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dinitrophenol[DNP]

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There are many talks about this dangerous chem and it's toxity, but one thing that i really wnat to know - is it neurotoxic in any ways?
 
Probably, it makes your cells purposefully waste energy by destroying the proton gradient.

It causes, among other things, cataracts to be created in healthy people, and an otherwise massive increase in oxidative stress. There's a reason it's not really used as a weight loss supplement. Way too many bad side effects in the long term.

it does raise temperatures too, so there's a possibility it could just cook your brain outright like an egg if you took enough.
 
It screws up your mitochondrial metabolism everywhere in the body, even in places that shouldn't normally have to cope with heavy energy requirements or a ridiculously oxidative environment. I wouldn't really recommend it for anyone.
 
Seriously though, if you're going to insist on eating nitro compounds, try 7-Nitro-1,3-dihydro-5-(2-nitrophenyl)-2H-1,4-benzodiazepine-2-one. If you eat enough of it perhaps you'll try to detonate the rest you've got...
 
In retrospect I shouldn't have started that sentence with "seriously though" - consuming explosives is never a good idea unless you have no idea how suicide bombing works.
 
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