In the absence of big problems, people shift their worries to smaller ones. In the absence of small problems, they focus on petty or even imaginary ones.
Ease Up on the Espresso: If your sleep isn’t great lately, consider cutting back on the caffeine. Turns out, chugging coffee during sleep-deprived stints might shrink grey matter in parts of your brain. Not ideal if you’re trying to keep that brain in tip-top shape.
Know Your Limits: Everyone’s different when it comes to coffee tolerance. This study found that how your brain reacts to caffeine can depend on your genes—specifically, something about adenosine receptors. So, pay attention to how much caffeine you can handle, especially when you’re short on shut-eye.
Catch Those Zs: Don’t skimp on recovery sleep. After a brutal week, make sure to get some solid, uninterrupted sleep to bounce back. It helps counteract the rough effects of those sleepless nights and may even undo some of the caffeine-induced brain changes.
Is it a good effect to have? Deserts are their own eco-systems.
Although some deserts are encroaching onto green areas, but preventing/reversing that is a solved problem. China is reclaiming about half a million acres of Gobi Desert expansion annually with their Great Green Wall project.
Take lots of videos. At least 10 minutes per day of your baby.
For everything else, just trust your instinct.
Put career second. Baby first. You will have plenty of time later to make it up.
Thanks for the info. I suffer from it as well. Can you please write in more about the "custom fit oral appliance" ? I'm interested in trying it myself.
Not OP, but old dentist made and sold these. It is a custom-fit mouthpiece that forces you to keep your lower jaw forward while you sleep, preventing airway collapse. It’s the same thing you’re taught to do for CPR to force the airway open.
