Good to hear :-)

@peterlimited45 ...what dosage are you taking to feel the benefits? Have you been experimenting with different dosages? Thanks.

@@alex-p Only 5mg of elemental lithium per night. Tried morning and night but made me tired during the day! Just go slow and be patient. Start at night for 2 weeks, if you feel it's not working... add on half a split tablet in the morning for a couple weeks and see how you feel. It's best to start low!!!

@@peterlimited45 ...thanks man. I've been taking 5mg in the morning for the past 6 months, but I don't feel any difference to be honest. I'm going to try taking it before bed as you suggest ...and maybe do some experiments with higher dosages and see how it goes. Take care.

how often do u take it @peterlomited45

Thanks for sharing. Lithium doesn’t work for everyone but if you are one of the ones that it works well for I would highly recommend taking the low dose lithium orotate. At 10-20 mg it may not be as strong as the high dose lithium carbonate but it can definitely deliver significant positive effects and without the risks associated with the high dose carbonate. My next video on living Well will Bipolar should be posted in about 5 weeks.

Good job, there's a lot you can do to improve ADHD including vigourous physical exercise, directed focus mindfulness brain training exercises, try dopaminergic enhancing remedies, acetyl choline enhancing remedies, brain blood circulating remedies. I'm going to be focusing on writing my bipolar book for the rest of this year but I have started a book on ADHD. Also see the books by Dr Amons

Did u try magnesium l threonate ?

The problem with magnesium threonate is it’s so expensive. I cover the exact numbers but let’s say for example it was 3 times better absorbed into the brain but 10 times the price of say citrate it’s cheaper to take 3 times the magnesium citrate, this also delivers therapeutic doses to the rest of the body.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments I would take 3 times of magnesium citrate if it wouldn't cause me diarrhea lol

@@demonfromthemine677 I mag citrate causes diarrhoea switch to glycinate or taurate, still cheaper. Citrate only causes diarrhoea in a small number of people.

What is it?

Glad it was helpful!

I’ve started using it instead of lithium citrate. I had substance use disorder as part of Bipolar Disorder, and am excited about the potential of lithium orotate to heal damage to the brain from that, as well. I’ve been in recovery since consistently taking lithium citrate in 2016, but it has been hard on the body. Good luck with your goals!

Thanks, back at you…

I just started lithium o 5 mg and it’s making me feel very dizzy. Is that a normal thing. The first few days I had no effect from it

The first things I would think of are: are you adequately hydrated? It’s really important to be very well hydrated, lithium orotate is somewhat dehydrating, unless you maintain good hydration every day you can get some side-effects; since I’ve been on lithium orotate every time I get dehydrated, I get a dehydration headache. The second thing is that you may just be going through an adjustment phase, I started with a quarter tablet, i.e. 1.25 mg and then doubled every week all the way up to 10 mg a day when I tried starting with 10 mg today, I felt emotionally flat, had shaky hands and somewhat headachy. Another thing I would look at is what is the rest of your diet like, are you supplementing a multi vitamin, magnesium, or you vitamin D deficient et cetera. And finally, it may be that lithium orotate just doesn’t suit your metabolism, and it’s not for you.

2 mg Of lithium from lithium orotate would not put your kidneys at any risk from lithium poisoning. I take 10 mg a day and still I do not worry at all about having my kidneys poisoned from lithium, I wouldn’t do it if I thought there was any risk at all.

Hi, going vegan with bipolar is not a good idea. The most nutrients for the brain are coming from animal food. Search for "Carnivore success stories " here on youtube. So I would recomend you a healthy ketogenic diet with lots of meat, eggs and vegetables and low carbohydrates. Also research the WimHof Breathing Method its extremely effective

Is thyroid at risk on 10mg of lithium a day?

You’re welcome Good luck with your healing journey

Olà, tudo bem? Você ainda esta usando este mineral? Eu comecei recentemente, e estou extremamente feliz com o resultado.

I’m so glad you found the information valuable. I spent the past 3 decades developing alternative ways of treating mental health problems especially depression (in my case it turned out to be bipolar depression) and now I’m starting on social media KZfaq and my website to share all I learned. I’ve got some really good new information on what causes depression and what to do about it coming soon.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments fantastic and I have subbed, I took my first lithium orotate two hours ago and in 45 minutes I realized my whole system calmed down, not groggy just different. Shock to the system in a good way. Took a salt bath to get some magnesium, profound as well then. I will continue 5 mg am and pm and will note the results. I have been near suicide just to stop the impending doom I felt for so long. This gives me hope, I have counseled many myownself and persuaded them not to go the prescription route. Valerian root is also effective in pure form, hard to find though. Insomnia excaserbates depression and excitabily. I sometimes go a week without sleep and it is maddening and one can't function. At 55 its a killer when the depression hits , I was working 60 hrs a week hard physical and couldn't sleep unless alcohol. Either way a losing proposition. Many thanks

@@mountaintruth1deeds533 That is great news :-) actually only about 30-40% of people respond to lithium but for those that do, it can be like a miracle medicine. If you get any tremor in your hands or feeling a little bit wobbly just pull back on the dosage for a week and then go back up to let your body get used to it. One of the great features about lithium is that it progressively restores healthy neuroplasticity over a very long time. For me for the first 2 years I took lithium every 6 months I would look back and realise I have better mental health than 6 months ago, after about 2 years it plateaued and I stopped noticing progressive benefits but by continuing to take it I retained the benefits it produced. A positive response to lithium may indicate that either inflammation negative neuroplasticity which is related to inflammation of playing a role in your depressions. I'll be saying a lot about inflammation and neuroplasticity in the coming weeks and months on my channel. The brain is so much more repairable than we ever used to think it was before even though you have been ill with depression for a long time does not mean that it is not possible for you to recover :-)

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments Thank you for all your work in alternative treatments for treating depression. I am suffering with depression. Had it for three years (unknowingly) before my symptoms started to worsen and, I had a major depressive episode and, was forced to seek help. After this happened I realised I have chronic depression with worsening symptoms. I refused to take any pharmaceutical medicines because I am a pharmacist and, I know how these medicines work and the impact they have on your physiology. I prefer not to take any pharmaceuticals if I don't have to and, luckily I am in good health otherwise so I don't have to. I decided to try the alternative treatment known as SAM-e to treat my depression. Do you know if this is a good treatment for depression or not? At the same time I started an intensive exercise regimen (20 minute HIIT sessions 3 times a week and weight training 4 to 6 times a week) and, a strict protein based diet that incorporated only good carbohydrates and fats. From this I have experienced good improvements in my symptoms in that my energy levels increased to the point where I can do all my necessary daily activities and my concentration levels also greatly approved. However, I still lack enjoyment or pleasure in the activities I used to find enjoyable or pleasurable before my depression. So I still have very intense anhedonia which has not improved despite my interventions so far. I also still lack motivation. I was doing the exercise (for 18 months) because I enjoyed doing it and, found I was getting really good at it but, even with feeling this way my motivation to continue exercising was starting to diminish. Now with the gyms being forced to close because of the Corona virus, I stopped exercising altogether and, have no motivation to continue to do so at home. I am also finding now, since I am at home mostly due to lockdown in SA, I am lacking in energy to get much done. Even though I have made major improvements in treating my depression so far, I feel that I have never been able to get back the person I used to be before my depression started. Having found your channel, I think it's because I have not managed to get to the root cause of my depression which I think is silent inflammation. I am definitely going to try out some of your alternative treatments that you recommend. With my type of unipolar depression which is of a very low depressive nature marked with severe anhedonia, lack of energy and lack of motivation what are the best treatments that you would recommend? And, do you know if it will be safe to take them while taking SAM-e? I would be grateful for any information that you are able to assist with. Thank you.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments really? Only 30 to 40% ? How can that be if it's a natural salt that does so many different things?

Hi, I'm glad you found the video helpful. The new understanding of what causes depression is more a loss of synaptic connections than a deficiency of neurotransmitters inside the synapses and the good news is that synapses can be stimulated to regrow. I don't know other names for inositol or NAC cysteine or taurine, sorry I can't help you with the translation. There are lots of things we can do to boost dopamine formation and also encourage the regrowth of dopaminergic synapses, hourly talking a lot about dopamine in my forthcoming videos on bipolar depression.

Been using the orotate nightly and it is working well

I can’t stand depakote. I would rather suffer with Bipolar than take it ever again! Lithium Citrate worked almost immediately for me, but I gained 80 lbs, which made my musculoskeletal problems and lipedema disabling. I was miserable, after tapering off it, but can hardly walk, much less do my necessary exercises and physical therapy. I started lithium orotate this month, and 5 mg did help right away, but I am sleepy. It also didn’t last all day. I backed off to 1.25 mg, twice a day, with mania depression and mixed agitation occurring (I have Bipolar 1 Rapid Cycling). I’m moving up to 2.5 mg, twice a day, today. Then, will possibly add a bit more at night. I hope I can move the whole dose to night. That worked best for me with lithium citrate. My 19 year old cat has had chronic kidney failure for 4 years (due to dental disease…we couldn’t do anasthesia to remove the teeth because of his cardiomyopathy), and has developed hyperthyroidism. It’s a very common disease effect of lithium toxicity, and I don’t want to suffer like my poor little buddy, in the future. I had issues with addiction, which I was able to beat with the lithium citrate, which was a good trade, at the time. I’m hoping to do better by my body with natural lithium! I hope you are helped by it, as I have been. I does, for me, what the pharmaceutical version did…I think I just have to find the right dose for balance. Good luck! 🍀

Still take it ?

What dosage??

What dosage are you using for lithium oratate?

How much do you take?

You’re welcome. Hope you like my next video on the biology of bipolar disorder.

You are welcome :-) I'm going to start doing a series of videos on bipolar disorder and depression which may be something that interests you.

Thanks for sharing There's so much that we can do with natural self-help therapy that just doesn't get researched because of lack of funding. Keep up the good work :-)

​@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments I knew you'd like it 🌸

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments why no more posts from this channel

cannabidiol (CBD) helps reduce mania and cannibigerol (CBG) is very effective for anxiety and also kind of cools down that minds fire and storm you know what I'm talking about I'm talking about the pure isolated forms of these cannabinoids, you can find these isolated online although taking them through under tongue is most effective but if it gets in your throat it can be very uncomfortable

@@swankmank CBD is a stimulant for me. I wonder if it might cause me mania.

Yes personal experience is what can tell us when something is helpful.

Thanks mate

You’re welcome

Yes that’s right each tablet is approximately 5 mg so three would equal 15 mg which is a good therapeutic dosage. Glad you like my videos, more on bipolar disorder coming 2024.

WOW. I cannot live without coffee. But I am not aware that coffee is harmful in any way.

@@teamdivine5651 hi there! Yep, I didn’t know either, it’s not just coffee but caffeine… in any form. I’m a little past 2 years now and healing nicely (so much better!) I had 30 years of PMS (hormone issues) and mental health issues like anxiety, OCD, depression but mainly around my cycle… it was all connected and all from the way caffeine affects me… it’s all gone now. I also had tinnitus, digestion issues, I bit my nails, I had nervous underarm sweats… all gone. Things I thought were just me, just life. I thought I needed it too, and essentially we do because if we go without it we start withdrawal, and we feel bad and we’re definitely tired, but it’s temporary… just gotta go through months of healing first. It takes time to heal but we do heal. It’s been worth it for me, because now I’m free of the drug that caused years of unknown issues. I’m grateful.

@@MandySBar still on LO?

@@runzization no, I never really started taking it… I just wanted to keep healing from caffeine and alcohol. It takes time but we do heal. 2.5 years sober from it all today 🥳

Hi I would recommend you to get on a healthy ketogenic diet and do the WimHof Breathing 2 times a day. I bet you will feel a lot better @@MandySBar

You're so welcome! In 2023 I’ll writing my book Living Well with Bipolar and serialising the chapters as KZfaq vids so there may be more content that interests you.

By the way, do you recommend either one brand over the other?

You're so welcome! Good luck with your healing journey :-)

For me personally I feel distinctly better on the Advanced Research brand, I switched many times between the 2 and always feel better on the Advanced Research; but it could be different for someone else.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments thanks! I will use both and see if I notice a difference. I'm just glad I don't need to discard either of them!

You are very welcome, it feels rewarding that other people are finding my life’s work useful :)

Yes I agree. He explains things very well 👌🍃

I do carnivore diet for bipolar. Best decision of my life. Incredibly healing

So did u experience any benefits?

You're very welcome!

Excellent work figuring out how things affect you. Zinc and lithium both reduce glutamate so taking both may work synergistically together on high glutamate so you only need to take less lithium. They also both boost BDNF so this may be the why they work so well on you. Another possibility is their combined anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects is especially benefits your brain. You could test each of these possible therapeutic effects by combining a stack of remedies that have the above effects one at a time to see which strategy benefits your individual brain the most (glutamate, BDNF, inflammation). You are testing the weakest most imbalanced systems in your brain. I’m gonna be starting a series on each of these aspects of the bipolar brain soon. Got to make some videos on stress and the immune system (Coronavirus and all).

You’re Welkom I’m building a permanent KZfaq studio so I can start producing regular videos

You’re welcome

Hi

Samiraj,192 lithium orotate take continuous

Glad you liked it

Excellent

I do put a lot of time into thinking and changing how I explain things to make the information as understandable as I can, it's nice to get the feedback and not wasting my time; thanks. I really hope to visit the Olympic Park one day.

Thanks Mark, you made me blush.

How much is a lot? I took 5mg right off, but got sleepy.

@@sciencenotstigma9534 bout 40 mg

Can it really prevent panic attacks?

@@christopherrivera3820 it definitely calms me down when im already triggered from when I wake up.

it's an essential nutrient, so why stop taking it?

It is a helpful , but not necessarily an _essential_ mineral. Lithium might be toxic in higher doses. Still, taking it in prolonged periods might be needed for certain conditions...

Awesome, thank you! By end of 2021 there will be more videos on treating Bipolar Disorder, boosting your plasticity, reducing inflammation and more.

Take Selenium for mercury toxicity. Selenium chelates and removes mercury from the body it's amazing

Yes I meant the milligrams of elemental lithium. I take 10-15 mg elemental lithium.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments Thank you

It’s surprising because lithium orotate is a simple molecule but yes I really think I can feel a difference between different brands and other people say the same. The brand I and many other people seem to prefer is Advanced Research. I’m just finishing the editing on another vid on how to use lithium orotate (and I forgot to mention brands!), it should be uploaded in a couple of hours.

Thank you for the fast reply and explanation! I will try the Advanced Research brand :)

So to be clear, if the bottle says 5mg, and I want to take it for depression is 1 pill what I start with? Is that what the amount of elemental lio is in the 5mgs? Thank You!

@@JEBBY123IFY sorry I'm not an MD but yes, if it is a 5 mg pill, then you would take 2 or 3 per day, which is sthe 10-15 mg/day that Dr Peter Smithuk outlined as a working dose. for chronic depression. (although I personally would start with the single 5 mg pill to see if that helps, first.) Of course you may need to do it under doctor if you have to wean off of other pharmaceuticals. ah just realized your comment was 2 yrs ago!!

I would like to know the dosages of taurine and glycine too!

I recommend dividing the dally dose, half with breakfast, half with dinner.

Sounds good. I made 2 other vids on lithium you might like.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments i am watching right now💙

Have you ever studied about vitexin? It is a substance that is found in passion flower. When i live a very stressful situation i like to use to make me calmer/ sleep well. It helps me to do not take too much lithium orotate. Other plant i love is valeriane. Your videos are excellent!💙

@@lululuzzh4917 Yes I often prescribe Passion flower

Hello! Did you try it?

Hi just seeing this after 2 years. Yes, in my practice I’ve seen some people find lithium orotate beneficial for their PTSD. It may assist the brain to remodel away from the PTSD. This would be assisted by doily meditation brain training and trauma release therapy at the same time. Substances that directly dampen down the reactivity of the amygdala include the supplement Zembrin and the psychedelic drug psilocybin from magic mushrooms. I would try a course of lithium and meditation for 3-4 months to effect some remodelling then add Zembrin for a month or 2, then find a psilocybin based therapist. Good luck with your recovery.

I just replied to the original post

Hi, lithium orotate is a good choice chronic and recurrent depression, it's quite slow acting exerts multiple antidepressant effects and anti-inflammatory effect. If you wanted me to look into your case and work out a programme of natural remedies to help you taper and transfer from pharmaceuticals to natural remedies I'm available for private consultation, you can find details on my website. To really transform the health of your brain and combat depression you should combine several things together at the same time, a neuroplasticity anti-inflammatory diet with brain training exercises and a stack of supplements to focus on reducing inflammation, boosting neuroplasticity and targeting the appropriate neurotransmitters in your brain.

That’s an unusual symptom. I would try slowly building up the dose. Also maybe you are producing inappropriate sympathetic nervous systems responses, try recalibrating your autonomic nervous system with deep relaxation brain training. I’ve got a free deep relaxation brain training recording you can get by emailing me.

Yes it does usually go away, I built up from 1/2 mg a day.

You are welcome. Glad to hear the lithium orotate is starting to work. One of the great things about lithium is that it continues to improve brain health, steadily, the longer you take it; for me, I continue to see improvements every six months for about 2 1/2 years, and then I felt it plateaued, but obviously I kept on taking it. Yes I think Theanine is a great supplement. It is healthy for the brain and can be helpful for counteracting mania. Good luck with your healing journey.

​@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments Do you do consultations?

@sendlazarus430 Yes I do consultations online by Zoom. You find a breakdown of my fees on my website www.BalancingBrainChemistry.co.uk Or go straight to my bookings calendar on calendly.com/PeterSmithUK

@@sendlazarus430 Yes I do consultations on line by Zoom. You can find more information on my website www.BalancingBrainChemistry.co.com Or you can go straight to my booking page @ calendly.com/petersmithuk

Glad it was helpful!

Do you feel that it helps with ADHD?

It’s possible it could help some aspects of ADHD. Try it…

Wow that’s fantastic, thanks for sharing I’ve not seen those before. The label says 5 mg lithium orotate from two Gummies so 2.5 mg per gummy, this would be very useful for people that want a smaller dose and smaller people such as children. I don’t like the imprecise wording on the label however, I’m presuming that means 5 mg of ELEMENTAL lithium from 125 mg lithium orotate and not just 5 mg of lithium-orotate which would be just 0.19 mg or 190 mcg of actual elemental lithium. They don’t even make this clear on their website product page. If you write to the company and clarify this point please post the clarification in a comment.

I’m not a doctor or a medical professional but maybe set up an appointment with him since he is a functional medicine doctor? Maybe a GI Map test or something to look at if he needs digestive enzymes to break down and absorb the nutrients. How is his diet? Sometimes short terms fasting or looking at if he’s eating clean foods might help?

Hi, he should try a ketogenic diet or carnivore diet(extrem version but extremely effective) and the WimHof Breathing Method (2 times a day). WimHof Breathing is explained for free here on youtube "WimHof breathing explained." This Breathing technique is not only one more ineffective breath a bit deeper in and that was it but it is extremely effective for many people just try it

It’s hard to make generalisations, you might continue until you notice significant changes. I could feel it changing my mental/brain health for the first 6 months then I continued to experience continued improved stability until is levelled out after 2 years. I only took 10 mg a day. I often put my patients on 20 mg for 2-3 months to kick start a bipolar treatment.

my son does that - been fine for him 👍

I haven’t heard of contraindications with any psych drugs. There’s a lot of specific info online, too!

Sure, if you got the dose right, but I’ve not seen a lithium orotate on liquid form.

I have occasionally had patients that experienced improvements from lithium within say a few days, however, this is less common. The more common experience I've observed in my practice is effect build up gradually becoming noticeable in the 3 to 4 week timeframe. My personal experience was: I went from zero lithium supplementation to 10 mg lithium orotate a day and it felt horrible, I experienced emotional flattening and slight hand trembling. At that time I was very wary of lithium, in my mind I still thought of it as a pharmaceutical drug and this experience almost made me abort the trial. I reduced the dosage to 1/8, i.e. I snapped the tablets into quarters and took one quarter a day about 1.25 mg. This felt okay, no emotional flattening, no hand trembling. After one week I doubled it taking to quarters a day, this still felt okay, the next week I doubled it again and so forth all the way up to my current dose of 5 mg twice a day. Within about 3 weeks I thought I think this is doing something, I think this is having some positive effect on me, it was subtle but it was there. Then what happened was after 6 months on lithium I looked back and realised I was much healthier than I had been 6 months ago, then another 6 months after that, the same, I was definitely mentally healthier, my condition was more stable and I felt more resilient. This continued 2 more times, i.e. every 6 months I looked back and realised I was in a better mental health state. So, in my case, I had to build up the lithium slowly over the first month or so, it started to make subtle changes at 3-4 week mark but then remarkably continued to improve the health of my brain over about 2 years until it eventually seemed to reach a plateau after which I can't say I noticed the lithium improving me any further, it's like the lithium has done all it can do and all I now have to do is keep taking it to continue maintain the benefits. In many ways this makes sense, one of the primary actions of lithium, at least I believe in my case, is that it boosts neuroplasticity. Neuro plastic boosting treatments take several weeks to produce any noticeable positive effects, but then they can continue create improvements for a couple of years. When someone has a stroke or other brain injury for example you can observe the brain regenerating and rewiring itself over about a two-year period and then it kind of plateaus. Talking about brain development plateauing about 10 years ago I had fairly significant decline in function in the parietal lobes of my brain, I largely recovered this to a combination of supplements diet brain training et cetera, but my ability to perform mental arithmetic never fully recovered to its former state. Excitingly however, even after all this time I've noticed spontaneous recovery of function in this area in this area over the last couple of years; so it seems that my brain still retains the capacity for regeneration in this area despite having plateaued for about 6 years. It's possible that it just needed more time but I think it's more likely it's the effects of the new and improved brain health promoting techniques I've introduced in the last few years. I'm constantly learning about diet and have made some significant advances in understanding how eat to manipulate brain health, I've introduced new sleeping techniques to absolutely optimise my sleep. Thanks to lithium orotate and the other things I've had the healthiest decade of my life, the first decade for 40 years where I had zero mental illness! :-) As ever good luck with your mental health journey…

I think he said not many studies, but tons of anectodal evidence plus the fact it's an over the counter supplement, your therapist should realize it's less toxic when taken at the 'recommended dosages' compared to toxic hi dose Lithium carbonate.

@@CarolBlaneyPhD oh, it's been some time, 2 years already (though YT says 1 year ago) So, lithium orotate actually got me out of depression and crazy mood swings. I tracked my mood for several months and results are astonishing. Then went to therapy and solved root problems that caused it.

@@ideadriven1953 that is great news! I took only 4% of one (5mg elemengal Lithium) pill, which is around 0.2 mg elemental Li, in LiOr) and felt slightly giddy for an hour or so. I recall once taking the full 5 mg recommended pill and felt awful. I think some really need it but only in microdose amounts. especially super sensitive individuals. I'm so glad it helped you. I wonder if o.1mg should be recommended to vitamins. Some experts declare it is an essential nutrient like zinc, and like zinc, too much is not recommended.

@@CarolBlaneyPhD oh, that's sad that it affects you negatively. I hope it is true, that you just don't need much. If you tried it for your mood stability, did you find any alternaitives that work for you?

That’s a good idea I’ll add it to my to do list:-)

@WizardtheGreatest yes I take 600 mg of NAC cysteine twice a day six days a week as part of my wellness routine to protect me against bipolar depression.

I use NAC 2400 mg for my excoriation (skin picking).

@@BeingBetter wow thats a high dose, I take 600, I get a gut upset,

You can take it with food which may make a difference, but everyone is different and you have to work with the body you have. The way to successfully use natural self help and lifestyle medicine is to do individual experiments rather than taking the same dose other people take.

Iodine s most effective in my opinion.

130 mg of lithium-orotate will contain about 5 mg of elemental lithium.

Have you heard about colloidal gold as well for mental health? Also, mercury causes mood swings. Good luck to you.

Ask your doctor and show him the supplies. Show the elemental amount and compare to the elemental amount in lithium carbonate and ask if you can switch to a lower dose. Dont forget the elemental amount may absorb far more with orotate version

For best results I use Advanced Research or Lindens.

Try L-Theanine 200mg once a day....

My Canadian patients buy it online from the US

Hello Doc, I would still be very happy to hear something in regard to my question from you. Is my second concern i would love to get your permission to translate some Videos into German by subtitels

Moin such mal nach Michael Nehls Lithium hier auf KZfaq. Anonsten empfehle ich dir die WimHof Atemmethode und ketogene Ernährung

Probably! it seems to have a balancing effect. You can alway try taking it and an experiment. It definitely can slowly help rebuild deficient serotonin activity, it seems to work boosting neuroplasticity and reducing neuro-inflammation to stimulate the growth/ re-growth of serotonin synapses. This takes times, several months, you could reinforce it with saffron, zembrin and tryptophan.

I always say natural remedies are not that strong so you need to take several to get a strong effect. Also mental health problems have many aspects and you want to address as many of them you can and this requires several remedies. Lithium orotate is a good one but I never achieved stability with just a single mono-therapy approach. Trying to rely on just one thing i.e. mono-therapy is what mainstream medicine often tries and with a highly complex system (the brain) it often just doesn’t work.

Don’t take lithium orotate and carbonate together at the same time, no researched tables or guidelines have been developed for this and there’s a risk of building up toxic levels (lithium orotate is excreted more slowly than the carbonate from the kidneys). Supplementing low dose lithium orotate is not as strong as pharmaceutical lithium carbonate so I don’t recommend trying to rely on lithium orotate alone; to manage bipolar disorder without pharmaceuticals requires taking multiple natural remedies and therapeutic approaches (dark-therapy, rebalancing overactivity in the HPA-axis, reducing neuro-inflammation, boosting neuroplasticity, supplementing and growing then intestinal microbiome). Each of these adds some stabilising therapeutic effects and combined together they can all add up to a strong therapy effect. Sorry if this sounds too much and off putting, I didn’t invent the complex biology of bipolar! In my practice, first my patients put all the addition additional remedies and techniques in place then they may be ready to switch from lithium carbonate to orotate; the transition should be made overnight to avoid gaps with no lithium and avoid doubling up and producing toxic levels.