Up Close and Personal, Number #1
One of the reasons I believe Dr. Oz is so successful is that he seems to constantly delve into areas of health concerns that most people don’t want to discuss openly. Today, I want to go to that place up close and personally. We all do it, some more than others, some when they laugh (there’s medicine for when this happens); this is a normal elimination process of the body; it is urinating. I won’t go there with some of the many other common names that refer to urine, but I will mention #1.
The whole point of urinating is ridding your body of toxins flushed out through the kidneys, meaning if you notice something peculiar, it might prompt you to look into it. Urination may occur as an involuntary reflex in infants, some elderly individuals, and those with neurological injuries.
The color, smell, and amount of urine you produce can be a window into what’s happening inside your body. Urine has a variety of colors, as shown below. It ranges from a deep amber or honey color to a light straw color, with many golden variations. Here’s a chart of urine colors and what they indicate.
As we age, the function of our bladders declines. There are now medications to help control an overactive bladder, incontinence (loss of bladder control), or a frequent need to urinate. These medications help you have more control over the need to urinate.
Another solution to incontinence is Kegel Exercises. They offer non-surgical and non-pharmaceutical solutions for the prevention of nearly all forms of Female Pelvic Floor disorders, including urinary strew, urge, and overflow incontinence. Pelvic organ prolapse and other common female reproductive health-related complications that typically occur with age. These are crucial to the prevention of many common female reproductive health-related issues, including urinary stress incontinence, constipation, pelvic organ prolapse, uterine, bowel, or bladder prolapse, and other common female reproductive health-related complications that typically occur with age.
I recall that kegel exercises were strongly recommended after childbirth. If you have never been instructed to do them, it is worth exploring why and how to perform them for your female health.
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I hope you find this information helpful. ‘I gotta go, gotta go,’ since I am not used to getting up close and personal.
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