Short excerpt from a YouTube video (creator: Joy Kong, MD) discussing methylene blue and its effects on the gut microbiome. Speakers assert—anecdotally and without cited research—that the product can kill harmful microbes while sparing beneficial gut bacteria, note a lack of formal research (claimed economic reasons), and reference long historical use.
People say, well, if it kills microbes, how does it know not to kill the good bacteria in the gut?
You know? And I guess no one's ever really done the research because there's no money in it, I guess. But somehow just that natural product itself is able to kill the organisms and maybe deals with the way it gets picked up by the mitochondria. But we've not seen it killing the good bacteria. I've just not had any reports of it. I'm not sure the manchinism, but I just know it doesn't kill it. And it's been around for hundreds of years. There's something that it naturally seems to kill the bad bugs and not kill the good ones.
