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I don't know whether anyone else here has picked up on it, but I heard an item on today's news about a study in Japan which had uncovered a link between excessive salt consumption and nocturnia - the need to get up and pee at least once or twice a night which is a common experience for people over a certain age.  Personally I'm inclined to treat the findings with a little scepticism as I'd expect salt to have the opposite effect if anything, but then I'm no chemist.  

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As one of those people "over a certain age", I find that eating something salty before bedtime reduces the number of times I get up to pee.  I have an enlarged prostate, and that usually wakes me to pee once or twice, but without the salt it happens more.  Perhaps the study involved excessive salt consumption during the day, which would increase fluid intake - which you would need to pee out during the night.

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