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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, today we had part two

with Dr. Stasha Gomenack and went deeper into sleep following up on our initial conversation

where we really went into B vitamins and their

impact on sleep. And so we went a little bit deeper this time and discussed a number of

topics that I thought were very interesting and important, this interplay between vitamin D,

B vitamins, your gut microbiome, and your sleep. We attempted to kind of layer these into levels one,

two, three steps so as to provide you with guidelines to start here, then go there, and then finish

at step three and not necessarily try to tackle everything at once. We touched a little bit

on cognitive behavioral therapy, mold, structural issues that can

impede sleep or respiration quality during sleep, methods of assessing B12 status, and just

generally had a good conversation regarding sleep.

And again, this interplay mainly between vitamin D, B vitamins, and the gut microbiome.

And I want to thank Stasha again for coming on the show.

Stasia graduated from Baylor College of Medicine where she received her MD.

She performed a neurology residency at Mass General and practiced neurology in San Francisco from

1991 to 2004. And then in 2004 pivoted her practice to focus on sleep disorders and sleep

treatments. And between the years of 2012 and 2016, she published two articles really outlining

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