Posted by Larry Hoover on June 2, 2003, at 14:52:34
In reply to Re: LITHIUM OROTATE » Larry Hoover, posted by Paulie on June 2, 2003, at 14:29:10
> Yes, Dr.Ward Dean is director of research for Vitamin Research Products. Assuming his claims are false on the bio-availibity issue there is a reference to the "Clinical Application of Lithium Orotate" published in 1973 by Dr. HA Nieper.I can't access that paper, so I can't assess it.
I spent years of my life, under contract, looking at other peoples' published work, assessing their methodology, the evidence gathered, the statistical methods employed, the conclusions arising from the data, the relationship of the work in question with the body of evidence already in existence. A single contract might have me analyzing stacks of papers over a meter in height. My reports were 100's of pages long, and the reference lists were often longer than the report itself. I have some experience in this realm.
Just so we're clear, I am looking for independent corroborative evidence.
Without it, referring to papers written by other members of the same private enterprise as supportive evidence is questionable, at best.
If there are only a handful of papers in existence on a subject, and those are 20 or 25 years old, I'm quite skeptical of somebody making current claims about that information. Moreover, in a subject realm as well-studied as lithium prophylaxis of bipolar disorder, the dearth of evidence for the efficacy of lithium orotate is itself damning.
Feel free to form your own conclusions. You have my opinion.
Lar
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