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"At first glance, Liam Hoekstra looks like your typical toddler. At 3 years old and 30 pounds, he sports a mop of curly brown hair and a mischievous smile. But hand the boy a pair of dumbbells and it is immediately clear that there is something special about him. With 40 percent more muscle mass than the average person and exceptional strength, agility and speed, Liam is a real-life Bam Bam Rubble. No, Liam hasn't been working out -- he was born with a genetic condition called myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy. In essence, his muscle cells reject the protein myostatin, which results in above-average muscle development, a super-fast metabolism and virtually no body fat."

http://tinyurl.com/b5jq7k

We must destroy him before he destroys us all.

4/4/2009 11:48:33 PM

He's actually a chimpanzee. At full growth he'll be 5x as strong as a human.

4/4/2009 11:49:47 PM

ITS A RARE CONDITION

THIS DAY N AGE

4/4/2009 11:49:56 PM

dont make me angry

4/4/2009 11:50:09 PM

my dick has myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy

4/4/2009 11:51:17 PM

I wonder if he'll be allowed in the Olympics, NFL, NBA, etc.

4/4/2009 11:51:41 PM

should a man with a bionic eye be allowed to play baseball?

4/4/2009 11:52:30 PM

That kid is going to be such a douche in a few years. I've already blocked him on facebook.

4/4/2009 11:52:58 PM

to read any good news on the newspaper page

4/5/2009 12:00:09 AM

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he was born over three years ago

4/5/2009 12:01:21 AM

lucky kid

4/5/2009 12:14:08 AM

pretty sure he'd rather be normal imo

4/5/2009 12:15:30 AM

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"We must destroy him before he destroys us all."

4/5/2009 12:18:13 AM

heroes!!!

its real

4/5/2009 12:29:00 AM

he's not the first. Hell, Belgian Blue cattle were bred to have this characteristic centuries ago.



However, we're living in an age where genetic doping is very real, and having an actual person born with these genetics will make it a lot easier for scientists to delevop drugs or viruses to cause this effect in people that could benefit from mystatin deficiency, such as kids with muscular dystrophy or wasting disease.

Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese weren't already doing this for the last Olympics. Considering how their female weightlifting team annihilated the competition and a few world records last summer.

4/5/2009 12:53:35 AM

^ Is that satan

4/5/2009 12:57:28 AM

I like big butts...

4/5/2009 12:58:05 AM

what in the fuck is that

4/5/2009 12:58:09 AM

Whatever happened to that freak German kid who was super strong too

4/5/2009 1:25:16 AM

^ his parents got divorced and since he didn't live with his dad anymore he stopped working out like 10 hours a day.

4/5/2009 1:58:42 AM

^^ what freak german kid? the 10 year old who was super ripped with abs and all?

this liam kid's condition, i want.

4/5/2009 4:56:10 AM

i would fuck hikm in thenass

4/5/2009 5:36:53 AM

Along the same lines. A bully whippet.

4/5/2009 7:05:38 AM

woops, double post

[Edited on April 5, 2009 at 7:07 AM. Reason : asdf]

4/5/2009 7:07:27 AM

original link please.

and surely a pic exists of this kid?

4/5/2009 7:20:29 AM

Are there any downsides to myostatin deficiency?

4/5/2009 7:45:28 AM

I bet he wold dominate feats of strength

4/5/2009 8:01:07 AM

what we need now is not feat of strength, but, strength of feet!

4/5/2009 8:34:58 AM

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"original link please. and surely a pic exists of this kid?"

umm, it's in the op?

4/5/2009 8:37:12 AM

can we go ahead and give him a football scholarship offer?

just put him under ATH for now.

4/5/2009 8:44:33 AM

super strong, fine, but he moves like he's retarded. Put that thing to sleep, the last thing the world needs is a super-strength retard

4/5/2009 8:47:16 AM

he's THREE, you idiot.

strength may be innate, but coordination takes time to develop.

4/5/2009 8:48:21 AM

http://www.who-sucks.com/people/monstrous-myostatin-misfortunes-a-collection-of-myostatin-deficiency-pictures

4/5/2009 9:52:13 AM

4/5/2009 9:53:14 AM

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"Are there any downsides to myostatin deficiency?"

it makes the kidneys and liver smaller while making the body bigger, so it overstresses these organs and makes them more likely to fail at an earlier age. I remember reading one time about what it would do to the heart as well, but I can't remember what. I want to say that it makes the heart enlarged and more prone to leaky valves, but I'm not sure.

4/5/2009 10:59:18 AM

Caption: Animated recreation of retarded 3 year-old's heart

4/5/2009 11:05:13 AM

4/5/2009 11:46:01 AM

Run with the pack mutant boy!!!!!!

4/5/2009 11:53:01 AM

^^^^

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"Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy, or muscle enlargement, is an extremely rare genetic condition. It promotes above-average growth of the skeletal muscles without harming the heart or causing any other negative side effects."

4/5/2009 8:15:20 PM

video is not impressive at all,

4/5/2009 8:22:44 PM

^^I'm sure the writer of that article is an expert on the subject.

Meanwhile, medical journals are reporting that myostatin deficiencies cause weak, brittle tendons and a reduction in the size of almost all other organs.

http://genome.cshlp.org/content/7/9/910.full

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"The increase in body weight of double-muscled cattle cannot be totally accounted for by an increase in muscle mass alone, as the weight of the skin, adipose and bone content, alimentary tract, and most other internal organs is reduced in double-muscled cattle."

[link]http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:_IvFv4H9EXIJ:http://www.eurj.com/review/index.php%3Fjournal%3Deurj%26page%3Darticle%26op%3DviewDownloadInterstitial%26path%255B%255D%3D98%26path%255B%255D%3D11+myostatin+deficiency+GDF-8+tendon&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us[/link]

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"Mice lacking myostatin did, however, also show significantly lower peak force and toughness of the patellar ligament during tensile testing (Fig. 1a), and significantly lower toughness of the ACL (Fig. 1b) compared to wild-type mice"

4/5/2009 9:41:49 PM

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""Mice lacking myostatin did, however, also show significantly lower peak force and toughness of the patellar ligament during tensile testing (Fig. 1a), and significantly lower toughness of the ACL (Fig. 1b) compared to wild-type mice""

4/5/2009 9:50:26 PM

If this kid is predispositioned to have weak ACLs, then it sounds like this kid will be a shoe-in for a NC State running back.

4/5/2009 9:52:09 PM

He probably could win the gold at the Olympics in weight lifting even when he is 80!

4/5/2009 10:15:04 PM

^^ lol

4/9/2009 1:49:52 AM

damn look at those lats



if red x, see last pic here: http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2009/01/liam_hoekstra_3_is_all_muscle.html

4/9/2009 3:09:59 PM

He'll make a bad ass MMA fighter.

4/9/2009 3:12:27 PM

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"video is not impressive at all,"

that's what i was thinking

[Edited on April 9, 2009 at 3:22 PM. Reason : eleventythousand!]

4/9/2009 3:21:50 PM

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"it makes the kidneys and liver smaller while making the body bigger, so it overstresses these organs and makes them more likely to fail at an earlier age. I remember reading one time about what it would do to the heart as well, but I can't remember what. I want to say that it makes the heart enlarged and more prone to leaky valves, but I'm not sure."

Its says right in that article is has not effects of on the heart and no negative side-effects. You ain't read such of shit HAHA.

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"Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy, or muscle enlargement, is an extremely rare genetic condition. It promotes above-average growth of the skeletal muscles without harming the heart or causing any other negative side effects."

4/9/2009 3:22:31 PM

since noone reads the 49th post

4/9/2009 3:24:05 PM