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Experience trying over the counter lithium oronate 5mg daily?
Caregivers: Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) & Dementia | Last Active: Nov 11, 2025 | Replies (46)Comment receiving replies
@dalecasto The dosage mentioned earlier seems a bit unclear, so perhaps it needs clarification.
In lithium orotate, the actual lithium content is approximately 4%. Currently, dietary supplements on the market are labeled differently—some specify the elemental lithium amount (e.g., "5mg lithium," which would correspond to roughly 125mg of lithium orotate).
So when the text mentions "up to 240mg of lithium orotate," that would equate to around 10mg of elemental lithium.
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@randomatomThank you for your response. In my attempt to be brief (due in part to a much longer response disappearing) I posted less than clear information. And perhaps my confusion.
And it is critical that no one give the FDA an excuse to restrict Lithium Orotate.
The whole paragraph states
Dosing
Over-the-counter lithium orotate is promoted as a health supplement for use as a low-dose source of lithium. The recommended daily allowance (RDA) of lithium is 1 mg/day supplemental lithium orotate doses up to 20 mg/day have been suggested.
The fact that the paragraph stated “supplemental lithium orotate doses up to 20 mg/day" followed by "Case reports exist of consumption of higher dosages (up to 240 mg of lithium orotate per day), with no apparent signs of toxicity.
Led me to believe that the dose of 20mg/day indicated “20mg/day [of elemental lithium in the form of lithium orotate] and the higher dosages should be interpreted as up to 240 mg/day of [elemental lithium in the form of] lithium orotate.
Consider also the drugs dot com entry for Lithium carbonate [ /pro/lithobid.html#s-34068-7 ]
Usual Adult Dose for Bipolar Disorder
Extended release formulations: 600 mg orally 2 times a day
Lithium Carbonate is 18.75% elemental lithium, thus the total lithium dosage works out to be 225mg, very close to the 240 grams mentioned in the website
This morning attempted to follow the link to the source cited for the 240 Mg figure. Following the daisy chain of publications I arrived at one that was interesting. It stated that No toxicity or target organs were identified; therefore, a no observed adverse effect level was determined as 400 mg/kg body weight/day. These results are supportive of the lack of a postmarket safety signal from several decades of human consumption. SEE: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih dot gov /34146638/
I must be doing something wrong because I keep coming up with a safe dosage of 18 Mg/ per pound.
In any event, keep in mind TRUST NO ONE, especially me (after all, I am also 77 so my mind is probably not as clear as it was). Consider everything as a theory which you need to double check yourself