Better hydration may lead to better sleep

Medical Xpress / University of Connecticut / SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine ^ | Oct. 1, 2025 | Anna Zarra Aldrich / Alan T. Ky et al

[ConservativeMind]

Drinking enough water before bed helps you sleep more efficiently, it seems. Otherwise you wake up fatigued, even if sleeping longer.

I know many will say this will make them wake up to pee, interrupting their sleep.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Karliner]

That is not news. Would be helpful to not pee so much at night. Maybe an osmosis catheter?

[Jonty30]

It also prevents cramping of muscles.

[Jonty30]

Buy your Depends in bulk to fight inflation.

[bigbob]

Getting up to pee is the aerobic part ;-)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“18 college-aged males”

Not a lot of getting up to pee during the night with that group of test subjects. Now repeat for 60 to 80 year old men1

[mass55th]

"Drinking enough water before bed helps you sleep more efficiently, it seems."

Obviously they never heard of old ladies having to pee every hour. Drinking more fluids before bed is the last thing we need to do.

[Jonty30]

I think that can be minimized by getting all your water about 5 hours before bedtime, or so.

[RandallFlagg]

Yea.
If yer over 50, you’re gonna have issues with this.
Maybe we could pull an Eric Cartman.
Wear a condom to bed, pee in it all night, then happily splatter it against the nearest wall when we wake up. Grateful for a full night’s sleep.
Mom will clean it up. No worries.

4 to 6 hours before our bladders say, “You’d better get up, or you’ll be waking up in a puddle. With a REALLY pissed off Wife next to you.”

[dfwgator]

On the second day, they were euhydrated, meaning they were well-hydrated from having consumed 500 milliliters of water the evening prior.

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Water, you mean like from the toilet?

[frank ballenger]

True.
A doctor I had when I was 20 said to stop drinking long before bed to avoid getting up-—even back then. Got more important as I got much older. Swear off the water or have trouble getting back to sleep as millions of men do once they have to get up.

Like those statements about carrying water bottles during city and town walks or bicycle trips——but where are the public restrooms?

Going outside if someone saw him caused a friend of a guy at work to have a “sex offender” record because someone in the distance seeing him who turned him in to the police. That is a horror story.

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Johns Hopkins Medicine website:
“...difficulty getting back to sleep after waking up at night, a condition known as sleep maintenance insomnia. While most people wake up during the night, a significant portion of the population struggles to fall back asleep. A 2010 study found that about 43% of those who woke up three or more times a week had trouble resuming sleep.”

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An aside in a rock music writer’s book said he noticed at football and baseball games the lines for the women’s rest rooms were always short and the ones for men stretched out a long distance every time.

[samkatz]

And the old man in the nursing home said to the Dr. “I have good news and bad news. Every morning at 7am sharp I make number 1,with a strong even flow. Every morning at exactly 8am I make a perfectly formed number Two.”

The doctor says “so what’s the bad news?”

“I don’t wake up until nine!”

[frank ballenger]

Good one I never heard before.

[Candor7]

Better hydration may lead to better sleep>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I resemble that remark.

Oktoberfest !

[9YearLurker]

Eighteen male students over four days? That’s a study?

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Eighteen male students over four days? That’s a study?

Hey it was probably only a $10 million dollar Federal grant with $9.75 million going for "administration costs".

[Bobbyvotes]

Best advice! That is exactly what I do. Usually do not need to pee until after 6AM. Drinking enough water during day minimized leg cramps in the morning. Another benefit of good hydration is better blood pressure readings. I focus on eating high water content fruits & veggies for hydration, such as cucumbers, watermelon, cantaloupes, zucchini. I am 85.5 age and have zero medical issues. Did I mention aerobic walk for 25 minutes every day with 1 lb wrist weights? That is the best thing I do for myself.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[shotgun]

Was the study sponsored by Depends?