Post Surgical Care Liposuction, Tummy Tucks, Breast Augmentation, Breast Lifts, Breast reductions, Tattoo Removal. What do all these procedures have in common? SCARS and risk for infection. Scars are hardening of the tissues where a trauma was created. We can now treat those areas early on so that scarring is minimal to none. This is a safe, non-invasive and pain free procedure that only takes a short amount of time. It reduces your chance for infection, stimulates lymphatic drainage, and increases healing properties and vasculature to the area which creates quicker healing times and less retraction and hardening. ​ The number of treatments depends upon the type of procedure that you had done and the mount of time that has passed since that procedure. One treatment does not typically take more than 30 minutes. Most treatment plans require a minimum of 6 treatments but may involve up to a max of 12 treatments. Your plan will be determined during your consultation. ​ Program Cost: $200 per treatment Call 704-775-6029 to Get Started

Mary Martin-Vavra FNP, NP-C Direct Primary Care Provider I began my nursing career in 2005 while working as a surgical scrub technician on the neuro-trauma team at an upstate New York hospital, it was during this time of caring for the sick and injured that l had felt my calling to care for others and help improve a person’s health and thus began my education in nursing. I graduated with my Bachelors in Nursing in 2007 from the State University of New York at Binghamton. I worked in many different areas of nursing for 6 years while working on my Master’s Degree in Nursing and Family Practice. I graduated from Binghamton University in 2013 with my MSN/FNP and earned my National Certification soon after. ​ Over the course of almost 10 years, I have practiced in Primary Care, Nephrology as well as Cardiology. Although I enjoyed practicing in Primary Care the most, I always felt there was little time for educating patients to have true knowledge of their bodies, why they have a certain diseases, what their symptoms mean and getting to the root cause of their illness. ​ Just over one year ago, I found my true passion for helping people learn more about their health and illness using functional, integrative and holistic approaches and not just diagnosing disease and prescribing medications for their symptoms. I am currently finishing my training in Integrative Medicine and will soon be Certified as an Integrative Health Practitioner. It was through my integrative medicine interest that I was fortunate enough to meet Dr Benton and feel blessed that I have found such a perfect fit to practice. I am looking forward to helping patients use alternative approaches to primary care and getting to the root cause of disease and illness which is really where true healing can happen. As a partner in your health and wellness, I feel our relationship and trust are the most important aspects to achieve a healthier and happier life. ​ I am so excited to start this new chapter of my life in North Carolina with Dr Benton and staff, while certainly enjoying the southern hospitality and warmer weather. In my spare time, you can find me, reading, cooking, gardening, walking as well as oil and watercolor painting. I am looking forward to making the Huntersville North Carolina area our new home with my husband and beautiful springer spaniel JoJo and perhaps even enticing other family members to join us in this beautiful area of North Carolina! Join Direct Primary Care Now >>

Products Here you will find the various products we either sell or promote at Benton Integrative. These include all supplements through Design By Health and FullScript and holistic and homeopthic supplies needed for your health. Be sure to check out this page regularly for products! Designs For Health Supplements Use the Designs For Health website to purchase your supplements. You shop and they ship your supplements right to your doorstep. Every interaction from any device is safe and secure. Login in To Designs for Health FullScript Supplements You can use FullScript to fullfill your supplement purchase. Their system is user friendly and provides delivery directly to your door. Every interaction from any device is safe and secure. Login to FullScript Parasite Cleanse Bundle Parasite Blog Detox Bundle Detox Blog Herbal First Aid Kit Travel Health Blog Juice Plus+ Discover the power of Juice Plus+ – bringing the goodness of over 50 whole food plants and plant oils into your daily routine for enhanced energy and vitality. Your journey to better health starts here! Shop Juice Plus+ Plexus We can provide Plexus product suggestions based upon your individual needs to help you achieve overall health and happiness. You may order directly from Plexus through our practice. Shop Plexus Young Living Essential Oils Quality essential oils such as Frankincense, Thieves, RC, Tea Tree Oil & Lavender Use promo code SHAREYL to give 10 percent off all first-time orders Purhcase Young Living Sweet's Elderberry Syrup Prevention and treatment of allergies and flu Give Us a Call Homeopathic Oscillococcinum Prevention of flu Give Us a Call Homeopathic Belladonna, Chamomilla & Pulsatilla Upper Respiratory Infections, Flu and Ear Infections Give Us a Call Phytocillin Lower Respiratory Infections/Bronchitis Give Us a Call BRIOTECH Topical Skin Spray Briotech topical skin spray is an all natural pure product with key ingredient Hypochlorous Solution (HOCL) which is a key component of the internal defense system, working to fight against infection, reduce inflammation, control reponses to injury, and enhance the healing process. Give Us a Call Dry Body Brushes Dry skin brushing is the best way to open pores which in turn stimulates and detoxifies the lymphatic system. Reduces cellulite, Improves vascular blood circulation, Reduces inflammation and Exfoliates the skin making it soft smooth. Give Us a Call

Dry Body Brushes The skin is the largest organ of the body and can hold on to toxins and impurities. Dry skin brushing is the best way to open pores which in turn stimulates and detoxifies the lymphatic system. There are multiple benefits from dry brushing: ​ Reduces cellulite Improves vascular blood circulation Reduces inflammation Exfoliates the skin making it soft smooth ​ If you have sensitive skin you should be cautious with brushing. If you have any questions or need assistance with how to brush contact us. Dry Brushes are available at our offices!

Vaccine Mandates We are at such a precious point in history that we can choose to go many different directions. My hope is that we can create a braver and more beautiful world for our children. We must make changes for the better for our children so they don’t have to! We can choose to do so in love for each other and our communities and our planet. We fully support people who choose vaccination for any disease process. We give informed consent to all people who chose to vaccinate, we support that with love. For those who don’t want to vaccinate, we support them too. There are risks in everything we choose to do each and every day and it is up to you what risks you take. Medicines are mostly generic now for common illnesses. The great frontier is that of “biologics”, Gene therapies, and vaccines - that is where the money is. As of a few years ago, there were already over 200 vaccines being studied so who knows how many of those will be eventually required to get your driver’s license or go to college. This is why we need to take this seriously now. ​ For those of you who don’t know, the vaccine schedule has changed dramatically between generations. The generation prior to the 70’s only had about 10 doses of vaccines their entire lives and only about half the population (the wealthier ones) got all those doses. By the 80’s, we had about 24 doses of vaccines our entire lives (minus the military and missionaries). Now children have 24 doses by 6 months of age, 46 doses by 6 years of age and over 70 doses by 18 years of age. Now add the adult ones being mandated in addition to that. Prior to this pandemic, there was no heath care crisis to cause this but the 1986 law giving full immunity to vaccine makers allowed for this dramatic rise in required vaccines. So unless you are in the military, most adults over 40 are less vaccinated than a 9 month old baby and they keep adding more vaccines and more restrictions if you don’t follow suit. Meanwhile we have an epidemic among our children and young adults now of autoimmune diseases, cancers, neurologic disorders and more. We rank poorly among developed nations for longevity by age 5 and some developing countries are doing better than us even though we are the most vaccinated country in the world, except maybe Israel. We must demand a balance in “public health” and individual health as the health of the masses is only as good as the individuals that make up the greater good. ​ This is for our children and their ability to get an education, get a job, get married and feed their families. Our future is in our hands and it is We, The People that can do this together. We cannot wait for others to do it for us. How You Can Help Please contact your legislators/politicians regularly A good way to do this is to set your calendars once monthly at least. Time is of the essence to make an impact on our system. If you look throughout history, the dark times were followed by better times, not because of government leaders but because of We, The People. We, The People, make our lives better through grassroots efforts. When contacting them you can include some of the info here in your communications including the facts listed below. Most importantly drive home the point that we need to protect doctors that want to try safe, innovative treatments for patients. This should be celebrated, not suppressed. We know why it is suppressed but that is from the powers that do not want us to be free to make our lives better. ​ Talk to your pastors, your teachers, your principles, your neighbors and your family and friends . Pick the ones on our side to give us encouragement and hope. Then pick the ones who are ambivalent to share with them our hopes in order to inspire them. Avoid the ones on the other side as the truth will come to them eventually when they are ready. Please stand strong in these times as we lose our rights and freedoms. Do not endorse fake vaccine cards. First of all it is federal offense because it has a seal on it and if that seal if forged you will be prosecuted. Furthermore, by getting a fake card, you are hurting our cause. I understand if you do considering these circumstances but if you give into that mindset now, you have already given up your future. Some states are already using electronic cards displayed on a phone which will be much harder to fake so stand strong now so we never get to that point. If you are getting it so you can travel and go to concerts, then be prepared to add every single new pharmaceutical treatment so you can go to that concert or take that exotic vacation. Stats & Info for Communication Contact your legislators with information that supports your concerns. The following stats and info can help you with contacting state leaders. ​ Risk of death in children under age 18 from the COVID 19 virus is 0.002% per the CDC and they are not super-spreaders like they thought initially. We also know from the science that people with a BMI over 35, pre-existing conditions and over age 65 are the most vulnerable for adverse effects from COVID-19. The risk for young healthy people is minimal. Let's protect and target people over 65 and those with pre-existing conditions. But let's not mandate. As of Sept 2021 the CDC US has confirmed that 94% of covid related deaths had on average 4.0 comorbidities. From March 2020 to July 2021 the CDC confirms that of the adult hospitalizations 58% were hypertensive, 49.9% were obese, 42.6% had metabolic syndrome, and 35.3% had a cardiovascular disease. VAERS has almost 16000 reported deaths since December which is more than the last 15 years combined with all vaccines! There are approx. 70,000 total COVID vaccine reported hospitalizations and 750,000 adverse events from the COVID vaccine. The FDA, CDC and Harvard studies show that only 1-10% of adverse events are reported to VAERS. The vaccine does not decrease transmission and reports of "breakthrough" infections are piling up, not to mention hospitalizations and death from COVID in fully vaccinated patients. The Vaccine makers are liability free (you can't sue them) and Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson has paid 10's of billions in fines for fraud. We have thousands of doctors across the country having great success using various protocols for treatment, so the vaccine is not the only choice: https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-mask-plus-protocol/ . These doctors need to be protected as the main goal is to keep people out of the hospital and dying. Using successful innovative treatments and supplements to treat COVID should be valid and pushed as a solution besides just the vaccine. The science has proven that people who have had COVID have as much if not better immunity than the vaccine to contract it again. As we've seen that those vaccinated have continued to get COVID. Many people compare a mandate of the COVID vaccine to the mandate of Measles and Smallpox vaccines. However, those vaccines are recognized by the CDC that they should only be administered to ages over 13 who have NOT had the disease (meaning they have natural immunity). This is not a disease of the unvaccinated. This is a disease of the people who were already in a poor state of health and we are not doing enough to educate them and protect them. NC Politician Contact Info Governor Roy Cooper Email Form 919-814-2000 20301 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-0301 Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson krishana.polite@nc.gov 919-814-3680 20401 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-0401 Senator Richard Burr Email Form - Share Your Opinion 202-224-3154 217 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Senator Thom Tillis Email Thom Tillis 919-856-4630 310 New Bern Avenue, Suite 122 Raleigh, NC 27601 House Speaker - Tim Moore Tim.Moore@ncleg.gov 919-733-3451 16 West Jones Street, Rm. 2304 Raleigh, NC 27601-1096 Please take a look at the list of House members for your county to send emails, calls or postal mail to these individuals. If you wish to contact all of them by all means do so. When contacting please be respectful as I know you will. Do not threaten or insult anyone. We need to be taken seriously to be heard, and to be effective in a very short time. Time is of the essence. Please share this with everyone! Once freedom is lost, it is almost impossible to regain. ! DISCLAIMER: Per the FDA, nothing can cure, mitigate, prevent, or treat the coronavirus so we have to just focus on supporting the immune system. The FDA says only a future vaccine and anti-virals can be considered legitimate but nothing natural. I have seen a lot of great articles with various herbals and vitamins to take that can support the immune system but here are my favorites but not an exhaustive list. Consult with your doctor related to Coronavirus treatments as this is not intended to treat anyone.

Men's Health We have several treatments specific to a man's body at BIM. Our men's health treatments are: Hormone Health P-Shot Injection P-Shot + Botox GAINSWave Hormone Health Are you having health issues such as fatigue, joint pain, low sex drive, weight gain, and anxiety? It could be your hormones. Learn More About Hormone Health >> hormone PSHOT P-Shot Platelet Rich Plasma Injection P-Shot Injection is for erectile dsyfunction. The benefits of P-Shot include: Increases blood flow to the area making getting an keeping an erection easier Increased nerve sensation making the penis more sensitive Heightened orgasms Stronger, harder erections Helps with sexual function after prostate surgery Some men document increased girth and length magnum P Shot + Botox Injection Combine the amazing benefits of the P-shot along with the powerful neurotoxin, Botox, for greater, more enhanced results. Adding these two together enhances the relaxation of blood vessels allowing them to dilate fully, increasing blood flow in the flaccid state. ​ Benefits include: Increased firmnesss Increase in stretched length Decrease in retraction Can last up to 6 months GAINSWave Learn more about GAINSWave and request a consultation GO gainswave

Weight Management Revive & Release Metabolic Reset Looking to lose weight and get a fresh start? Our Revive & Release Metabolic Reset program builds on principals of clean eating and intermittent fasting while bringing in mindset, stress reduction and habit change through a 3 phase process. This is NOT a ”diet”. This is a lifestyle program aimed at kickstarting change and then teaching you sustainable ways to have the life you have dreamed of having. Are you eating healthy, exercising but still not losing weight? This weight loss/metabolic reset program is for you! Program Includes: 8 Weeks of Bi-Monthly Lifestyle Coaching Sessions (4 sessions) Program Supplements Guided Lifestyle Journal Recipe Ideas Food Scale and Body Tape Unlimited access through the patient portal for added questions/answers, encouragement, resources and support. Program Cost: $895 Call 704-775-6029 to Get Started

Happy Healers F E STIVAL Bringing holistic healers and the community together Saturday June 17, 2023 12:00pm - 6:00pM Located at our very own: Birkdale Business Park 2 16415 Northcross Dr, Suite B, Huntersville, NC 28078 Join us for an afternoon of getting to know your local holistic healing community! We have brought together the best and finest health practitioners and holistic health experts in our area to help you obtain optimal wellness. This festival will help you to balance your mental and physical well-being with hands-on presentations, learning sessions with experts and wellness products/tools demonstrations. No festival is complete without food vendors, music, crafts and shopping and we will have all of that! We will also have a BIM OPEN HOUSE ! Tour our office and meet our staff. FREE Check out the speaker line up, their topics and time they will present Check out the speaker line up, their topics and time they will present Speakers Check out the speaker line up, their topics and time they will present Check out the local holistic business and food/beverage vendors Vendors Holistic Practitioners Chiropractors Energy Healing Product Demonstrations Entertainment Holistic Dentistry Spiritual Experiences Sound Therapy Speech/Language Therapy Self Care Food & Beverages Wellness Products Speakers Speakers We are thrilled to have some of the best holistic experts in our area to share their knowledge with our community. Below are the speakers we have lined up, the topics and time they plan to speak at the festival. Cammy Benton MD Benton Integrative Medicine 12:00pm Welcome & Kick Off Dr Eric Kempter Kempter Holistic Dentistry 12:30pm Tongue Ties Kat Harmon ​ Love The Sh*t Out Of Yourself 1:00pm Kids Mindfulness 2:00pm Love Yourself 101 Jamie Tanenbaum MRNI Interlinks Communication 1:30pm Importance baby's reflexes Dr. Ginni Gross ​ Touchlight Chiropractic 2:30pm Self care and energy ​ Carol Soto ​ Love, Healing &More 3:00pm What is an empath? What is an HSP? Dorothy Diana, RN, MSN Yoni Yun - Feminine Rhythm ​ 3:30pm Body Positivity Brennyn Molloy ​ The House of Compassionate Gratitude 4:00pm What is Karma? Effie Spurlin The Spurlin Institute ​ 4:30 pm Breast Health Jennifer "Bodhi" Holley Sacred Roots Spiritual Community 5:00pm Legal Psychedelic Therapies Ildiko & Gabor Halasz ​ EMF Solutions by Fisher Electric LKN 5:30pm Protection From Harmful EMF Katie Sutton & DJ Josh ​ Zen Within Academy ​ 5:45pm Group Sound Healing Session Vendors COUNSELING Fundamental Physical Therapy The Holistic Garden CONSCIOUS CHARLOTTE Inner, Higher, Lighter SELF Sherry Carpenter Psycosmos Love Healing & More JOIN THE DISCUSSION AND GET UPDATES ON OUR FACEBOOK EVENTS PAGE Vendors

Business Spotlight Benton Integrative Medicine is excited to support our awesome BIM community and would like to promote local businesses owned and run by our patients. You can learn more about these businesses below. ​ If you are a patient of BIM and have your own business and would like to be highlighted, please email your name, name of your business, and contact information to klux@bimmail.com. We will select a business each month to interview and promote your business on our social media and our mailer. We are so thankful for all of you and we want to give back! God Bless! FEBRUARY BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT The Burgin Family Owner: Aaron Burgin Our Businesses Mountain Spring F arms The Farmer's Fre ezer Wood For Warriors Goldendoodle A doptions Meet Aaron Burgin of Mountain Spring Farms. This family runs multiple businesses and non-profits. Mountain Spring Farms: The Farm produces local, pasture raised meat. Antibiotic and vaccine free. No medicated feed, just good Ole fashioned farmers raising meat the way it should be. We have pork and beef available at all times. See The Farmer's Freezer for meat pricing. Wood For Warriors: Wood for Warriors is a 501 c(3) non-profit that focuses on cutting, splitting and delivering wood to local veterans for no cost to them. It was started 2019. Carolina Relief: Carolina Reef is a 501 c(3) that focuses on bringing relief to families in need after natural disasters on the East Coast. Started in 2022. Both of these non profits are solely fueled by us and the funds that we receive by donors. We have registered with state, federal and have bank accounts for each. Goldendoodle Adoptions: We raise Goldendoodles. We have been raising them in home since 2012. We focus on Mini and all information can be found on our website: prices range from 2000-3500. NOVEMBER BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT Beautycounter Owner: Devan Oddman Phone: 412-443-5438 Email: devan.oddman@gmail.com Social Media: @Devan Oddman I am a PA-C, mom of 4, and Beautycounter Brand Advocate. My business with Beautycounter allows me to combine wellness and beauty - two things that should go hand in hand, but oftentimes do not. Unfortunately with the lack of regulations in the personal care industry here in the United States, many of us are exposed to harmful chemicals in our skin care, soaps, lotions, makeup, sunscreens, and more. Beautycounter set out to not only make safe, effective skin care, makeup, and body care, but they set out to change the industry! My mission with Beautycounter is to raise awareness around the harmful toxins and chemicals in our everyday personal care products, and advocate for safe products for everyone. OCTOBER BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT Spinal Fusion Yoga Owner: Stacy Joyce Website: spinalfusionyoga.com Phone: 917-544-5102 Email: stacyjoyceyoga@gmail.com Social Media: yogawithstacy Spinal Fusion Video page >> Due to severe scoliosis, at 16 years old I had an 11-vertebrae spinal fusion with Harrington rods. Two years after my surgery, I tried yoga and kept practicing because it felt safe and reconnected me to my body. I eventually learned how to tailor a yoga practice to benefit my back in the long run, and take better care of my unfused vertebrae while being mindful of my scoliosis. I now focus on teaching yoga to students with scoliosis, spinal fusions, or other back conditions. My teaching focuses on connecting to our breath to regulate our nervous system, maintaining the neutral curves of the spine, spinal elongation, strengthening the limbs and back in order to help support the spine, the use of numerous props to assist in making poses more accessible and beneficial, improve posture and alignment, and ultimately build the proprioception to get out of our movement patterns that reinforces our asymmetries. I teach virtual group classes, as well as private sessions. JULY BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT Fisher Electric LKN Owner: Ildiko & Gabor Halasz Website: https://fisherel.com/ Phone: (704)-740-9225 Email: cs@fisherel.com Social Media: @fisherelectriclkn Communication, tech industries and their captured regulatory agencies significantly downplay the harmful effect of EMF. Even though, extensive independent scientific research consistently confirms that Dirty Electricity and EMF are extremely harmful to human cells. We, at Fisher Electric LKN are very passionate about helping people significantly lower these invisible harmful radiations (EMF and Dirty Electricity) in their homes and offices. We test the living/working space for EMF and Dirty Electricity then design custom solutions to lower radiations. We educate and teach new habits to customers so that they can use their electronics in a mindful and healthy way. We design and wire computer networks so that the home and office can operate without WIFI and Bluetooth. We install whole house and plug in dirty electricity filters to mitigate the on-going dirty electricity exposure. MAY BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT Autograph Kitchens Owner: Scott & Chelsea Holcombe Website: autographkitchens.com Phone: 704-880-9494 Email: Hello@autographkitchens.com Address: 18605 Starcreek Dr., Suite 106, Cornelius, NC 28031 My name is Chelsea, and my husband (Scott) and I own Autograph Kitchens, a local kitchen and bath design and cabinetry center. Every one of our projects starts with you. Each year, for every kitchen we sell, we donate a cabinet toward a kitchen for a family less fortunate. We are all about designing kitchens around health and wellness! We collaborate with you to learn your goals and ideal vision for this room while knowing what we can do for you within your budget. APRIL BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT TorchBearer Tachyon Chamber Owner: Adrienne Craighead Website: www.TorchBearerTachyon.com Phone: 980-689-1803 Address: 20200 Zion Ave, Suite 11 Cornelius, NC 28031 Adrienne Craighead is a seeker, a mom, a sister and a friend. She’s the Starseed daughter of a Marine Corps helicopter pilot who enjoyed being part of a military family because she loved meeting new people, seeing new places and trying new things - even as a child! After she finished her undergraduate degree at the Honors College at the University of South Carolina, she took off for Auckland New Zealand as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in 1995. Her overseas experiences reinforced her passion for travel and adventure as well as teaching and public speaking (as her commitment to Rotary included giving speeches all across NZ about life in the USA - and similarly to Carolinas based Rotary chapters about her time living as a Kiwi Down Under.) Adrienne spends her days as the Director of Financial Development for a nonprofit called Apparo (which is Latin for “to assist, to prepare, to make ready.” The mission for Apparo is to help other nonprofits operate more efficiently and effectively by leveling up their business processes using technology. Founded over 20 years ago, Apparo has served over 750 nonprofits to date, from as many mission areas as you can name including hunger and homelessness, animals and the arts, cancer and Alzheimer’s, and the list goes on. As the agency’s leading fundraiser, she oversees a team that generates an annual operating budget of almost a quarter of a million dollars via individual donations, grants and corporate donations and sponsorships. Adrienne's passion project is being the owner and founder of TorchBearer Tachyon in Charlotte, NC. She first learned about the healing properties of tachyons on a weekend visit to Waynesboro Virginia in the spring of 2021. Her serendipitous meeting of Dr. Joe McNamara introduced her to the science behind these subatomic particles, but it was her actual EXPERIENCE within his tachyon chamber that convinced her of the merits of them. She opened TorchBearer Tachyon in the fall of 2022 to bring the experience to friends and neighbors in the Lake Norman area of Charlotte (and the reviews that they’ve received from early adopters are incredibly encouraging!) Check them out yourself and book your own experience on their website. Use promo code BIM30 to save 30% off your first experience. MARCH BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT Abode Wellness Lounge Owner: Christian Hunsbedt Website: www. abodewellnesslounge.com Phone: 704-401-7428 Address: 610 Jetton Street, Suite 210 Davidson NC 28036 Founded February 2020 by Christian Hunsbedt, Abode quickly became a safe space for Charlotte locals. Hunsbedt, a wife and mom to seven, originally designed Abode to house her fertility work and a place for Lifestyle Wellness: however Abode is now a growing community garden of family - focused Wellness Providers, lifestyle couches and clean living enthusiasts. From the moment you step in Abode, the collaborative environment welcomes you warmly. From the plant wall, a Scandinavian interior beautiful Salt Lounge with Halo Therapy, and an Infrared Sauna, Abode is the ideal space to “be well”. Abode is open to Holistic Practitioners or Wellness providers who want to add a location around the Lake Norman area.

Who We Are At Benton Integrative Medicine we value the best of medical care AND medical freedom. We have built our practice on this foundation, merging the best in modern medicine with integrative and holistic options and CHOICE. Our goal is to empower you to be in the driver's seat, to make the choices that resonate with your values, and to keep you and your family well. From our Direct Primary Care memberships to our wellness and healing programs and beyond, we want to be your first choice for greater health! Dr. Cammy Benton Direct Primary Care Provider Functional Medicine Catie Westra Hormone Health Kelly Lux Office Manager/Referral Coordinator Delia Springs Intake Specialist/Medical Assistant Ryan Redd Direct Primary Care Provider Doreen McCormick Integrative Nutrition Health Coach Abigail Schopen Front Desk Administrator/Medical Assistant Mary Martin-Vavra Direct Primary Care Provider Lisa Kamont Functional Medicine & Integrative Nutrition Practitioner Rachael Casale Phlebotomist/GAINSWave® Specialist

BIM Support Team Kelly Kelly Lux Office Manager/Referral Coordinator Our practice manager Kelly is passionate about integrative medicine and supporting the body with a holistic approach, so she's felt right at home here at BIM since 2021. Benton has played a huge roll in her health journey as a patient as well. She enjoys being in an environment where she is continually learning from the providers and our patient population. Kelly is always available for our patients' needs and unrolling the newest services Dr. Benton offers. Kelly and her husband recently became homeowners and love spending spare time playing with their golden retriever, Banks and hosting family and friends. Abigail Schopen, CMA Front Desk Administrator/Medical Assistant Abigail is our wonderful front desk administrator and medical assistant. She graduated with her AAMA certification in 2017, began with us in 2018, and then took a break to go back to school in 2020. She returned to us after graduating (and marrying the love of her life) in 2023. On the weekends Abigail is a theatre tech and an award-winning film director, and she & her husband are expecting their first son this summer. Rachael Casale Phlebotomist/GAINSWave® Specialist Rachael, is our resident phlebotomist and sexual health specialist. Earning her phlebotomy certification in 2022, Rachael came to Charlotte from Long Island in 2023. When not serving patients here or at the hospital, you'll catch Rachael making nutritious meals for her daughter and relaxing with her favorite TV shows. Delia Springs Intake Specialist/Medical Assistant Delia is our administrative extraordinaire. She started her career in the medical field in 2017 and joined the BIM team in 2020. Delia is a pleasant voice on the phone, assists with administrative duties, and clinical procedures. After work, you'll catch her learning a new dance or spending quality time with her 4 kiddos. She has a passion for helping people and watching people change their lives. Rachael Abigail Delia

Integrative Partners Below you will find a listing of other holistic specialist in our area. Click on the category to drop down the list and find one near you. If you live outside the Charlotte area, you can use these websites to search in your specific area for an Integrative Practitioner or Functional Medicine Practitioner . Does insurance cover functional medicine? In selection of laboratory testing, we do try to select labs that may be covered by your insurance when possible but are not always able to do so. Again, consider this an investment of your health. If a “covered” test does not provide the information necessary to help us get to the root cause of your issues, we will not waste your time or money as it defeats the purpose of the program. Remember that the purpose of this program is to get you to optimal health and you are seeking or services based on the fact that the current system is not achieving this. Wellness and healing programs are not generally covered by insurance. We do accept Care Credit to cover Functional Medicine Programs but not DPC. You can set up your account here: https://www.carecredit.com/ Although we do not provide billing services, the patient is welcomed to submit any portions of their program that may be covered to their insurance company as consideration for reimbursement. You will be provided a spreadsheet breaking down the components of your program at the time of purchase. We are also happy to provide you with an encounter note for any face-to-face visit included in your package. Can I use my HSA or FSA card to purchase these services? Certain services may be covered by these spending accounts. However, we encourage you to inquire with your organization for direct answers of coverage before using your card. You may also want to visit IRS.gov to obtain publications online regarding medical and dental expenses Does my Medical Cost Share cover these services? Certain service may be covered but certainly at the discretion of your cost sharing group. Again, we encourage you to inquire with your cost sharing group on the possibility of coverage.