One is an actual rock star - Lawrence Gowan from Styx talks about health, fitness and sleeping on the tour bus for rock stars who are, like fine wine, getting better with age. (He also weighs in on Styx not being members yet of the Rock & Roll

Sex and Sleep: Was It Good For You?

Jul 5th, 2023 38m 18s

Screw your opinion, what does the science say?The Snooze Button is back after an eighteen-month hiatus with an all-star panel of experts to tackle this (t)horny question: Does sex improve your sleep?

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The Snooze Button - Season 4 Begins July 5th!

Jun 6th, 2023 54s

Hey, Bedheads! We're back!

ABC's Diane Macedo, Author of "The Sleep Fix"

Dec 15th, 2021 40m 57s

Diane Macedo's first book, The Sleep Fix, officially came out today, and we were fortunate to grab some time. (You can win a copy of The Sleep Fix by clicking here.) Diane points out that she and Neil are kind of kindred sleep spirits. They bot

Who Tracks The Trackers? Meet Jesse Cook

Dec 8th, 2021 35m 14s

Sleep trackers and tracking technology are among the many obsessive interests of one Jesse Cook, PhD student and perhaps Twitter's most prolific sleep nerd. He's written a ton of papers about trackers and sleep tech. He geeks out with Neil thi

Erin Davis and Drift: The Sleepy Side of the Pillow

Nov 9th, 2021 32m 31s

This week, Erin Davis and Drift take over The Snooze Button podcast, with Erin fresh from last year's induction into the Broadcasters Hall of Fame. She spent decades waking people up with a smile on one of North America's largest radio morni

"The Rested Child" with Dr. Chris Winter

Oct 12th, 2021 39m 11s

We kick off our third season of The Snooze Button with the return of Dr. Chris Winter, sleep specialist and author of The Rested Child. Chris and Neil get into everything from setting a specific bedtime for kids, to school start times, to smart

Bonus

The Snooze Button - Season 3 starts October 11

Oct 8th, 2021 54s

We're back on October 11 with a new season, new experts, new celebrity guests and a brand new website! See you then!

Sleep and The Mental Game in the NBA Finals

Jul 12th, 2021 36m 53s

Dr. Alex Auerbach is the Director of Wellness and Development for the Toronto Raptors. He joins Neil to talk about all things "north of the neck" for elite athletes. They cover sleep, self-care, the drive that can lead athletes to incredible in

Sleeping In Space - Insomnia's Final Frontier?

May 3rd, 2021 1h 1m

Sleeping in space is, quite possibly, one of the least glamorous parts of the entire astronaut experience. It’s rarely shown in space movies, unless the sleep leads to some kind of attack from alien baddies. Except that how to allow astronauts

The Art of The Nap with Dr. Sara Mednick

Apr 26th, 2021 37m 40s

The nap is a completely foreign concept to our host, Neil Hedley. Because Neil typically takes an hour or so to fall asleep, intentional short-duration sleep has normally been beyond his grasp. Then, he met Dr. Sara Mednick. Sara is Profe

Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett and her Surprising Sleep Routine

Apr 19th, 2021 51m 1s

When we say that Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett from The US Virgin Islands has a surprising sleep routine, we don't mean that she does anything strange or unusual. It's simply that like so many of us, sleep is something that shows up for Rep. P

High Performance Athletes and High Performance Kids

Apr 12th, 2021 35m 27s

"High performance" is something that most of us share as a common goal, whether by design or by default. After all, no one thinks to themselves, "I really want to be mediocre today." Elite athletes are learning that the key to high performance

Chilina Kennedy and The Science of Comfort

Apr 5th, 2021 58m 46s

Actress Chilina Kennedy had a night that most of us can only imagine: Portraying one of her heroes, on Broadway, while that hero sat in the audience watching. As the star of Beautiful: The Carole King Story, Chilina did hundreds of shows as th

Cognition, COVID and Continuation

Mar 29th, 2021 48m 9s

Cognition – specifically, cognitive decline – are at the heart of why The Snooze Button began in the first place. And it’s front and center as we officially kick off Season Two of the show, with not only a continuation, but an evolution as well

COVIDsomnia – How It’s Hurting Adults & Kids Alike

Oct 19th, 2020 29m 52s

COVIDsomnia is its own special brand of sleep disorder, brought on in one way or another by COVID-19. Sleep experts say it’s not only the physical toll the virus is taking on the people who’ve been infected. It’s also keeping people awake at ni

The REM Sleep You're Not Getting Could Be Killing You

Oct 12th, 2020 1h 11m

Okay, we all know that REM sleep is important, so maybe the headline is a little sensationalized; but the data don't lie. Dr. Eileen Leary joins the show this week to talk about a fascinating look at nearly ten thousand people, that points to

Tracking My Sleep: Forget Everything I've Ever Said

Sep 21st, 2020 42m 51s

The sleep tracker has become the latest must-have tech gadget. I’ve gone through at least half a dozen myself as my efforts in tracking my sleep have gone through a number of iterations. The obsession with the data sleep trackers spit out can c

The Coach, The Expert and The President

Sep 14th, 2020 1h 21m

You probably know her as “Sleep Coach Beth”, from either her Calm And Cozy Book of Sleep, the Calm And Cozy Podcast, or her career as a sleep coach. Beth Wyatt has a Facebook group, too, where people with sleep challenges look to their coach an

Dementia and Sleep: It's Not Just Deep Sleep That Counts

Sep 7th, 2020 34m 22s

Deep sleep has traditionally been the focus of any conversation about dementia and sleep. But that's about to change, if Laura Bojarskaite has anything to say about it. Laura is working on her PhD in Oslo, Norway, with a focus on "brainwashing

Insomnia from Two Sides: Evo Terra & Dr. Spencer Dawson

Aug 31st, 2020 56m 1s

According to the My Podcast Reviews service, by Daniel J. Lewis, there are as of this writing 1,429,590 valid podcasts in Apple Podcasts. Evo Terra had podcast #40. The 40th podcast ever produced belonged to Evo Terra. And Evo has been battlin

Getting Beyond CPAP for Sleep Apnea with Dr. Mark Boulos

Aug 24th, 2020 26m

Dr. Mark Boulos from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center in Toronto has just won the 2020 Wayne A Hening Sleep Medicine Investigator Award from the American Academy of Neurology (and he's Neil's sleep doctor). Mark joins the show to talk sleep ap

The Only Thing Your Wearable Sleep Tracker Is Good For with Dr. Michael Chee

Aug 17th, 2020 40m 20s

Fitbit sleep trackers made the cash register ring 16 million times in 2019, according to one report. But how much of the sleep data is actually usable? Fitbits seem to have risen as the cream of the sleep tracker crop, especially considering

Sleep Science and a Link Between Sleepiness and Suicide?

Aug 3rd, 2020 26m 6s

Dr. Michael Grandner is back for a wide-ranging discussion on a ton of sleep topics, including why sleep doesn't get a ton of attention in med school, and a new study that explores the link between daytime sleepiness and suicide.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia with Dr. Jason Ellis

Jul 27th, 2020 35m 50s

Dr. Jason Ellis is regarded as one of the heavyweights of sleep science, particularly when it comes to his work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia, or CBT-I. In this episode, we talk about Jay's book, The One Week Insomnia Cure, and