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"The snooze button’s silent war on your health: How a few extra minutes steal your sharpness, sleep and even years of life – "

https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-09-09-the-snooze-buttons-silent-war-on-your-health.html 

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For nearly half of the world's population, the morning begins not with sunlight or a stretch, but with a violent negotiation: the shrill blare of an alarm, a groggy swipe at the snooze button and a desperate bid for "just five more minutes." Yet new research reveals this seemingly harmless habit is far from benign. A global study published in Scientific Reports found that 56% of sleep sessions end with a snooze alarm, with heavy users losing up to 20 minutes daily to fragmented, low-quality sleep—robbing them of the most restorative phase of the night: REM..."