#107 - Trust Your Gut with Hormone D (Part II) | Dr. Stasha Gominak (Pinot Blanc)

Send a textThe changed intestinal microbiome. There is a pandemic of the ‘‘wrong” intestinal microbiome, the cause of which is unknown. The current treatments, probiotics and fecal transplant, are intended to provide the ‘‘missing”  bacterial species but they are only partially successful. Observations regarding the negative effects of abnormal intestinal flora go far beyond the bowel symptomatology of IBS. There are reports linking the ‘‘wrong” intestinal flora to hypertension, heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, colon cancer, and autoimmune diseases such as psoriasis, asthma, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid  arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis, all diseases that also have reported links to sleep disorders.  The changed intestinal microbiome has become epidemic in parallel with the epidemic of vitamin (hormone)  D deficiency, suggesting that they might be linked.About our guest:Dr. Gominak grew up and attended college in California, moved to Houstonfor medical school at Baylor College of Medicine, where she received an MDdegree in 1983. Her Neurology residency was done at the Harvard affiliated,Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She practiced Neurology in theSan Francisco Bay area from 1991-2004 then moved with her husband to Tyler,Texas.Starting in 2004 she began to dedicate more of her practice to the treatmentof sleep and sleep disorders. In 2012 and 2016 she published two pivotalarticles about the global struggle with worsening sleep, the possible causes andsolutions, related to vitamin D deficiency and the intestinal microbiome.In 2016 she retired from her office practice to have more time to teach.She currently divides her time between RightSleep® coaching sessions forprivate individuals and teaching other clinicians the RightSleep® method ofsleep repair.Resources Mentioned:The Vitamin D ConundrumConnect with Dr. Gominak:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramThe hashtag for the podcast is #nourishyourflourish. You can also find our practice on the following social media outlets:Facebook: The Eudaimonia CenterInstagram: theeudaimoniacenterTwitter: eu_daimonismFor more reproductive medicine and women's health information and other valuable resources, make sure to visit our website.Have a question, comment, guest suggestion, or want to share your story? Email us at [email protected] the showThe hashtag for the podcast is #nourishyourflourish. You can also find our firm, The Eudaimonia Center on the following social media outlets:Facebook: The Eudaimonia CenterInstagram: theeudaimoniacenterThreads: The Eudaimonia CenterFor more integrative reproductive medicine and women's health information and other valuable resources, make sure to visit our website.Have a question, comment, guest suggestion, or want to share your story? Email us at [email protected]