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Environmental Lithium Uptake Promotes Longevity, Scientists Demonstrate

Seeded on Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:38 PM EST
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health, study, longevity, lithium, longer-lives, friedrich-schiller-university, increased-life-expectancy, low-concentrations-of-lithium, michael-ristow
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"have demonstrated by two independent approaches that even a low concentration of lithium leads to an increased life expectancy in humans as well as in a model organism, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans."

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If small amounts of lithium can lengthen lives significantly without any harmful side effects, it is wonderful news.

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Reply#1 - Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:40 PM EST
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"EUREKA! lt'd be SO much easier if we didn't have to wait for them to come to us."

Bill: What if you mix the mayonnaise in the can, WITH the tunafish? Or... hold it! Chuck! I got it! Take LIVE tuna fish, and FEED 'em mayonnaise! Oh this is great.
[speaks into tape recorder]
Bill: Call Starkist!

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    Reply#2 - Sun Feb 20, 2011 2:31 PM EST
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