One of the biggest reasons saliva shuts down is medication burden. Blood pressure pills, antidepressants, allergy drugs, bladder medications, sleep aids, and several others can stack together and squeeze saliva production until the mouth runs dry.
The supplement industry would go bankrupt if people knew how often the problem is not a fancy fix, but the combination of ordinary prescriptions quietly drying the system out.
Think of your glands like a row of faucets in an old house. One closed faucet is manageable, but
once several handles are turned at the same time, the pressure drops and the whole kitchen loses flow.
