From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.

Um, um, um, um, um, um, moment of um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Maude Bailey, and I'm a grizzly bear.

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I don't want to brag, but I'm a little bit famous in this neck of the woods.

All my neighboring woodland pals come to me with their troubles, asking for advice.

I've gotten so many questions that I started a weekly newsletter.

Today, I'm sorting through all the questions I've gotten in the past few days.

Here's a note from Anony Mouse.

Do I know a mouse with that name?

Oh, Anonymous. I see what they did there. The note says,

Dear Maude Bailey, how do I prevent stinky mouse breath? I wake up every morning and my

breath smells like a bug crawled into my mouth and died. Yuck, what do I do? Oh dear, that does sound unpleasant. And it's not just something that

happens to mice. My friend Cole sent in this question to the smarties at Brains-on.

Hello, my name is Cole, and I am eight years old, and I am from Indianapolis, Indiana.

And my question is, why does you smell worse in the morning?

Well, I'm Dr. Michael Eggert.

I teach in the dental school at the University of Alberta.

My research is into bacteria and biofilms that bacteria make that grow in the mouth, particularly around the teeth.

When we sleep, we don't produce as much saliva as we do when we're awake. So things kind of

slow down in our mouth when we're sleeping.

That has implications for your mouth health in general, such as things like tooth decay.

But specifically, it means that when everything slows down, the bacteria that grow in our mouths,

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