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What is Human Growth Hormone?

Posted by Cliff on from the who-hasn't-gottten-this-one-yet dept.

EelBait asks: "I get a lot of spam selling Human Growth Hormone (HGH). Supposedly this stuff builds muscles, make one lose weight, enlarges various external organs and glands, etc., etc. Does anyone really know any good articles about this? Is it dangerous? The fact that it's being sold through spam is enough to give me pause, but I want to know if there are any legitimate uses for this stuff."

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  1. Re:It is exactly what it is called by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Parents who fuck with their kids growth like this are retarded.

    OK I'm biased, but I'm female and 6'5". By the time I was 12 I was already 6' tall, and my mother's sister was so 'concerned' about the effects of me being tall, she constantly contacted doctors and welfare groups about the need to stop my growth. Most of them told her to piss off, but she was persistent enough that through my childhood it felt like I was being hounded constantly for being unnatural.

    Screw that! I'm tall, I ADORE being tall, and if anyone had messed around with my natural height I'd be pretty damned annoyed at them for taking that from me. If it's the kids decision, all's fair, but this is such a common thing, for parents to take their tall daughters for treatment to stop growth.

    (fwiw it's genetics. My grandfather was over 7' and most of my mother's side are near 6')

  2. Re:It is exactly what it is called by chthon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No regeneration, not exactly...

    You know, some people get in their old age a glandiary deficiency and they start having growth hormones again. What happens is that some parts of their body, especially nose and ears start to grow again...