Dr. Katie To says snoring, teeth grinding, waking tired, and dry mouth aren't normal. They signal your nose isn't working right and your body is compensating by mouth breathing. Stop accepting these as inevitable and get your nasal breathing checked.
they normalize it and not looking deeper, and that's the problem. If you snore, you have a problem. If you grind your teeth, you have a problem. If you wake up tired after 7 hours, you have a problem. If you wake up and your mouth feel dry, you have a problem. If you breathe through your mouth but not your nose at night, you also have a problem. And by the way, people that breathe through their mouth and not their nose have bad breath. And the first thing I check is like, can you breathe through your nose? Because people that cannot breathe through their nose and not get enough oxygen through their nose will have to breathe through their mouth to compensate for that oxygen deficiency. People normalize snoring, grinding teeth, tired. Oh, everyone tired these days. People normalize dry mouth. Oh, you get older, you get dry everything. They normalize it and not looking deeper. And that's the problem.
