This changed my mind on whether lithium was at all plausible. I had no idea about the youth-faster-weight-gain thing.
The one thing you don’t seem to have written about, is the possibility that peoples’ lipostats might be getting broken primarily during fetal development, while neuronal proliferation is happening, the lowermost layers of the brain are getting wired, hormones [and correspondingly, endocrine disruptors] have an outsized influence, and most other neurological [/neuroendocrine] disorders are contracted.
I think some toxin is probably doing this, and I think the overweight epidemic started picking up [around ~1910] in the US too early for it to have been microplastics [?] or another newfangled endocrine disruptor [?].
But I now see that the cause being relative levels of elemental lithium, even during fetal development, wouldn’t make any sense.
This changed my mind on whether lithium was at all plausible. I had no idea about the youth-faster-weight-gain thing.
The one thing you don’t seem to have written about, is the possibility that peoples’ lipostats might be getting broken primarily during fetal development, while neuronal proliferation is happening, the lowermost layers of the brain are getting wired, hormones [and correspondingly, endocrine disruptors] have an outsized influence, and most other neurological [/neuroendocrine] disorders are contracted.
I think some toxin is probably doing this, and I think the overweight epidemic started picking up [around ~1910] in the US too early for it to have been microplastics [?] or another newfangled endocrine disruptor [?].
But I now see that the cause being relative levels of elemental lithium, even during fetal development, wouldn’t make any sense.