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Old May 25, 2013, 06:45 PM
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Lithium carbonate is the thing given for bipolar disorder, not lithium metal. Table salt is sodium chloride, which gives your body few problems, but sodium metal -- you would not want to eat that.

Nevertheless, "the specific biochemical mechanism of lithium action in mania is unknown." So there is a lot of "we don't really know" in the process.
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