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Might higher lithium levels in drinking water help prevent suicide?
A new analysis has found a link between higher levels of trace lithium in drinking water and lower suicide rates in populations around the world.
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No, it most likely won't. Careful blood monitoring of levels is required because the therapeutic dose isn't far from the toxic dose. Simply becoming dehydrated can tip you over to toxicity. So tossing in lower levels of lithium so as not to poison anybody isn't going to do anything but waste it.
Unless the discovered link (correlation /= causation) has controlled for population mental health levels, amount of sunlight, pollution, general health, income/poverty levels, and several dozen other things that don't immediately come to mind.
Why not increase the already available amounts of lead in drinking water? It shortens one's lifespan and thus helps with suicide.
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