The Snooze Button

Erin Davis and Mike Cooper had the #1 morning radio show in Canada for about a decade. You'll hear the chemistry that put them there while they talk to Neil about the impact their careers had on their sleep and vice-versa. LINKAPALOOZA: Erin's remarkable book, "Mourning Has Broken" Erin's website Erin Davis on Twitter OTHER LINKS: BuyMeACoffee - to support this podcast RateThisPodcast - to support...

U.S. Army veteran and award-winning author Liz Stanley talks with Neil about her new book,  Widen the Window - Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma , and how better sleep can contribute to resilience and recovery. They also flip the script and talk about the impact PTSD and stress can have on your sleep. LINKAPALOOZA: Widen the Window on Amazon (affiliate li...

Dr. Tucker Peck joins Neil to talk about - among other things - the intersection of sleep and meditation. He'll also throw you a fun curve ball about melatonin. Also, during the opening of the show, Neil gives details about a terrific book giveaway we're doing at thesnoozebutton.com/contests ! LINKAPALOOZA MeditateWithTucker.com DrugFreeSleep.com - remember the discount code 'Snooze' to get 1/3 of...

"Mad About You" is back on television, and Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt are here to talk about the series' resumption, about the "cry it out" episode where they sleep-train their baby, and a pile of other subjects. We're also joined by Dr. Lynelle Schneeberg from Yale and Connecticut Children's Medical Center on the "cry it out" thing. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysi...

Neil's sleep doctor, Dr. Mark Boulos from Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, made exactly two tweaks to Neil's sleep after his first in-lab sleep test.  Now it's time to see the results of the second sleep test, to see if those tweaks made a difference. Also, we have some great news to share about Episode 14 from a couple of different angles! This podcast uses the following third-party services for a...

Sleep is a mysterious thing, in terms of just what happens in your brain. How do you explain people who walk in their sleep? Talk in their sleep? Or ride motorcycles? Or worse? Dr. Guy Leschziner's new book, "The Nocturnal Brain", shows just how much we still have to learn. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

He's got listeners in more countries than he even knew existed. And for them, what John Watson is doing is making a huge difference. John runs an online radio station that plays relaxation music and binaural beats to tens of thousands of people every month. We talk about how the project started, where it's headed and how musicians can get their material played online. Additionally, there's a quick...

Rather than ask somebody that runs a mattress shop for advice about the best mattress to get, we thought we'd get a different opinion.  What about a chiropractor? Meet Dr. Jon Saunders - he's Neil's chiropractor - who gets complaints and questions all day long from patients who are looking for better answers about sleep as it relates to things like back and neck pain. So Jon and Neil cover a littl...

Dr. Conor Heneghan is the Lead Sleep Researcher with Fitbit, and joins Neil for a conversation about sleep trackers that includes everything from Best Practices to the roadmap ahead for Fitbit, and exactly how their new 'Sleep Score' feature is calculated.  Plus, we dive into the data as Dr. Heneghan talks about what he saw in analyzing five months of Neil's sleep tracker data. This podcast uses t...

Let's talk trackers! Dr. Michael Grandner is the Director of the Sleep & Health Research Program, and the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic, both at the University of Arizona. In this episode, he walks through Neil's obsession with his wearable tracker data, and whether it's dependable to begin with. LINKAPALOOZA Dr. Michael Grandner on Twitter MichaelGrandner.com This podcast uses the following th...

Dr. Ravi Allada, Professor at Northwestern University, has combed through the statistics from decades of Major League Baseball games, and has discovered one specific statistic that is profoundly impacted by jet lag. As we begin the 2019 PostSeason in MLB, Neil talks to Dr. Allada about the role circadian rhythms play in America's national pastime, and in other sports as well. In Part 2, we meet up...

This is the full-length version of an episode that was previously released only to Premium Content subscribers. One of America's leading sleep clinicians, Dr. Lynelle Schneeberg joins Neil to talk about her new book, "Become Your Child's Sleep Coach", and how helping THEM can help YOU, too. LINKAPALOOZA: Dr. Schneeberg on Twitter "Become Your Child's Sleep Coach"  on Amazon Dr. Schneeberg's websit...

For Episode 4, Neil took his recording gear into an appointment with his sleep doctor to review the results of his sleep study at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center in Toronto. ...and there are plenty of surprises to be had.   LINKAPALOOZA Dr. Mark Boulos on Twitter Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center   PSGNORMS  - Sunnybrook's meta analysis of thousands of sleep studies to determine "what's normal i...

Roy Parvin was an award-winning author whose career was chugging along, until one night he couldn't sleep. ...which became two. ...which became three. ...which eventually led to Roy's book, My Year Of Sleeping Dangerously . Roy walks us through the dangers of self-diagnosing your sleep issues, or trying to do it without the help of a sleep specialist. LINKAPALOOZA Yoga For The Inflexible Male (Roy...

Dr. Adrian Owen has been named a member of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his contributions to neuroscience. Here, in an episode that is sadly fraught with technical issues (sorry, podcasting purists), he talks with Neil about a laundry list of topics about what's going wrong north of your neck when you're not getting enough sleep. This podcast uses the following third-party ser...

In the premiere episode of The Snooze Button , veteran broadcaster Neil Hedley sets the table for a journey toward a good night's sleep that will essentially turn him into a lab rat. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy