Robert F Kennedy Jr is many issues, however he’s not a tropical fish. Somebody ought to most likely inform him this as a result of he seems to be guzzling fish medication. Final week a video of RFK sitting on a airplane and placing a wierd blue liquid into his glass of water went viral. It’s not clear what he was taking, however on-line sleuths are satisfied it was methylene blue, which is used to deal with parasites in fish in addition to aquatic illnesses resembling swim bladder illness.
To be honest, methylene blue does have human makes use of – within the US it’s FDA-approved to deal with a uncommon blood dysfunction. Over the previous few years, nevertheless, it has been touted as a miracle drug in wellness circles and other people have been utilizing it off-label within the hopes of staving off every part from jet lag to ageing. “Seems to be like RFK Jr is in on one of many best-kept secrets and techniques in biohacking – methylene blue,” wrote one distinguished wellness influencer after the viral video. “When used accurately, it’s a gamechanger for psychological readability and longevity.”
That’s a stretch. Whereas some research present methylene blue could assist with these issues, self-medicating is a nasty concept. An excessive amount of of the stuff can flip your urine blue, for one factor. Extra importantly, it may possibly work together with sure drugs, which might have critical penalties.
We don’t know for positive that it was methylene blue. However we do know that Kennedy, who’s a distinguished anti-vaxxer, has a whole lot of unusual – and arguably very harmful – concepts about medication. These could stem from a few of his personal well being issues, together with one challenge he memorably stated “was brought on by a worm that received into my mind and ate a portion of it after which died”. In keeping with the New York Occasions, the worm could have really been a “pork tapeworm larva”. Tapeworms apart, Kennedy’s wellness opinions can be totally his enterprise had been it not for the truth that he’s closing in on the position of secretary of well being and human companies and is poised to inflict his concepts on the remainder of us, all within the identify of a motion he has termed “Make America Wholesome Once more” (Maha). Like each Maga motion, this one is being aggressively monetised: Kennedy has utilized to trademark Maha to be used in advertising and marketing potential merchandise together with meals dietary supplements, nutritional vitamins and (oddly) vaccines.
Some persons are aghast at his concepts; others are ecstatic concerning the prospect of him upending the US’s method to meals and healthcare. There was a lot of protection concerning the “crunchy mothers” who’re fairly justifiably horrified about all of the garbage that’s in processed meals and are thrilled by the Maha agenda.
It’s fascinating, nevertheless, to see simply how a lot of the discourse round Maha appears to deal with woo-woo-women and their foolish little wellness concepts, as a result of – as Kennedy demonstrates – it’s males who’re more and more dominating the choice well being (when you’re being diplomatic) or pseudoscientific quackery (when you’re not) house. That’s partly as a result of Silicon Valley has rebranded being obsessed together with your well being as “biohacking”. Males who’re into biohacking and longevity don’t casually take vitamin capsules like the remainder of us. No, no, they construct supplementation protocols and personalised “complement stacks”. Supplementing seems to have turn out to be an excessive sport amongst a sure sort of wellness bro: the extra capsules you swallow, the extra macho you might be. Bahram Akradi, the 63-year-old CEO of a fitness center chain, for instance, lately stated he’s been taking “about 45 to 50” capsules each morning for years. In the meantime, Bryan Johnson, the 47-year-old tech entrepreneur who’s spending thousands and thousands of {dollars} making an attempt to de-age himself, takes greater than 100 capsules a day. In keeping with one interview, he wakes up at 4.30am and takes 57 capsules, does some ab stimulation, then takes 34 extra.
Spending a fortune on experimental capsules, and never even the enjoyable type, is about as silly because it sounds. I don’t know what Akradi has been taking, however for about 5 years Johnson was downing a tablet known as rapamycin that had been discovered to increase the lifespan of mice. However Johnson shouldn’t be a mouse and he lately stop taking it as a result of one other examine discovered it’d enhance ageing in people. I feel Alanis Morissette would name this ironic, don’t you suppose?
Anyway, the upshot of all that is that the takeover of the US authorities by weirdos with harmful concepts continues apace. In the meantime, keep in mind that you’re not a mouse or a fish, and design your “supplementation protocol” accordingly.
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