🔼: [[🛠 Supplements]] # Lithium Orotate --- Higher amounts of nutritional lithium are associated with: - Lower crime rates - Lower risk of suicide - Lower rates of agitation, [[🛡️ Addiction or Dependence]], and [[💡 Impulsivity]] - Prevention of cognitive decline - Increased [[💡 Neurogenesis]] - Increase in [[💡 Grey Matter]] Lithium plays a key role in increasing synaptic concentration of neurotransmitters [[💡 GABA]], [[💡 Serotonin (5-HT)]], [[💡 Dopamine]], and [[💡 Glutamate]].[^1] [[🧪 LSD]] and [[🌿 Magic Mushrooms]] mimic [[💡 Serotonin (5-HT)]], causing the [[💡 5-HT2A]] receptor to fire continually. [^2] Lithium is a nutrient, not a medicine. [^1]: https://www.pulsus.com/scholarly-articles/Nutritional%20Lithium%20pdf.pdf [^2]: https://drnicolecain.com/low-dose-lithium-the-best-mineral-for-treating-depression-bipolar-disorder/