I am considering adding GABA to my night routine on those nights when I can't stop perseverating on something, but not sure. The best article I read on the subject said GABA probably doesn't pass the brain-blood barrier and so any relaxing effect is mostly placebo.
GABA reduces levels of norepinephrine, which is the neurotransmitter responsible for vigilance and arousal (not sexual -- just, as in, being alert and so forth). So, too much norepinephrine, and you're wired and kind of like the dog in "Up," constantly going "squirrel!" GABA reduces norepinephrine, although right now I don't remember how, and I'm a little too tired to find links.
But then, like you said, I'm not sure it crosses the blood-brain barrier. But maybe it doesn't need to. Now I'm intrigued and want to google.
OK, I leave super early tomorrow--what am I forgetting to pack?? I know there's something.
Meats, given your job, you might want to give the bihn bags a look. They're fantastic.
Eta: damn iPhone. This is the second time meara has been reduced to meats!
Reduced to meats, hah! I keep thinking I'll look at them, but I finally got a tiny rolling suitcase I love because I can put my laptop in it! I'm hoping new company will give a lighter one but the old one was super heavy. And I'm usually only gone a day or two so it fits all I need. But one of these days...
"Sleeping in"= woke up at 7. When did I become this person?
Oh yeah, I need to get a laptop bag. But will probably do that through work.
Apparently, starling tv drama is happening outside my kitchen window. There are two fascinated cats meeping on the windowsill.
I am looking at houses for sale and thinking about various ways to make school work here and getting depressed. It just doesn't feel like there's a niche for us in Cincinnati. I never would have thought I'd feel more at home in Georgia than in the place where I was born.
In Facebook WHOA news, a girl I was good friends with in 5th-7th grade now lives in Israel and has 8 children (ages 3-14 or so). Her family was so secular when I knew her that I didn't even realize she was Jewish (and we did have a lot of Jewish classmates, so it's not like I was unfamiliar with the concept).
"Sleeping in"= woke up at 7. When did I become this person?
5 here, but I didn't have to get up and get out of bed at any time before that so I count it as a win?
Grrrr. At ER. No meds yet. Famished and nauseous.
