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From: tedrick@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Growth Hormones
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Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 01:06:32 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 27 01:06:32 1985
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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training, but has since been replaced by fat).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