News Finding: Delaying getting out of bed for nine minutes by hitting the snooze is simply not going to give us any more restorative sleep.
Paper Finding: Melatonin may have important roles in metabolic regulation, perhaps helping prevent nocturnal hypoglycemia by inhibiting insulin secretion .
News Context: If this process is disturbed, we tend to awaken still feeling tired in the morning. Delaying getting out of bed for nine minutes by hitting the snooze is simply not going to give us any more restorative sleep. In fact, it may serve to confuse the brain into starting the process of secreting more neurochemicals that cause sleep to occur, according to some hypotheses.
Paper Context: A circadian rhythm in prolactin is evident in constant routine protocols, of larger amplitude in women and with an acrophase in the rest phase (137). Melatonin may have important roles in metabolic regulation, perhaps helping prevent nocturnal hypoglycemia by inhibiting insulin secretion . Because this was demonstrated in mice, however, different responses may be apparent in humans.