muscle baby

so how about that freaky german muscle baby.

For now, the little boy is healthy and very strong, able to hold two 6.6-pound weights horizontally with his arms extended. But while the muscles in his arms and legs are twice as big as the muscles of other children his age, Schuelke said, "he is not extreme: you wouldn't recognize him if you saw him on the street."
-azcentral.com

he is not extreme? 6.6 lbs. at age four-and-a-half sounds pretty extreme to me! as in lou ferrigno extreme. seriously, did you see his little legs! but all that aside, people are just freaking over the medical repercussions of this ankle-biting gym monkey. everybody's all like "hey, this crazy little baby has no myostatin in his blood!". and other people are like "holy crap, what does that mean?". and then scientists are like, "that means he is missing the protein that tells his muscles to stop constantly building themselves up!". and then those first people are like "woah! wait, i'm sorry i wasn't really listening...can you say that again?". and then the scientists get irritated, but repeat themselves anyway. and then the people are like, "so not having that stuff makes you really muscular?". and the scientists say, "yup. they did a study on cows and mice a long time ago, but didn't know if it would work in people until recently,". and then some people think man that could help people with muscular diseases (click link, hit CTRL+F, type muscle diseases) like muscular dystrophy!", while other people think if i block my myostatin i bet i could build some wicked huge muscles!". and then i see all of these things and get saddened.

don't get me wrong i hope it can help people, but a cruel fact of life is people have to die; our ecosystem is having enought difficulty supporting us as it is! so do we really want to keep trying to wipe out everything that poses a threat to life. not to mention the fact that maybe this kid will run out of satellite cells and just atrophy in his 20s/30s. then again maybe he'll form an elite team of crime fighting superheros...or what if he becomes some sort of super villian! or what if he's just a normal guy who happens to be really strong?

for me, the only important part of the story is nobody knows who his father is...which is just crazy talk. simple logic (really stong, crazy genetics, eastern european) tells us it must be ivan drago.

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