Dichloroacetic Acid (also called Dichloroethanoic Acid) has been used for years to treat metabolic imbalances in humans with little side effects. Science has recently shown that when given in small amounts to rats rife with tumors, they shrank dramatically in weight. Upon further inspection, prolonged exposure to Dichloroacetic Acid (Dichloroethanoic Acid) destroyed every resident cancer cell, leaving other surrounding cells unharmed. It accomplishes this by re-activating the dormant mitochondria in cancer cells, thus re-enabling apoptosis, a process which causes a damaged cell to self-destruct. Why hasn’t this been produced and distributed? Well, as any sucker with a highschool intermediate/advanced chemistry course under their belt can tell you: Dicholoroacetic Acid (Dichloroethanoic Acid) can be produced by means of a reduction reaction of Trichloroacetic Acid (Trichloroethanoic Acid). Basically, you react this chemical with an oxidizing agent – Hydrogen Peroxide would be ideal as it’s inexpensive and readily available. Now, you’re all thinking “This is all well and good, but where do we get the Tricholoracetic (Trichloroethanoic) Acid from to begin with?” Well, here comes your chem course again:
CH3COOH + 3Cl2 → CCl3COOH + 3HCl
That’s right kiddies. Acetic Acid and Chlorine. Any schmuck with a jug of plain white vinegar and some pool chemicals can cook this stuff up, react the precipitate with Hydrogen Peroxide and have this exact substance. It’s all a matter of reacting chemicals in a basin and filtering the precipitate…twice. THIS is why the industry doesn’t care. Mere milligrams of this stuff will do the trick and vinegar and chlorine aren’t at all expensive, so there’s really no money to be made here. So, they’d rather invest in something which will produce a higher cost and therefore more expensive drug. Now, this isn’t perfect, there have been some side effects to the use of this drug in treating metabolic disorders – namely peripheral nerve damage. So, your extremities may tingle permenantly…But hey, I’d take the chance of developing a tingle over a tumor eating my fucking brain any day. Also, another side effect of this drug is that it seems to aid in stress and anxiety reduction – well, I’m crying over that pretty hard. I love my stress and anxiety…along with sarcasm. So, pay attention in school and you may be able to do something neat like cure a plague using stuff found in your pantry.
