Is That Methylene Blue Ranking Really Independent?

A public domain registration (WHOIS) record shows the site blueverify.us, which ranks nine methylene blue brands and describes itself as independent, is registered to Vance Elrod using the email address vance@merakimedicinal.com. Vance Elrod is publicly identified as the founder of Meraki Medicinal, a methylene blue brand. BlueVerify currently ranks Meraki Blu, Meraki Medicinal's own product, number one overall with a score of 97 out of 100. The same page that states "all opinions expressed on this site are our own" also carries a "Sponsored Comparison" disclosure elsewhere on the page.

• This is not about Meraki Blu being a bad product. In Nutricel's own lab database, it carries an Acceptable verdict with Good brand credibility, a mid-tier result.
• The issue is the missing disclosure and the mixed messaging. The site promises independence, ranks the founder's own product first, and separately discloses a sponsorship it does not explain.
• You can check this yourself. WHOIS lookups are free and public. We show you how below, and every source we used is linked at the bottom.

We sell methylene blue too, so weigh this with that in mind. Everything below comes from public domain registration records, a public brand-testing database, and language quoted directly from the BlueVerify website. We are not making claims about anyone's intent.

BlueVerify presents itself as an independent methylene blue research and rankings site. On the page itself, it says: "We independently research, review, and recommend the best products," and separately, "All opinions expressed on this site are our own." Elsewhere on the same page, it also states that "rankings reflect independent editorial criteria." As of this writing, the site ranks nine methylene blue brands as follows.

We ran a public WHOIS lookup on blueverify.us directly against the .us domain registry. It returned the following registrant information, with no privacy protection applied:

The registrant email uses the merakimedicinal.com domain, the same domain used by Meraki Medicinal, the company behind Meraki Blu. Vance Elrod is publicly identified elsewhere, including in his own company's brand story, as a former professional MMA fighter who founded Meraki Medicinal in Las Vegas after developing his own methylene blue formulation. Las Vegas is also the city on the domain's registration record.

The page contradicts itself. In one place, it says all opinions are its own and that rankings reflect independent editorial criteria. Elsewhere on that same page, it separately discloses "Sponsored Comparison," and adds that "company listings on this page DO NOT imply endorsement."

One of BlueVerify's own four stated scoring categories for ranking brands is "Transparency and Mission," worth 20 of the site's 100 possible points. So the site scores brands on transparency, while saying nothing clear about who owns the site doing the scoring.

BlueVerify's "Editor's Choice" badge for Meraki Blu includes the description "Most Tested on the Market," and Testing and Manufacturing is the single largest scoring category on the site, worth 35 of 100 points, more than any other criterion. We checked that claim against our own lab-testing database, which tracks published lab-test and water-test results across dozens of methylene blue brands.

An Acceptable verdict is a respectable result, not a failing grade, and Meraki Blu is a real product from a real company with a real manufacturing operation in Las Vegas. Our point is narrower: one specific, checkable claim, tied to the heaviest-weighted category on the site, does not fully hold up against outside data.

You can run these four checks in about ten minutes, on any "best of" or ranking site in any supplement category.

1. Run a WHOIS Lookup

Free tools like whois.icann.org let you look up who registered any domain. Compare the registrant name and email against the brands the site ranks favorably. A match, especially an unusual one, is worth a second look. Many registrants use privacy services that hide this information, which is common and does not prove anything on its own.

2. Read the Fine Print, Not Just the Headline

Look for both an independence claim and a disclosure statement on the same page, not just one or the other. Good review sites put their disclosure near the top of the page, where you will see it, not at the bottom.

3. Cross-Check Superlative Claims

Claims like "most tested," "highest rated," or "number one" should be checkable against a real, independent data source. If a site does not show its work, read the ranking as marketing, not research.

4. Notice Who Wins

If a "best of" list happens to crown a brand you have never otherwise heard of, or a brand with an unusually specific and detailed founder story compared to its competitors, that alone proves nothing. Together with the checks above, it is a good reason to dig a little further before you trust the list.

Do not take methylene blue if you are currently using:

• SSRIs or MAOIs (the FDA label for methylene blue injection warns of serotonin syndrome)
• Any serotonergic medication

Review the full adverse medications list and consult your healthcare provider before starting methylene blue in any form.

Every Nutricel product uses USP-grade methylene blue, is made in an GMP certified facility in the United States, and our capsules are third-party tested by independent labs. The difference between them is what goes in alongside the methylene blue.

Blue Boost is our core formula: 12mg of methylene blue per capsule with Vitamin C Ester and organic cacao. If you mainly want methylene blue itself, start here.

Blue Immune combines methylene blue with copper, magnesium, NAC, grass-fed beef liver, and camu camu for fatigue and cellular energy support, based on the Root Cause Protocol.

Blue Shroom pairs methylene blue with six organic mushroom extracts including lion's mane, reishi, cordyceps, chaga, shiitake, and turkey tail.

Blue Renew is built around GlyNAC with collagen and creatine, aimed at longevity and brain function as you age.

Blue Remove combines zeolite, curcumin, and nattokinase, aimed at circulation and the body's normal inflammatory response.

Blue Liquid is USP-grade methylene blue in a dropper bottle (1%, 10mg per mL), for people who prefer liquid and want to adjust in small steps.

Sam Carlson, Marketing Developer at Nutricel

Sam is a marketing developer at Nutricel who writes the Nutricel Insights series to help our customers understand methylene blue and make informed choices, translating public records and published research into plain language. Sam is not a medical professional, and these articles are intended as education rather than medical advice. Every factual claim in this piece is tied to a public, independently verifiable source, linked in the references above.