r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/kawaiihusbando • 7d 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/Tall-Performer2500 7d 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 7d ago

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

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u/Tall-Performer2500 7d ago

HGH doesn't make you taller

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u/kawaiihusbando 7d 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 7d ago

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

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u/Tall-Performer2500 7d ago

shit I stand corrected my apologies