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.




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