Does ashwagandha actually help with anxiety and sleep?

Does ashwagandha actually help with anxiety and sleep?

Like one in five U.S. adults, I live with anxiety. So when a YouTuber I follow claimed that a supplement called ashwagandha helped her feel calmer, I was curious. Ashwagandha has been used in traditional Indian medicine for thousands of years, but its global popularity has recently soared thanks to TikTokers raving about its stress-busting and sleep-improving effects.  “This comes up in my practice quite a bit,” says Dr. Jasmine Sawhne, a board-…