No! No guys not that, how many times a night do you get up to have a pee, if it’s more than once then read on. There was a time when I was getting up every couple of hours, and I am lucky in that I can get back to sleep as soon as my head hits the pillow, but I was still feeling knackered in the morning. The sad thing is that I thought it was one of those problems that you get as we get older and you just have to accept it. For me it got worse during the day, as I would suddenly get an urgency to pee, and it really was urgency as it was almost impossible to hold it. This was a real low point, the thought of becoming one of those old guys who is incontinent, with a failing memory in a home somewhere, stuck in a chair staring out of a window dribbling all day was just not the future I had in mind. I was starting to get some serious short term memory loss, which is really frightening when you live alone, but I will talk about that in another article.

It was around this time that I was making some major dietary changes, cutting out all wheat products including pasta, plus potatoes and rice, basically all the carbs that effect blood sugar and insulin. One of the other things I did was to stop eating any processed food as there is always added sugar, so it was single ingredients all the way, plus I stopped drinking any kind of soda. When I changed to the Low Carb High Fat diet I also started fasting, one day at first then three days, then five and right up to twenty eight days this February. When you are doing water fasting you can drink green tea, and I enjoy Jasmine Green Tea as it tastes ok even when it’s got cold, and I use a very large mug which holds nearly a pint, so on fasting days I can drink a couple of pints of tea. At this point the biggest change I had ever made was my diet to Low Carb High Fat (LCHF) and suddenly I wasn’t getting up so much at night, and the urgency to pee during the day had dramatically improved. I found out that when I was fasting I could drink black coffee and as I have been a coffee addict for years that became my drink of choice, the only difference is when I was not fasting I have it with double cream. I started to notice that I was getting up more at night again, because some nights I had slept right through, and others I had got up once, but now it was back to two or three times but I was still ok during the day. I started drinking at least one mug of green tea every day, and I sleep through the night again apart from the odd night when I might get up once.

A friend of mine was having the same problem although he is only in his early sixties he did live a highly inflammatory lifestyle, fast food, lots of soda style drinks and ready meals. He started drinking green tea every day, and although things didn’t get any worse they didn’t really improve very much. I persuaded him eventually to cut out fast food, and drink water instead of soda for one month, and things did improve quite quickly, enough to convince him to make the changes permanent, and to ramp it up another couple of notches. He is now on a healthy low carb grain free diet, and has lost about 25lbs without trying, and now sleeps right through just about every night. Although green tea is really good for your prostate, and a very good antioxidant you also have to make some healthy dietary changes to get the full benefits, and it’s surprising how quickly you start to feel better, and want more.

Wishing you the best of health until next time…