1. Sleep, Vitamins and Family Practice Dr. Stasha Gominak ETMC Neurologic Institute, 700 Olympic Plaza, 912 Tyler, TX (903) 596-3808 www.drgominak.com 2/19/2011
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11. The Migraine “Brainstem Generator” is in the same area of the brainstem where we do timing and paralysis of sleep
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17. Why does everyone and his brother seem to have Sleep Apnea? Did we make it up? Has it always been there or is it new? What’s causing it? Why is it more in “developed countries”?
27. Vitamin D receptors concentrate in 3 brain areas; periaquiductal grey, lateral ventricles and pituitary/hypothalamus
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58. The FDA recommended dose has absolutely nothing to do with the blood level that should be achieved in a clinical trial to produce normal sleep and cure disease. It also has nothing to do with the dose you want for your sleep to be normal so you don’t have to take those pills.