Blackpilled parents give children HGH over height concerns, alarming health experts

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Rise of growth hormone use on children in China alarms health experts

Chinese health experts are raising concerns about the growing interest among parents to use synthetic human growth hormones on their children. Local media outlets cited by The Epoch Times reported that the Beijing Children’s Hospital had almost doubled its endocrinologist consultations since...
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How China drugmakers feed on parent anxiety over child's height

Hormone treatment to make kids taller likened by some to cosmetic surgery
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Parents spend big money on growth hormones to increase children’s height

Many Vietnamese parents are taking their children to hospitals and asking doctors to inject their children with the 'most effective and most expensive drugs' to help them obtain the highest possible height.
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[Weekender] Korea’s obsession with tallness

“I’m a 12-year-old girl and 158 centimeters tall. All my best friends are at least 160 centimeters in height. My goal is to eventually reach 180 centimeters. Please advise how I can grow taller.” The anonymous writer of the post on web portal Naver speaks for many others -- children and parents...
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Korean Children Under 'Growing' Pressure

The pressure to be tall in Korea is growing and many Korean parents are turning to medical treatments to boost their children's height. The price of a few extra inches is not a small order. It can cost a family around $21,000.
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Thai And Chinese Middle Class Parents Giving Their Children Growth Hormone?

I can't be the only ones who have noticed what seems to be very oversized school children in Bangkok but particularly China (if you go there sometime). It's a very well known issue in China that height is very important for ones career. The Chinese also consider it 'great success' if their childr...
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[KH explains] Parents turn to growth hormone to give their children an edge

South Korea’s growth hormone deficiency treatment market has seen stunning growth in recent years, particularly with growing interest in children’s height among parents here. “I heard that there are three things that moms in Daechi-dong (Seoul’s infamous private education district) do for their...
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Should parents worry if their child is too short?

Concerned parents in Singapore are opting to boost their children’s height in a number of ways, from hormone injections to an egg a day – some less reliable than others – as Talking Point discovers.
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why are they crying over this? they are the ones who had it be that if you arent tall your essentially a outcast and and a punching bag (men only)
 
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blackpill af society
 
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Fuark can't cope no more. Even Chinks are doing hgh and shit. Overr
 
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Pointless giving chinks gh tbh
 
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I guess I was right when I thought to myself hoe people are getting more and more blackpilled, normies realising the importance of looks and height
 
And my parents stil won't get me hgh :feelswhy::feelswah:
 
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testicularatrophy said:
why are they crying over this? they are the ones who had it be that if you arent tall your essentially a outcast and and a punching bag (men only)
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Wish my parents were more blackpilled. And I needed it too because of hypothyroid.

6”3 genes and ended up 5”8.
 
Xangsane said:
One of the articles is even from 2009

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Why? ‘I need more reps please keep replying to me I don’t even read or care what you say’ average xangsane post
 
I mean ok but at least feed them raw meat, nutrients first. Growth is still aging
 
Egyptianmogger said:
Interesting
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South Korea Stretches Standards for Success​


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Trainer Choi Hyong-jin helped Kang Hyon-sung, 5, and his sister, Kang Hyon-hee, 7, as they tried a special treadmill during a growth-spurring exercise at the Seojung growth clinic in Seoul.

Trainer Choi Hyong-jin helped Kang Hyon-sung, 5, and his sister, Kang Hyon-hee, 7, as they tried a special treadmill during a growth-spurring exercise at the Seojung growth clinic in Seoul.Credit...Woohae Cho for The International Herald Tribune
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SEOUL, South Korea With acupuncture needles trembling from the corners of her mouth like cat’s whiskers, Moon Bo-in, 5, whined with fear. But the doctor, wearing a yellow gown patterned with cartoon characters, poked more needles into her wrists and scalp.
“It’s O.K., dear,” said her mother, Seo Hye-kyong. “It will help make you pretty and tall. It will make you Cinderella.”
Swayed by the increasingly popular conviction that height is crucial to success, South Korean parents are trying all manner of remedies to increase their children’s stature, spawning hundreds of growth clinics that offer hormone shots, traditional Eastern treatments and special exercises.
“In our society, it’s all about looks,” said Ms. Seo, 35. “I’m afraid my daughter is shorter than her peers. I don’t want her to be ridiculed and lose self-confidence because of her height.”

Ms. Seo spends $770 a month on treatments for her daughter and her 4-year-old son at one such clinic, Hamsoa, which has 50 branches across the country and offers a mix of acupuncture, aromatherapy and a twice-a-day tonic that contains deer antler, ginseng and other medicinal herbs.
“Parents would rather add 10 centimeters to their children’s stature than bequeath them one billion won,” said Dr. Shin Dong-gil, a Hamsoa doctor, invoking a figure in Korean currency equal to about $850,000. “If you think of a child as a tree, what we try to do here is to provide it with the right soil, the right wind, the right sunshine to help it grow. We help kids regain their appetite, sleep well and stay fit so they can grow better.”
Koreans used to value what was perceived as a grittiness on the part of shorter people. “A smaller pepper is hotter,” according to a saying here, and one need look no further for proof than to the former South Korean strongman Park Chung-hee, or across the demilitarized zone to the North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il, who claims to be 5-foot-5 (but adds inches with elevator shoes and a bouffant hairstyle).
But smaller is no longer considered better, thanks in part to the proliferation of Western models of beauty and success. “Nowadays, children scoff if you mention Napoleon and Park Chung-hee,” said Park Ki-won, who runs the Seojung Growth Clinic. “On TV, all young pop idols are tall. Given our society’s strong tendency to fit into the group and follow the trend, being short is a problem. Short kids are ostracized.”
Concerns about the trend are growing, too, with some groups warning that growth clinics, while operating within the limits of the law, promise far more than the evidence supports.

Yoon Myoung, a top researcher at Consumers Korea, a civic group that, with the help of scientists, has been investigating the clinics, said parents should be more skeptical.
“There is no clinical proof or other evidence that these treatments really work,” Ms. Yoon said. “They use exaggerated and deceptive ads to lure parents. But Korean families often have only one child and want to do whatever they can for that child.”
Last month, the simmering discomfort over the trend exploded when a college student put it into blunt words on national television.
“Being tall means being competitive,” Lee Do-kyong, a student at Hongik University in Seoul, said on a television talk show. “I think short guys are losers.”


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Kim Ok-hee and her daughter, Kang Hyon-hee, 7, at the Seojung growth clinic in Seoul.

Kim Ok-hee and her daughter, Kang Hyon-hee, 7, at the Seojung growth clinic in Seoul.Credit...Woohae Cho for The International Herald Tribune
Bloggers vilified her, and lawmakers denounced the station, KBS-TV, for not editing her comments. Viewers filed defamation lawsuits. Ms. Lee was forced to apologize, and the Communications Standards Commission ordered the show’s producers to be reprimanded for “violating human rights” and “stoking the looks-are-everything phenomenon.”
“She simply said what everyone thinks but doesn’t dare say in public,” said Dr. Kim Yang-soo, who runs a growth clinic called Kiness. “Here, if you change your height, you can change your fate.”

At his clinic, Kim Se-hyun, a fifth grader, walked on a treadmill with her torso encased in a harness suspended from an overhead steel bar. The contraption, the clinic maintains, will stretch her spine and let her exercise with less pressure on her legs.
Nearby, sweat rolled off Lee Dong-hyun, 13, as he pedaled a recumbent bicycle while reading a comic book. Behind him, his sister, Chae-won, the shortest girl in her first-grade class, stretched to touch her toes on a blue yoga mat, squealing as an instructor pushed down against her back.
Two years ago, their mother, Yoon Ji-young, had tried giving Dong-hyun growth hormone shots, which have also increased in popularity here. But many doctors will prescribe them only for exceptionally small children with severe growth disorders. And parents have been discouraged by their high cost and fears of side effects.
Ms. Yoon said she was spending $850 a month on the shots but stopped after eight months.
Now she drives her children to Kiness three times a week. “Both my husband and I are short,” said Ms. Yoon, 31, who is about 5 feet tall. “I don’t want my children to blame us for being short when they grow up.”
Another mother at the clinic, Chang Young-hee, 54 and 4-foot-10, said her children had already experienced height discrimination. Both her daughters are college graduates and have good jobs, but when they reached marrying age, matchmakers regarded their short stature as a defect.
“It felt like a blow to the head,” Ms. Chang said. “I learned a lesson. If you fall behind in your studies, you can catch up later. But if you miss the time to grow, you miss it forever.”
Her daughters eventually married, but for the past four years, she has been taking her youngest child, Seo Dong-joon, to Kiness. The boy, now 15, knows his goal.

“If I’m tall, I’ll have an advantage selecting my future wife,” he said, holding an English vocabulary book, which he studies while exercising. “Short guys are teased at school.”
South Koreans have been growing taller anyway, thanks to changes in their diet. Over the past 30 years the average height of high school senior boys in South Korea has increased 3.5 inches, to 5-foot-8, according to government data. Senior girls grew an average of 2 inches, to 5-foot-3.
Doctors at the growth clinics say that most children simply aspire to the new average height, but with more tall teenagers, those who are not as tall seem even shorter. “The gap between tall and short has become more pronounced,” said Dr. Park of Seojung, who recently opened 36 joint-venture growth clinics in China and said the quest to become taller was regionwide.
If so, one country that has been left behind is North Korea. Food shortages there have left children stunted, according to the United Nations and private relief agencies. Dr. Park cited the case of a 16-year-old who fled North Korea last July to join his mother, who had arrived in the South three years earlier. The boy was 5 feet tall, almost four inches below the South Korean average.
“His height wasn’t unusual for the North,” Dr. Park said. “But when his mother saw him again, she cried because the boy hadn’t grown at all, and because she knew the disadvantages he’d face here.”
“My dream is to open growth clinics in North Korea,” Dr. Park said, “so that, once we unify, children from both sides will be able to stand shoulder to shoulder, not with one side a head taller than the other.”

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Steroids muh. Early death muh. We sad muh.
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British man in his late 50s gets Alzheimer's and CJD after taking HGH since childhood

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dimorphism said:
I mean ok but at least feed them raw meat, nutrients first. Growth is still aging
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Exactly
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Why? ‘I need more reps please keep replying to me I don’t even read or care what you say’ average xangsane post
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No.
 
This reminded me of that one Asian guy on Reddit whose parents gave him HGH since childhood

And eventually he grew to 190 cm, everyone in the comments was jealous jfl
 
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BoredPrince said:
This reminded me of that one Asian guy on Reddit whose parents gave him HGH since childhood

And eventually he grew to 190 cm, everyone in the comments was jealous jfl
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Yeah doctors in the West say Asians are bringing over practices from their home too.
 
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I hope they all get abnormal facial growth and heart issues
 
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mogstars said:
Wish my parents were more blackpilled. And I needed it too because of hypothyroid.

6”3 genes and ended up 5”8.
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My parents weren't blackpilled but were McDonaldspilled at least, my whole family is 4'11-5'5 but I grew to 5'9 because of eating McDonalds everyday
 
How can lookism still not be the standard thing you believe, much like bluepill is the standard, even if this evidence exists.

Swallow blackpill or death
 
rubberduck said:
My parents weren't blackpilled but were McDonaldspilled at least, my whole family is 4'11-5'5 but I grew to 5'9 because of eating McDonalds everyday
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Elab? Hyperthyroid from the additives?
 
Fucking gooks
 
mogstars said:
Wish my parents were more blackpilled. And I needed it too because of hypothyroid.

6”3 genes and ended up 5”8.
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fuark must be depressing getting brutally height mogged by your dad everyday
 
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Based. Normies being crabs in a bucket once again
 
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Elab? Hyperthyroid from the additives?
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People say there’s human growth hormone in McDonalds, idk lol my bidelt is also 22” while being untrained and slim, shoe size 11.5. I think the theory is legit
 
i had the option for this since i was a late bloomer. parents and doctors were both for it. i said no because i was scared of needles
 
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dimorphism said:
Why? Nutrients lead to more developmental potential
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height is mostly protein intake, calories, and activity. raw meat can be more have more nutrition but it aint going to make you taller.

my brother is 198cm and all he did was drink orange juice and eat bread throughout most of his development.
 
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Earth Dollar said:
height is mostly protein intake, calories, and activity. raw meat can be more have more nutrition but it aint going to make you taller.

my brother is 196cm and all he did was drink orange juice and eat bread throughout most of his development.
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Brutal logical fallacypill
 
parents are based asf
 
dimorphism said:
Brutal logical fallacypill
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if raw meat alone made you taller than the tallest nations would be the ones the eat the most raw meat. but that is not the case.
 
South Korea is the most blackpilled society
 
Brutal. Imagine needing HGH
 
wouldnt the children become ogre-ish because of hgh?
 
They don’t want you to ascend
 
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