This Urologist Asks Every Patient This 1 Question. Your Answer Can Reveal A Lot About Your Health.

Dr. Yaniv Larish sees dozens of patients each week at Fifth Avenue Urology in New York City. A urologist and surgeon, he treats all kinds of conditions, from complex kidney stones to incontinence to urologic cancers. But no matter why someone ends up in his exam room, he asks the same question at every initial consultation: “Is your bladder being nice to you?”

That’s what he recently told us — Raj Punjabi and Noah Michelson, the hosts of HuffPost’s “Am I Doing It Wrong?” podcast — when he dropped by our studio to talk about all of the ways we might be peeing wrong and how to do it better.

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“They go, ‘What do you mean?’” Larish said of his patients. “It’s meant to be an open question, right? This is your moment to tell me about your bladder. So, is it nice or not nice?”

It turns out that “nice” and “not nice” can apply to a lot of different things — like how often we’re peeing, what we feel while we’re peeing, and what we might be seeing when we look into the toilet after we’ve finished — and can involve more organs than just the bladder.

As for how many times a day you should be peeing, “there’s no magic number,” he told us.

“There’s no ‘normal.’ It doesn’t work that way, because if you are stranded in the Sahara desert under the baking sun and 120-degrees heat, your kidneys are going to do everything possible to hold on to every drop of water that they can,” he said.

“On the other extreme, if you’re, say, a college-going frat guy or gal, and you’re pounding those beers on a Saturday night… you’re going to make a lot more. So I think that the question is not ‘how often are you peeing?’ It’s more ‘are you hydrated enough or overly hydrated,’ and what is the point at which