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slash UK slash AI for people. For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Feltman.

With everything from bird flu to neurovirus making headlines these days, it can feel like the world is just packed with dangerous pathogens we need protection from.

What if we could get a hand from an all-natural disinfectant that was more than 100 times more effective than bleach, but so gentle and safe that you could spray it into your eyes.

It might sound like the sort of quackery you'd get sold in a shady Facebook group, but such a compound really does exist.

It's called hypochlorous acid, and in addition to all of those awesome qualities I just listed, it's also cheap.

Plus, you can make it at home. So why don't we use it for like everything? Here to explain is Jen Schwartz, a senior features editor for Scientific American.

Jen, thanks so much for coming on to chat today. Thanks for having me.

So you wrote a piece about

hypochloric acid, which I feel like I've been seeing everywhere lately. So let's start with the

obvious. What is this compound? So it's so fascinating to me that you say you've been seeing it

everywhere because when I had this idea, which really came a few years ago, I thought that no one knew about this.

But I became aware of it in answering what this thing is.

It's a disinfectant, and it is something that is made in our bodies.

It is part of how our white blood cells fight infection.

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