I want 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 dots. And not knowing how to deal with this can definitely lead to excessive wearing of

your 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 chewing your food.

And of course, the term rhythmic means 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 start 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 impulse 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

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