I watched a interesting lecture on the success that Dr Gominuk M.D., a neurologist, has been having treating patients suffering from migraine headaches.

She is a doctor that is thinking outside of the box. Through trial and error and listening to her patients she discovered that the majority of her patients with unexplained headaches were ultimately sleep deprived caused by being vitamin D deficient. It is an interesting story how she figured it out.
http://drgominak.com/videos/

What I found interesting was the information that she learnt on vitamin D such as:
-D hormone is unique among our hormones because we make it on our skin from a specific wavelength of light, UVB. Why not from UVA which is present year round and is not affected by the seasons?
- our D hormone fluctuates with the seasons; it goes higher in the summer and lower in the winter.
- Any animal that can devise a way to eat more and get strong in summer, and eat less and sleep more in the winter, will have a better chance of survival.
- the low D message is; sleep longer, store fat for spring. Our metabolic rate goes down (we hibernate). As the D level falls the thyroid hormone goes down, we survive the winter by sleeping more hours and using less energy.
- unfortunately the majority of western society is vitamin D deficient year round thus the brain thinks it always needs to maintain precious fat reserves to survive.
- D hormone deficiency causes sleep disorders; insomnia, sleep apnea, REM related apnea, unexplained awakenings to light sleep, inappropriate body movements during sleep.
- The body will heal itself in deep sleep. When the sleep improves the headaches, seizures, tremor, back pain, balance difficulties, depression, memory loss, etc. all get better.

Sleep info - http://drgominak.com/sleep/
Vitamin D info - http://drgominak.com/vitamin-d-3/

let us remember Winston Churchill’s words, "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often".