Do you suddenly wake at night feeling the need to “go pee”? It’s called nocturia, and the reason it happens isn’t the one you’ve been told.
Mainstream medicine insists that you have too much testosterone, therefore your prostate is enlarged, and therefore you feel the need to urinate often at night.
But if that were true, why on earth would your testosterone decrease with age, and urination frequency increase? It should decrease with testosterone decrease. But that’s not what happens.
Further, Dr. Eric Berg, DC, says that “when you actually treat an enlarged prostate, this symptom (frequent nighttime urination) rarely goes away.”
Therefore it’s likely not your prostate that causes you to need to urinate frequently at night.
Sure, if you drink a lot of fluids before bed you will have to urinate. That’s a given. But aside from that, it’s actually one of your body’s master hormones — insulin — that controls this process.
The journal Nutrition and Metabolic Insights indeed found that it was insulin dysfunction causing enlargement of the prostate, and BPH. In fact as we age we seem to get insulin resistant, causing excess weight gain and diminished testosterone, not the other way around
Dr. Berg adds that diabetics always have problems with frequent urination. Scientists looked at the problem of nocturia and discovered that people with large waist circumferences were much more likely to have the condition. This led them to conclude that it’s metabolic syndrome — in other words, insulin dysfunction — that is mostly responsible.
When scientists looked at dogs (whose microbiomes are much more similar to humans than pigs or mice, for example) and injected them with insulin, they started outputting significant amounts of urine.
Here’s another important piece of information you are not told: Insulin inhibits the adrenal hormones that help you retain fluid, and hold your urine in. Meaning you’re going to release a lot of urine when you have high insulin.
Another clue we can look at is the fact that high levels of insulin are always found in people who have “overactive bladder syndrome.” Of course the Pharmaceuticals developed a drug for this, as you have probably seen in TV commercials, but it’s likely not necessary. Proper insulin function would solve that issue as well.
Of course the Pharmaceuticals don’t say much about insulin because any honest insulin studies lead to the realization that insulin is not about drugs, or “diabetes,” it’s about almost all diseases, including heart disease, high blood pressure, BPH, and even an overactive bladder, among other things.
Life is just not worth living like a slave to the pharma state. Therefore we need to be sure that we erase the causes of high insulin at night, which is almost always either drinking sugary drinks or snacking too soon before you go to sleep. Even eating a low-carb snack still raises insulin a bit.
If you urinate frequently at night, the most extreme fix for high insulin at night would be to not eat or drink anything after 6:30 p.m.
You thought “old people” eating dinner at 4:30 were just being old fuddy duddys with nothing else to do? No, it’s their instinct telling them to be finished eating before it’s too late.
For most of us, 6:30 seems a bit too early, in which case you will need to push your bedtime back and leave quite a bit of time between your meal and your bedtime — at least until you stop urinating so frequently.
Yes, it’s really as simple as that. Stop snacking at night, and stop drinking too much, especially sugary drinks, and you will experience much fewer and possibly zero episodes of nocturia.
The real goal of any health-seeking individual should be to lower insulin. That means you want to raise your body’s sensitivity to the natural release of insulin, which breaks down blood sugar, so that you don’t need to produce much of it.
If the American people had a mindset for lower insulin equal to the current mind quest for statin drugs (cholesterol drugs), there would be no medical cartel in America, certainly, but imagine our good health without the need for medicine.
If you have blood sugar problems, then you should fear the drugs more than the “disease” of diabetes.
