WEBVTT - Bruxism: Grinding Your Teeth Is the Pits 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.000 Hey, everybody, it's Josh and Chuck your friends, and we 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.880 are here to tell you about our upcoming book that's 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.080 coming out this fall, the first ever Stuff you Should 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:12.160 Know book, Chuck. That's right. What's the cool, super cool 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:15.640 title we came up with. It's Stuff you Should Know colon, 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:20.439 an incomplete compendium of mostly interesting things. That's right, and 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.479 it's coming along so great. We're super excited, you guys. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:28.040 The illustrations are amazing, and there's the look of the book. 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.639 It's all just it's exactly what we hoped it would be. 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:32.440 And we cannot wait for you to get your hands 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.720 on it. Yes, we can't. Um, and you don't have 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.479 to wait. Actually, well you do have to wait, but 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.400 you don't have to wait to order. You can go 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.800 pre order the book right now everywhere you get books, 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:46.600 and you will eventually get a special gift for pre ordering, 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.400 which we're working on right now. That's right, So check 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.199 it out soon coming this fall. Welcome to Stuff you 0:00:53.200 --> 0:01:02.480 Should Know, a production of My Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Y, Hey, 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.119 and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark and there's 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:09.639 Charles W. Chuck Bryant speaking to me today through clenched teeth. 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:17.440 Jerry is off um doing who knows what, but she's here, 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.720 so this is stuff you should know. That's probably right. 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.800 She's ministering to the um those in need. Yeah, we 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.920 might as well call this episode, uh, the peek into 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:33.600 Chuck's private life. You're gonna have a lot of personal 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:37.840 stories about this. Yeah, okay, Okay, well, good while I'm 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:42.080 looking forward to that. Yes cha, I was just about 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.399 to say, Chuck your Brooks or b r u x 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:48.520 e er, which is a great word, um imprint at 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.400 least and Brooks are it's all right out loud too, 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.560 I guess. But um, I really don't think we can 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:59.000 start this episode any other way aside from how this 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:04.320 how stuff works article kicked it off. Okay, okay, go ahead, 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.760 So Chuck, when we're trying to figure out what bruck 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:13.640 is um is. No, it's not a strange new religion 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.120 or the latest exercise crazy to come out of l A. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.800 It's the complicated medical term for the simple act of 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:26.560 grinding your teeth in l All those wacky exercise trends, 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.600 I know, strange new religions with X is in the 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.639 middle of them that make you give them all your money. Yeah, 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.519 bruck is um uh, teeth grinding. I'm a tooth grinder, 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:40.160 so you've had like serious dental work from that, right? 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.840 And uh, did you grind? Because we should probably tell 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:49.240 everybody there's really two big categories of grinding teeth. One 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.120 is daytime grinding and the other is nighttime grinding. And 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.720 nighttime grinding is way more intense. So were you a 0:02:54.840 --> 0:03:00.840 nighttime grinder and currently both? Oh you still are? Oh yeah, okay? 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.639 And then, um, do you when you're a nighttime grinder 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:09.400 doing your grinding thing? Do you wake Emily up? Uh? No, 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:13.600 she sleeps pretty soundly, okay, because from what I understand, 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:18.560 it's it's not hard to actually wake the person sleeping 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.320 in bed with you up from grinding your teeth that loudly, 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.880 Like that's how that's how loud it gets from how 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.800 much pressure you're exerting on your poor teeth, That's what 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:33.120 I've heard. I've never recorded myself. I've thought about doing that. Yeah, 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:34.840 you know they have those apps I think that are 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.280 will trigger by sound or whatever to record. Sure, busy, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.960 I've got I need to get brouxy going, right. But 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:51.120 I am one of possibly of Americans that are bruxers, 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:55.080 they say, there's a lot of people. It was a 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.120 surprising amount to me. I did not think it was 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.720 going to be that high. Yeah, and I don't really 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:04.120 know if it's I only know my experience. And you know, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.360 when I was reading through this, it was just triggering 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.880 me all over the place because from grinding to nashing 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.320 to clinching to t m J and TMP like I've 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.280 got it all. Do you really have TMD? Because that 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.680 sounds really bad. Yeah, it's just I'm a mess. Yeah. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.680 Have you ever heard of getting botox for TMD? Now, 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:29.240 it's so, you know botox. It's from batulin and it 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:33.000 it um paralyzes the nerves temporarily, but for a really 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:37.200 long time, like months. Um. You get it in your jaw, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:42.680 uh and it relaxes the jaw muscles. Actually interesting. I 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.880 wonder while they're in there, I can get this cocoon 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:50.839 under my eyeball taken away. You you have a cocoon 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.919 under there? Yeah, it looks like a butterfly is about 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:57.279 to sprout from this sleeping badge under my eye. I 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.360 think it's as a lot of character. I don't think 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.520 you should change do anything like that. No, No, no, 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.720 I'm not worried about any cosmetic things. Good good, you're 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.240 looking good man, Thank you. I can't even see you, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:11.000 and I know you're looking good. Yeah, and well, you know, 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.560 we'll I'll chat about my experience throughout this. But I 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.400 do have I had been fitted for a a mouth guard, 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.880 which I do not wear and I should. Yeah. Yeah, no, 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.560 I mean that's there's a it's supposed to be kind 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.760 of helpful, but I also saw that it can actually 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:29.560 make you brocks. I guess that'd be the verb, right, 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:34.000 it makes you brucks more sometimes. Yeah, I mean, I 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.120 think the deal with the mouth guard is is it 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:40.080 just provides a barrier between your teeth, so it doesn't 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:44.080 stop you from grinding um or clinching or anything like that. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:50.480 But it's no there's no tooth on tooth the sexiest contact, right. 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:55.320 It's almost like um giving condoms to teenagers. It's been demonstrably, 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.800 irrefutably proven that it makes them have sex when they 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.120 otherwise wouldn't the same thing with a mouth guard. You 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.280 probably wouldn't even grind your teeth, but you put a 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.560 mouth guard on and you're gonna grind, you know. We 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.880 get an alarming amount of emails from people who don't 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.320 understand your I don't even know what you call it. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.520 It's not sarcasm humor. Sure, we can just throw it 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:21.240 under the well. No, I mean when you say something 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.960 and you're totally kidding, but you're just being deadpanned about it. 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:28.320 People by by that, Yeah, they catch on eventually, I think, 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.760 or they don't and they think you're a monster. So 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.440 let's let's get into this, okay. Because I didn't know 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.240 much about teeth grinding. I do grind teeth, but not 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.160 to a clinical degree. UM, So I didn't know quite 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.040 a lot of this. But I I came across this 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.800 article that was written by an n y U dental 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:52.680 student named Jordan's Mashkevich. No, yeah, Mashkevich, I think I 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.480 nailed it out of the park. Sounds like a dental 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.400 student from n y U if I've ever done. I 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.960 just came across this paper. I don't, I don't. I 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.320 don't remember what how I searched it, but um, anyway, 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.240 it had some really interesting stuff in there. And the 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:12.160 way that um possibly by now Dr Mashkevich put it 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:18.240 um that as we understand brucks is um it occurs. 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.480 It's cyclical, so it starts out and it follows a 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.840 distinct pattern, and then it kind of crests intensifies, and 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.680 then it wanes, it goes away, and then the cycle 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.880 eventually starts up again. And so that these these cycles 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:36.280 can happen in clusters. So your actual like attack of 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:40.360 brucks is um might only last somewhere in the neighborhood 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.080 of like four to fifteen seconds. I think that's on 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.000 the low end. But when you have a bunch of them, 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.440 these different attacks, these cyclical attacks, and a cluster, it 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.160 can add up to quite a bit over the course 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.160 of your your sleepy time. Yeah. I mean, if you're 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.960 grinding for fifteen seconds and then taking off six or 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.160 eight seconds and then grinding again, I don't I don't 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.280 know what the distinction is. You just take a little 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.880 little break, a little break. Yeah, your brain is like 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.520 this is too much even for me, because to me, 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.440 that's constantly grinding, right, So no, apparently that it doesn't. 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.560 It's like there's an increase in it and then it's 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.080 like gets really really bad and then it stops and 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:22.000 then it starts to slowly to to build again. I 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.840 think what makes it cyclical and building is that it's 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:29.320 also associated with an increase in heart rate and brain waves. Um, 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.199 and you're so you're grinding your teeth, your heart is 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.880 going faster, and your your brain is working over time, 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:37.640 and then I guess it all just kind of crests 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.560 and goes away for a little while. Yeah, and I 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.240 don't think we said the I mean, we'll talk about 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.520 all the reasons this can be pretty bad. But you're 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.800 exerting a lot of force, up to two d pounds 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.920 of pressure per square inch, and that is not like 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:55.640 even when you're chewing something super tough, for like saltwater 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.440 taffy or something, it's like ten times the force that 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:02.640 you use to chew food. Dude, saltwater taffy is so great. 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.360 You're a big fan. I really am a big fan. 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.400 And it's one of those things where as I've gotten older, 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.880 I've realized that some of this, like old time candy, 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:16.199 like Nugat just plain old Nugat great, like it was perfected, 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.280 Like we've perfected candy in a lot of ways a 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.760 long time ago, and you overlook it now just because 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:22.880 it's been around for so long in favor of like 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.320 you know, a watching McCall it or some kind of 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.800 go go candy bar today. But there and there's nothing 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.480 wrong with watching McCall it's probably my favorite modern candy bar. 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:36.240 But saltwater, taffy, nugat, stuff like that. It's it's it really. 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.360 It's been around for this long for a reason, I guess. Yeah, 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.160 you love the candies that you can get for a 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.720 nickel by reaching your hand into it. Well you can't 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.480 do that kind of thing anymore, but by reaching your 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.960 hand into a big germ bucket right full of discarded 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.880 candies from children. Sure, but but they're individually wrapped, so 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.520 I'm safe. You know, when a Little Bit Sweets used 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.160 to love us, They used to send us that Newgat. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.679 As a matter of fact, now that I think about it, 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.160 they're the people who introduced me to Newgat. Straight. Yeah, 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.800 it was one of those care packages of theirs. They 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:13.880 they introduced us to Newgat and Honeycomb candy. Yeah, why 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.880 don't they like us anymore? I don't know. I have 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:17.760 to get in touch with the Liz and be like, 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:23.880 what's up. Yeah, hint hint, Yeah, well we just did. 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.240 So you were saying two hundred pounds of pressure. I saw, 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:30.079 and that's per square inch. Um. I saw up to 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.360 two fifty pounds of pressure per square inch. That's about 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:37.240 ten to forty times what you would exert normally when 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.000 you're chewing. And as you can imagine, like your poor 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.720 teeth can only take so much. And it's not just 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.920 the pressure, it's the pressure combined with the grinding motion, 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.240 right that can really wear down the old enamel. I 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.160 saw something like ten times faster than somebody who doesn't 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.880 grind their teeth while they sleep. Yeah, So I mean 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:02.640 that introduces yet another problem. So not only will it 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:07.319 make your teeth, you know, wigglier and uh and just 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.439 they can crack, they can fracture, you can wear them 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.560 down to stumps. You get rid of that enamel, like 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.200 you said, and then you're you know, just ready to 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:22.360 get a cavity. Plus your nerves can be exposed. Oh god, 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.920 have you ever got a root canal? Uh? Shockingly no, 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:27.959 I have three fake teeth, but I've never had a 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.560 root canal. They are not fun. Yeah, and I still 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.480 don't even quite know what it is, to be honest, 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.880 I got So they go in and they actually remove 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.520 the nerve at the at the base of the tooth like. 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.640 It's just they can take the nerve out so you 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.760 don't have any sensation right there anymore, which is good 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:47.719 because by the time you need a root canal, you 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.559 don't want to ever feel anything ever of any kind. 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.440 And I got one once by this guy over in Brookhaven, 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:59.440 and he apparently is a master at root canals, because 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.440 every den I've been to since then, this is years ago, 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:07.080 has commented on like, what an amazing canal that guy did. Yeah, 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.360 you can tell years later, I guess so, yeah, because 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.360 I still get comments on it. Whenever I go to 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.400 a new dentist and they take X rays, they're like, Wow, 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.439 that's a really great root canal. It's not like the 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:18.720 guy in the grocery store parking lot that fixes your 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.440 dent when you shop. Not really, he doesn't do that 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.120 good of a job. I think the words root canal, 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.520 just the combination of those two words is probably a 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:33.640 top tenor for just most loathed combinations of words. That moist, 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.400 well that's just one word. Oh combination of words um, 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:44.319 moist anything, yeah, moist, underline, moist size, how about that? 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:50.200 That's pretty bag Uh. They did a little survey with 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:54.280 the Chicago Dental Society, which is a real swinging club, 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:59.120 and they found six of those dentists said that they 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.200 are hearing about all clenching being sort of an increasing thing. 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:06.120 I don't know when this was written, but um, apparently 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.360 it's bruxism is on the rise, as is stress. Right, 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.840 that's what they're saying. That they correlate it to stress 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.400 and adults, and they think that it's basically as simple 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.559 as that. There's a lot of other things that can 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:20.160 cause bruxism, as we'll see, but stress seems to be 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.520 the number one driver of teeth grinding in grown ups. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.720 And as stress increases in our modern watchuma call it 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:33.280 type world. Um, bruxism is increasing as well, which is sad. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.360 But at the same time, it's also like, okay, well 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.040 then there's real hope for this. It's not like you 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:41.120 have some biological short circuit in your brain that you'd 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.360 have to go get like mot of surgery to cure, 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:49.600 to correct or cure. You're just riddled with anxiety, right exactly. Uh, 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.680 And I don't think we've officially pointed out or maybe 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.079 you did, that grinding is that back and forth motion 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.720 and clinching is just sort of just locking your teeth 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.720 together and you know, as if you're biting on ah 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:06.600 irresistible saltwater taffy, so with clinching too. That seems to 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:11.319 be more associated with daytime bruxism than nighttime bruxism. And 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:15.160 the other thing about daytime bruxism, so bruxism is considered 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.319 a para functional habit is what it's called, like um, 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.880 chewing on pen caps or biting your fingernails or something 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.240 like that. It's like it doesn't serve a good purpose 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:28.200 for like you're you're not breathing or eating or drinking, 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.480 so you're doing other stuff with your mouth. That makes 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.840 it a para functional habit. But the thing about it 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:37.120 is during the daytime, it's unconscious whether you're you're doing 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.880 nighttime bruxism or daytime bruxism. But in the day you 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:41.600 can stop and be like, oh, I'm clenching my teeth 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:45.280 and stop yourself from doing it, so it's involuntary, but 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:49.760 it's also unconscious. When you're asleep, you're probably not going 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:53.360 to wake yourself up, so you're going full bore. Yeah, 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.480 And you know, I try and catch myself during the 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.280 day when I clinch, and I find it happens a lot. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.640 What I've started doing. I don't know if it was 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:05.920 a conscious effort or not, but I've started widening my 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.360 tongue between my teeth. Kind of not at all times, 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.520 but a lot of the time if my mouth is shut, 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:17.360 I have my my tongue in between my teeth. I 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.080 got to prevent that, like in the front or on 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.240 the side, kind of all over. Man, So you're just 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.880 kind of constantly moving it. No, I just you know, 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:30.440 you fatten that tongue out and it are you doing it? 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.720 That's quite a talent. No, I can't do it. I'm 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.880 impressed really with your tongue. Look, oh yeah, I guess 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.360 I can't. I can, And I should point out to that. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.520 You know, the history of my fake teeth are well 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.080 chronicled on the show, and I've talked about why. But 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.240 it's not just from grinding like I've always been in 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.800 my fingernails and that pressure forward you know, on the 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.360 front of your teeth is no good. And I've got 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.880 shallow roots and sort of a host of things that 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.320 kind of led to those those teeth not working out 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.040 for me. Let me let me ask you this Um, 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.760 where either of your parents bruxers? I don't know, and 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.280 and I just I don't know. I don't I don't 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.960 care to ask at this point. I couldn't want to 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.920 bring it up. I mean, maybe I could, but it's 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.080 not like that would satisfy me in any way. Well, 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.240 the thing is they think that it's an inherited trait 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.640 because apparently your chances of broux ing are way higher 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.960 if your parents are bruxers. But like, do I need 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:28.000 one more thing to blame on my parents? Right? Exactly? Old, 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.720 that's right, So just just chalk it up to the 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.760 fact that you're a young woman who smokes. That's where 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.520 you got it from. Because women are three times more 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.600 likely to Brooks, and smokers are five times more likely 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:45.800 to Brooks. Right, Smokers people who drink heavily UM, and 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:50.960 a lot of that they attribute to dehydration. And here's 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.520 the thing. This one is what reveals the weirdness of 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.320 all this to me. So your body becomes dehydrated um 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:01.560 for whatever reason, and when you're dehydrated, a whole cascade 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:06.639 of stressors just kind of take place in your body. Right. Um. 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:10.040 It can trigger allergies and can trigger inflammation. It's just 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.680 not a good jam for your body to be dehydrated. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.080 The thing is is what your body does in response 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.520 is make you grind your teeth, like they've shown, like 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.919 you grind your teeth more when you're dehydrated. But like 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.119 I was saying, that raises the big basic question that 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:31.920 I've never seen anybody answer. Um, like why why? Why 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.199 would you grind your teeth? What kind of a weird 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:38.920 physiological response is that two things like stress, whether emotional 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.359 stress or physical stress. It's a very bizarre thing for 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.199 your body to be like, oh, que the cue the 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.080 teeth grinding, let's get rid of some of the stress. Well, 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.119 I don't know. I mean, I think you could file 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:51.959 all of the things I'm about to say under that 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.320 same weird category of why. But the same reason you 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.480 might tap your foot when you're nervous, or the same 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.879 reason you might clench your fist if you have anxiety. Um, 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:06.280 I think they're just your body's responses to anxiety. They 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.680 come out in these little weird physical ticks. Yeah, I mean, 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:11.800 and then that makes sense. But to me, they're still 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.600 like you can still keep walking back to you know, 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:18.080 why teeth grinding? Why why clenched fits? Like, what do 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.639 we get from it? The closest I've seen to an 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.720 explanation is it's a stress reliever. And I get that. 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.720 But again, like, maybe my question is where along the 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:31.080 way in our evolutionary history did teeth grinding become the 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:36.680 response rather than like, you know, blinking um in an 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:40.160 alternating sequence really fast? You know, like why teeth grinding? 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:44.440 Because ultimately grinding your teeth produces more tension and more 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.560 stress concentrated in your jaw. It doesn't get rid of it, 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:51.560 It just basically concentrates it into one painful area. Yeah, 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:55.080 I mean, one might say that one reason is because 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.600 it's a silent form of releasing that anxiety. It's something 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:00.680 you can do in a business meeting, something you can 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:04.560 do in church or wherever you might feel really stressed out. 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.359 You can't do primal screen therapy in the middle of 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.280 a tense meeting. Um. But I know what you mean. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.479 You're a man of science. You want to know the 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.520 pathways of satisfaction that are that are happening there. I 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:19.880 think yes, because that is the pathway to my satisfaction understanding. 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:23.960 Should we take a break? Yes? All right? I'm gonna 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.120 go grind for thirty seconds and we'll be right back. 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:58.000 Oh how you feeling now? That was great? So it 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.160 was a stress reliever for you. I'm not stressed right now. 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:05.800 Well except for everything in my life that's super stressful. Yeah, 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.320 we got a lot going on, lot going on. We 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:12.440 have a book that we're working on. Yeah, that's has 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.080 at times been stressful. It has, but it also has 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.600 been fun. Like I'm really proud of how it's coming together. No, 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:21.119 it's great, it's fun, but it's uh, it's like, hey, 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.560 you're all working from home now with a five year old, 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:26.159 so you have half as much time and twice as 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:30.480 much work. Enjoy it. This will be a fun process. 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:35.400 But no, we're coming up on the The finish line 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:37.640 is in sight. Yeah, for sure. And it's been more 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.680 fun lately for me, which is good. Good. I'm glad. 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:46.359 And what's that book called? Oh oh are we plugging in? Um? 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.840 It's called Stuff you should Know, Cole, And you always 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.199 make me say that Part two an incomplete compendium of 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.280 mostly interesting things. That's right. And you can pre order 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:58.760 now and you get a little pre order gift and 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:00.720 if you have questions of out whether or not you 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.399 get a pre order gift with the audio book, or 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:05.600 whether where you can get as signed edition. We're trying 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.080 to get answers to that stuff. We're new at this, Yeah, 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:14.080 we're brand new. Yeah we're green, we're green authors. Yes. Um. Okay, 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:16.679 So we were talking about some of the things that 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.800 cause bruck is um that they've definitely shown, and again, 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.120 no one has ever explained why bruck is um, just 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:27.280 how bruxism I guess, yeah, Like any kind of sleep 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:29.800 disturbance can do it. I mean there's you know, we 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:33.240 already talked about anxiety and stress, that's sort of that 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:36.680 seems to be the go to for doctors. But any 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:40.359 kind of sleep disturbance, if you are on some weird 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:43.600 bed in a hotel that is uncomfortable to you, that 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:46.119 might cause you to to clench up during your sleep. 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:49.800 Weird things like that. Yeah, if your bite doesn't form 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:56.040 um symmetrically, I guess is the word to you? You actually, 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:59.520 So that's called malclusion. And there's all sorts of stuff. 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:01.040 I didn't really as this, but there's all sorts of 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:06.040 stuff to correct it, including shortening your jaw, which I'm like, Okay, 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:08.080 we don't have hover cars, but we have surgery that 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:13.159 can shorten somebody's jaw. I'm impressed. Right, Um, did you 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:17.400 get that done? No? I considered having surgery at one 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:20.199 point where they break your jaw and realign it and 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:24.320 then wire it shut. Um, but there was never a 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:26.960 great time to do it because I have a job 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:30.159 where I run my mouth for a living, right uh, 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:31.680 And it just I don't know, it got to the 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:33.320 point where I got to a certain age Ross like 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:35.280 you know what, I just don't think I want that surgery. 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:38.960 I'll live with my misaligned jaw and my t MJ 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:41.800 and my TMD. Man. I hope you get the last 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:47.200 part worked out. Thanks, so um, maybe it'll just magically 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:50.560 clear up when we're not podcasting any longer. Well, you 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:55.359 never know, so uh, I remember you talking about getting 0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:57.200 a surgery, and that kind of jogged my memory. I 0:22:57.240 --> 0:22:58.880 didn't I didn't know you ever got it. But yeah, 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:02.159 you probably couldn't wire your jaws shut, just fling just 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:07.439 then you'd see you go. Should we talk work? Yeah, 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:09.440 it would be kind of weird. Now people don't want 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:12.399 to hear that for like sixty eight weeks or whatever 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:16.280 it is, right, man, the soup though. Yeah, it probably 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:19.199 dropped the good wait, drink it to a straw. Yeah, 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:21.320