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 2 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 gonna 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. 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
that. And now you can feel your shirt just fine. Your shoes if you're wearing
them, "Oh, yeah. They're 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
bed wedding 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. 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 in 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 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 says, "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
the hormone on board to slow it down like most people have. It's still filling. The
signals go through the nurse to the spinal cord get 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 can 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 f-x-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 to them,
"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 a little puff of meat powder into the dog's mouth. And the dogs
like, "Oh! Uhmm." 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 down here, okay?
That 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 a hold 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 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 2 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 decibels... Hang on. We got like a
hundred decibels right there, okay? This is important because that's the ding, all
right? 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
were some warnings, okay? You have to do this with positivity and commitment.
Because it's going to take... My experience is anywhere from three or four 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 7
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, "Ugh!" 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 expected. 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 bail 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 work.
Stay positive. Get connected to that ebook. Because that's where the training
program is. Remember finallydry.info.