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Dr. Stasha Gominak
Neurologist and sleep coach
Sleep • vitamin D • and the gut microbiome
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Focus: Vitamin D, B vitamins, and restorative sleep
Stasha Gominak is a neurologist who became focused on sleep. She argues that vitamin D and B-vitamin deficiencies, linked to the gut microbiome, underlie many sleep problems, and runs a 'RightSleep' program built on that idea.
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Stasha Gominak: A neurologist's vitamin D theory of poor sleep
Some sleep problems may come from low vitamin D, not just poor habits, though this is one doctor's theory. She links vitamin D to gut bacteria that make B vitamins the brain uses for deep sleep. The idea is interesting but largely unproven, and the high doses she suggests can be unsafe.