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If your still grinding your teeth a lot look into increasing your Magnesium intake (either through food or supliments). It completely eliminated my nightly grinding

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Oh wow, I never thought about that! I tend to only take Magnesium supplements when I suffer from leg cramps, after working out too much.

I don't know how it would stop the grinding, but it, sure enough, sounds like it would help with the tension headaches I get when my neck muscles tense up/cramp up from all the grinding.

Thank you very much for suggesting this, if this actually stops the grinding too then you've just given me some serious increase in quality of life!

No problem and hope it helps! And yeah, the grinding, in my experience, is very closely related to muscle tension in general. From my research Mg and Zn tend to help by improving nerve function. Another helpful compound I've found is L-Theanine, especially if you drink coffee as I do. It's found in tea and seems to mitigate some of the stress/tension effects of Caffeine.

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