stabilize the moods of people with bipolar disorder and to reduce their risk of suicide.Most rocks contain trace amounts of the element.
Weathering washes it into groundwater and standing water, which is how the chemical finds its way into the public water supply.Several studies over the years have found associations between relatively high amounts of lithium in drinking water and lower rates of suicide across various populations.Recently, researchers at Brighton and Sussex Medical School and King’s College London, both in the United Kingdom, have now pooled data from 15 of these studies in a meta-analysis.The studies included had been conducted in the United States, Austria, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, the U.K., and Japan, encompassing a.