26 October 2000 - growth hormone

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Peter Pan Already Knew This

In experiments, mice engineered to be unable to respond to growth hormone grew half as large and lived half again as long. So aging doesn’t work the way we’ve been assuming. Kids, take note! It’s growing up that causes you to grow older.

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