Wake up with first alarm, do not set multiple times: expert warn

New Delhi: Waking up at the blast of an alarm in the morning is not a nice experience. Many of us set multiple alarms in order to avoid sleeping through the first or second or third. Experts now advice waking up to each alarm can be taxing on your health greatly.

For instance you want to wake up at 6 am but set 5.30 am on the phone as the first and 5.45 am as the second and 6.55 am the third and wake at each time only to sleep again.

Eventually when you wake to live your new day, you are exhausted and groggy with a feeling of heaviness.

Where you should have been ready for the day with a smile, feeling nourished by healthy sleep, you must be in weariness from sleep deprivation.

The New York Post reported citing the TikTok user, Jordan Bruss that setting multiple alarms is unhealthy, with Bruss saying: "If you're somebody who sets multiple alarms I have bad news. Don't come for me. Just trying to help."

The health expert advised people not to cause for them extra physical and mental stress by waking up to multiple alarms.

Jordan Bruss added: "Good sleep hygiene is a big part of my physical and mental health. I promise I would not be in the shape I am in without serious research in the deep sleep department. Don't cause yourself extra physical and mental stress."

The final phase of sleep, known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, is very crucial for digesting memories and stimulating creativity and if broken, it could affect the brain function, according to the report.

Jordan Bruss revealed that "Waking to multiple alarms every morning really disrupts your rapid eye movement (REM) cycle frequently this actually causes sleep inertia, increased drowsiness, fatigue, mood swings and it also raises your cortisol levels."

She explained that each time alarm goes off your body turns into a ‘fight or flight response’, which is highly stressful leading to serious issues overtime.

It is reported that ‘Over time, a chronic morning 'fight or flight' adrenaline response can cause long-term stress, depression, and cardiovascular problems.’

Lack of consistent sleep can lead to building up tension in the body, which in turn causes weight gain and ‘Excess cortisol levels make you gain and hang on to weight. So when the alarm goes off, it's time, get up. You'll look and feel better!’

Setting one alarm according to Bruss is ideal, adding: "Don't keep traumatizing yourself! When that alarm goes off in the morning, get up!"

Where somebody wants to wake up at 7 am but sets alarm at 6 am as a first, the person will get an hour of bad-quality sleep, according to Dr Alicia Roth, a clinician at Cleveland Clinic's Sleep Disorders Center in Ohio.