DNP 2,4-dinitrophenol

Quick info about DNP 2,4-dinitrophenol

If you screw up using it, you may go blind, or end up in the hospital on an ice bed receiving ice-water enemas as the doctors frantically try to make the temperature of your yellow and sweaty body go back down. On the positive side, very few people have died from DNP, although it remains a distinct possibility. Outside the bodybuilding world, DNP is used to make certain dyes—break open a capsule and you'll see that the distinct color you get on your hands is nearly impossible to wash off. It can also be used as a fungicide, herbicide, and insecticide. Before that, in the early part of the 1900's it was used as an explosive.

DNP works by uncoupling oxidative phosphorylation, which increases the body's temperature and metabolic rate. Synthesis of fatty acid in adipose tissue requires cooperation of mitochondria and cytoplasmic enzymes, so your body's need to use more energy to perform tasks.

Speaking about getting weaker, DNP will lower thyroid (T3) and thyroid stimulating hormone levels. Lower thyroid levels are positively correlated with lethargy (tiredness) and muscle weakness. So it's as fair to say that just as DNP makes you lose fat via several mechanisms, it will make you feel like garbage through several mechanisms. And don’t forget the yellow(ish?) sweat and body odor. Then there's this weird taste in your mouth. On the bright side, we're talking about fat loss of almost a half a kilogram per day (1Ib/day), when DNP is properly used.

A lot of the side effects (at least the more dangerous ones, including the ones associated with vision problems) need to be addressed before discussing how much DNP you can use, and for how long. First of all, you will want to make sure you are taking in enough carbs. A ketogenic diet (that's a diet with no carbs, essentially) is too dangerous to consider with DNP use. In fact, taking in a good amount of carbs after your workouts, at least 1-2g/kg of bodyweight. Glucose metabolism is enhanced in less than a week, and wary of depriving your body of carbs while using DNP. All of these extra carbs are going to make you sweat more, as your body literally burns them up. You can take in as many carbs as you want, and you'll want a lot (carb-cravings are a side effect of DNP use).

The other thing you want to use is pyruvate, which at the very least will have ocularprotective properties. Pyruvate will also have some other cool effects on your body's energy production ability, but here, we're primarily concerned with not developing cataracts or floaters in our vision. Consultants say 2mgs/kg-5mgs/kg is an optimal dose. It is better to stay on the low end of that, but I am aware that the "Underground Standard" is 600mgs/day. That's still a reasonably safe dose, for most.