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The Ultimate Health Podcast

628: The Surprising Connection Between Vitamin D, Gut Bacteria & Sleep | Dr. Stasha Gominak

The Ultimate Health Podcast

Jesse Chappus

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4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 213 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Stasha Gominak is a neurologist, sleep coach, keynote speaker & the creator of RightSleep.

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0:00.0

Coming up on today's show.

0:02.2

Shockingly, there is literature from the 1980s that shows that there are vitamin D receptors

0:07.3

in the sleep switches that actually perform these particular duties for us every night.

0:14.2

Well, if there are D receptors there, it has to mean that D plays a role in how we sleep,

0:19.1

which is D for duh, D runs hibernation.

0:22.4

Physicians are still giving prescriptions of D2, which is really a bad idea because the D2

0:27.2

blocks any D3 that person could have.

0:29.8

So in someone who's deficient, it makes them more deficient.

0:32.4

We must get into these deeper phases of sleep called slow wave sleep and rapid eye movement sleep. If we do not,

0:39.2

we feel unrested, have troubles with our memory, we have trouble with our mood, we get various

0:43.8

pain syndromes. So sleep is not as simple as I close my eyes, I become unconscious and then I wake up.

0:49.1

There are certain things that have to be done or you start to feel crummy. The most important part

0:52.9

is you have to decide at the

0:54.2

beginning of your journey, what are the symptoms that are related to this? And it turns out every

0:58.5

symptom you have is related to this. Normal humans don't go to the doctor because there's

1:02.7

nothing wrong with them. They don't have any complaints. Stasha, in our world, there's a lot

1:08.2

of talk about the benefits of vitamin D, not so much in connection

1:12.7

to sleep.

1:14.2

So let's start there.

1:16.0

This is a fabulous topic.

1:17.6

Unfortunately, I'm just very, very interested in this.

1:22.9

And my husband has to drag me away when we're at parties and everything because I want

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