Lack of Hormone Gave 'Superkid' Big Muscles

Reuters ^ | Thu, Jun 24, 2004

[traumer]

I bet he has big feet, too...

[King Prout]

haven't scientists done experimentation on mice on this topic? I seem to recall something along these lines, recently.

[Maceman]

I think Myostatin hormone therapy will be the new vanity craze -- the new cosmetic surgery -- of the next decade, if not before.

Look like Schwarzenegger without working out. I think there might possibly be a market for that, over and above the market for a muscular dystrophy treatment.

[tallhappy]

Check out the latest Scientific American and numerous other articles on "gene doping".

The "supplent" industry is already selling myostatin blockers (they claim).

[CSM]

Why would Rueters write about this without providing pix? Anyone out there have a pic of this kid?

[Cronos]

ARnold Schwarzenegger's kid?

[skeeter]

Reuters reportage has finally achieved supermarket checkout line credibility they've obviously been seeking.

[thoughtomator]

"Natural", my extremely developed gluteus maximus. Call me tinfoil, but I think this kid was genetically engineered.

[Physicist]

Someday they will figure out what happened to make Angus MacAskill into the giant he was, and then the world will never be the same.

[presidio9]

I love the way they make every sentence its own paragraph.

It looks like post-modernist poetry.

[Paradox]

I think Myostatin hormone therapy will be the new vanity craze

The bodybuilding community is always WAY ahead of everyone else. They have already been into looking for myostatin suppressing agents. As another poster has shown, they sell stuff that supposedly does this. Those guys will try ANYTHING to get a little bigger, or get a little more "cut". Heck, when I was lifting hard, I was lo-carbing it a decade ago. Now this low-carb thing seems like a silly fad (no, I am not a low-carb basher, it works, I just dont like this new found fascination with it, it bugs me, sheeple and all...)

[The G Man]

From the New England Journal of medicine, via the AP:

[Dead Corpse]

GDF-8 supression. This has been a know factor in cattle (Belgian Blue's) and has been proven in Mice.

Article implies that they already have a chemical compound that will knock out myostatin production.

Flex Wheeler and Ron Coleman also supposedly exhibit the "double muscling" phenomenon.

Bring it on. I'd love a short cut to get that big.

[Dead Corpse]

Body Works Nutrition sells severl different brands of "blocker".

[Phantom Lord]

It is unusual for a 4 year old to be able to lift 6.6 lbs?

[presidio9]

Where are you getting his age from?

[SoCal Pubbie]

Why Angus MacAskill was so tall is probably understood. Why he and a few other giants were so strong is more unique. Most giants are rather weak.

[CSM]

Thanks. Very weird.

[Phantom Lord]

Schuelke first examined the child, now four, as a new-born baby when his extraordinary muscle mass caused fears he might have a muscular problem.

But the baby has developed into a healthy boy, normal apart from having muscles twice as big as normal which enable him to lift three kilo (6.6 lb) weights.