Quote from: Puertoricanwasp123 on February 06, 2015, 02:30:35 AMWill a complete growth of organs happen if we artificially induce growth in someone who's over 30 years old?
Theoretically it should be possible, organs get signalled to grow through hgh coupled with various pathfinding elements like IGF-1 and 2. When bodybuilders overdose on hgh over a long period of time their organs experience visual growth, it's called a "hgh-gut" I think. That is when the stomach has grown large enough to create a visible bulge like this:
However there is no controlled and safe way of doing this right now (as far as I know). Most of our body size is determined by our skeleton and there is still no way to force longitudinal growth in bone after growth plate senescence-meaning that when you've stopped growing, that's it. On the bright side there is plenty of medical research about the possibility of implanting growth plates to help kids with damaged epiphyseal plates, the research has come quite far and it should be able to be used on adults with some modification. Maybe in 20 years this will be the preferred way of doing LL instead of using an internal nail or illazarov device.
Googled it and it seems like it has been done in sheep:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2355295