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Benzene Exposure Alters Endocrine Activity

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Re: Benzene Exposure Alters Endocrine Activity

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Benzene kills fat tissue? BRB, going to write the "Benzene Diet" book.

The human brain is 60 percent fat

Woah, did not know that. So can true 'fat burners' like DNP give you brain damage, or is that something the blood brain barrier protects against?

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Benzene is everywhere, particularly in trace amounts in otherwise harmless products. Benzene is a building block for the production of many chemicals, including plastics, synthetic fibers, rubber, resins, dyes and pharmaceuticals, and residual amounts may remain in the final products. Benzene is used as a solvent and cleaning agent in printing, paint manufacturing, electronics, etc. Benzene contributes to the overall…

>"Benzene is everywhere, particularly in trace amounts in otherwise harmless products." Note -> Everywhere 'Today' because of your listed modern products. Not, Everywhere because it is some natural thing. Saying it is "Everywhere" seems to imply it is ok. The point is, we are all exposed now.

I didn't pick up on it being ok as the implication, rather that it's not ok because it's everywhere in otherwise harmless products.

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Benzene is everywhere, particularly in trace amounts in otherwise harmless products. Benzene is a building block for the production of many chemicals, including plastics, synthetic fibers, rubber, resins, dyes and pharmaceuticals, and residual amounts may remain in the final products. Benzene is used as a solvent and cleaning agent in printing, paint manufacturing, electronics, etc. Benzene contributes to the overall…

>"Benzene is everywhere, particularly in trace amounts in otherwise harmless products." Note -> Everywhere 'Today' because of your listed modern products. Not, Everywhere because it is some natural thing. Saying it is "Everywhere" seems to imply it is ok. The point is, we are all exposed now.

the same thing is true of brominated fire retardants. Somewhere along the way it was decided flameproofing was necessary for consumer products. As a result, we all get a free does of bromine in our homes!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brominated_flame_retardant

Re: Benzene Exposure Alters Endocrine Activity

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The human brain is 60 percent fat

Woah, did not know that. So can true 'fat burners' like DNP give you brain damage, or is that something the blood brain barrier protects against?

DNP doesn't actually target fat that I am aware of. It messes with ATP and makes it incredibly inefficient, so your cells burn basically everything including fat to try and keep up with energy demands. This also can kill you due to the heat produced.

It's also an explosive.

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There's something super dystopian that we look at a cancer-causing, bone-marrow-killing chemical and go "look, we can use this for weight loss!". I get fatness is a plague or whatever but thin == healthy is totally broken if you're using poison to get thin.

If you're into super ~metal~ dystopian weight loss aids that are available today, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dinitrophenol

It sounds like something out of a cartoon

It's an explosive compound that causes you to overheat and die if ingested in too large a dose

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Woah, did not know that. So can true 'fat burners' like DNP give you brain damage, or is that something the blood brain barrier protects against?

DNP doesn't actually target fat that I am aware of. It messes with ATP and makes it incredibly inefficient, so your cells burn basically everything including fat to try and keep up with energy demands. This also can kill you due to the heat produced. It's also an explosive.

I took a standard DNP fat loss dose, the effects (weight loss and others) are vastly overstated. You'd have to take well in excess of any recommended dose to get to the point where the waste heat production would become dangerous. You're more likely to develop a cataract as a deleterious effect.

I'd wager most of my weight loss came from the fact that I just wasn't eating because I felt awful.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're into super ~metal~ dystopian weight loss aids that are available today, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dinitrophenol

It sounds like something out of a cartoon It's an explosive compound that causes you to overheat and die if ingested in too large a dose

All I can says is: I learned something new today.

Re: Benzene Exposure Alters Endocrine Activity

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's something super dystopian that we look at a cancer-causing, bone-marrow-killing chemical and go "look, we can use this for weight loss!". I get fatness is a plague or whatever but thin == healthy is totally broken if you're using poison to get thin.

If you're into super ~metal~ dystopian weight loss aids that are available today, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dinitrophenol

I remember reading that body builders and models will take this. It basically causes your mitochondria to work less efficiently, and thus burn more calories. Take too much and you will die because your body can't regulate it's temperature. Scary stuff.
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