DEAR PEOPLE’S PHARMACY: My young adult daughter has been taking Zoloft for depression. She recently weaned off of it and her new doctor put her on 5 milligrams of lithium orotate.

Scientists don’t yet know whether lithium-orotate supplementation would yield different results than lithium in tap water.

The People’s Pharmacy Q: My young adult daughter has been taking Zoloft for depression. She recently weaned off it and her new doctor put her on 5 milligrams of lithium orotate.

The low-dose lithium orotate your daughter is now taking has not been studied as carefully, but it appears to be safe (Brain and Behavior, August 2021).