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[Music] lithium is the lightest metal on the planet but its impact on humankind has been truly remarkable from the batteries that power our phones to altering our very mood and we've been taking it for centuries this is the short history of lithium thanks to our friends at abc radio nationals all in the mind the discovery that it could treat bipolar disorder was made by australian doctor john cade in the 1940s for what was then called manic depression today it's still considered the gold standard treatment when it works it's extraordinarily effective it really turns people's lives around lithium reduces suicide drastically hundreds of thousands globally who otherwise might have suicided people who'd been in mental hospitals for decades were able to go home and to rejoin their families to go back to work but even before the connection was made between lithium and mood people will already drinking the lightest metal of the periodic table it's found naturally in nearly all rocks as well a