I buy from Sigma for my lab, so I looked up Sodium dichloroacetate (Dichloroacetic acid sodium salt), and 10 g cost $28.70, so it's cheap. I've had breast cancer, but can't imagine taking something like this. "First do no harm" seems to apply here. I can see how online groups can encourage people to jump off a cliff...and maybe I could be persuaded, too, if death were really looming. It's an interesting lead.

I don't get why pergolide was on the market for so long since there are safer alternatives. I hope most neuros were paying attention to the dangers and stopped prescribing it some time ago.