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Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium?
The idea of putting a mind-altering drug in the drinking water is the stuff of sci-fi, terrorist plots and totalitarian governments. Considering the outcry that occurred when putting fluoride in the water was first proposed, one can only imagine the furor that would...
Lithium treatment and human hippocampal neurogenesis
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A Low Dose of Lithium May Slow Kidney Aging
Best known therapeutically as a treatment for bipolar disorder, lithium has long intrigued researchers with its potential age-defying properties. The element has been shown in lab experiments to extend the lifespan of fruit flies and roundworms, while observational...
Beyond its psychiatric use: the benefits of low dose lithium supplementation
Sophie I Hamstra 1, Brian D Roy 1, Peter Tiidus 1, Adam J MacNeil 2, Panagiota Klentrou 1, Rebecca E K MacPherson 2, Val A Fajardo 1 Affiliations 1Department of Kinesiology, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON. 2Department of Health Sciences, Brock University, St....
Systems Biology Understanding of the Effects of Lithium on Cancer
Weihao Ge1,2 Eric Jakobsson1,2,3* 1National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States 2Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United...
Efficacy and Safety of Lithium Treatment in SARS-CoV-2 Infected Patients
At the beginning of the pandemic, we observed that lithium carbonate had a positive effect on the recovery of severely ill patients with COVID-19. Lithium is able to inhibit the replication of several types of viruses, some of which are similar to the SARS-CoV-2...
Lithium in Drinking Water and the Incidences of Crimes, Suicides, and Arrests Related to Drug Addictions
G N Schrauzer 1, K P Shrestha PMID: 1699579 DOI: 10.1007/BF02990271 Abstract Using data for 27 Texas counties from 1978-1987, it is shown that the incidence rates of suicide, homicide, and rape are significantly higher in counties whose drinking water supplies contain...