There is so much hope. After you watch this video, you're going to know how to
cure wetting the bed. In another video, I talked about the causes of bed wetting.
What causes it. It comes down to two primary causes. A deficiency in
antidiuretic hormone which is the hormone that drives us up when we're
sleeping. If you don't have enough of that then you're going to have a need to
get up and go to the bathroom at night. And the other cause has to do with deep
sleeping. We'll get into that a little more in detail today. Because that's one
that we can really do something about. Both causes have to be present in order
for bedwetting to occur. Because if you got enough hormone then you don't have
to get up and go. If you're not sleeping so deeply then you'll be able to get up
and go when you get those signals. So, when both are present, we have the
condition. Now, that gives us some ideas about how to cure it, alright? Now, for
that, let's go to this diagram for just a minute.
Your central nervous system which is about your brain and all the nerves in
your body is set up to take good care of you. And it's really programmed for
efficiency. Because your brain has to take care of everything. You don't want
to have to consciously think about everything that needs to happen. And so, a
lot of things are put onto autopilot. There's a little part of your brain here
called the reticular activating system. That's located near the brainstem, maybe
down in this area of the brain that is in charge of, shall we say "Traffic
control." It's directing traffic. It's telling what to pay attention to and
what to ignore. Like your shirt for example. Can you feel it? Yeah, it's
obvious, huh? Now, that I call it to your attention. But
before I mentioned it, that part of your brain was telling you, "Hey, that's not
important. Just ignore that. It's not important." Well, when I mentioned it, it
suddenly became important just like that. And now you can
feel your shirt just fine. Your shoes if you're wearing them, "Oh, yeah. They're
there." Obvious but completely unnoticed until I called it to your attention. This
is important to notice because your brain has the ability to pay attention
to things are to ignore certain things. Let's go to the bedwetting for a minute.
When you're sleeping very deeply, the conscious part of your brain turns off.
You are unconscious. That's how we define sleep. Not all of your brain turns off.
Just the conscious parts turn off while you're sleeping. The rest of the brain is
still active and doing things all night long. And you go into different modes of
sleep. And different levels of sleep. But that's not what we're here to talk about.
Just realize that there are parts of your brain that are still alive and well.
What if we were to picture that in this part of the brain, I called this the
Reticular Activating System but let's just think of this as the command center.
Okay? The command center of your brain where all of the commands initiate. Now,
down your spinal cord and into the nerves down here around the bladder, now
I've drawn what kind of looks like a balloon here for the bladder. Because
it's pretty good analogy. The bladder is kind of like that balloon. And that it
collects the fluid that's coming in and it starts to stretch and expand. Now, as
it stretches and expands, it triggers signals in the nerves that are attached
to it. These signals get sent through these nerves up the spinal cord to the
command center. We all know what it feels like to take a big drink of water. That
was a little drink. But if I were to drink that whole bottle of water, in
about, Oh 15 to 30 minutes. What am I going to be feeling? Yeah, right? You've been
there you know? You get these feelings coming up. Strong signals from the
bladder. The command center say, "Oh, this is important. Better take care of
business before we have a problem." And it takes you to the bathroom, right? Okay,
what about when we're sleeping? When we're sleeping, the bladder is still
filling because we don't have enough of the hormone on board to slow it down
like most people have. It's still filling. It gets to a point where the signals
aren't going through the nerves. This is all working at this point, folks. The
signals go through the nerves to the spinal cord, gets sent up here to the
command center. And the command center for whatever reason is programmed to say,
"Oh, that's not important enough." To go to all of the work of waking up. The
conscious centers of the brain that can take us to the bathroom. "Not
important. Let's just ignore it." Well, meanwhile the bladder down here is like,
"Really? I can't hold this for much longer." And it takes care of business on its own
and we got the problem. We're wetting the bed. So, to cure it. There are medical
treatments. Usually they are some synthetic version of the hormone that
dries us up at night. And it's a one-time fix. It like dries you up for the night.
But it doesn't fix the problem. What we want to do is train the command center
to wake up the brain. "Get up! This is important. Let's take care of this." You
know what? A lot of the kids that I've worked with who are bed wetters have no
problem waking up on Christmas morning. Or on their birthday, or on that day
where they get to go to the zoo, you know? Why? Because their brain is telling, "Oh,
this is important. This is worth getting up for." It's not doing that with the
signals from the bladder. All we got to do is condition it. Do
you remember Pavlov. Any introductory psych class is going to talk about
Pavlov's dogs. Pavlov was a scientist, a psychologist really, who was studying a...
Physiologist maybe. But anyway, he was studying the reaction that dogs had. He
would ring a bell and the dog was like, "Whoa, it's a bell. No big deal, right?" Then
he would ring the bell and he would do little puffs of meat
powder into the dog's mouth. And the dogs like, "Oooh." And the dog would start to
salivate because the meat powder causes the dog to salivate. That makes sense,
right? Ding! Bell. No response. Poof! Meat powder. Big response. Ding! No
response. Poof! Meat powder. Big response. Well pretty,
pretty soon, Ding! Big response. Why? Because the dog
was conditioned that when the ding goes off, I'm going to get a puff of meat powder.
It starts to anticipate that. It's called classical conditioning. This is an old
concept that we're going to use to overcome the bedwetting. So, what we want to have
happen? This is the ding own here, okay? The signals from that bladder are
like the Bell. Ding! And right now, the brain while it's sleeping is saying,
"That's not important. That's irrelevant. That's not significant at all." What we
want to do is create a training effect that has the brain saying, ding, "Oh, time
to move. Got to get some business taken care of right here." Alright. That's the
classical conditioning that we're going for. Now, how are we going to do that? I've
written an entire training program around this. Warning:
It requires positivity and commitment, okay? Share this video with your child or
whoever it is that you're trying to help with the bedwetting. If it's you then get
a team together. Share this video with them and then get ahold of my training
program. "Finallydry.info". What you're going to get there is an e-book.
Basically it's a PDF. You can download it immediately. That has the whole training
program outlined. There are exercises and programs that you're going to go
through. Read the whole thing. Let me know if you have some questions. I'm happy to
help you. But here's how it works. It requires an alarm too. And you're going to
have to look for an alarm system that allows you to detect when there's a
wedding incident. So, I brought my cute, little underpants
alarm here. Now, this particular model is designed with a strip that goes
along the inside of the garment. These two snap leads connect to a little
battery-powered alarm, okay? Kind of like this. It's designed so that if there is
any kind of moisture that gets into that. "Oh, yeah." We got like a hundred decibel. Hang
on. We got like a hundred decibels right there, okay? This is important because
that's the ding, alright? Actually it comes right after the ding. Because just
before the alarm goes off, the body, the brain is sensing those signals from the
alarm. But it's ignore... From the bladder, I mean. But it's ignoring them. The alarm
typically won't wake up the child. This is what my research showed. They're going to
sleep right through it. But who's going to wake up? Oh, yeah. Mom, Dad, support team.
It's going to wake them up and then they are going to wake up the child. It's all
explained in the training program. But basically, we're going to do this enough
with some of the exercises that are built into the training program. We're
going to do this enough to train the command center to respond not to this
alarm. To that alarm. The one that's coming up from the bladder. And it takes,
I said that there are some warnings, okay? You have to do this with positivity and
commitment. Because it's going to take my experience is anywhere from 3 or
4 nights up to 10 or 15 nights to get the training effect. There's a couple of
other things that might surprise you. Sometimes people address this bedwetting
problem by restricting fluids before bed, right? You don't get to have a drink
after seven o'clock or whatever. Actually, in the training program, we
encourage fluid intake. Why? Because I want a really clear signal. You know how
sometimes it's like, "Oh, do I need to go or not? I don't know. I could go. Maybe not."
Yeah! No. We want the signal to be "Oh!" Okay? Strong! So, we actually encourage fluid
intake together with the other training elements that allow us to start to train
this command center to respond to the signals from the full bladder. And it
doesn't happen immediately. You're going to have some wetting incidents, okay?
Be ready for that, expect it. And that's not a bad thing. It actually helps with
our training program. You're going to need to find you an alarm system. There's
a lot of these on the market. Find one that's within your budget. I prefer the
kind that are installed right in the underwear. Because you get a quicker
response. You get it quicker bell than the ones that are in a pad on the bed. Or
that have to go through multiple layers before they get to the signal. So, find
meant alarm system that you can work with. Get that on board. Get a hold of the
e-book, "finallydry.info". Go through the
training program, get your team assembled and let's take this on. I know that it
works. We've tested it through research and clinical experience. This is
something that we can get on top of. And I am honored to be on your team. let's
take it on. This is going to be some works. Stay positive. Get connected to that
Ebook. Because that's where the training program is. Remember finallydry.info.