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When I was a kid, I always heard some Uncle claim that "rich people" bribe the doctors to give growth hormone to their children. That's why supposedly all the "
by rvba 4y ago
When I was a kid, I always heard some Uncle claim that "rich people" bribe the doctors to give growth hormone to their children. That's why supposedly all the "rich people" children were tall (being well fed probably helps here)
Is that real that the rich, VC types give growth hormone to their children?
- funnymony 4y agoGrowth hormone called food
- smrtinsert 4y agoOr just eat average American non-organic food varieties.
- yazzku 4y agoYou will certainly grow.. along the horizontal and forward axes.
- iends 4y agoI’m not rich by American standards but we were offered growth hormone for our son since he is trending to 5 1/2 feet.
- killingtime74 4y agoDid it help?
- Hoyadonis 4y agoI haven't heard of physical growth hormones per se, but it's definitely true of the psychological equivalent that is Adderall and related methamphetamine prescriptions for ADHD or "ADHD." It does wonders for getting kids to sit down and study, but at who-knows-what cost.
- nextos 4y agoGood quality dairy is associated with high insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) levels in blood, which in turn leads to rapid cell growth. This explains why e.g. Dutch people went from being the shortest to the tallest in Europe.
- moneywoes 4y agoAny source’s? Can I get this now as an adult?
- nextos 4y agoYes, but IGF-1 as an adult won't promote the kind of growth you want. It's actually something you want to keep low as it's pro-inflammatory.
- flawn 4y agoI always thought that was more of a conspiracy that milk helps you to grow. My mum always tried to get me with that but I always didn't give a damn because I thought it's not true anyway.
- nimbleal 4y agoThere's correlation in longitudinal studies, I recall. Not sure how robust the findings are though.
- gergov 4y agoI'm not up to date on the science, but my dad was old - born in '43 - and worked as a teacher, so he could see several generations grow up. He was tall for his generation, but by the time I was a teenager, he was tiny even compared to his teenage students. I was a head taller than him even before he started "old man shrinking". He always pointed at food, that the generations after him had access to better stuff and more milk. The shortest member of my family is my niece who is totally anti-milk, but that's just anecdata. So it might be some other macro-factor influencing growth, with milk being the most glaringly visible item on the table. But it does kind of make an intuitive sense, and the dutch are freakishly tall while they have some of the best dairy products in the world
- ookblah 4y agoanecdotally, a lot of families around me seem to give these shots to kids in S. Korea and it doesn't seem like the vast majority of them "need" it. kind of crazy to me, but just an extension of how much looks are valued culturally here.