Methylene Blue

What is Methylene Blue by Biaxol?

Methylene blue works on the mitochondria, which is why it turns up in longevity and cognition stacks. It also turns your urine blue and it does not mix with antidepressants.

Also sold as methylthioninium chloride or MB.

Methylene blue acts as an electron carrier inside mitochondria, effectively giving the energy production chain an alternative route when the usual one is congested. That is the basis for the effects on mental clarity and cellular energy. It is also an antioxidant at low doses, though the relationship reverses at higher ones, which is why small doses are the point rather than a limitation.

Methylene Blue benefits

• Supports mitochondrial energy production directly
• Reported improvements in mental clarity, focus and mood
• Antioxidant activity at the low doses used here
• Sodium ascorbate included at 400mg, which keeps it in the active form
• Two capsule serving, so the dose is defined rather than measured from a solution

Methylene Blue dosage

Serving size

2 capsules

Methylene blue per serving

10mg

Sodium ascorbate per serving

400mg

Approach

Start low and increase gradually

Timing

Morning, since it can be stimulating

Capsules

60 per container

A full serving is two capsules, giving 10mg. Start with one and see how it suits you before taking the full serving; this is a compound where less is genuinely the point.

The sodium ascorbate is vitamin C, included to keep the methylene blue in its reduced, active form rather than as a token addition.

Package content

Capsules

60 per container

Methylene blue

10mg per 2-capsule serving

Sodium ascorbate

400mg per serving

Serving size

2 capsules

Brand

Biaxol

At a full 2-capsule serving daily one container covers 30 days.

Store below 30°C. Protect from light. Do not freeze. Keep out of reach of children.

Who is Methylene Blue for?

People interested in the cognitive and mitochondrial end of this catalogue rather than anything to do with training. It is one of the few products here bought for the head rather than the body.

It is the wrong purchase for anyone taking an antidepressant, for reasons set out below, and that rules out more people than you might expect.

How to use Methylene Blue

Swallow with water in the morning. Start with one capsule and move to the full two-capsule serving only once you know how it suits you.