Why is my mouth so dry when i sleep
Why does my mouth get dry when I sleep?
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when you sleep at night your brain knows
you'll not be eating at the same time so
in order to conserve energy your brain
shuts down saliva production that's a
problem when it comes to dry mouth as
well as fresh breath because saliva is
nature's way of keeping your breath
fresh saliva has oxygen compounds in it
oxygen is the natural enemy of the
anaerobic bacteria so for the seven or
eight hours that you're sleeping you
actually have no natural protection
against bad breath so you wake up in the
morning and out comes the dragon we
actually did a research study several
years ago here in our clinic in Los
Angeles and we had about a hundred
people show up in their pajamas and
nightgowns and we had them use the
TheraBreath formulas and we used a
machine called a Halla meter which
measures bad breath and the reason we
had to muse the therapists formulas they
contain oxygen compounds oxygen
compounds do a couple of things number
one is they stimulate saliva so it makes
the mouth very moist which is important
and the oxygen compounds are also
antibacterial and sure enough twelve and
a half hours later we tested the
people's breath and their saliva levels
and they all had fresh breath they were
kissable and whatever about twelve and a
half hours later and that's one way to
make sure your mouth is very moist when
you wake up in the morning and kissable