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I’m going to show you two natural

remedies for grinding teeth at night

okay and it’s called nocturnal bruxism

and this is a very common problem with a

good portion of the population but of

course there’s not much known about it

they don’t know what causes it but we’re

going to get into it and connect the

dots and not knowing how to deal with

this can definitely lead to excessive

wearing of your teeth teeth pain

headaches when you wake up in the

morning your jaw being in spasm and then

of course you end up wearing a night

guard which is a piece of plastic in

your mouth all night okay so there’s a

new term I want to talk about what’s

called

rhythmic

masticatory muscle activity well that’s

just a medical term that describes what

happens when you grind your teeth

masticatory has to do with the muscles

involved with uh chewing your food and

of course the term rhythmic means that

this regular

set pattern or wave of something there’s

a couple things involved one is related

to the autonomic nervous system

apparently right before you started to

do this at night there’s an activation

of this autonomic nervous system in this

transition phase that affects the heart

apparently the heart is involved you

start getting an increase in pulse rate

which is interesting okay what’s up with

that well both of those are involved

with the autonomic nervous system that

system that works on automatic and it

controls a lot of different parts of

your body well less than a second before

this occurs 0.8 seconds to be exact you

have the stimulation or the increasing

tone of your jaw muscles that occur and

we know that’s related to grinding and

so apparently this problem has something

to do with this transition phase and

this dysfunction of the nervous system

that controls the muscular system the

muscles of your jaw and just so you know

like during sleep you have these cycles

of sleep from superficial sleep to deep

sleep and so some of these levels of

sleep are are very active and you can

have these wild dreams like you’re

almost awake but you’re actually asleep

you would think that the grinding of the

teeth would wake you up and of course

this phenomena is occurring in the level

where your brain is aroused and it’s

active versus the phase of sleep that

all your muscles are basically paralyzed

and you’re just laying there completely

in the dead of sleep or the Delta wave

sleep and so this mainly Curves in The

More The Superficial levels of sleep now

what else do we know that’s uh helpful

well we do know that there’s a high risk

of getting bruxism in smokers if you’re

a smoker you have two times the risk of

getting this also it’s higher in people

that drink alcohol it’s higher with

people that are on ssris which are

medications that are manipulating

serotonin or anxiety and depression okay

so that’s a little clue in fact there’s

even condition called SSRI Associated

bruxism okay as a side effect and we

also know that serotonin is involved

with sleep and the ssris involve

serotonin and so whether someone takes

them because they’re deficient in

serotonin or once they take them they

become deficient

we don’t know but there’s a serotonin

connection there’s also a dopamine

connection because they found that when

someone takes like l-dopa which is a

precursor to dopamine

there’s a lower incidence of bruxism and

they both do also relate to the

autonomic nervous system because

remember neurotransmitters are like

hormones for the nervous system so you

have the neurotransmitters for the

nerves and then you have hormones that

communicate through the blood we also

know that bruxism can be triggered by

stress events

trauma excess caffeine intake and then

there’s another Association which you

want to bring up

with a problem with what’s called Snips

now what are Snips and I’m going to give

you a new word here so and I’ll Define

it very simply but a Snips s n p s

stand for single nucleotoid polymorphism

and very simply what that is it’s a tiny

change in the sequence of your Gene that

can alter a function in your body and so

when you get a DNA test which I’ve been

talking about in other videos you’re

really looking at these Snips and from

that you can kind of deduct

susceptibility to certain problems how

does this relate to grinding of your

teeth well apparently there’s this

variation or change

with your genetics that can increase

significantly the risk of grinding your

teeth at night and this Gene HTR 2A is

the receptor Gene for serotonin what a

coincidence and serotonin can also help

with stress dopamine also can help

reduce stress as well and so if you have

this snip variation with this serotonin

receptor okay you can be deficient in

serotonin okay so you basically are

going to just have to increase more

precursors to build up that hormone to

fix it so it might not even be a problem

even if you have a problem with this

Gene if you’re taking all the necessary

things or doing all the necessary things

to handle this receptor for serotonin

and I just want to point this out

because people think that if they just

have a kind of a problem with their

genetics they can’t do anything about it

or they’ll automatically have a problem

with it that’s not true certain people

will have a problem if let’s say their

diet’s not right or their environment is

not good especially if they go through a

lot of stress and things like that and

they eat poorly all right so what can

someone do well

the first nutrient I’m going to

recommend is

B1 thymine why well because if you think

about it how do you become deficient in

B1 definitely by drinking a lot of

alcohol definitely by drinking a lot of

caffeinated Beverages and definitely by

smoking a lot where you’re exposed to

nicotine so all these triggers could be

leading to a problem with a deficiency

of B1 which then causes an exaggerated

deficiency of Serotonin and dopamine and

then compounded with your genetics and

stress boom it’s the perfect storm and

so you need B1 so I mean to make

serotonin and to make dopamine which is

another interesting connection and this

could also explain why if someone takes

like aldopa as a precursor as a

supplement right initially they tend to

do good with this bruxism but if they

take it over a long period of time it

seems to come back well it could be they

didn’t address this vitamin B1 okay

that’s the precursor

so you just kind of have to have all

these little pieces to the puzzle to

kind of understand what you need to do

you can get it from nutritional yeast

and I would recommend if you get it from

nutritional yeast make sure you have an

unfortified one so you don’t get the

synthetic added

B vitamins to it or else just find a

natural B1 okay so that’s number one the

other vitamin I would recommend the

vitamin D3 because vitamin D3 is a

potent modulator a regulator

for dopamine vitamin D3 also activates

serotonin so it’s very important in

these two neurotransmitters and when

you’re deficient in vitamin D3

uh people tend to have depression they

get anxious they have deficiency

symptoms of dopamine and serotonin so

both of these vitamins have been shown

to decrease the risk of bruxism directly

but now we know why so very simply this

is what I want you to do start taking B1

start taking vitamin D3 and then comment

down below if you’re grinding of the

teeth goes away now I’ve done a ton of

videos on thymine okay B1 but if you

haven’t seen this one that I’ve done at

my Summit you definitely need to check

it out it’s actually pretty good I put

it up right here