Life Hack: If I drink lettuce water, will I go to sleep faster at night?

This week we try out a very strange TikTok remedy for insomnia
Life Hack: If I drink lettuce water, will I go to sleep faster at night?

Trouble sleeping? Why not pour yourself a cup of lettuce water?

Honestly, TikTok has the strangest content sometimes. Very often when I find hack videos I have to double-check them to see if they are real or a joke. The latest 'suspicious' one to catch my attention involved an unconvinced woman trying a trick she heard of to tackle her insomnia: placing some lettuce in boiling water, letting it steep before removing the leaf, and then drinking the water.

“Apparently, drinking lettuce water makes you sleepy,” @shapla_11 says in her video, before adding she struggles to fall asleep most nights.

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