Can Drinking Tart Cherry Juice Solve Sleep Problems?

If you think about it, there is no shortage of relaxing sleep habits. You have probably already tried some of them too. Taking a warm shower, moving your phone out of bed, and turning on some white noise can all help you snooze a little better. However, this TikTok video claims that drinking tart cherry juice can help you fall asleep even quicker.

Drinking Tart Cherry Juice?

In the TikTok video that has over 197,000 likes, a user discussed her troubles with sleep. She tried drinking tart cherry juice before bed after viewing another user’s video recommending it. In the video, in which he was astonished by the sourness of the juice, he states that 15 minutes after drinking a cup of it, he felt sleepy. In a follow-up video, he posted that he’s just waking up, after sleeping for six hours. This confirms that the juice was effective and worked.

Some studies indicate the potential sleep-related benefits of tart cherry juice, but they are not recent and had small participant pools. Some of them were also industry-funded. In a 2012 study, though, researchers had 20 participants drink sour cherry juice or a placebo before they ate dinner, for a week. The researchers then noticed that those who had the tart cherry juice had higher amounts of melatonin than those in the placebo group.

An Important Disclaimer

Before you get too excited, think about the following: if a lack of quality sleep is interfering with your capacity to function, get medical advice. Reports show that anyone who consistently gets less than six hours of sleep per night or experiences severe effects from lack of sleep the following day, such as extreme fatigue, sleepiness, mood swings, or other concerning symptoms, should consider undergoing an evaluation by a sleep specialist. In addition, if you are prone to acid reflux that causes heartburn at night, you may want to avoid drinking tart cherry juice, given how acidic it is.