No More Sleepless Nights: The Ultimate Cure for Waking Up to Pee at Night (Nocturia)
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, we’re going to look at the causes of nocturia and the best natural solutions. Nocturia is the urge to urinate at night when you should be sleeping, and it can interfere with your ability to get a good night’s sleep.
Nocturia is usually said to be caused by a bladder infection, a kidney infection, prostate issues, or aging.
People with nocturia are not typically urinating a full bladder of urine. This means there must be an issue with the sensors in the bladder or the valve of the bladder.
If there’s too much sugar in the blood, a phenomenon known as osmotic diuresis can occur. This causes excess sugar and water to be excreted, which is why diabetics and people who are obese are at an increased risk for nocturia. If you have sleep apnea, you are also at an increased risk for nocturia.
Insulin resistance is the leading cause of obesity, diabetes, and sleep apnea, all of which lead to nocturia. Research has shown that insulin resistance itself can cause nocturia.
The best way to address nocturia is to fix insulin resistance. To do this, stop snacking at night and work towards eliminating snacking altogether. Cut down your carb intake to less than 30 grams per day and do intermittent fasting. To speed things up, try consuming one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water before meals and exercise regularly.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you fed up with using the bathroom several times a night? |
| 0:03.2 | Let's talk about nocturia, urinating at night when you should be sleeping. |
| 0:07.4 | It can drive people crazy. It can be a real pain on the butt because it interferes with your sleep. So I'm going to show you a very commonly overlooked cause to nocteria and you're going to be very excited to hear what I'm going to say about this because finally you're |
| 0:23.7 | going to find something that really works. |
| 0:25.6 | You're trying to get solutions, you go online, the first page you're going to see Cleveland Clinic, |
| 0:32.3 | WebMD, Medline Plus, all these credible authority sites, the same |
| 0:39.0 | information. |
| 0:40.3 | And they all say it's a normal part of aging which really is absolutely not true and they all recommend medications but some of them have alternatives right they have alternatives they'll say well you know you might want to try an herb but |
| 0:54.0 | there's no evidence and they could be dangerous and herbs are not regulated by |
| 1:00.0 | the FDA the safety of drugs are regulated by the FDA. Well I guess after the FDA finds |
| 1:06.8 | that it's safe pretty much stays in the market right? I mean we don't have recalls |
| 1:10.8 | we don't have drugs that end up being very harmful. I am being very sarcastic. |
| 1:16.7 | There is an analysis in 2011 on adverse drug reactions, okay? |
| 1:24.0 | In the US alone, 2.1 million serious injuries, |
| 1:28.8 | 128,000 deaths from drugs. But drugs are regulated by the FDA. I mean how many people do you |
| 1:35.9 | know that died from an herb or had a lot of serious reactions from herbs? Is it very |
| 1:40.4 | common? That being said, the information on bacteria, they usually say it's a bladder |
| 1:45.6 | infection, could be a kidney infection, could be a prostate enlargement, but what's fascinating |
| 1:50.7 | is there's one thing that is not listed on any of these sites. |
| 1:55.8 | Okay, so just envision what the kidneys are. |
| 1:59.4 | The kidneys are a filter and they filter blood. |
| 2:02.0 | And what controls this filtration rate as well as the production |
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