Flawed Study Asks Important Questions on Lithium

Not wanting to waste anyone’s time, I hesitated in posting this. I suspect we will be hearing about it.

Low-Dose Lithium for Mild Cognitive ImpairmentA Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial

Findings In this pilot randomized clinical trial of 80 participants, none of the 6 coprimary outcomes reached the prespecified significance threshold; for verbal memory, scores declined by 1.42 points annually in the placebo group vs 0.73 points in the lithium group, which did not meet the prespecified threshold for multiple comparisons. Exploratory analyses suggested possible larger effects among amyloid-positive participants.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2845746

They used lithium carbonate at 150mg or 300mg. I’m not sure how that dose compares with lithium orotate 5mg, but have seen where orotate works better.

Looks like it didn’t do much.

Sorry but that was a waste of time