Excessive Urination at Night

Is nocturia causing too much discomfort in your everyday life? Keep reading to let me share with you how to handle excess urination at night and its connection to diabetes.

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In this article:

1. What Is Diabetes Insipidus?
2. What Is Diabetes Mellitus?
3. What Is Fat Storing Hormone Resistance?
4. How to Avoid Nocturia Naturally
5. Try These Natural Ways to Get Rid of Nocturia to See Results

Everything You Need to Know About Nocturia

Nocturia Definition: A situation where a person urinates excessively at night.

What Is Diabetes Insipidus?

Before I talk about how to stop nocturia, let me give you a little background first. There are two conditions I want to talk about. One is diabetes insipidus, which is a type of diabetes that blocks a certain hormone, antidiuretic hormone. This hormone is responsible for controlling the retention of urine or fluid in your body. The blockage of this hormone causes you to dump all your fluids out of your body. This type of diabetes causes you to crave a lot of cold water as well, which makes you urinate tremendously at night, resulting in an overactive bladder.

What Is Diabetes Mellitus?

The second one I want to talk about is a condition called diabetes mellitus. This is characterized by high sugar in the blood. What happens in this condition is it spills sugar over into the kidneys and your urine, and wherever sugar goes, water follows.

Your urinary tract gets productive because you’re going to need to urinate more. This is because of having more sugar in the urine. It's the same thing when you are not a diabetic person, and you crave and eat sugar. You are still going to hold a lot of fluid, and that is water retention.

There is a bunch of prediabetic states, so I’m not saying diabetes insipidus and diabetes mellitus are just for diabetic men and women. There is a gradient scale from hardcore diabetes to a prediabetes situation so it happens one step at a time. A lot of older adults have prediabetes, and they don't even know it because this disease occurs gradually over time.

What Is Fat Storing Hormone Resistance?

There is a condition called Fat Storing Hormone resistance, which is a prediabetic state. It is where the cells in your body do not respond appropriately to Fat Storing Hormone. This hinders the process of taking glucose to be used as fuel. This means glucose can build up in the blood, leading to high sugar levels, and that is just a problem with Fat Storing Hormone. People with Fat Storing Hormone resistance develop diabetes over time. They are going to have problems with fluid and urine volume in general as well, and their bladder capacity can increase.

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How to Avoid Nocturia Naturally

I found that if you can correct that prediabetic state, it can greatly help with your nocturia problem. Even the derivation of the word diabetes comes from the word that describes urine passing through a siphon or a tube. The word indicates too much urination or urine output, which is interesting. There are a few things or natural medications you need to do or take to avoid excessive urination at night.

1. Cut Out Sugar Intake

The first thing you need to consider doing is cutting out sugar from your diet. You can start doing this by reading labels on the products you purchase. If it has even 1 g of sugar, then don't get it. Try to get those with zero sugar or only containing less than a gram. This also includes cutting out fruits, juices, alcohol, and hidden sugars in the grains (like bread). You need to eliminate them as much as possible because they are going to aggravate the problem with Fat Storing Hormone.

2. Don’t Snack Between Meals

Snacking should not be in your meal plan. Even if your snacks are healthy, snacking still increases Fat Storing Hormone levels. What we want to do is lower Fat Storing Hormone levels in your body. People with a prediabetes condition have resting Fat Storing Hormone of five to seven times greater than those without it.

If you are not snacking and you're hungry, you need to add more fat to your meals. Fat is the only thing that won’t trigger Fat Storing Hormone too much. You can have Brie cheese, peanut butter, avocado, olives, and coconut oil. Get those healthy fats that allow you to stay full longer, enough to get you through the next meal. If you are trying to do this with a low-fat diet, you are going to crave stuff and become very hungry. This leads you to snack in between meals.

3. Eat Fewer Meals

Eating fewer meals a day is also a good treatment of nocturia. If you are not hungry in the morning, skip it and just do two meals instead—one at noon and the other at 6 pm. Don’t forget to add some healthy fats to your meals.

4. Add More Foods Rich in Potassium in Your Diet

Potassium is one of the nutrients our body needs, and this nutrient decreases the need for Fat Storing Hormone. You can get potassium from vegetables, which you can load in your meals. You may want big salads, too, and you can eat the meat with the salad and have veggie shakes, like kale shake.

5. Take More B Vitamins

Like potassium, B vitamins also decrease the need for Fat Storing Hormone. Remember not to get the synthetic version for this nocturia treatment. Get the vitamins from sources like non-fortified nutritional yeast you see in health stores.

Try These Natural Ways to Get Rid of Nocturia to See Results

If an average diabetic or prediabetic person does these things, you can see huge changes. You can try this for two weeks and see for yourself. If you don't have excessive urination at night, your sleep quality and energy can improve. Getting up frequently at night is a nightmare.

Nocturia not only causes discomfort in your everyday life, but it can also be a symptom of prediabetes. To avoid developing diabetes, it’s best to correct the prediabetes state and start living healthily. So try the natural ways to eliminate frequent urination at night and free yourself from the symptoms of prediabetes for a better quality of life!

How does nocturia affect your sleep every night? Share your experience in the comments section below!

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