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The truth about adrenochrome
The truth about adrenochrome. Aldous Huxley's 1954 paper The Doors of Perception mainly described his experience with mescaline, and discussed the possibility that adrenal pigment is a compound with similar effects to psychedelic cactus. He didn't take it and didn't know how to get it, just said it was spontaneously produced by the human body. He described it as "the product of the decomposition of adrenaline", which is surprisingly correct.
If you spend a lot of time online recently, like other people, you are likely to fall into some strange COVID-19 rabbit holes. One of the words you might see is "adrenal pigment.". It is very popular with the cabal: it makes you young, or noble, or part of Satan's homage. Before you are hypnotized by a large number of Facebook comment posts, you should know how it achieved its mysterious status.
The 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange briefly mentioned "drecron", which is an optional additive of Moloko Plus for cocktails (a glass of milk). However, the most frequently cited use of this compound may be in Hunter s Thompson's Fear and Loating in Las Vegas. It may be a novel, but many people think it is the real thing that people really do. Thompson did not explain the buzzing of adrenal pigment in detail, but it may not be far from his vision: