Should we add lithium to our drinking water?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 16-09-2014 2:21am #1

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In 1990, a study was published looking at 27 Texas counties with a variety of lithium levels in their water. The authors discovered that people whose water had the least amount of lithium had significantly greater levels of suicide, homicide and rape than the people whose water had the higher levels of lithium. The group whose water had the highest lithium level had nearly 40 percent fewer suicides than that with the lowest lithium level.

Almost 20 years later, a Japanese study that looked at 18 municipalities with more than a million inhabitants over a five-year period confirmed the earlier study’s finding: Suicide rates were inversely correlated with the lithium content in the local water supply.

More recently, there have been corroborating studies in Greece and Austria.

It makes more sense than adding fluoride to our water anyway.

Ste.phen · 16-09-2014 2:27am

WoollyRedHat · 16-09-2014 2:48am

Why stop there. Throw a bit of MDMA in there while we're at it.

NightOfTheHunt · 16-09-2014 2:51am

My opinion on these matters is, give people a drinking water supply with nothing added, no fluoride, no chlorine, ... no lithium.. And if they wish to drink these substances let them purchase from the shop, fluoridated salt and toothpaste are particularly cheap.