Adrenochrome

Adrenochrome is a reddish oxidation product of adrenaline, formed when adrenaline loses electrons. It has been studied for its chemical properties and biological effects.

Oxidation: A chemical process involving electron loss, often accompanied by gain of oxygen or loss of hydrogen. It converts adrenaline into adrenochrome.
Adrenaline: A hormone and neurotransmitter that helps regulate the body's acute stress response. Its oxidation provides the starting material for adrenochrome.
Adrenochrome monosemicarbazone: A derivative of adrenochrome formerly used in some countries as a hemostatic drug. This chemically modified form, rather than adrenochrome itself, has been used to reduce bleeding.
Adrenochrome conspiracy theories: False conspiracy narratives claim that powerful people harvest adrenochrome from living people for intoxicating or rejuvenating effects. These stories are not supported by evidence about the compound's chemistry or effects.
Adrenaline oxidation: The set of reactions in which adrenaline is oxidized into products including adrenochrome. This reaction sequence produces the compound.
Julius Axelrod: An American biochemist who studied catecholamine metabolism and won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. His work helped establish how adrenaline and related compounds are metabolized.
Hemostasis: The physiological process that stops bleeding through vessel constriction, platelet activity, and clot formation. The historical medical use of an adrenochrome derivative targeted bleeding control.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A 1971 novel by Hunter S. Thompson that depicts adrenochrome as a powerful fictional drug. Its portrayal helped popularize a dramatic effect not established by scientific evidence.
Semiquinone: A radical intermediate formed by partial reduction or oxidation of a quinone system. Adrenaline oxidation can pass through radical intermediates on the way to adrenochrome.
Hoffer–Osmond hypothesis: A mid-20th-century proposal that abnormal adrenochrome production contributed to schizophrenia. It made adrenochrome central to a controversial psychiatric theory.

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QAnonRelated: A false claim that elites harvest it from children became part of QAnon’s imagined cabal.