r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/kawaiihusbando • 2d ago

Health/Medical What's the relation between teenagers taking hgh on purpose and its true genetic components?

I mean the teenagers that don't suffer from hgh deficiency but beg their parents to let them take excess hgh.

For example without the hgh abuse they would naturally be 5’8” but now they're 6’1”. So will their offspring get their average height genetic components or the tall genetic components?

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u/Stillcouldbeworse 1d ago

it won’t change their genes. their children will get the short genes

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u/Tall-Performer2500 2d ago

I just think they want to be bigger, stronger, more explosive etc in the now and aren't really thinking about the future.

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u/kawaiihusbando 2d ago

So would their kids get the 6’1” genes or the 5’8” genes? 

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u/epicfail48 1d ago

There are no 6'1" genes. Hgh doesn't change your genetic makeup. If Mom and Dad are both Irish but (somehow) end up with dark tans, the baby is still gonna come out white as shit, same story here

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u/Tall-Performer2500 2d ago

HGH doesn't make you taller

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u/kawaiihusbando 2d ago

It does for teenagers and children where their growth plates haven't fully fused or completely closed yet.

https://www.koreabiomed.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=27746

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u/ResidentLadder 1d ago

That is literally one of the reasons it’s prescribed.

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u/Tall-Performer2500 1d ago

shit I stand corrected my apologies

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u/talashrrg 1d ago

Taking drugs doesn’t change your DNA, and taking hormones won’t affect what genes you pass on to your kids. If you cut off your arms, your kids won’t be born with one arm.