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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

If You're Waking Up to Pee, It's Not Your Bladder

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Nocturia, or frequent nighttime urination, destroys sleep, which can create a cascade of health issues. Discover how to sleep better and resolve your nighttime urination problems for good by addressing the root cause.



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0:00 Why do I wake up to pee at night?

0:27 Sleep disruption pee

1:57 Waking up to pee causes

5:48 Avoiding frequent urination at night

7:05 How to sleep better


If you’re dealing with frequent urination at night, the problem is not your bladder. Waking up to pee, even just once, can wreck your sleep and wreak havoc on your health.


Some of the consequences of poor sleep are as follows:

• Slower metabolism

• Increased cortisol

• Increased risk of type 2 diabetes

• Insulin resistance

• Increased risk of high blood pressure

• Decreased ability to detoxify the brain

• Poor mood, anxiety, and depression

• Decreased cognitive function, focus, and memory

• Lower testosterone

• Feeling tired all day



Approximately 1 in 5 men and 1 in 4 women in the U.S. get up at least once or twice to urinate every night, and aging is not the problem!


Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) plays a crucial role in preventing excessive urination. A problem with this hormone affects water balance, causing you to produce more urine, especially at night. Too much salt and not enough potassium, blood sugar issues, and insulin resistance all affect ADH and can cause you to produce more urine to eliminate excess salt and sugar.


Other factors that affect ADH include:


• Caffeine

• Sugar/starch

• Excess protein

• Alcohol



Vitamin B1 and magnesium are key nutrients involved with bladder control. If you’re dealing with nighttime urination and only a small volume of urine comes out, suspect a deficiency in one of these nutrients.


To sleep better and reduce frequent urination at night, try the following tips: • Avoid alcohol


• No fluids 3 hours before bed

• Pre-load fluids in the earlier part of the day

• Avoid snacks and salty foods before bed

• Increase potassium intake early in the day

• Reduce caffeine intake

• No snacking/reduce carbs and sugar

• Avoid large amounts of protein at night

• Increase vitamin B1 and magnesium



Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:

Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals and author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.


Disclaimer:

Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients, so he can focus on educating people as a full-time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose, and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, prescription, or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you wake up to pee at night, it's not your bladder. It's something completely different.

0:05.1

How many times did you wake up last night to pee once, twice, more than that? So many people

0:10.8

that get up through the night think that they have a prostate problem or a weak bladder. Well,

0:16.3

you're going to learn today. It has nothing to do with that. And if you get up, even once a night, you're going to be

0:21.4

extremely happy that you watch this video, because I'm going to show you how to fix it very

0:26.2

quickly. Because the real big problem is not the peeing at night. It's what it does to your sleep.

0:33.0

It literally will destroy your sleep. And with poor sleep, that gives you a cascade of a lot of other

0:40.2

problems, including affecting your metabolism, your ability to lose weight. It will raise your cortisol

0:46.8

if you're not sleeping. You know, put your risk for type 2 diabetes and give you something called

0:51.9

insulin resistance, which creates a lot of other issues

0:55.4

related to blood sugar. It will increase your risk of high blood pressure, make your arteries

1:00.8

more stiff, give you more visceral fat because of the cortisol. It'll keep you in a hunger

1:07.5

mode wanting to snack through the day. Also not sleeping affects your ability to

1:12.9

detoxify your brain. That's why you wake up with brain fog. I had that really bad. Your mood

1:19.5

goes down. Anxiety, depression, your cognitive function, focus, memory, concentration, all are affected if you're not sleeping.

1:29.6

Not to mention low testosterone.

1:31.9

And of course, you're going to be tired all day long because you're not sleeping.

1:35.2

There are cultures where there's people that live well into their 80s and even 90s,

1:39.6

and they sleep through the entire night.

1:41.5

They're not getting up at all.

1:43.0

Yet in certain countries, especially in the U.S, one in five men and one in four women get up at least once or twice to urinate every single night, which is crazy. So aging is not the problem. There's several other things that I'm gonna show you that are the problem. So the first thing you need to know is there's a hormone involved. Maybe you've

2:02.1

never heard about this hormone, and I'm not going to get into it too deep, but it's called the

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