Eli5: How exactly a pituitary gland tumor causes the body to overproduce growth hormones and make you super tall. How the pituitary gland tumor has anything to do with very high growth hormone? example: Adam Reiner

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Eli5: How exactly a pituitary gland tumor causes the body to overproduce growth hormones and make you super tall. How the pituitary gland tumor has anything to do with very high growth hormone? example: Adam Reiner

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The pituitary gland is where growth hormone is made. If some of the pituitary cells start to divide out of control forming a tumor then you can have many more cells than usual producing growth hormone leading to very high levels of growth hormone.

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