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this just doesn't make sense. people sell bottled water! why can't they sell lithium?

• cbd1984 12y ago
  Because conspiracies drive page views. If a website can pin something on Big Pharma, well, it must be true, because a huge increase in click-through revenue doesn't lie.
• lutusp 12y ago
  Because bottled water doesn't have real or imagined therapeutic properties, and lithium does. Eventually someone unfamiliar with the rules will advertise a lithium/water product as having medical effects, and that will end the game (advertising medical benefits is a no-no without both research backing and FDA approval). EDIT: this is another example of the "fact rule" -- if you post something factual and uncontroversial, you will be downvoted with a probability of 1.
  • andreasvc 12y ago
    I disagree. There is a market for supplements, as long as they walk a careful line of avoiding the promise of any medical benefit. Lithium could be sold this way, in low dosages ("Lithia Springs water"), but it's probably not allowed? I remember that 7-up once contained lithium, but it was banned, even though the amount was very small. BTW: There is indeed an annoying level of unnecessary downvoting going on.
    • gwern 12y ago
      Lithium is already sold as a supplement. If you want to run out and buy eg lithium orotate, you certainly can. It's cheap too.
      • ozy23378 12y ago
        And bulk analytical-grade lithium carbonate, sulphate and citrate not marketed for human consumption are equally easy to acquire and even cheaper.