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Add A Little Lithium To The Water Supply?
Zero Hedge: A Tufts psychology professor and Harvard Medical School lecturer has recommended dosing US water supplies with lithium in order to reduce suicide rates, saving an estimated 15,000 – 25,000 lives per year. Appearing on the Vox podcast “Future Perfect,” psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Nassir Ghaemi, MD explains that a 2014 review he co-authored analyzing five studies concluded that areas of the country with higher levels of naturally occurring lithium in the water supply had lower suicide rates. Areas with particularly high concentrations