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# Natural Medicine
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3303/
- Published: 2005-12-10T21:28:46.000Z
- Updated: 2005-12-10T21:28:46.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

I believe there's a lot to be said for natural healing, though [*Seinfeld* and Tor Eckman](http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheHeartAttack.htm?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) undoubtedly set the cause back twenty years with that hilarious episode ("The Heart Attack"). Nonetheless, I found this interesting, the yoga stuff aside:

> Three years ago, Treuman Katz got some troubling news: At 60, he was on his way to becoming a diabetic.

> Katz, CEO of Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center at the time, could have relied on the region's top specialists. Instead, the man who had spent nearly 40 years running two of the country's pre-eminent hospitals reached out to a naturopathic doctor.

> He took herbal supplements, changed his diet, started yoga and hired a naturopathic trainer. Soon, his blood sugar dropped and he began to feel healthier than he had in years, he said.

> "The body and spirit are inextricably tied together in natural medicine," he said. "You don't hear that in Western medicine. It's always just about the body."

> Such comments might raise eyebrows coming from someone like Katz. This is, after all, a man who has been enveloped in the world of conventional medicine since birth. . . .

> "My objective is not to convert," Katz said. "But the bottom line is that the cost of health care is staggering because we're not taking care of underlying issues."

I find that last paragraph particularly interesting.

Bonus coverage:

> KRAMER: I'll tell you what to do, I'll tell you what to do. You go to Tor Eckman. Tor, Tor, he'll fix you right up. He's a herbalist, a healer, George. He's not just gonna fix the tonsils and the adenoids, he is gonna change the whole way you function - body and mind.

> JERRY: Eckman? I thought he was doing time?

> KRAMER: No, no, he's out. He got out. See, the medical establishment, see, they tried to frame him. It's all politics. But he's a rebel.