Scientists Say You Need To Stop Using Your Snooze Button

Not everybody’s a morning person and sometimes, getting up in the morning can be very difficult. Some people have come up with a solution: pushing the snooze button to push back when you have to get up by a few minutes. Except this technique, as well as being frankly unpleasant, isn’t very good for your brain.

To the point where mattress company Eve Sleep has decided to address a letter to Apple on 15th March, so that the snooze function be removed from iPhones. To corroborate its remarks, the brand has called on neuroscience specialist Matt Janes’ research.

Treating a wake-up as an attack

Using the snooze button – meaning pushing your wake-up back a few minutes to have the time to fall asleep again – can have an impact on mental health. “When you use the snooze function, you’re multiplying the amount of attacks on your brain and your body, because the impact on your autonomous nervous system repeats each time you wake yourself up”, explained the researcher.

This is explained by the fact that passing from a sleeping state to a waking one is accompanied by the hormone cortisol, because waking up is treated as a threat by the organism. This hormone therefore allows you to provide your muscles, brain and heart with energy. “It’s not going to kill you, but this can put you in a very bad mood all the same”, explains Matt Janes. Even if Apple doesn’t listen to the mattress company’s request, feel free not to use the snooze button anymore!