Eli5: Why can’t we just inject adults with growth hormones to make them taller?

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If bodily processes are so strongly governed by hormones that taking cross-sex hormones can trigger essentially a second puberty in post-pubescent people, and people like Andre the giant have their size thanks to an overactive pituitary gland which is what produces growth hormones, why can’t we just inject people with the right hormones to make them taller? Seems like there would be a pretty big market for that.

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You can to children/teens in some cases. My buddy had it injected into his legs at like 15 because he was very short. Now he is taller than me. Pretty crazy.

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