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The Guardian - AU
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Donna Lu

Does methylene blue really have wellness benefits or will it just leave you with the blues?

Antiviral composite 25th November 2025
‘Given the evidence, wellness influencers drink methylene blue at their own peril.’ Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images

A week before he was sworn in as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services in February, a video of anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr went viral.

In it, Kennedy, who has frequently promoted debunked health claims, is seen squirting inky blue liquid into a drinking glass. The substance was widely speculated to be a dye called methylene blue, though Kennedy has not publicly commented on it.

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