Because his new patients don't always understand what integrative medicine is, Dr. Soram Singh Khalsa encourages them to view a video.
In it, the 66-year-old turbaned Sikh internist explains how he combines traditional medical practices with acupuncture, homeopathy, herbs and vitamin therapies, particularly vitamin D. (Author of The Vitamin D Revolution, Soram Singh says 90 percent of his new patients are D-deficient.)
Between optimum health and cancer, he says, there exists a "gray zone" in which organs might not be clinically diseased but still can cause symptoms Western medicine can't detect or treat. 
"A lot of people's problems -- fatigue, backaches, migraines -- are not well treated with traditional modalities like narcotics," says the Yale-educated Sikh-American who was raised in Cincinnati and attended Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland. He has been on staff at Cedars-Sinai for 30 years and is a clinical instructor at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine.
Morgan Freeman and Judith Light are among his longtime clients. Says Light: "I had just started ‘Who's the Boss?’ and was exhausted. Dr. Soram Singh is a brilliant diagnostician -- he saw all of these things that have been lifelong problems. I attribute my energy and much of the longevity of my career to him."
A 45-year-old producer with ulcerative colitis that was not responding to steroids and immunosuppressive drugs was put on a regimen of Chinese herbs and acupuncture. 
"Over the course of six months, we tapered from a very high steroid dose to none at all," says Soram Singh. "Some months later, his gastroenterologist did a colonoscopy and was shocked to see that there were no lesions in his colon."
Pronounces Morgan Freeman: "Dr. Soram Singh was referred to me by a close friend. I am very grateful for the referral." 

Courtesy: Hollywood Reporter. Edited for www.sikhchic.com.

– Michael Walker, Hollywood Reporter