The authors say the drug "seems to reduce the risk of death and suicide by more than 60% compared with placebo" and suggest this review "reinforces lithium as an effective agent to reduce the risk of suicide in people with mood disorders."Lithium Increases Susceptibility of Muscle Glucose Transport to Stimulation by Various Agents
Lithium markedly increased the sensitivity of glucose transport to insulin, so that the increase in glucose transport activity induced by insulin was ∼2.5-fold greater in the presence of lithium than in its absence.
