What Happens While You Sleep
00:00:00.000 | saliva is essentially continually buffering the pH in your mouth.
00:00:04.280 | The gut can buffer itself a lot easier because it's inside.
00:00:06.960 | But when you're right in front of the outside world and your mouth is open for six, seven,
00:00:12.700 | eight hours at night, and saliva flow rate drops off anyway at night, even if your mouth
00:00:17.440 | is closed, a saliva gland shut down if you're in deep sleep, that's part of the restorative
00:00:21.800 | process.
00:00:22.400 | And again, saliva isn't really needed.
00:00:24.280 | Your tongue is not moving if you're in REM sleep.
00:00:26.580 | There's not much washing and cleaning going on.
00:00:29.980 | Think of a spin washer, a clothes washer with the impeller, and it's not going to clean the
00:00:34.960 | dirt and do what it's supposed to do if it's not spinning and moving and if there isn't
00:00:39.720 | enough water in there.
00:00:40.660 | Essentially what it does is it allows the bad bugs to proliferate and do more damage.
00:00:46.340 | It also drops the pH in the mouth so that you're demineralizing quicker than you are remineralizing.
00:00:51.600 | Again, you need a optimal pH for that fixing, that equilibrium to work.