Sawbones: Methylene Blue

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

Medical History, Health & Fitness, History, Medicine, Comedy, Sawbones

4.8 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Often pseudo-scientific medicine is brought to Dr. Sydnee by friends and family. But this time, she encountered methylene blue in the wild! Methylene blue is currently being touted as a cancer treatment, which is . . . not based on evidence. But Dr. Sydnee talks about the history of this colorful substance and what it can be actually used for. Sawbones audience feedback survey: https://forms.gle/kLXiFU8iRzAazPyn9 Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/ Border Angels: https://www.borderangels.org/

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0:00.0	Sawbones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion.
0:07.2	It's for fun.
0:08.7	Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil?
0:14.2	We think you've earned it.
0:15.8	Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth.
0:22.6	You're worth it.
0:25.9	All right.
0:27.5	Tommy is about some books.
0:30.6	One, two, one, two, three, four. We came across a pharmacy with its windows blasted out.
0:52.5	Pushed on through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around the medicines, the
0:57.8	medicines that ask all let McComb for the mouth.
1:04.6	Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones.
1:07.2	Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine.
1:08.7	I'm your co-host, Justin McElroy.
1:10.2	And I'm Sidney McElroy. Let's address the elephant in the room to say, because I can't pretend that we're not on the same side of the table right now. That's true. We're not facing each other directly. I have to angle my body to see you. In theater, of course, we know this is three-quarter. I'm cheating out.
1:27.5	Cheating out.
1:27.9	I'm cheating out.
1:28.6	Cheating out.
1:29.5	Yeah, but we're all sitting on the same side of the table. I don't think it's going to change the energy that much. At least I hope it's not. I was hoping it would bring more of a live show energy because we do this in a live show. Yes, that's true. So, although generally that is accompanied by people cheering for us, more loudly for me.
1:47.3	I would just like to know. And so, although generally that is accompanied by people cheering for us more loudly for me.
1:47.3	I would just like to know usually more loudly for me.
1:51.0	So I am missing that.
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