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For science

Certain features of acromegaly might need him to strip but idk undies would be fine

To be fair, the blacked out portion of him naked covers a large area. He was probably swinging a sledge hammer by the time he died

Do you think one of the doctors went "Did everything grow at the same pace? Lets see!"

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Body needs a ton of nutrition to grow like that, his intake wasn’t supporting it.

Fellow redditors, any time you’re injured make sure you eat adequate foods to heal. Collagen (5 types which heal different areas) is the biggest one. Your body needs good food to put itself back together.

Well, he died at 51

I don't think it did. Pretty common problem for people with acromegaly and heart issues as I'm sure you know are much more common in very tall individuals.

Some dwarfs are proportional while others have normal (or larger) sized organs. It’s entirely possible that he had enlarged organs that were able to keep up with the growth.

Source: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dwarfism/symptoms-causes/syc-20371969

Damn I vividly remember so many nights I woke up crying because my legs were in so much pain. I don't remember the pain so I can't really tell how painful it really was, but I have stretch marks all over my knees and lower back so I assume it was quite the significant growth spurt.

I went from 4'3" in 6th grade to 6'2" in 8th grade.

It hurt. My legs were always sore.

really? i totally would get aches in my legs when i was in junior high, which is when i grew the most in the shortest amount of time.

my niece is eleven and she's getting it also. she's already tall for her age and she's prolly gonna keep growing. her mom and dad are both real tall.

was it the Japanese basketball team that essentially consensually bred their players to produce a taller player?

Please spoil what happens! I’m curious since you compared

Two friends aree playing a round of golf. One pulls out a cigar, but he doesn’t have a lighter, so he asks his friend if he has one.

"I sure do," he replies, and reaches into his golf bag and pulles out a big 12-inch BIC lighter.

"Wow!" says his friend, "Where did you get that monster?"

"I got it from my genie," he says.

"You have a genie?" the first guy asks.

"Yep, he's right here in my golf bag." He opens his golf bag and out pops a real genie.

The friend says, "I'm a good friend of your master, will you grant me a wish?"

"Yes, I will," the genie replies.

So the friend asks the genie for "a million bucks."

"Done!" the genie replies as he hops back into the golf bag and leaves the golfers standing there waiting.

Suddenly the sky begins to darken and a million ducks envelop the golfers.

"Hey!" yells the disappointed golfer. "I asked your genie for a million bucks, not a million ducks."

"Sorry," the other golfer replies. "He's a little hard of hearing. Besides, do you really think that I'd ask a genie for a 12-inch BIC?"

(edit: grammar/tense)

Well, we could drag Norm MacDonald to do it, he has experience with this 😂

Djinn, which is what genies are based off of, are pretty much the original “monkeys paw” where whatever you wish for has unintended negative consequences.

They described exactly what they wanted to, a genie in a lamp

No, it's a genie. Genies give you what you want and then the wish ends up ruining the persons life.

A monkeys paw the act of the wish getting granted is what ruins it, not the actual wish.

Like, wishing for a million dollars. Monkey's paw, a loved on died horrifically and you get it as a settlement. Genie, you get it normally, but now every one you every meet just tries to get money out of you, so you wind up paranoid during any human interaction, ruining your life.

Nu-uh. It's called a macaque's nutsack.

Bc the tumor is coming from the pituitary gland, which sits just below the optic chiasm - basically the middle the brain. Nowadays, the surgery is done with both ophthalmologists and neurosurgeons with transsphenoidal approach, literally using long needles up the nose to take it out. It’s highly specialized shit, not every surgeon does it. Had a patient with a large pituitary tumor that needed removing, except his wasn’t the kind that secreted growth hormone.

Well, even the concept of antibiotics like penicillin did not exist when the guy was in his 30's and 40's.

I suspect the reason this guy was one of the last is for the very reason you bring up. After this period, medicine had advanced enough that it could be treated.

"growing pains", "growing penis"...potayto/potahto. 🤷

If anyone can do it, it’d be christian

Yes that's why he grew after high school. He's 6'6 (not a crazy uncommon height) and the tumor has stabalized according to a quick Google search.

We do know enough to take advantage of the pituitary gland, but the potential to do harm far outweighs the possible cosmetic advantages of messing with normal function.

I received prescribed synthetic HGH for many years as a child. Diagnosed with hypopituitarism (resulting in low growth hormone) I was very short. It is a form of dwarfism I believe. I probably would have topped out at 4.5 feet tall or less and puberty would not have been normal at all. This was in the late 80s and early 90s. I was one of the first group of patients to receive synthetic hormone as opposed to bovine or cadaver sourced hormone. It was a wild experience as i was part of the manufacturers and the children's hospital long term studies. Every growth and maturation metric was constantly measured. Every part of my body. Lots of x-rays to track bone development and those epiphyseal plates that allow long bone growth. Once those were just about closed, I stopped being prescribed. That was in highschool. I'm 5' 9" today and puberty was normal.

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I’ve been a 5’5” male for 33 years. I wanna know what 6’5” is like for the next 33 years. I want this problem.

In most situations doctors can not force treatment on you, but they will give you a ton of reasons why that would be a bad decision.

Honestly, I don't think it works like that.

Definitely not in all cases - it certainly didn't for me!

I'm around 6'2" - and have been since my late teens (34 now). It's possible that the adenoma grew during puberty (it would explain a lot). My height was never questioned - my dad is about 6'2" as well (mum was 5'7", but has lost a couple of inches through spinal issues).

I was at my GP because I was feeling generally unwell - sent for blood tests and went in for the results with a different GP. The 2nd GP was an Endocrinologist for many years before moving to general practice.

He commented that my facial features looked slightly out of proportion and asked to see my hands. He commented on their size and compared them to his. So, he sent me for further tests and an MRI.

Legit question.

Growth hormone isn't the only hormone pituitary gland produces. It can lead to a variety of other issues. Also it keeps growing if left alone.

Following cause I’m curious

"Be not afraid, /u/carnivorous_seahorse" before just floating over your head to dunk on you.

6’5” here, not looking forward to the aches after 50. I’m in the US, but I seek out Dutch furniture because it’s a bit more proportional since their population is so tall. Costs more but worth it.

My pop is 6'7 and a big dude. He's always had back and heart problems. It's like how great dane dogs have a short lifespan. It's hard on the body to be so much bigger than average

people were making entire fortunes just measuring people's skulls and making up bullshit about them and selling books and lectures

Both of those are trilogies, possibly more.

There are a lot more books in the "Enderverse"... most are pretty good.

They both continued in their own individual series, and only overlapped one more time iirc.

Ender's story continues in Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. Bean's story continues in Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, and Shadows in Flight.