Posted on 10/25/2018 8:33:05 AM PDT by C19fan
Lithium is a potent psychiatric drug, one of the primary prescribed medications for bipolar disorder. But it’s also an element that occurs naturally all over the Earth’s crust — including in bodies of water. That means that small quantities of lithium wind up in the tap water you consume every day. Just how much is in the water varies quite a bit from place to place.
Naturally, that made researchers curious: Are places with more lithium in the water healthier, mentally? Do places with more lithium have less depression or bipolar or — most importantly of all — fewer suicides?
A 2014 review of studies concluded that the answer was yes: Four of five studies reviewed found that places with higher levels of trace lithium had lower suicide rates. And Nassir Ghaemi, the Tufts psychiatry professor who co-authored that review, argues that the effects are large. High-lithium areas, he says, have suicide rates 50 to 60 percent lower than those of low-lithium areas.
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Dope ‘em, chip ‘em, own them.
Someone needs to watch Serenity.
I was just thinking of that. EXCELLENT!
Harrison Bergeron movie.
I’m sure the obvious solution is to put drugs in the water while Rs are in power to make everybody upset, angry, mad and belligerent.
And then pump prozac and happy pills into the water once the Ds are in so everybody is happy and continues to vote D.
Why not?
I drink my own happy water...beer.
Didn’t Perrier get in trouble several years ago after a substance like this was found in their water and it was determined it was naturally occurring due to the source?? If my memory serves me correctly the company had to pull the water off the shelf here in the US and clean up their spring..
Creepy for sure. That said, perhaps Lithium is a necessary trace element for ideal human brain function?
Thank you General Ripper.
Or read “Futurological Congress” by Stanislaw Lem
Central planning of medical interventions wil get us all killed. Central planning gives cranks too much leverage to push their pet hobby-horse theories onto the rest of us.
A good dose of saltwater in the Vox water supply couldn’t hurt.
I love her voice, but she scares me. Looks like Vampira without the fangs.
Pax, its use and results is more akin in my mind to the ubiquitous use of SSRI’s.
Saltpeter. Damn autospell!
“Someone needs to watch Serenity.”
Add to that
“Brave New World”
“Equilibrium”
“Fahrenheit 451”
There are more...
KYPD
The hot springs in the Big Bend area in Texas are full of lithium and other minerals.
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