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Re:Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium? by learc83 on Saturday September 13, 2014 @11:21PM (#8314421)
The article was talking about trace amounts, very far below the therapeutic dosages that cause those side effects.

Trace amounts of lithium already occur naturally in many municipal water supplies.

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Re:Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium? by rectangletangle on Saturday September 13, 2014 @11:29PM (#8314438)
The dose makes the poison, the higher PPM of lithium, the larger the percentage of individuals that will be affected. Even if it affects a tiny fraction of the population at the proposed concentrations, it's still unfair to that demographic. Would you wan't to have to buy special non-lithium supplemented water?
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