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We mainly eat it in salads or in egg-lemon soup… According to TikTokers, it’s time to try it as an anti-insomnia tea too
More and more people are learning “firsthand” about sleep disorders and especially insomnia, often resorting to the internet to find out what is causing them to lose sleep and how to get it back.
In this way, the frenzy over a 2021 video on TikTok, in which the then 21-year-old administrator of the profile introduced sleepy a decoction of lettuce as a solution for those who find it dark with sleep. Since then, the doctor’s wisdom of the video, which has been loved by more than 1.5 million users of the popular platform, has been tested by many who, according to their testimonies, they could barely keep their eyes open after they drank it.
@shapla_11 if you can’t sleep, try this #lettucewater #insomnia #lifehacks #fyp ♬ A Day in My Life – Soft boy
The recipe includes the soaking lettuce leaves in hot water with the addition of chamomile, mint or another herb for those who cannot stand the admittedly not pleasant taste. After drinking it, sleep undertakes to bring it dairy farmer a milky substance secreted by various species of leafy vegetables diuretic, laxative and relaxing propertiesso strong that it is sometimes called “lettuce opium”.
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However, this is not a simple matter. For relaxation and sleep to occur, it is required high consumption of the substance, significantly multiples of that of lettuce leaves placed in a cup of water. Then again, the research on “sleeping lettuce” is limited. Indicative is a 2017 study that concluded that romaine lettuce helps fight insomnia, which nevertheless lacked key weaknesses such as that the experiment was performed on mice that had already received the hypnotic pentobarbital. At best, the findings indicated that the lettuce drink could simply enhance and speed up the drug’s action.
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Safety issues and advice from nutritionists
For nutritionist Shyla Cadogan, there is no question of safety from the doctor’s advice, as long as all the necessary measures to avoid food poisoning. Ready-to-eat salad dressings have been blamed by a number of studies for a greater risk of pathogens that cause food poisoning such as And coli, salmonella, listeria and cyclospora. Accordingly, contaminated water from packaged or improperly cleaned lettuce could equally cause foodborne infection.
With high chances that TikTokers have been affected by it placebo effect -research concludes that the constructions of the mind can indeed have positive effects on the body – the expert recommends other documented interventions for the return of sleep such as:
- eating foods high in magnesium like these eight
- chamomile decoction
- stress management through techniques like the 6 unexpected methods you find here.