Meet Mita
Mita Lodh, PhD, FSA, AD combines ancient healing wisdom with modern language and science to create a framework for daily self-doctoring in her clinic and book, Butterflies Method for Health: Daily Self-Doctoring (available here).
She presents in a simple format how to use foods and activities as personalized medicine for sickness prevention as well as symptoms mitigation. Her techniques appeal to common sense and are based on both ancient and modern practices that have remained consistent across the millennia.
Mita’s initial qualifications included B.Sc. in Operations Research (Bombay University), PGDBM in Financial Management (Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad), Ph.D. in Bayesian methods which underlie artificial intelligence (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh), and Actuarial Fellow (Society of Actuaries, U.S.A.). Her actuarial experience includes designing financial equivalents of clinical efficiencies with sub-teams of doctors and pharmacists, certifying various programs and initiatives by state governments worth billions of dollars annually, modeling care and disease management programs, helping physician practices, and advising hospital-based health plans. She also received recognition as volunteer, mentor, thesis advisor, author, chairperson, and speaker.
Her healthcare actuarial work as well as her own personal experience as a patient* within the healthcare system made it evident to her that the fragmented and very expensive healthcare system in the U.S. leaves the patient wanting. She therefore pursued further studies and completed the Ayurvedic Doctor program (Alandi Gurukula, Boulder) while concurrently exploring other natural approaches to healthcare. Today she finds satisfaction helping others through her clinic.
Mita states that more important than any of her qualifications will be your own soon-to-be-acquired expertise in caring for your health. At first, you might absorb this book’s concepts only at the intellectual knowledge level. Next, implementing the recommendations and experiencing the outcomes will register the concepts within you at the experiential knowledge level. Thereafter, repeated readings and implementation will instill this approach deeply at the intuitive knowledge level.
Just as she balances left-brain and right-brain careers in the actuarial and natural medicine fields, Mita also pursues hobbies that similarly balance her life: bridge tournaments, swimming, camping, poetry, growing vegetables, and spending time in kitchens – the one at home, as well as those on pickleball courts where she tries to perfect slices and nutmegs and hopes for falafels from friendly opponents.
*Before discovering natural medicine, she too was unwittingly affecting her health negatively, like some of you currently.