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Today, I'm going to show you how to stop nighttime urination. It is not hard to fix this problem if you know the underlying root cause. The biggest mistake, or problem, with people with urinary frequency, especially at night, is that they don't know that 95% of the time it's this other thing over here. And if you don't fix that, you're not going to see results.
I did another video on this topic a while ago. I'll put the link down below. I had 10 million views. This is an upgrade of that video, but if you read the comments on that video, it's amazing; like, people are getting results all over the place. Let me tell you what doesn't work: thinking that your prostate is the primary problem. So many people either take medications or natural things for the prostate; it doesn't really change the frequency of their urination at night. Sometimes people will say, "Well, it's a urinary tract infection, or it's kidney stones, or it's this or that." Yeah, it might be, but there's something way more common. The number one most common problem with urinary frequency at night is too much insulin in your blood.
There's a condition called insulin resistance, which is a situation where your body's receptors are not absorbing insulin, and then the body has to compensate by sending signals to the pancreas to tell it to produce more insulin. There's a super high percentage of diabetics that have a problem getting up at night and urinating very frequently. If you do have high blood sugar, what's going to happen is wherever the sugar goes, the water is going to go. Any time the sugar is high, the body's going to get rid of it through the kidneys because it's considered toxic, and you're going to pee out more frequently. It's called polyuria, which basically means you're urinating very frequently. Insulin resistance causes an overactive bladder, even if your blood sugar is normal. There are experiments with dogs that they injected with insulin, and there's a high correlation with them urinating more frequently at night. Urinary frequency at night is an early sign that you have insulin resistance, which is a precursor to diabetes. Insulin resistance causes your kidney to filter out things more frequently, puts more stress on the kidney. This is why the main cause of most kidney disease comes from diabetes. Also, insulin resistance causes electrolyte imbalances; it affects blood pressure at night; and insulin resistance increases cortisol, which can also increase urination. Insulin resistance in a female now weakens the floor of your bladder and the pelvic muscles. Insulin resistance also creates a magnesium deficiency, which can aggravate this whole problem because you lose control of all these smooth muscles.
The other interesting thing about insulin resistance is what it does to testosterone: it lowers testosterone. Some people that are treated with testosterone replacement therapy improve their bladder and their symptoms of excessive urination at night. As we get older and our testosterone goes down, people typically have more problems with their bladder and their control of urine, especially at night. And what's interesting is when people take testosterone replacement therapy, they actually can also improve insulin resistance. What would cause you to have more insulin resistance at night? If you guessed snacking at night, you are correct. That is the single number one damaging thing to your urination problem out of everything. When I'm talking about snacking, I'm talking about snacking on something like this right here, or even this right here. Even if you snacked on something healthy, that can also increase your insulin. So I'm going to highly recommend that you eliminate all snacks after your dinner. Don't drink anything after that period of time because not only does refined carbohydrates and sugar cause insulin resistance, but it's also just eating in general will raise insulin. These snacks also cause bloating before bed; they interrupt your sleep. Here's another problem with this: when you don't sleep because you're getting up and peeing every few hours, that lack of sleep then raises your cortisol; it will mess up your blood sugar to the point where it's going to cause you to crave more of the snacks at night.
In between meals, also a lot of times people snack because they're tired or bored or just out of a habit. As a first step, if it's impossible to stop snacking, at least snack on something that's a little healthier, like blueberries or maybe strawberries or celery or even a grapefruit. But it's best if you snack on nothing and just get in the habit of not snacking. One of the smartest things to do is not to buy any more snack foods because if this is sitting in the pantry and it's calling your name because you're watching TV and you're seeing these commercials, it can just trigger this: "I'm just going to let me just have one," and then one turns into two and three and four, and before you know it you ate the whole bag. When you're on a low-salt diet, you could also have a problem with urination at night just from the fact that what sodium does to your fluid: it helps you retain fluid. You do need a certain amount of salt in the diet. Also, some people are snacking because they're craving salt; it could be that you just need to add more salt to your meal through the day so you won't have that craving. When you have enough salt, your cortisol stays down. People that have a salt deficiency usually have higher cortisol, and it affects their sleep. Just make sure you have enough salt; sea salt, healthy sea salt. I like the Himalayan sea salt, but there's other types of sea salt that you can consume.
I talked about not snacking at night, but I also have to recommend, through the day, go on a low-carb diet; don't consume over 30 grams of carbohydrates. Why? Because this will make a huge difference in your insulin resistance. Yes, I'm talking about getting on the healthy version of the ketogenic diet, and I will put a link down below of exactly what that means. But equally as important is intermittent fasting: starting with three meals, no snacks, especially not snacking at night, and then going down to two meals; skip your breakfast, have a lunch and a dinner, no snacking in between. Don't worry about your calories; eat until you're really satisfied. You have to break this habit of snacking. I'm telling you this will work; it's worth it to do it. You'll be able to sleep through the night; you'll feel great in the morning; you'll have more energy; you'll have less cravings. When you sleep better, even adding 30 more minutes to your sleep is massive as far as health benefits. I did a video on this, and it's just incredible for your heart, for your blood sugars, for your stress level, for your energy, for your cognitive function, for your uh creativity, solving problems; it's massive.
One last thing I'm going to recommend: make sure you have enough vitamin D. Vitamin D can help insulin problems, insulin resistance; it's very, very effective to that. Also, it can help with your sleep cycles. Also make sure when you get vitamin D, you add it with magnesium; both of those together will greatly help your sleep. And I'll give you the details of how much to take below in the description. But if you really want to know what you should be eating, I put that video up right here; check it out.