FDA Banned Lithium Supplementation in 1949 After Deliberate Poisoning Study
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"They gave these patients high doses of lithium in not milligram but gram. Can you imagine something that is essential in one dose you give it a thousandfold higher. What will happen? Think about water. water like half a gallon of water might be healthy. But now make it a thousandfold. How much water you have to drink? You you die from drinking water."
In 1949, three US medical centers deliberately administered toxic gram-level doses of lithium chloride to heart patients as salt replacement, causing deaths that were published in JAMA and called accidental food poisoning by Time magazine. Dr. Nehls uncovered evidence this was a clinical trial to test lithium toxicity thresholds. The FDA used these deaths to ban lithium supplementation the same year, forcing 7UP to remove lithium from its formula and blocking what Nehls argues is an essential trace element needed for mental health.
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- Programme
- Tucker Carlson Show
- Episode
- The Secret Cure to Alzheimer’s, Depression, Anxiety and Why Big Pharma Has Kept It Hidden
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- 45:18
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