Posted on 08/27/2017 7:48:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Scientists at the University of Copenhagen compared dementia rates to the natural quantities of lithium in water for more than 800,000 people in Denmark, from areas occupied by nearly half of the population.
They found that in places where lithium was highest, the dementia rate fell by 17 per cent compared to those with the lowest levels.
Although researchers warn that the link could be due to other environmental factors, they say that it is worth investigating whether adding lithium to tap water could be a cheap way of protecting large numbers of people from dementia.
Lithium is a metallic element which is found in varying quantities in water in Britain, from around one migrograms per litre to around 21 micrograms per litre. The researchers found benefits after 15 micrograms per litre.
Lithium is known to have neuroprotective effects and is a standard treatment for bipolar disorder, and previous experiments on rats have shown it boosts memory. It is also known to reduce the activity of an enzyme called GSK-3, which scientists believe is involved in Alzheimer’s disease.
Allan Young, Professor of Mood Disorders at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, said: "This study fits well with previous evidence which shows that environmental lithium may have health benefits and lithium may prevent dementia.
“At a population level the effects would be considerable as even if lithium only delayed the onset of dementia by months for each person, over the nation that would amount to a lot of healthier months.
“Although some may say that lithium should be 'added to the water' the first step might be to conduct clinical trials to examine the preventative effects of lithium first."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
A bar I frequented in my younger days had a blind taste test over a summer weekend.
They tested Bud, Strohs and one I can’t remember.
Strohs took 70% of the vote, I can’t remember took 18% and Bud got the final 12%.
Bud came in last place!
By Wednesday the bar had Strohs on tap and Bud never recovered in that bar.
“I imagine the Clydesdales urine would taste better than the Budweiser.”
I understand with Corona, you are helping Mexico with it’s sanitation system.
Right on! 1960’s Orange County, California values. I miss them ( most of them at least). Country was better off, especially California.
My brother in law used to call Budweiser and other such beers ‘weasel piss”.
They’re softening public opinion for the revelation that they’ve been doping municipal water for decades, just wait and see. Ever wonder why city people just seem so bizarre and getting worse, compared to ourselves in the outer suburbs, exurbs and rural areas? Recall just a week or two ago, Angela Merkel talking about putting Oxytocin in the drinking water, to make Germans “love” their new Muslim neighbors? If they’re proposing it they’ve already done it, that’s the leftist way.
Don’t forget the Ritz.
What a coincidence... The electric car people will be very happy.. :(
It's kinda like , the liberals are now say that second hand cigarette smoke won't hurt you.... That's because they want to be able to smoke their dope when ever and where ever they want...
I want trilithium.
Popularized by Hans Nieper of Germany: Orthomolecular Nutrition targeting intracellular nutrition.
If you stop drinking beer, smoking and drinking coffee your going to lose your mind... dementia... No doubt about.!!
Evil. Evil on a scale that would have been unimaginable only a few short years ago.
I am a lifestyle nutritionist.
I drink only distilled water (although Berkey system is good); I re-mineralize some of it with Trace Mineral Drops.
That provides scores of trace minerals now lacking in our depleted soils, in a natural, low concentration, including lithium, but especially rich in magnesium, the most important one.
Mg is a macro-mineral necessary for over 300 known biological processes, far more than any other; the body cannot properly use calcium without adequate magnesium.
Direct reactions and/or synergistic effects ? Not something I'd mess with it.
I shoot a little WD40 in my coffee, especially when I’m running low on glucosamine.
IIRC the original formulation of 7up had lithium in it. Didn’t go into production that way, tho . . .
Add enough arsenic to the drinking water and you would stop overpopulation.
I think most of the posters here are missing a most important point, the levels of liberal and democratic absurdities show that many may actually benefit from drinking and/or bathing in some good mineral spring water...
https://blog.bulletproof.com/mineral-water-benefits-pellegrino-sulphates/
https://www.onlineholistichealth.com/trace-minerals/lithium.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_(nutrient)
Actually we would all benefit from drinking more varieties of hard water, spring water -never drink softwater if you can help it. I’m actually going to route my next vacation through some of the best naturally occurring springs.
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