Wellness

What You Need to Know about Bladder Health

From a leading authority in Urology and Men’s Health

Libby Shively McAvoy
ILLUMINATION
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4 min readJun 12, 2022

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We all know how important a good restful night’s sleep is, but when we have to wake several times in the night to pee it is frustrating. Do you find this happening to you yet? I had an amazing opportunity to interview Dr. Geo Espinosa who is a Naturopathic Functional Medical doctor recognized as an authority in Urology and Men’s Health. He specializes in Prostate Cancer, Bladder Incontinence, and Overactive Bladder. I was thrilled for the opportunity to speak with Dr. Espinosa because I know many men who suffer from overactive bladder, including my own dad, and it can be very disruptive in life. Dr. Espinosa offers great hope and healing.

My conversation was very enlightening, and Dr. Espinosa shed great hope and has many holistic solutions for how to cope with and approach overactive bladder and incontinence to live a full and happy life.

Perhaps the most astounding fact I learned in the interview was that overactive bladder and incontinence can actually have a decent mortality rate due to people falling in the night when they wake to use the bathroom. He explained that people get disoriented in the night, which makes sense, and trip and fall and hit their heads and have all sorts of accidents…

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Libby Shively McAvoy
ILLUMINATION

"HI" Writer, Personal Development and Relationship Coach specializing in Emotional Intelligence, Yoga Instructor, Mom, Speaker, traveler, & seeker