It sits on the shelf in every hospital around the world, and when used in low doses, may offer stunning benefits for mitochondrial health, treating urinary tract infections, slowing brain aging as well as dementia, Parkinson’s, and other neural injuries caused by stroke and brain injury. Download Interview Transcript | Download my FREE Podcast
STORY AT-A-GLANCE Methylene blue helps mitochondrial respiration and improves brain energy metabolism. By doing that, it can improve cognitive performance and prevent neurodegeneration.
Methylene blue is the parent molecule for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, off-patent drugs commonly used to treat not only malaria but also COVID-19.
Emergency rooms around the world use it, as it’s the only known antidote for metabolic poisons causing methemoglobinemia, which is when a metabolic poison interferes with the transport of oxygen in hemoglobin.
Methylene blue is a hormetic drug, so low doses have the opposite effect of high doses.
Low doses, 0.5 mg to one mg per kilo of bodyweight, are recommended for non-acute, longer-term treatments. Uses include the prevention and treatment of dementia, post-stroke and other brain injuries, cognitive enhancement, and the general optimization of health if you’re already healthy. In this interview, Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Ph.D., discusses a powerful strategy to improve your mitochondria, which generate the vast majority of the energy your cells produce from food….