Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health How Hitting Snooze Steals a Night’s Sleep Each Month - AI Podcast
Jun 20, 2025
Frequent snoozing is stealing precious sleep, with heavy users losing an entire night each month. Irregular bedtimes and disrupted circadian rhythms compound the issue, zapping energy and focus. Women are particularly affected, often due to insomnia and caregiving demands. As winter light influences snooze habits, practical strategies to reclaim energizing mornings are discussed. Listeners learn to sync their wake times with natural light and ditch the snooze for better sleep quality.
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Snoozing Costs Deep Sleep
- More than half of global sleep sessions end with at least one snooze, causing loss of an entire night’s restorative sleep each month.
- Frequent snoozing leads to fragmented, shallow sleep preventing entry into deep restorative phases.
Sleep Fragmentation Harms Mornings
- Heavy snooze users average four presses, spending 20 minutes in broken sleep, causing sleep inertia and hormone misfires.
- Women snooze slightly more than men, linked to higher insomnia and caregiving demands.
Timing Over Quantity in Sleep
- Snoozing peaks in winter due to reduced daylight, with heaviest use on weekdays, especially Wednesdays.
- Longer sleepers snooze more, showing consistent timing beats total sleep hours for quality.