Methylene Blue Rebuttal

I have been wanting to write this piece for some time. Now I've found the time, I hope I have done it justice. With that said, I am finally finishing it at almost 3am so please forgive me if there are any obvious mistakes...

The claims I’ll be addressing come from a recent article by Laurel Glaze, published under the title “The Whole Truth About Methylene Blue”. That title promises science, but delivers very little of it.

Methylene blue is an industrial dye that has a long and safe history when doubled as a medicine. In fact, it has been used for well over 100 years as an internal medicine for malaria and urinary tract infections, cyanide poisoning and methemoglobinemia .

I’ll walk through it point by point - not to defend any person or product blindly, but because the truth matters, and this article is not truth-driven.

First, let’s clear something up: yes, methylene blue is synthetic. It is not harvested from the caves of outer Mongolia or some other sacred, moss-covered crevice known only to barefoot monks...it is isolated, ultra purified and compounded in a laboratory setting.
That alone doesn’t make it dangerous. The dose and the context are everything.

Now - onto the claims made:

“Methylene blue is a cytotoxic and genotoxic dye”
As Ive already said – dose and context are everything. In petri dish studies where they flood cells with high concentrations and often use UV light to amplify effects, it is toxic by intentionality. But at normal therapeutic doses (often 0.5–4 mg/kg), methylene blue does not behave this way in vivo (In real, living subjects).
It’s been used clinically for over a century, including intravenously, and has FDA approval for methemoglobinemia – a condition where haemoglobin is oxidised into a form (methemoglobin) that can’t carry oxygen properly. Its redox behavior (reduction & oxidation – meaning it can donate and receive electrons to help restore cellular energy balance) is actually what makes it useful in mitochondrial and neurological health protocols.

The “genotoxic” label gets thrown around any time a compound intercalates (gets inserted into) DNA. But intercalation by itself is not a problem unless you’re also triggering mutations or replication errors. MB intercalates weakly and reversibly, especially at low doses. If we were going to avoid every compound that ever touched DNA, we’d have to stop eating most plant foods.

That DNA graphic with the blue inserts
That image is meant to show intercalation. It’s not a horror scene, it’s just a well-known visual used in biochemistry to illustrate how certain flat molecules fit between DNA base pairs. MB has been used this way in molecular biology for decades. The reason they refer to it as 'tattooing' is not because it indicates permanent alteration, it is simply a technical term used to describe temporary staining. But just as it doesn't permanently stain your skin or your tongue, it also doesn't permanently stain your internal organs. It doesn’t mean your organs are being tattooed or your genome rewritten.

The “blue brain” image
The case they’re referencing here involved someone taking literally hundreds of times the normal dose of MB. I did the math when this first started circulating, and the amount was completely off the charts. This wasn’t a therapeutic dose gone wrong - it was a toxic ingestion. So using that image to critique normal MB use is the equivalent of showing a liver destroyed by alcohol and claiming one glass of wine is deadly. You can overdose on potassium the same way and end up with organ damage, too. But a safe dose is...well...safe!

“Stew Peters is using dangerous and experimental interventions”
That might sound dramatic, but it ignores the fact that MB is not new, not fringe, and not without safety data. What’s actually dangerous is presenting fear-based speculation as medical fact. People deserve real information - not fear-mongering dressed up in pseudo-medical language. It might also cause one to ask why there is such fear-mongering over a highly effective product when the evidence of harm it might cause is, at most, minuscule hmm

“MB turns your pee green because your body is trying to excrete poison”
No. MB is a dye. It’s blue. It tints urine, sometimes greenish-blue depending on what else is in the body. This isn’t a sign of “toxic detox” - it’s literally what dyes do. It’s like eating beets and thinking you’re bleeding internally (Ok, I did actually think that once, when I was much younger ?‍♀️) Calm down.

Robert O. Young’s research
This article relies heavily on the work of Robert Young. So, let's look briefly at who this man is.
Dr Robert O. Young has his PhD is from a non-accredited correspondence school - Clayton College of Natural Health, and he’s not a licensed medical doctor.

• He was convicted in 2016 for practicing medicine without a license.

• In 2018, he was ordered to pay $105 million in damages after advising a cancer patient to skip chemo and instead follow his alkaline diet and alternative therapies. She died.

• As of 2025, he was again facing charges in San Diego for practicing without a license and elder abuse (he was indeed in jail without bail at the time of the article’s writing).

So while he uses the title 'Dr', and you could call him "Dr. Young" for formality, he is not a licensed MD, ND, or PhD from any accredited institution. His title is more honorary than legitimate in medical or academic circles. But, to be fair, that doesn’t make him automatically wrong about everything, but his word should not be regarded as gospel.

“MB is mutagenic and enables tracking of your DNA”
Actually, this portion warrants a full quote for better context “More alarmingly, intercalation is a process used to analyze DNA. Think about that! MB enables the COVID-19 patent holders to analyze, track, and trace the activity of your genome after it's stained with MB.”

As a herbalist and a biological & medicinal chemist, this is a maddening manipulation of some pretty basic mechanisms. He has taken the concept of a temporary insertion in DNA, something that occurs many times over with even fruits and vegetables, and assumed the ignorance of his readers, preying on that assumed ignorance and come up with 'the government is now tracking you because you've taken the blue!' 
No! This is not factual at all. IF methylene blue were to be intentionally manufactured with nanobots of some variety, then yes, it could insert them into your DNA. But they could also do that with spiking water or air. And, let's face it, those methods would reach far more people than just hoping that methylene blue will contaminate enough people with cyborg DNA. Gah. 

But there is no intrinsic mechanism by which MB enables anyone to track your genome. Since I manufacture all my own methylene blue and I take exactly the same source as I sell, in relatively high doses, I can assure you there have been no nanobots or other tracking devices inserted into it!
Intercalation also doesn’t implant GPS chips. This whole segment confuses molecular biology terms and tries to spin standard lab techniques into dystopian surveillance tools. It’s not just misleading - it’s borderline sci-fi paranoia.

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