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The Ultimate Guide to Methylene Blue - Mark Sloan

Mixed feelings about this book.

Methylene blue is very interesting. It’s a dye but acts as a drug. The research on several serious diseases looks quite promising.

This book is a summary of that research, but, a lot of it was basically in point form. I definitely would have liked more information about these studies, especially since they sound so successful - too good to be true. This isn’t a big book and there was plenty of space to elaborate on the studies. This was more of a “brisk guide” than an “ultimate” guide.

The author relies heavily on Ray Peat, who is quoted so extensively that he may as well be a coauthor. Peat is interesting but also fairly complicated, confusing, and easy to misinterpret. Followers of Peat tend to fail at really clarifying what he’s talking about.

The writing was alright, he’s got a good energy and enthusiasm, but the writing is still fairly amateur - too many bullet points, repetitions, and overly casual phrases.

What bugs me most is that the author is just a researcher. He’s used MB on himself, and that’s all, as far as I can tell. That’s not good enough to give me confidence. Research isn’t always honest. Important information is often left out. When something sounds too good to be true it usually is. When something sounds simple it usually isn’t. The author clearly has good intentions but it’s so easy to be misled.

Side effects were hardly mentioned. A few minutes on Google and a handful of conversations with people who have used MB tell me that there are a lot more possible side effects. Since this book didn’t give me enough confidence to recommend it to people, I now have to read a more detailed and level-headed book about it.

Worth reading, with a grain of salt.