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http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/ ... sis&rank=1

I did a quick search to see why they would try Lithium on MS, and found this:

http://www.jimmunol.org/content/181/1/338.short
And an interesting video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjC-9mxjvx4

(No need to point out that this was in EAE.)

Of course, lithium is a pretty serious psychotropic drug, so it's probably not a good idea to take this outside of the study.

Interesting. Dr. Terry Wahls took 300 mg of lithium orotate twice daily (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769364/) and she did have a remarkable recovery.

Though I agree that lithium is a very serious substance and probably not to be taken without professional supervision.

Question I want answered is why Terry Wahls took lithium. For her MS or a mood disorder? She is doing some clinical trial with MS patients re her food and electrical stimulation. I wonder if lithium is also be given to those patients if they are too truly replicate all that she did.

Some studies suggest that lithium may increase a person's own stem cell levels. So, theoretically, lithium could be a way to stimulate the body's own healing mechanism.

Are you sure? How serious? Lithium orotate can be bought otc and sold as a food suppliment. If it has a very serious side effect then something is really wrong with your food administration. Lithium carbonic is the one that is a prescription drug and used for depression. Terry used lithium orotate.

I wasn't very specific, and I am far from an expert on these drugs; but, Lithium is prescribed for bipolar disorder, which I consider a fairly serious condition, so I would assume the drug used to treat it can have serious effects.

But, your post prompted me to do some googling. The form of lithium prescribed for bipolar disorder is lithium carbonate and has a much higher concentration of elemental lithium than found in the otc supplement lithium orotate. Having said that, even this supplement can cause adverse effects:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072162

Thanks patientx. the question is how serious if it can be bougth as a food suppliment. Overdosing yourself with certain vitamins or minerals can have damage on your health as well.

But as I said it can be still dangerous and FDA (in the US) is doing a poor job, which would not surprise me.

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