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I am here today with Dr. Cummings, and today we are going to be talking about lithium.

What we consider our best mood stabilizer.

Now there is no drug companies coming to your door, banging on your doors, telling you

to prescribe lithium or take lithium because it is essentially a metal.

You hear about it in lithium ion batteries, but in low doses, it can be very, very good

for bipolar, bipolar depression, suicidality, anger, which is more of a impulsive anger.

And in this episode, we are going to be going through the uses of it, the mechanisms.

We're going to be talking about a lot of the nuance on levels and how to dose it.

We're going to be talking about how to use it in pregnancy, how after the first five

weeks, it is no longer a risk for Epstein anomaly.

We're going to be talking about how to use it when there are kidney issues or issues

with tremor or hypothyroidism.

And finally, I think we in the U.S. need to look at this more in Europe.

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