Lithium: The Depressing Case of Misrepresented Monitoring Data III

Our guest epic on a remarkable medicine continues.

This is part three of a guest series— here on the internet’s leading health-themed daily-enough newsletter. He covered some of this as a guest writer on Psychiatry at the Margins in a previous guest post.

Remember, you can learn more about lithium by buying my book, Inessential Pharmacology. (amazon link). You can also catch up on

Alex Mendelsohn

’s articles on lithium in part I and part II. Lithium has remarkable data. There has been excellent coverage in the Carlat Report on recent updates in lithium, like this one. Mood disorder experts and some humans coping with bipolar disorder alike appreciate Lithium. Alex attended a lecture by an “expert” in lithium dosing. He noticed a problem. So now a physicist has decided to present his counter-argument to the world, and The Frontier Psychiatrists is the platform. It’s no Stahl’s Guides, but it will have to do:

“Multiple daily dosing distorts the level.”

The TL;DR? No, it does not. Not really.

It is the other way around. Single Daily Dosing (SDD) p…