You're in Bed by Ten and Train Hard — So Why the Dry Mouth and No Energy? | Ep. 196

Man In Your Corner with Shaun Tucker · Aug 23, 2026 · 6m

You're in bed by ten. You train hard. Your sleep hygiene is dialled — no blue light, no phone in the night, the whole ritual. And you still wake up with a dry mouth, feeling like you've hardly rested. This one's about an undervalued piece of information hiding in that dry mouth: it's a pretty good indicator you've been mouth breathing overnight — and mouth breathing is a symptom of a system that couldn't relax enough to drop into deep, recovering sleep.What you'll take away:Why a dry mouth in the morning is a signal, not a nothing — usually pointing to overnight mouth breathing, maybe…