Taiwan university is saying lithium is an antipsychotic? BIG STUDY

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I haven’t read the article to great degree, but I think their saying lithium could stop schizophrenia?

Please read and make what you think in this new article.

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The extract is indeed an anti-psychotic, it came naturally from green tea and sea salt, like saline, because if you lick a Duracell battery that contained lithium, it is an anti-psychotic, and it is a (1st Generation) anti-psychotic, much like Cogentin… and Prolixin, or Thorazine (which was extracted unnaturally from a spider bite… people are afraid of ants and mices… what the hell… ant and mouse? Really? Aaah a spider! Lol.

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Most drugs that are mood stabilizers also have antipsychotic properties and vice versa. It’s just a matter of which function it performs more effectively.

And as a disclaimer: please do not lick batteries to treat schizophrenia. The lithium ion found in rechargeable batteries is different from the lithium used to treat mental illness.

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@Ninjastar

So are they saying it can be used for schizophrenia by itself?

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I don’t believe it’s recommended as a mono therapy for most people. That said, all meds affect every brain differently.

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Thanks @Ninjastar

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Lithium and Depakote have antipsychotic properties but should not be used as mono therapy to treat psychotic disorders.

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@Wave

Why though. If their natural with less side effects?

I guess there’s no money to make off them.

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Because usually they won’t be enough to stave off psychosis on their own.

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I was pretty happy on lithium and did well until I went toxic off it. Then I was sick for months. That’s nasty stuff, I would never go back on lithium, it’s too dangerous.

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I’m taking lithium orotate, not lithium carbonate…which is used in huge doses and is toxic.

Be very careful with all lithium supplements.

I watched a video of a doctor talking about his patient taking supplemental form of lithium and his patient didn’t like it, but the next time he saw her she said the lithium orotate was fine, the doctor asked why she now began to like it, and she said because she takes lithium once a week instead of everyday. So she had great results in cycling lithium once a week.

I’ll post the video, I watched it years ago.

A little goes a long way with lithium.

I have some lithium aspatate in the freezer from years back which I’ve been saving to try, and I took one an hour ago. But only once a week I’ll take it.

Talk to your doctor before taking it.

But the article is interesting.

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In late 1982 after over 7 years on APs I was switched over to just lithium . For 16 years I was just on that . It wasn’t perfect , and I used to go below so called 'therapeutic level ’ a fair amount of time , but it worked quite well for me .

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This is the video I was talking about. I found it.

Apparently supplemental form of lithium (like lithium orotate or lithium aspatate) in moderation, like once a week like this doctor talks about, is more therapeutic.

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@firemonkey

Interesting.

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It sounds to me like there is a particular genetic makeup (Akt1-deficient) that would benefit particularly. Also specifically in females in this research. It does not seem like this would apply to everyone or even a large percentage of people with schizophrenia. Nevertheless, yay if they can provide precision medicine to the people who will benefit from it the most.

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Lithium, bipolar disorder

rs2314339CT #### People with your genotype are more likely to have a good response if treated with lithium for bipolar disorder.
rs3755557TT #### People with your genotype are more likely to have a very good response if treated with lithium for bipolar disorder.
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