We've heard it a million times. You shouldn't hit your snooze button. It's not good for you. But you don't have to feel guilty anymore because a new study found hitting snooze might not actually be a bad thing!!
Researchers at Stockholm University in Sweden couldn't find a lot of actual proof that hitting snooze is bad, so they decided to do their own study.
They brought more than 30 regular snoozers to a sleep lab for two nights. One morning, they got to hit snooze three times for a total of 30 minutes. On the other, they didn't hit snooze but still got that extra half-hour of sleep.
They found it didn't make a big difference. Even when people hit snooze three times, they still got an extra 24 minutes of sleep. And it was still GOOD sleep. Waking up for a few minutes didn't matter.
It didn't seem to affect their mood, or how tired they felt. And it didn't affect cortisol levels either. That's a hormone that helps us wake up.
They also had each person take a quick test right after they woke up and some of them actually did better on it after hitting snooze.