No fucking wonder ppl w anxiety have fucked up sleep!
Cool! I learned something new today too! Thanks 
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Yeah I’m seeing this in my Ponder and his sleep, seratonin is linked to depression too, yeah?
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Depression sometimes makes people too much too! Brains are wild. I know Partner can sleep A LOT when she’s having a rough patch.
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Ponder goes for the depression + insomnia combo
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I think it’s the caffeine may reduce serotonin production? I’m not sure if that site specific though- most of our serotonin is in our gut, and melatonin for sleep is produced in the pineal gland in the brain.
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Caffeine impacts adenosine receptors which impacts serotonin (and loads of other chemical/hormone cascades) - and chronic caffeine consumption decreases serotonin (which is kinda the opposite of when people first consume it)
For me personally I have much less struggle with winter fatigue/SAD type symptoms if I let my brain and body follow their natural patterns and I’ve found that consuming caffeine regularly during the winter really messes with all of it - from ability to fall asleep earlier than I do in summer to overall sleep cycles to ability to wake up easily to mood to hunger to digestion (IIRC those are all things that involve serotonin somewhere in the chain).
I probably should refresh my memory on the specifics because I find neuroendocrinology fascinating but I don’t use the knowledge day to day so forget loads of details!
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Cross laminated timber/mass timber is so cool 
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Ship of Theseus amphibian had me laughing.
Also link to article-
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Today I learned that spraying vodka on my stinky shoes gets rid of the smell??? What kind of craziness is this??
I noticed last night that my shoes were a bit stinky when I went from a class to yoga and took them off, and my socks were a little smelly from the shoes. I read about spraying vodka on stinky shoes to kill the bacteria and didn’t really believe it. Since I have a large stash in the basement (thanks friends for not knowing what to buy me for gifts!), I filled up a little spray bottle to try this (can’t hurt). The first round was so so, the second round made a noticeable difference on one shoe, third spray I noticed better with both, and now I am on my fourth round and one has no odor and the other is significantly reduced.
Magic I tell you. I’m confident the people around me in yoga will appreciate it.
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Oh this is good to know. Cheap vodka work?
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I would assume so? I am using Tito’s. The grey goose is too fancy.
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yes, cheap is in some ways preferred
I was told when we were visiting the ballet wardrobe dept that they do this for the costumes, because cleaning them is too hard and needs to happen too often
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Confirmed; sometimes laundry happens every other performance so on off nights or for dry clean only costumes, the vodka spray comes out.
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Vodka spray is how I clean my cosplay costumes. Also works great on curtains or upholstery.
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Or dry clean only items that aren’t costumes!
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I don’t have any of those LOL
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