Fascinating Health Benefits of Methylene Blue
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re going to talk about methylene blue. I haven’t talked about this before because it’s not a natural remedy—it’s actually a synthetic drug. However, it has some interesting properties.
Methylene blue is sold over the counter and has been around for a very long time. It was the first fully synthetic drug in medicine, one of the first antibiotics, and one of the first antipsychotic drugs.
It was also used for malaria and is currently used for cyanide poisoning and carbon monoxide poisoning. In low doses, methylene blue acts as an antioxidant.
Methylene blue can potentially help with certain conditions, including:
• Septic shock
• Anaphylaxis
• Viruses
• Fatigue
• Brain fog
• Memory loss
• Depression
• Candida
• Nerve degeneration
• Gout
• Mitochondrial dysfunction
• Inflammation
If you decide to try methylene blue, I suggest getting the USP pharmaceutical grade one percent solution. This will give you about 0.5 mg per drop.
Someone taking an SSRI would not want to take methylene blue. Check with your doctor before taking something like this for any other contraindications.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're going to discuss something called methylene blue. |
| 0:03.0 | Now I haven't done a video on this ever simply because not a natural remedy. |
| 0:08.0 | It's actually a synthetic drug, but it is sold over the counter and it's been around for a very long time |
| 0:14.0 | and it has some fascinating properties that I think you need to know about. |
| 0:18.0 | Now it was discovered in 1876, |
| 0:21.6 | I'm not mistaken, and it was the first fully synthetic drug in medicine. |
| 0:26.6 | It was used as one of the first antibiotics. |
| 0:29.6 | It was used as one of the first antipsychotic drugs. |
| 0:33.6 | In 1891, it was used for malaria. |
| 0:36.6 | In fact, nowadays, even the emergency room doctors |
| 0:39.8 | have it ready if someone has either cyanide poisoning or carbon monoxide poisoning. And so, |
| 0:47.0 | it is a compound that creates some very interesting effects. At lower doses, it can act as an antioxidant. |
| 0:53.3 | I'm talking about the dose of 0.5 milligrams to 4 milligrams per kilogram weight. |
| 1:02.3 | So, for example, I weigh 185 pounds, okay? |
| 1:05.9 | That's roughly around 84 kilograms. |
| 1:09.2 | So if you do the math, I would need per day roughly on the low end, |
| 1:12.9 | about 42 drops because it comes in a liquid, and in one drop, you have 0.5 milligrams. So if I were |
| 1:21.0 | going to take it, I would take like 10 drops in some water four times a day. And if you're going to |
| 1:26.8 | try this remedy, I would definitely |
| 1:28.3 | make sure you get the USP pharmaceutical grade at 1% solution, which will give you about 0.5 |
| 1:36.0 | milligrams for drop. So what type of conditions with methadylene blue potentially helps |
| 1:41.8 | them with? Well, septic shock, especially if the blood pressure has dropped significantly. |
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