Drinking the Harbin water which flows into the cold pool as subjective experiment
Is there lithium in the water? I'm not sure. I haven't seen a chemical breakdown of what's in the water recently. I'll see if I can find the chemicals occurring naturally in the water, again. Someone at Harbin within the last year said something about there being lithium in the water here.
I drank 20 gulps of water at around 10:45 pm on January 19, 2010, and went to bed soon after. I didn't notice any effects of the water. Again, at around 12:45 pm in the afternoon, on January 20, drank 20 gulps and again did not notice any effect.
Does it make me happy, noticeably? No.
More research is needed.
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How to go online right now to find the appropriate rigorous (science) studies on lithium and happiness?
I just googled "lithium in water and happiness" and found this study:
Schrauzer, Gerhard N. and Edmond de Vroey. 1993. Effects of nutritional lithium supplementation on mood - (springerlink.com/content/1686787278648j51). Nov. Biological Trace Element Research/Humana Press Inc.
This study suggests unambiguously that there are positive effects on mood from lithium.
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Last year, I heard, while traveling through Ashland, Oregon, which has water with lithium in it, that it might make people happy. I didn't try the water there.
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I went into the office and found a sheet which lists the minerals in Harbin's waters, which didn't include lithium.
Here are the minerals in the water listed on the Harbin handout:
Mineral mg/L
Bicarbonate 63.0
Calcium 9.0
Sodium 4.3
Magnesium 6.1
Chloride 2.4
Potassium *
Hydroxide 1.0
Carbonate 1.0
Sulfate 2.2
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/01/water-drinking-harbin-water-which-flows.html - January 19, 2009)
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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