Re:In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)
by jhoechtl on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:46AM
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What about adding lithium to water? I remember of a statistics claiming that in regions of very low natural lithium occurence, suicide rate to be significantly higher
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Re:In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)
by UMadBreaux on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:21PM
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I'd think that lithium toxicity would be enough of a danger that it wouldn't work out. People taking lithium as a mood stabilizer need routine blood testing to ensure safe levels of the drug are in their body.
Re:In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)
by exhilaration on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:44PM
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Therapeutic doses of lithium are almost certainly thousands or millions of times higher than what's found in sea water.
Re:In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)
by krrrh on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:20PM
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It’s a compelling idea, but the science is spotty. There was a popular article in the nytimes suggesting this a few years ago that got people talking, and here’s a good critical response:
http://www.rff.org/blog/2014/should-we-all-take-bit-lithium
You can buy low-dose lithium orotate supplements very inexpensively in the US however, if you want to do an n=1 experiment.
Re:In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)
by nwah1 on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:09PM
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7-Up started as a lithiated soda. The atomic mass of lithium is just under 7.
Re:In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)
by Turing_Machine on Thursday December 21, 2017 @09:54PM
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Yup. It's interesting how many modern drinks came from medicinal origins. Original formula Coca-Cola, of course, famously had a healthy dose of cocaine. Tonic water still has a bit of quinine in it, but originally it had much more, and was consumed as prophylaxis against malaria. Then there were various "bitters" and "digestifs" that had purported health benefits. Jägermeister has a whole witches brew of herbs and roots in it. And so on.