of the American Medical Association for forty

years.

Other Professional Afliliations

Fellow - American College of Nutrition; Fellow - American Academy of Family Practice; Fellow

- American Academy of Environmental Medicine Board of Governors; International College of

Applied Nutrition Honorary Fellow; International Academy of Preventive Medicine; Vice President

and Board of Trustees American Society of Bariatric Physicians; Executive Medical Board, Medical

Association for Research and Treatment of Arthritis; Treasurer and Board of Directors ACAM

(American College for Advancement in Medicine); American Board of Chelation Therapy; February

1997 - Member: Board of the Vitamin C Foundation; February 1997 - Chairman: Medical Advisory

Board of SURVIVE UNTIL A CURE (SUAC) [a 501 (c)3 non-profit corporation]; Listed in the

1997-1998 First Edition of Marquis Who’sWho in Medicine and Healthcare™; March 1995 -

Allergies/Addictions and the Arthritic

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Food allergies contribute to Rheumatoid Disease, and, if

they do not mimic the symptoms of Rheumatoid Disease, they may

also help to cause the symptoms.

Food allergies are often classified in alternative medicine

under the heading of Clinical Ecology, where the environmental

causes of allergic symptoms are unraveled.

Certain allergy symptoms have sources that are well known,

and easily found, such as those causing “hay fever” which springs

from pollen or ragweed, pigweed, grass pollen, tree pollen and so

on. This is an “external” allergy, as opposed to an “internal” allergy

that springs from reactions to substances inside the body. External

allergies do not usually cause symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis,

but they can aggravate the condition.

External allergies can be discovered by the detective work of

mixing together suspected allergens — pollen grains, house dust,

protein particles, et. al. — and after preparing the solution prop-

erly, inserting the extract just beneath the skin, where the size and

severity of welts determines whether or not an individual is allergic

to a particular protein.

Other external allergen sources can be almost anything:

gases, fluids, various proteins. Strictly speaking, these are not

allergies, but chemical sensitivities. Some people develop an

“allergy” to something as common as the cooking gas from the

cook stove, and they cannot live near or by such sources without

being sick.

People range from very, very sensitive to not sensitive at all,

in a gradient scale. People vary considerably as to what they are

allergic to.

The interesting — and distressing — part about allergies is

that foods which were perfectly safe for much of our lives

suddenly become intolerable — for no obvious reasons.

Early on in the medical history of treating allergies, profes-

sional allergists had great success in testing for and finding

common allergens, such as from the pollens of various plants.

However, when similar tests were developed for foods, or the

increasing number of environmental chemicals, there was, at best,

inconsistent results. Even today people will falsely take the skin-