This is fascinating, and the crystals look so cool! I also recently got into chemistry, mainly for metal finishing like anodizing, and also making my own medication as I can't rely on the healthcare system.
It is amazing! For serious stuff, you need a lot of materials and equipment, but a lot can be done with the simplest of tools and proper knowledge. Having a room full of simple lab equipment I still feel like Heisenberg lol
Dangerous can be necessary, unfortunately. The US healthcare system for instance routinely fails large demographics of people, leaving them to foot the bill for excessively expensive medication that increases in price year after year (despite no significant chemical change to the active components). Making one's own insulin can quite literally be the difference between life and death. AIDs medication is another prime example of this.
See https://fourthievesvinegar.org/ for an interesting home-biolab premise if you''d like to know more about stuff like this. Their approach isn't perfect, but its a solution to a problem that most people otherwise would have no ability to change.
I believe that it is achieved through CRISPR edited yeast, or possibly another easily cultured bacterial species (E. Coli perhaps?). The cells replicate and are then portioned and lysed, the solution is spun down in a centrifuge, separated for waste and the yield extracted and purified.
It is amazing! For serious stuff, you need a lot of materials and equipment, but a lot can be done with the simplest of tools and proper knowledge. Having a room full of simple lab equipment I still feel like Heisenberg lol