Lithium - Forbidden earned

Who benefits from your brain's most important microgram trace element being available on prescription? Three answers. And a Harvard study that no one cites properly.

You need three hundred euros for a prescription for a trace element that is contained in almost every high-quality mineral water.

Welcome to the world of lithium. Banned throughout the EU as a food supplement - no matter how low the dose. Prescription-only as a drug. On August 6, 2025, it suddenly became the subject of one of the most remarkable publications that the scientific journal Nature has published in recent years.

This publication changes a lot. But it is - in my view - quoted in abbreviated form by precisely those players who benefit economically from the current status.

Three players.

Three business models.

A regulation.

Let's go!

What lithium is - and what it is not

Let's start with the most important distinction, which is almost always missing. When we talk about „lithium“, we can mean two things.

The pharmaceutical lithium carbonate in dosages of 600 to 1,800 milligrams per day for the treatment of bipolar disorders. This is a high-dose therapy with a narrow therapeutic range, regular blood level monitoring and serious risks in the event of overdose. This application belongs in the therapeutic environment. Point.

The dietary lithium orotate or free lithium from mineral water in dosages of 1 to 20 milligrams of elemental lithium. This trace element is freely available in the USA as a dietary supplement. It is banned in the EU.

The factor between the two forms of use is about 30 to 200, which is like using selenium poisoning to ban the sale of 200-microgram selenium capsules.

This article only deals with the second area.

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