The British government should put lithium in tap water

British state television The BBC advocates the public mandatory introduction of lithium into drinking water throughout the UK

Citing research from Denmark, the BBC suggests that placing lithium in tap water will reduce the risk of developing dementia in humans. BBC News reported that a study was conducted at the University of Copenhagen, which examined 73,731 health cards of Danish citizens with dementia and 733,653 healthy people.

Water from the faucet was tested at 151 place in the country.

The results were published in JAMA Psychiatry, and showed that moderate levels of lithium (between 5.1 and 10 micrograms per liter) increase the risk of dementia by 22% compared to low levels (below five micrograms per liter). However, that drinking water With the highest levels of lithium (above 15 micrograms per liter), the risk of a disease of only 17%. Researchers say: "This is the first study to our knowledge of the relationship between lithium in drinking water and the frequency of dementia. "Long-term exposure to a large amount of lithium in drinking water may be associated with a lower incidence of dementia."

Lithium changes the brain

Lithium is known to have an effect on the brain and is used as a bipolar disorder. However, lithium in water is at significantly lower levels than it is used in drugs. The experiments have shown that this element changes a wide spectrum of biological processes in Brain. This effect can be explained by testing different doses, which has shown that the least amount of lithium in the water can alter brain activity in a beneficial way.

Professor Simon Lovestone, from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, said: "This is a really intriguing study. In neurons in mice and in the Alzheimer's disease model, lithium proved to be a protection. "Not only that, but lithium is used to treat people with bipolar disorder, and some studies have shown that people who take lithium for this reason, through life, can also be protected from Alzheimer's disease."

In history it has been shown that the scaling of various elements and compounds such as fluoride in public water supply, brings only damage to the general population and acts directly on the brain, and who is also lithium.

• 28 Aug, 2017
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