[quote]anonym wrote:
[quote]rds63799 wrote:
doesn’t it totally fuck up your mitochondria? You are the first person I’ve ever heard say it was safer than clen, although I know clen is baaaad[/quote]
First, I totally agree that bushy is an extremely bright dude and I didn’t mean to suggest otherwise or in any way insinuate that he doesn’t know what the deal is with most performance enhancers. That was just my initial impression based on your summary.
For this ^, DNP functions as a protonophore which uncouples oxidative phosphorylation by inhibiting the formation of the proton gradient between the inter-membrane space and mitochondrial matrix; this inhibition attenuates the proton-motive force that is used to power ATP synthase and results in a recurring dissipation of oxidation energy as heat.
In English, and while not 100% medically accurate but serviceable: DNP takes oxidative phosphorylation and snaps that phrase in half. In other words, it prevents the energy derived from oxidation from being used to phosphorylate (add phosphates) to ADP (adenosine di-phosphate) to generate ATP (tri-phosphate). What happens is, during energy production, an imbalance in protons (hydrogen cations; H+) is produced across the membranes in mitochondrial. To catalyze ADP → ATP, these protons are allowed to pour back in through an enzyme known as ATP synthase, with this transition powering the enzyme to do its thang. DNP prevents this buildup of H+ from occurring by making the mitochondrial membranes “leaky” and thus allowing the protons to dissipate as heat rather than being used to drive ATP synthase. As a consequence, metabolism becomes much less efficient and the body needs to burn more calories to generate enough ATP to maintain the status quo.
(Youtube-ing the Khan Academy presentation on cellular respiration will clarify the process of oxidative phosphorylation better than I can, I think)
The inefficiency of this process is dose-dependent, with 200mg DNP raising metabolism ~20% and 500mg DNP having been shown to elevate metbaolism ~60%.
This sounds funky, but it is actually a naturally occurring phenomenon (Google: uncoupling proteins). Uncoupling Protein 1 (UCP1, formerly thermogenin) is found in brown adipose tissue in infants and hibernating mammals and causes what is called “non-shivering thermogenesis” - or, the generation of heat without shivering.
There are a handful of uncoupling proteins known, but that one is the most famous. DNP is, to my knowledge, the most potent uncoupler known at this point by a fairly substantial degree.[/quote]
my totally-not-gay-man-crush on you grows more powerful every day.
So do the dangers just come from the body overheating? Or does the whole process have some sort of inherent danger? I’ve heard the mitochondria get badly damaged, and that it can even damage your DNA but I don’t know whether there’s any truth to that.