DEAR PEOPLE’S PHARMACY: My young adult daughter has been taking Zoloft for depression. She recently weaned off of it and her new doctor put her on 5 milligrams of lithium orotate. She first tried to ...

Seven years of investigation by scientists at Harvard Medical School has revealed that the loss of the metal lithium plays a powerful role in Alzheimer’s disease, a finding that could lead to earlier ...

A new study shows that lithium occurs naturally in the brain and plays a major role in normal brain function. Scientists also discovered that a loss of lithium in the brain may be an early warning ...

Q: My young adult daughter has been taking Zoloft for depression. She recently weaned off it and her new doctor put her on 5 milligrams of lithium orotate. She first tried to take bupropion but couldn ...

Q. After reviewing a correlation between low-dose lithium and lowered incidences of dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, my husband and I started taking 5 mg of OTC lithium orotate daily. Although it ...

Top row: In a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, lithium deficiency (right) dramatically increased amyloid beta deposits in the brain compared with mice that had normal physiological levels of ...

This is the fifth post in a series on non-pharmacologic treatments of bipolar disorder. Previous posts briefly reviewed the evidence for amino acids, the B vitamin choline, and a proprietary nutrient ...