Dr. Sanjay Gupta

You know, for a lot of people, there's different reasons for it.

But one thing I would say is the numbers have gone up pretty significantly over the last couple of decades.

Why would that be?

We're not eating different foods necessarily.

Like why would our jaws be hurting a lot more?

And I think it goes back to many of the same things that are driving a lot of disease in our country.

Again, you think of heart disease, you think I'm eating too much meat.

Yeah, maybe to some extent, but there's also the stress that you live in.

People who are socially isolated have more heart disease.

What's the relationship there?

Even if they're healthy eaters, we find that isolation triggers pain centers in the brain.

My point being that there's lots of things that could be sort of driving the TMJ and many of the ills of our society.

are the same things that are driving chronic disease drive chronic pain.

So getting to the root cause, you clearly had some root causes with regard to the amount of stress and everything else in your life.

I don't know if you saw someone who's a specialist to deal with that part of your life

Maybe you did.

But if you did, the idea that you're doing it because you want to fix your jaw, right?

I want to fix my pain.

So I'm seeing a psychologist.

Yeah.