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People started drinking lettuce water to fall asleep easily - but does it really work?
Can lettuce help us get rid of insomnia?
Tiktok claims that drinking a glass of warm water with lettuce leaves before bed may help us fall asleep easily.
We checked - and there is something in what they say, although it is better that you leave the lettuce in the salad
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People try to drink lettuce water to fall asleep (TIKTOK)
It turns out that lettuce has a more extensive use than a necessary ingredient in Caesar salad. In a new ticking trend, people swear that drinking hot water with lettuce leaves helped them get rid of insomnia and fall asleep quickly. The tiktok user who managed to draw a lot of attention to the strange trick is Shlafa Hook (shapla_11), who documented herself sipping her non-appetizing drink and falling asleep slowly in front of the camera.
"Then it turns out that drinking lettuce makes you fall asleep. Your sister is not asleep, so I'm going to try it," Hawk wrote in the video. She pulled out lettuce, tore some of the green leaves and put them in her drinking cup. She poured a cup of boiling water and also added mint tea to help the taste. After soaking for 10 minutes, she took the lettuce leaves out of the glass and sipped. She later updated how she felt: "Update - I do feel slightly drowsy. Not asleep as if I had a knockout, but I feel sleepy." Some time later she released another update: "Lettuce does its thing, your sister falls asleep",She said as her eyes closed.
In a video released by Hawk the next morning, she claimed it took her 30 to 40 minutes to fall asleep.
Her original video garnered more than 7.3 million views and received more than 1.4 million likes.
Many have embraced the trend and posted their videos under the hashtag #lettucewater (water lettuce), and these too have garnered more than 12 million views together.
In all the videos, the experimenters swore that they managed to fall asleep from drinking lettuce water, but does it really work?
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This is how she did it:
@ shapla_11
if you can not sleep, try this #lettucewater #insomnia #lifehacks #fyp
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And here she updates the next morning:
@ shapla_11
Reply to @tattooo_titch_tnt excuse my appearance I jus woke up lol ## fyp ## lettucewater ## lifehacks
♬ original sound - shapla
What does science have to say about this?
Before you rush to pour yourself a glass of lettuce, you should know that experts claim that the chances of the method working on you tend to be zero - unless you are a rat.
Marie-Pierre St.-Onge, an associate professor of nutritional medicine and director of the Sleep Center at Irving Medical Center at Columbia University, told Insider that there is no study showing that lettuce water helps fall asleep quickly, yet there have been cases where lettuce has helped rats sleep long. More.
In a 2017 study published in the journal Food Science Biotechnology, the researchers examined whether low and high doses of red lettuce extract helped mice stay dormant for longer. The results showed that this specific type of lettuce - as well as several other types of lettuce tested - did help rats and mice sleep longer. According to St.-Onge, the findings do not reflect the story of the tiktok user, who pulled out a hook, for a number of reasons. She said: "First, it is not known if she used this type of lettuce. I estimate she used iceberg lettuce. Second, the mice in the experiment received a high concentration of lettuce extract. It is not clear how much of the active compound you will get from boiling lettuce in water as suggested in the video."
Dr. Michael Bruce, a clinical psychologist and author of many books on sleep, notes that the study of mice does not support the hypothesis that lettuce water acts as a sleep aid for a variety of reasons. First, he points out that lettuce extract is not what put mice to sleep in the first place. For a longer time. "These mice were drugged when they received the lettuce," he says, pointing out that mice were injected with a dose of pentobarbital (a sedative) to put them to sleep shortly after the oral extract was given. In addition, the researchers compared sleep and duration in mice. Given the different types of lettuce, however, they did not compare the mice that consumed lettuce extract to those that did not, so there is no way to know from this data whether it was the sleeping drug or lettuce that contributed to their rapid sleep or whether their sleep was longer even if they did not receive the drug or lettuce extract. .
Jackie Newgent, a dietitian from New York and author of "The Clear and Simple Cookbook for Diabetes," says that hypothetically, lettuce may encourage sleep thanks to lactocin, a bitter plant compound, and antioxidant polyphenols, but lettuce water made from only a few lettuce leaves probably does not. Will make no significant difference when it comes to sleep.
Tiktok surfers claim that the trick works:
@thatnickguy_
For anyone w / trouble sleeping try this !!
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## fyp ## insomnia ## lettucewater ## lifehacks ## foryoupage
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@lizzymwong
Reply to @ nissaa.l what sorcery is this !!!!
## lettucetea ## lettucewater ## whyamitired
♬ original sound - Lizzy Wong
Bottom line: worth a try?
Although the effectiveness of the method is questionable, experts claim that drinking lettuce water is not harmful to the body - so feel free to give it a try.
However, Newgen suggests paying attention to the amounts of water: "Drinking excess fluids before bed can cause sleep disturbance, as you will have to get up at night once or twice for the toilet."
She added: "Also, make sure you wash your lettuce before you make a hot drink from it, just as you wash lettuce thoroughly before you put it in a salad."
If the chances of it succeeding are so low, why do Tiktok surfers insist that lettuce helped them fall asleep?
Experts unanimously agree: the placebo effect.
St-Onge said: "When you expect to feel drowsy then you will suddenly start to calm down drowsy. It's all in your head."
Harmless but probably also ineffective (Photo: ShutterStock)
Although the trend is not harmful to anyone, St. Onge recommends giving up drinking lettuce and sticking to eating lettuce: "I'd rather see people eating lettuce than drinking its boiled water. Whole lettuce leaves provide vitamins and minerals that may not be available from lettuce."
Newgen recommends other methods of falling asleep: "Sour cherries or drinking sour cherry juice may be a more effective alternative to restful sleep than drinking a cup of lettuce water."
A study published in the American Journal of Therapeutics in March-April 2018 found that sour cherries contain melatonin and are linked to increasing sleep efficiency and its duration.
St-Onge recommends simpler steps that have been scientifically proven to be effective on people trying to fall asleep: "Reduce screen time before bed, dim the lights towards it, try to practice mindfulness and invest in daily exercise."
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