9.3 Low-Dose Lithium for COVID (+ other viruses) and Personal Experiences

Renegade Psych

In this segment, Dr. Gadh and I discuss his research on lithium's effects on reducing COVID infection severity and its' ability to keep our immune responses within the guardrails. He tells us about a co-authored Spanish study in which 14 lithium-treated, COVID-hospitalized patients are compared to 14 non-lithium-treated COVID-hospitalzied patients, where the lithium group has much better outcomes. That number of patients is not very impressive, but the blood work they did WAS impressive; they took levels of 18 different cytokines, or inflammatory markers, that lead to respiratory congestion and eventually impair oxygen-carbon dioxide exchange in the lungs, in all of these patients and showed reductions in EVERY CYTOKINE in the lithium-treated group, providing further explanation of how and why it exerts its immune benefits. We further talk about lithium's known benefits in Herpes and HIV, and later discuss our own personal experiences taking low dose lithium, reducing depressive symptoms and reducing migraine intensity and frequency.

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