The thyroid gland controls one of the growth hormones, right?
What would happen if someone regularly started taking shots of growth hormones? Like, all the time?
Would they become like, total NBA material?
More often than not, people with overactive thyroids have severe skeletal or weight problems. Only in extremely rare cases will an overactive thyroid produce a giant person, and even in those cases the giant person will almost always have some sort of medical issues.
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Maradön? wrote this stupid crap:
Only in extremely rare cases will an overactive thyroid produce a giant person, and even in those cases the giant person will almost always have some sort of medical issues.
And they will also possess a desire to kill, maim, and destroy.
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Khyron said:
What would happen if someone regularly started taking shots of growth hormones? Like, all the time?Would they become like, total NBA material?
They would grow taller, yeah, but the stress on their body grows exponentially.
Same reason most people with Giants' (I forget the real name) disease don't live too long unless they receive constant medical attention.
Thyroid controls 2 things. 1 thing it secretes is a horemone that helps control your metabilism. This is one of the contributing factors to my fatass-ism. I have an inactive Thyroid.
The second set of things it secrets helps keep the rest of the endocrine system in balance.
Too much of either is not really good.
It is not too fun, if you ask me.. I mean, extreme mood swings sometimes, every once and a while you get to the point where you're listless, there IS a weight thing that factors into it, but I never really had much of a problem with that for some reason.
All in all.. its not a fun thing. I have to take medication for it for the rest of my life. 
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Azakias attempted to be funny by writing:
Heh.. myself, I'm hypothyroid.It is not too fun, if you ask me.. I mean, extreme mood swings sometimes, every once and a while you get to the point where you're listless, there IS a weight thing that factors into it, but I never really had much of a problem with that for some reason.
All in all.. its not a fun thing. I have to take medication for it for the rest of my life.
Yeah, you're basically the opposite of me.
