Give lithium to water will help reduce suicide rate?

It sounds like science fiction but recently a psychiatrist in Ireland has come up with a hypothesis that giving small amounts of lithium to drinking water will help us live better. It was Dr. Moosajee Bhamjee, a former politician of the Labor Party of Ireland (for campaigning for a vote against Clare in 1992), Dr. Moosajee Bhamjee urged the government to give Add lithium to the water source.

Actually, lithium has no effect, making people feel happier. However, Bhamjee pointed out that water containing lithium could help reduce suicide rates.

Lithium is used in psychiatry to treat depression patients. In chemistry, lithium is a soft, silver-white metallic element. Lithium can be found in some foods and water sources. Other studies have also shown that where water contains lithium, suicide rates in that place are much lower than elsewhere.

In 1990, a study in 27 Texas counties gave us another interesting piece of information that is not only lower suicide rates but also cases of murder and rape are also lower in places where there are Water sources containing lithium. In addition, another study in Japan in 2009 also showed a lower suicide rate in places where lithium is in the country. Professor Allan Young of Imperial College, who called for more research on this issue in the British Journal of Psychiatry, said: "This may be one of the ways to significantly improve. human spiritual life ".

However, for these studies to be really applicable to life, it will be a long way.