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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>why can’t we just inject people with the right hormones to make them taller?
Part of the growth process involves our bodies *stopping* growing, and part of that includes our bones’ *growth plates* turning into bone.
People like Andre, their growth plates simply didn’t turn to bone for longer than normal — among other changes.
Injecting adults with growth hormone won’t undue those changes, and it will hurt way more than it could ever help.
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