The Primal Podcast Ep 146 - Dr Gominak | Sleep Like A Baby Tonight! [8 Hours Straight]
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Dec 27, 2025 Dr. Stasha Gominak, a Harvard-trained neurologist and sleep specialist, dives into the crucial role of sleep for overall health. She connects sleep issues to chronic diseases, headaches, and neurodegenerative conditions. Gominak highlights how vitamin D and B vitamins influence sleep regulation and discusses the microbiome’s role in optimizing health. With insights from her personal experience, she advocates for lifestyle changes and her Right Sleep program, emphasizing a holistic approach to sleep and wellness.
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Sleep Is The Body's Repair Engine
- Sleep is the body's core repair mechanism and missing repair phases cause many chronic diseases.
- Dr. Stasha Gominak links poor sleep to long-term degeneration and mental illness when repair phases are absent.
Allow Extra Sleep And Strategic Naps
- Do allow extra sleep (longer than eight hours) and naps during recovery because the brain prefers extra morning and post-lunch sleep.
- Stop using alarms if your body signals it needs more sleep and notice how naps affect your refreshment.
Young Patient With 10-Hour Light Sleep
- A young patient slept 10 hours yet had no deep sleep and 35 arousals per hour causing daily headaches.
- Low B12 and later low vitamin D testing revealed deficiencies that, when treated, improved sleep and headaches.