WITH his US health secretaryship edging ever closer, concerns are being raised - again - about some of Robert F Kennedy Jr's weirder ideas about good health practices.
The latest to hit the headlines was his apparent ingestion of methylene blue.
To the non-aquarists among us, the medication is used primarily to treat parasites in fish, swim bladder disease, and other aquatic ailments.
And as one commentator clarified, RFK Jr is many things, but he is not a tropical fish.
It is also used legitimately in humans to treat a rare blood disorder called methemoglobinemia.
But health benefit claims extend further - curing jetlag, slowing ageing, boosting energy and metabolism, improving mental clarity and, according to Mel Gibson, curing cancer.
There's also some suggestion it can treat early-stage COVID, bringing to mind that other antiparasitic, ivermectin.
Proven effects include interacting with certain medicines and turning urine blue, while a variety of other uses are being investigated.
To be clear, no one actually knows for sure that the blue stuff RFK Jr was photographed dropping into his drink was methylene blue.
Is it perhaps a little unfair to assume that because he has lots of controversial ideas around medicine, that this is just another one?
As yet, he has not commented.
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