--- In morelife@yahoogroups.com, François ROSE <metformine@...> wrote:
>
> Lithium use (not reported in the Excel spreadsheet?)
>
> <snipped [content of old message] because it is related to this post
> but it [this post] is not an inline answer>
>
> Hi Kitty and Paul
>
> I hope you are well

We are doing very well, thank you. We've gone dancing 3 nights since
we returned from Ontario and will be going to a dance house party on
Saturday.

Also 2 very surprising happy occurrences in past few days.
On Tuesday we found a very small palo verde seedling in the front yard
which we will transplant to a place in the back yard where a previous
transplantation failed.
Yesterday, Paul while driving in Chandler, after the 2nd of our list of
errand stops, spied a sign on a building in a shopping center we'd
never gone to before. We were delighted to discover Lee Lee's SuperMart,
an enormous oriental market that also contains rows devoted to
African, South Asian and Carribean products. We thought the 99 Ranch
Market in the Chinese Cultural Center near the Phoenix Airport was big
- this is possibly twice as large with many more fish varieties. Reminded
me of the fish markets in Toronto's Kensington Market. We bought a few
things but didn't have time to get more than a cursory look at all
that's there. Pleasure trips for the future.

So with these and many others, I easily say we're doing very well indeed ;>)


> As I told you, since I moved out, I don't have a daily internet
> access yet but right now, I got one so I took this chance to read the
> answer from Kitty about lithium use
>
(http://groups.google.com/group/sci.life-extension/browse_thread/thread/f10a66bd\
40711088/262220c3841c621f?hl=en&q=*%40morelife.org#
)and some posts on MoreLife about lithium.
>
> [In case the above long URL breaks, here is a tiny version:
http://tinyurl.com/3yzteo **Kitty]

I haven't (yet) had any response from Thomas Carter, to whose message
I was replying, regarding the attempt to equate large doses of
lithium to small; the positive results of chronic use of lithium was
the subject of the original post. While the abstracts Thomas posted
were interesting they were not at all relevant.


> Very interesting for me because I was considering lithium use in
> order to avoid variations in my mood (sometimes too good, sometimes
> too bad)

Variations in one's mood is normal and should not be avoided. To
always want to be happy is not realistic and not even desirable. (See
a previous post and thread on this very subject started by David
Jackemeyer http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/morelife/message/1443 )
What one would reasonably want to minimize is long periods of time (a
subjective determination of course) in which one is unable to function
effectively.

You might also investigate the techniques of cognitive therapy before
or in addition to lithium use. See the suggestions at the Outlook and
Interpersonal sections of the Practice Index.
http://morelife.org/practiceindex.html


> Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see lithium in your Excel Spread
> sheet.

Please keep in mind Note 5 near the top of both my and Paul's regimen
pages:
"5) In order for Paul and me to know the totals of various
micronutrients being consumed via our supplements, we make use of a
very large spreadsheet in Excel. Typically those items that supply
constituents that we obtain from more than one source are included in
this spreadsheet."

Lithium is only obtained from one source - the lithium carbonate I get
by prescription. I have listed a few items at the bottom of the spread
sheet that are not multi-source and have no corresponding columns - we
are near the limit of the maximum allowable number of columns. While it
would be of no benefit to me and Paul to add the lithium to this
spread sheet, perhaps I should still put it, and everything else that
we take which is not otherwise included, at the bottom so it is as
complete as our regimen pages.

**Kitty

>
> Thanks for your work
> François
>