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The Model Health Show · October 8, 2025 · 73m
The Shocking Connection Between Vitamin D and Sleep
Stasha Gominak on the discovery that vitamin D deficiency is the primary driver of sleep disorders in her clinical practice. The vitamin D-microbiome-sleep triangle: how D deficiency disrupts gut bacteria that produce B vitamins needed for normal sleep architecture.
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Gominak discovered that vitamin D regulates the gut bacteria that produce B vitamins (especially B5 and B12), which are precursors to acetylcholine — the neurotransmitter that controls sleep paralysis and dream sleep.
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Vitamin D as environmental signal — sunlight deficiency creates metabolic cascade failure
Gominak frames vitamin D not as a supplement but as a sunlight-derived hormone that signals the body about its environment — low D tells the body it's winter, triggering hibernation-like metabolic shifts.Was this useful?