Sunday 20 February 2011

Lithium Intake can make you live longer

Professor Dr. Michael Ristow's team from the University of Jena along with Japanese colleagues from universities in Oita and Hiroshima have demonstrated by two independent approaches that even a low concentration of lithium leads to an increased life expectancy in humans.

Lithium is one of the many nutritional trace elements found especially in vegetables and drinking water.  It is found in the group of chemicals known as the Alkali metals, many of which are important for humans.

Periodic table showing the position of lithium. (Credit: FHWA)


In an earlier study from the US, it was shown that high concentrations of lithium were life prolonging in a specific species of roundworm, C. elegans. The concentrations used then are however not suitable for humans.

In earlier studies it has already been shown that low doses of lithium are associated with an improvement of psychological well-being and with decreased suicide rates.




Um... My main computer is in repair and this laptop is kinda slow, so I won't be able to read many of the awesome blogs that I normally read.... sorry guys. Thanks for reading my blog anyways. :)

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17 comments:

  1. So I'm not the only one with a dead machine!

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  2. Good news, long live without long youth is kinda bad though, hope they work more on that.

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  3. We just need to eat some battery's now.

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  4. Ooooh fair enough, powerades new drink boasts about having Li in it. THey're one step ahead of the game I see

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  5. sure just let me get out my laptop's battery in a sec'...

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  6. wow, i have a friend who just started litium meds. i'll be sure to tell him about this, thanks.

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  7. I work in a chemical plant, I'll ask around.

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  8. Lithiums a antidepressant/ mood stabiliser :P

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  9. Increasing my intake of anything that Nirvana have written a song about sounds like a bad idea from the off. Whats the massive fascination with living longer and longer?

    "Come on you apes, you wanna live for ever"- Rico, Startship Troopers.

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  10. "decreased suicide rates" and "life prolonging". Bit redundant, no?

    http://robertfunf.blogspot.com/

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  11. Well lithium have been used for psychological treatment for a very long time.

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  12. time to buy lithium batteries in bulk.

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