I've tried a lot of things over the years to help me sleep, most of them were various supplements like copper, iodine, glycine, etc. Many of them helped for a few days and then I was right back to where I was before. I have no issue falling asleep, but exactly five hours into my sleep cycle, I wake up with a racing mind. I'm thinking about everything and can't go back to sleep. I think I've finally cracked the code on that one, it only took me about 15 years.

Our neurotransmitters in our brain act like they are on a see-saw. Our main stimulating neurotransmitter, glutamate, opposes our main inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA. When the level of one goes up, the other goes down. In my case, glutamate was high so I tried to increase my GABA levels. Looking at how GABA is made in the body, I always assumed that I was low on active ingredients to make it, primarily glycine. This can be the case for some and that is why supplementing glycine or TMG (Tri-methyl-glycine) can be beneficial. I would supplement and get benefit, but two or three days later, I was right back to where I started. I now believe I failed to achieve a balance in electrical charge and some of my chemical reactions couldn't take place because of an increase in electrons. With my background in Chemistry, I should have seen that and didn't.

All I have done differently the past several weeks is alter my nightly routine. Just before bed, I usually let the dog outside and brush my teeth. Now, I go outside with my dog and then brush my teeth. I make sure I walk bare footed on the grass for several minutes. I take at least 30 steps but I don't know if that matters. I know it sounds odd, but this has completely changed the way I sleep at night. If I do happen to wake up at 1 or 2 am, I can quickly fall back to sleep and I can now remember my dreams for the first time in many years. All I am doing is grounding, what some people call earthing. It sounded like hogwash to me, but it's cheap and I'll try anything once. I'd like for some of you to try it and see if it makes any difference in your sleep patterns. Come back to this thread in a few weeks and tell me if it had any effect.

I wear an Oura ring so I have a lot of metrics on my health. I know things like the length of my REM sleep, deep sleep, awake time, etc. These past few weeks have shown a huge improvement in all my sleep metrics and I can feel the difference. All from walking bare footed outside for a few minutes. The only days since I started doing this where my sleep wasn't great are days when I ate a late supper and the increased food close to bedtime negatively affected my sleep. I can't eat within 3 hours of sleep and get a good night's rest.

I was talking to a patient yesterday about Rheumatoid arthritis and when I finished, she told me I should write a book. Congratulations Bunk, this post is my book.

Owner at the house to the right put a fence by his house and got the sign put up in the middle stating public access restricted. Preventing all of us from walking though so now we gotta walk over a mile down to access to the beach.
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For all internet driven traffic? Much like television, radio, and video games. With the ability to fine while simultaneously increasing parental rights to protect their children from malicious interactions via these sites to include an agency/path for parents to fight back?

Should this have been done when we opened the internet to everyone?

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Ouch…

Maybe a quarterzip? The polo isn’t cutting it.

Ole 73 needing more coverage on our NC winners

WDE

BRUCE is the one saving grace, but everything else is an actual disaster.

Plenty of recruits expected to visit Auburn today. Several have already checked in.

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Whoa is us bullshi% needs to stop. We are Auburn University. A spirit unafraid that lives in reality, but also is ready to run to challenges instead of curl up and piss ourselves in a corner. The University of Alabama has worked against Auburn's mere existence since our inception. The elitist redneck racist trash in their regime and their shitty friends in Alabama government have tried time after time to kill us. We keep coming back. These bad days in our athletic program will pass as well. Guarantee they always are nervous when staring at us on the other side of any court, pool, course, track or playing field. Their school is a diploma mill, their basketball coach is an accessory to murder and there is nothing unique about them. Tuscaloosa is pure garbage and UAT is nothing but a wannabe debutante. Let's cowboy up and stop the lay down and bleed pity party.

2 young brothers out shed antler hunting (which I didn't know was a thing) in El Dorado Hills, CA (near Tahoe). They see a cougar in the road, try to spook it, cougar attacks one kid's face, brother dies trying to help.

Pretty scary and sad and a reminder of the forces of nature.

Apparently some are calling on the state to rethink how it manages the mountain lion population.

How many years of jail time does Sonny get if that happened in today's time?

from Tusc

Hasn't been seen since this morning kayak fishing in Grayton Beach. Apparently he's the head fb coach at Sylacauga

Hot hot!

Check the news. At a concert. Pretty shocking. Can’t post link at the moment.

and it’s possible AU baseball could be historically bad again 😩

Some quick quotes from three receivers out of South Florida that were on campus Thursday:

To NLCS, again? Harper and Wheeler were made for October baseball!

A Horse With No Name​

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Cam Coleman has shown a love for football and a strong work ethic in his first few months at Auburn...

WORK

…been trying to get this dog back to fighting shape. Showed up on my back porch asleep on my couch Sunday. Had a rope tied in a knot tightly around his neck which I thought was on his collar but it was under his collar, and an open wound by it. Its legs were shaking. I thought it just came up on my porch to die. I’d never give it back to the original owners but I’d like to know where they live. Accidents happen.

At least my basketball boys didn't get blown out by New Meixco St.

Basketball School!

Anthony Kruah talks about receiving his first SEC offer during his trip to Auburn Thursday:

I know I'm about to get a grandchild update. I have eight and tend to be a pessimist, so I brace myself for the bad news.

One of my teenage Granddaughters had a coed Birthday party last night at her home.

So my wife starts off with this. They have a room in the basement that they have turned into a workout room. One of the boys was lifting a barbell and a weight was loose. It fell off the bar and landed on the top of my granddaughter's foot. It obviously broke something on the top of her foot. She has an appointment this afternoon with an orthopedic doctor. BTW she is the pole vaulter in the family.

They have a pool with a gazebo. My daughter had put the birthday cake in the Gazebo. When they went outside to cut the cake they found the dog had started eating it.

My daughter cut off the part the dog was eating on and served the remaining cake. I'm not sure how you properly determine the slobber line on the cake.

Have y'all ever heard of a one legged pole vaulter.

BTW there will be no pictures so sue me.

Update: No broken bone, just bruised