I get people, white people specifically have that tendency to just reduce an entire experience down to "these women are victims and that's all they were or could be", because frequently writers and historians don't give a fuck about women's perspectives. But man it's just wild to have to navigate

There's some vague family history where a witch in the family cursed this side of it over some long forgotten transgression that no one can remember.

I just remember the company's name was lantern bioworks, and the gist is they made a bacteria that out competes the bacteria in our mouth and doesn't produce lactic acid

I shot you a message

Never salted before but I'm down. Yes. Literally fucking anything. At this rate i'll be homeless before the end of the year

God me too. But also walking with a boombox being antisocial???

I forgot to mention explicitly that it can act like an MAOI at higher doses which has like crazy amounts of contraindications with other meds. Higher doses cause hypertension albeit briefly since methylene blue is typically metabolized fairly quickly (we're talking the course of hours)

usually no. Methylene blue is like, stupidly easy to produce which is why it's so cheap even nowadays. I forgot to mention they did a study to reverse aging in skin, which it's uniquely good at so add that to the list.

viral loads *inside you*. Like I said earlier, this isn't a perfect drug, it has very few use cases that aren't better done by more developed drugs in a sufficiently developed areas, what makes it fundamentally interesting to me is the wide range and utility of one ultimately simple molecule.

them is useful in hospital settings, it's also being researched as a means to prevent infection as a nasal spray, or in the case of a related therapy called photodynamic therapy, consuming or injecting methylene blue and then exposing someone to the right light frequencies can destroy bacterial or

sensitive to certain wavelengths of light. The way it does this is something I don't understand but what I do know is that in the presence of red light methylene blue reacts with air to make singlet oxygen, which I *do* know makes it incredibly reactive, so sterilizing surfaces by hyper oxidizing

Besides medicine though it has other uses for testing water quality, it was at one point one of the most used dyes in clothing, and most research nowadays is based on it's ability as a photosensitizer. That is, if you coat a surface or tissue with methylene blue it will make that surface or tissue

certain doses, and the drugs we have nowadays largely outperform methylene blue in almost every way, but it is one of the most versatile drugs that exists and that's important when you think of resource scarcity. There's a reason the WHO has had it on it's list of "essential medicine" forever now.

acceptable antibiotic. It's also a treatment for cyanide poisoning, methemoglobinemia, shock, and has had trials as an anti depressant, nootropic, and anti psychotic, and alzheimer's treatment. It should be noted for none of these treatments is it a "perfect" solution, there's side effects at

much battery means no electrons for the ETC so it's therapeutic range is highly specific to it's dose, in the range of micrograms. But that also means it interrupts cell function. Which is why it was the go to treatment as an anti malarial, urinary tract infections, and in some cases it's an