#MethyleneBlue is Beneficial for #Slowing #Skeletal #Aging and #Treating #Brain Disorders
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nlm5BuQXUUw
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#Methylene-blue, first synthesized in #1876, evolved from a textile dye to an essential medical compound. It promotes mitochondrial #health by enhancing energy production and reducing oxidative stress.
Recent #research suggests methylene blue is useful in the treatment of traumatic brain injury and conditions like #Alzheimer's disease.
A March #2024 study indicates methylene blue supports #bone health by inhibiting osteoclast differentiation, reducing the risk of age-related bone loss when combined with lifestyle modifications.
Methylene blue offers various other health benefits, including reducing UTI risk, improving #skin health, managing #osteoarthritis and enhancing the effects of niacinamide on metabolic health.
When selecting methylene blue, opt for pharmaceutical-grade (USP) varieties with 99% purity; avoid industrial or chemical-grade options, as they contain harmful contaminants. Recommended dosages are included.
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#Why I Take #Methylene_Blue (And Why You Might Want To As Well)
Methylene Blue was an early psychiatric drug, on the basis that it stains nerve tissue (and is used for this purpose in microscopy). Methylene Blue has chemical relationships to some of the later psychiatric agents, and was a starting point for their development. MB led to the investigation of another dye called Summer Blue, which formed the chemical basis for some of the best known antipsychotics, antihistamines, antidepressants, anti-epileptic drugs...
(Many of the major current Big Pharma corporations, started life manufacturing coloured dyes.)
https://rxisk.org/gregs-dilemma-feeling-blue/
The author of the above is David Healy, and a very reliable and informed psychiatrist he is, IMO (he has been a good friend and mentor of mine, in the past).
The point I would make is that Methylene Blue is indeed an effective and powerful drug, with a pretty wide range of therapeutic effects - but like other effective and powerful drugs, it will have a significant risk of undesirable side effects. People should (I believe) be just as careful taking Methylene Blue, as they would be about taking many of the other strong psychiatric drugs (even the best of them).
With agents that significantly change our bodies and brains; it is always a question of balancing benefits against problems, possible risks versus possible harms.