The question of yoga’s “do-ability” as a therapeutic and restorative tool is reflective of how it fits into the dual worlds of traditional and medical healing. Its capacity to balance a holistic care model with its pathology-focused counterpart is what makes yoga a keystone of developing integrative medical departments. While alternative and complementary treatments are receiving more attention in studies and patient care plans, there is still a great deal of criticism and even hostility to integrative medicine within the conventional medical world. When presented with the opportunities of a newly elected Obama administration open to discussion around the role of science and the field of healthcare back in 2009, top scientists jumped at the chance to advocate for the defunding of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health originally created in 1992. Concerned that the NIH was funding “pseudoscience”, Steven Salzberg, a genome researcher and computational biologist at the University of Maryland, disparaged alternative medicine research for its lack of rigorous controls and studies. His colleague, Steven Novella, a neurologist at the Yale School of Medicine, further claimed that the NCCAM was being “used to lend an appearance of legitimacy to treatments that are not legitimate.”