Posted on 02/18/2011 7:47:18 PM PST by Red Badger
A regular uptake of the trace element lithium can considerably promote longevity. This is the result of a new study by scientists of Friedrich Schiller University Professor Dr. Michael Ristow's team along with Japanese colleagues from universities in Oita and Hiroshima have demonstrated by two independent approaches that even a ow concentration of lithium leads to low concentration of lithium leads to an increased life expectancy in humans as well as in a mode humans as well as in a mode organism, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans.
The research team presents its results in the online edition of the scientific publication European Lithium is one of many nutritiona trace elements and is ingested trace elements and is ingested mainly through vegetables and drinking water.
"The scientific community doesn't know much about the physiological function of lithium," project manager Ristow says. According to an earlier study from the US, highly concentrated lithium showed to be life-prolonging in C. elegans, the Professor of Nutrition in Jena continues. "The dosage that has been analyzed back then, however, is clearly beyond the physiologically relevant range and may be poisonous for human beings," explains Ristow. To find out if lithium has a life-prolonging impact at much lower concentrations, the scientists then examined the impact of lithium in a concentration that is regularly found in ordinary tap water.
In a collaborative effort with Japanese colleagues, the Jena scientists analyzed the mortality rate in 18 adjacent Japanese municipalities in relation to the amount of lithium contained mortality rate was considerably lower in those municipalities with more lithium in the drinking water," Ristow explains the key finding.
In a second experiment, the Jena scientists examined exactly this range of concentration in the mode organism C. elegans.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
Well, sh#t. That means Obastard is going to live forever.
All these medical breakthroughs will no doubt come too late for me.
Willie Nelson Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette Lyrics:
Now I'm a fellow with a heart of gold with the ways of a gentleman I've been told
A kind of a fellow that wouldn't even harm a flea
But if me and a certain character met that guy that invented the cigarette
I'd murder that son of a gun in the first degree
That ain't that I don't smoke myself and I don't reckon they'll injure your health
I've smoked 'em all my life and I ain't dead yet
But nicotine slaves are all the same at a pheasant party or a poker game
Everythin's gotta stop when they have that cigarette
Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death
Tell St Peter at the Golden Gate that you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette
Try ormus, it works better.
Don’t you take Lithium for depression?
No, I take Royal Crown......
traditionally for bi-polar disorders...
And thorazine prevents cancer.
The reason probably relates to it’s anti fungal properties.
Bingo! Did it again.
I have been taking 120 mg. of lithium orotate daily (from Vitamin Research Products www.vrp.com) for over 12 years. I thought it would just mellow me out.
I hope this makes up for all the bacon grease soaked Southern cookin I grew up on.
BTW, El Paso, TX has lithium in the local water IIRC.
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