A bodybuilding and weight-loss drug known as DNP seems to be behind the death of an 18-year-old international student in the UK.
Sarmad Alladin, the son of an Indian millionaire, was allegedly a workout fanatic who posted photos of his muscles to Facebook A few hours before his death, he updated Facebook praising the DNP tablets he’d taken, according to PTI.
Officials told of suspicions the pills — full name dinitrophenol and linked to 60 deaths — were “circulating on campus”. In an alert to students, they asked the students to “stop using them immediately.”
The drug DNP is sold mostly over the internet under a number of different names but contains 2, 4-Dinitrophenol.
The (UK) Sun (which calls Alladin “Mr. Muscles” and his father a “tycoon”) says police are awaiting the results of an autopsy and at this stage the death is being treated as unexplained.
DNP was popular as a diet aid in the 1930s, but it’s been shown to be toxic. It causes the body temperature to rise, and overdose will cause hyperthermia. As a poster at Testosterone Nation puts it:
DNP HAS ONE MAIN SIDE EFFECT- DEATH DUE TO BODY OVER-HEATING.
But though the drug itself is too deadly to be approved for human use, its mechanism of action is being investigated as an obesity treatment.
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