Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ernie!tedrick From: tedrick@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Tedrick) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Growth Hormones Message-ID: <10814@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 01:06:32 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10814 Posted: Sun Oct 27 01:06:32 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 28-Oct-85 03:19:36 EST Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: tedrick@ernie.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 I had a source of exotic nutritional substances some years ago. I wasn't fully aware of what I was taking but it was partly a borderline scientific (meaning completely unorthodox and secret) experiment in which I was an unknowing subject. Some strange things happened. Even though I was about 30 years old at the time, I seem to have gained half an inch or so in height. I put on 30 pounds of weight (which was muscle at the time as I was into weight training, but has since been replaced by fat). I'm wondering if I was given growth hormones. I've read that one danger of these hormones is some rare brain disease that doesn't manifest for many years (hope to God I don't have it, although some people might say my brain has already gone bad :-) ...) Everything I took was taken orally, no injections. Does anyone know anything about these growth hormones? (I think they are extracted from pituitary glands.) Thanks, -Tom