gwern comments on Quantified Health Prize results announced - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 23 February 2012 04:53:40AM 3 points [-]

Lithium levels vary massively based on what you eat or drink, as the wide range of the estimate indicates. The authors of many of the lithium papers complain about how levels vary from house to house to county based on whether one drinks soft drinks, eats veggies from a high lithium district, etc.