Dr. Michael Breus

So if you really don't have to pee, please don't go pee.

But I want to be clear about something.

Go pee if you really need to pee.

I had somebody, I was doing a podcast and somebody was like, should they put on a pair of Depends?

No, no, don't do that.

Okay.

No, no, no, no.

If you really have to pee, please go pee.

But by the way, one of the first things I tell almost every patient I see is stop fluids between two and three hours before bed.

Most people don't do that.

They're drinking up until the time they go to bed.

And that's usually what propagates them having to wake up in the middle of the night.

So if you stop fluids, let's say two hours before bed.

So you're going to bed at midnight.

You stop fluids at 10.

that will absolutely help you not need to go pee.

But if you do wake up in the middle of the night and you need to pee, go.

But if you don't, please don't.

If you do need to go, put nightlights along the way because if you flip the lights on in the bathroom or in the water closet, you just told your brain it's morning and it stops producing that melatonin.

strategically place nightlights to get there if you need to, but hopefully you don't need to.