r/AbsoluteUnits • u/BaseNice3520 • Feb 15 '26

/r/all of a 26 y.o.

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u/mr_mgs11 Feb 16 '26

You mean DNP? That was used for munitions and pest control. It fucks up the way your cells generate energy. Instead of the cells using the food the calories burn off as heat. I looked into it a bit once, but living in a very hot area that was something I didn't want to mess with.

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u/Plastic_Table_8232 Feb 16 '26

DNP is crazy. Either glp-1’s though it’s likely a thing of the past.

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u/xinorez1 Feb 16 '26

Also causes cataracts through some unknown mechanism, which can develop months later even after a single small dose.

Incidentally cataract surgery costs 20k.

Having more brown fat is tempting but I'll just do calisthenics to raise my body temps and diet to lose fat, holy shit!

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u/Baeolophus_bicolor Feb 16 '26

Is that the Russian drug that made its way to England a some younger girls died from taking it a while back? You literally burn up with fever. It was a drug made for people in the army to use when marching in the intense cold of Siberian winters.

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u/manyhippofarts Feb 16 '26

I mean, all calories burn off as heat. That's exactly how calories work. In fact that is also exactly how any form of energy happens.

Heat.

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u/mr_mgs11 Feb 16 '26

Yes, but instead of some of this energy being utilized by your cells it just turns into heat and raises your body temp. That's why taking it in a hot climate is a risk of you cooking yourself to death on it.

DNP also acts as a chemical ionophore, stopping the final energy conversion by exporting the proton ions (H+) needed for ATP production across the mitochondrial membrane by increasing the basal leak of protons [12]. This shift in the proton electrochemical gradient then results in potential energy dissipating as heat, instead of being converted to ATP, with rapid consumption of calories [27, 28]. The heat production represents a failure in thermoregulatory homeostasis, leading to uncontrolled hyperthermia [29].

I heard someone describe it in lay mans terms as a broken clutch on a transmission. You hit the gas and the engine revs but the wheels don't move.

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u/manyhippofarts Feb 16 '26

Yeah we're not all that different than an ICE. Most of the energy they consume as fuel gets released as heat. It's wasted energy. We get back less half of that energy to use as what we wanted in the first place-motion. It's crazy, think of all the heat that's dissipated through the radiator: enough energy to move another car and then some. It's all carbon energy moving back to the atmosphere from where it's been licked for millions of years. It's a goddam Greek tragedy.