Dinitrophenol (DNP) was pulled from the market in 1937 due to association with hyperthermia and fatalities. — Whalespan
Dinitrophenol (DNP) was pulled from the market in 1937 due to association with hyperthermia and fatalities.
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“It is a absolutely terrible compound for anyone to use, because it's highly fatal if your body temperature goes too high. Hyperthermia will kill you. And indeed many people have died using Dinatrophenol as a weight loss drug or attempting to use it as a weight loss drug.”
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“unfortunately and a very big unfortunately is again one of the on target effects we just talked about when you uncouple you promote heat generation and this is in the whole body dnp is going everywhere and promoting heat generation unfortunately a handful of these people took too much they got into problems with hyperthermia increased body temperature and got very sick from that and some died with the very first thing a newly created fda 1937 the first act they did was actually to pull dnp from the counters as an over-the-counter kind of drug or medication”