Lithium Orotate 5mg, 180 Vegetarian Lithium Capsules, Supplement Lithium Orotate 5mg, 180 Vegetarian Lithium Capsules, Helps Maintain Healthy Mood, Behavior Memory and Wellness

I waited a while before writing this review because I try a LOT of self help supplements for my mental health, and I know that initial impressions often change. I’m diagnosed bipolar 2,ADHD, and PMDD since I was a teen. I’ve gone unmedicated for almost a decade due to negative and debilitating side effects from meds. After giving birth last year, postpartum depression and chronic mixed states of depression and mania left me feeling hopeless and extremely unwell. I tried L-tyrosine, St. Johns’s Wort, vitamins, probiotics, you name it- and none of them helped to lift the never ending weight of the depression. When I tell you that I could feel this Lithium Orotate helping the very next day, I’m not kidding. I take it at night and my mood swings have lessened to where they’re not extremely invasive in my life. I’m enjoying spending time with my child, I’m not arguing with my husband so much, I’m sleeping through the night (most of the time). The only drawback for me is that I’m sleeping so much like a rock that I’m stiff in the mornings and don’t want to get up easily lol, but I’m working on that. I took 10mg the day before I was expected to ovulate to see if it helped my PMDD symptoms, and it absolutely did. I’m up singing in the mornings and enjoying for the first time in a long time. Just to note: there are days where I feel that I have a lot of serotonin buildup and get a little overstimulated and freaked out, but that just tells me to take a day or two off from the lithium and then I’m back to normal. This usually happens after around 10 days of continuous use at bedtime. Other than that, I have ZERO negative side effects. I can’t even say I feel like myself again because I feel better than my old self. The manic episodes have lessened in duration and intensity, and the depression is nearly nonexistent. This was my Hail Mary pass and it absolutely saved me.

A social-to-frequent drinker for around 30 years, I tried quitting drinking back in September '19, weaning myself off slowly across two weeks then finally going cold-turkey and that didn't turn out so well. I had unbelievable amounts of anxiety, my brain was an out-of-control ADHD machine, and I was really grumpy to everyone. I resumed my two 6-packs/week drinking and all of that went away. Finally read that Lithium Orotate is a big help for alcohol cessation so I decided to give it a try. I began taking it the final week of December '19 and Dec 31st was my last alcoholic beverage. I can't tell that the product is making me "feel" any better, perhaps it is, ever so slightly, but I've had zero withdrawal issues and my mood and temperament has remained level. I guess I do feel better, it's the final week of Jan '20 and I haven't had any of the problems I'd described before when I tried to wean myself off of alcohol. Placebo effect? I don't know. What I do know is that I feel perfectly fine, didn't crave alcohol at all, although out of Saturday night habit I was compelled to go grab a 6 or 12 and hang out with buds but didn't really crave the alcohol - just the routine of it I suppose. Last Saturday was a breeze, no compulsion, felt great, stayed home and binge-watched a bunch of Amazon Prime and other streaming services. I've been sleeping a lot better, waking up more easily, jitters have gone away, fogginess in my head is on the mend, feel more alert and less tired, saving lots of money, and I'm down about 10 lbs so far. I attribute most of these net positives to my alcohol cessation but I suppose the Lithium is contributing somewhat as well, especially since it seems to have a handle on my alcohol withdrawal symptoms that I would otherwise have had. HTH, and I hope you see a similar benefit if you decide to utilize it for that reason.

I have been taking LO for 8 years with incredible results. I just switched to Purely Holistic from my regular brand due to better price and Subscribe and Save availability and I am overly impressed. I think it is a better product than my previous brand as it seems to work quicker and much more effective at reducing anger, snippy responses (due to being under lockdown) and IR= Instant Rage! If you have issues with your mood, please try Purely Holistic LO. You will be amazed at how much better you feel and how you respond to "Life". My dosage has always been 10mg (two pills) in the am and the pm.

I take a number of supplements with the hope, that perhaps they might stave off the inevitable decline in mental function that may come with advancing age. Acutely, I do not expect to feel pharmacologic activity, especially at such low doses. Thus I was very surprised that within 3 days of starting this, I noted a marked change in my sleep pattern. Whereas before, I would drop into bed at 9:30, and according to my wife, be snoring before my head hit the pillow, I now find that I can continue to focus on work late into the night. Maybe it is placebo effect, or maybe it isn't. Either way, I will take it for now and am happy to have the extra energy. No other issues. Your mileage may vary. The capsules do have a mild funky smell that reminds me of milk or butter that has gone a bit off. The 125 mg actually contains 5mg of elemental lithium, the other 120mg being the "orotate". Lithium salts cross are almost completely absorbed and cross the blood-brain barrier easily. This dose is very low compared to prescription lithium carbonate used for bipolar disorders and is unlikely to cause renal or thyroid adverse events.

Shipped fast and secure. Felt more aware after 2nd dose. Hope it continues.

Amazing Product would give a 100 if was possible. Highly recommend to everyone. Game changer.

Highly recommended - 5 stars across the board, and will buy again when this bottle is used up. Wanted to try lithium without having to go to the prescription level to see if I noticed a difference, and in the past 3 weeks or so I have noticed a positive difference in mood as well as energy-levels. After reading a lot about lithium supplements from studies by the NIH about what to expect, their effectiveness, and dosages, and then comparing basically all the supplements on Amazon and Ebay, this one seemed like the best one overall, and I have been really impressed. I wish more folks knew about the value added by lithium in small amounts, and Also the company - Purely Holistic - has notably high-quality customer service, reaching out after purchase just to check on how I liked the Lithium supplement, which was really cool. Full disclosure based on what I have researched: Nobody knows exactly why lithium is an effective mood stabilizer. One hypothesis is that because lithium as an electrolyte is less effective (i.e. not as good as a conductor of electrical charges) compared to sodium, and lithium partially replace sodium in the brain, it actually slows down electrical activity in the brain somewhat which has a stabilizing effect at low dosages and an antipsychotic effect at higher dosages. Lithium Orotate is not as hard-hitting as prescription Lithium Carbonate, BUT it still has a notable effect at low dosages, and the medical literature on PubMed recommends more research to explore effects of lithium orotate because it may have more therapeutic uses than what it's currently used for.

I think it helped but not really sure since it gave me really bad edema and I had to stop. Does that for some people I read