Health advice on TikTok is, in general, comically bad. In the past year alone we’ve reported on numerous dodgy fads: a low-point was the trend for cooking chicken in paracetamol-containing cold-and-flu remedy syrup to induce sleep (risking a potentially fatal overdose, if you were wondering).
Or there was the equally stupid practice of taping the lips closed at night which advocates claimed (with basically zero evidence) could reduce snoring and improve concentration. Negative consequences included, erm, not being able to
