I was on a conference call last week for my company which anyone can get in  
on if they're interested or want to ask a question. I can't remember if that 
one  was hosted by a doctor or an RN but it was one of them. Anyway she said 
that in  order to use the mineral lithium as a product from the drug company 
they had to  manipulate the mineral atleast a little bit on the molecular level 
in order to  treat someone with it. It can't be the natural product exactly. It 
was very  interesting.