The dose of lithium orotate your daughter is taking (5 milligrams) is very low. As long as she is being monitored, this should pose little risk. Q.

Then, in 1994, the FDA created the category of “dietary supplements,” which it does not evaluate, ushering lithium—mostly in the form of lithium orotate—back into a patent-medicine-like ...

A few small studies have been done on trace lithium supplementation in bipolar disorder. In a 4-week study 24 subjects randomized to a small daily dose of lithium (400 micrograms) versus placebo ...

The dose of lithium orotate your daughter is taking (5 milligrams) is very low. As long as she is being monitored, this should pose little risk.

She recently weaned off of it and her new doctor put her on 5 milligrams of lithium orotate. She first tried to take bupropion but couldn’t tolerate the higher 300 milligram dose. What’s more ...