In the quiet hours before dawn, the body sometimes speaks in the language of disruption — pulling men from sleep with a persistence that is easy to dismiss as aging, but which medicine now asks us to hear more carefully. Frequent nighttime urination, known as nocturia, is increasingly understood not as an inevitability of growing older, but as a signal worth decoding, most often pointing toward an enlarged prostate or other treatable conditions. Urologists urge that what has become routine for many men is, in fact, a conversation the body is trying to start — one that, when answered, can resto