Fox News has found a future X-Man:

[carrrnuttt]

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For those thinking that it might be an April Fools joke, the story itself might or might not be an April Fools joke, but the "disorder" itself is VERY real, and works exactly as described in the news report:

NEJM -- Powerful Genes -- Myostatin Regulation of Human Muscle Mass

Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy - Genetics Home Reference

The "disorder" itself was not fully discovered and researched, until 2004.

 

[Kable24]

Mutant or strange visitor from another planet?

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Yes, people who do not have myostatin, which regulates muscle growth and protein synthesis, can have larger and stronger than normal muscles, also they will probably suffer a fatal heart attack by their twenties.

 

[carrrnuttt]

...they will probably suffer a fatal heart attack by their twenties.

The doc addressed that in the vid. Doctors used to hypothesize that since the heart is a muscle, this "disorder" might make the heart enlarged, which causes issues. Apparently, from the few years they've had to actually observe "sufferers" of this "disorder", there are no heart issues associated with this specific "disorder". It's a "disorder" with a lot of upside and, as currently determined, little downside (hence the use of "disorder" repeatedly, as it's really tough to see it as such).

 

[[A]]

Cool (the heart attack thing, not so cool).

 

[carrrnuttt]

Article about it: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070530/strong_toddler_070530?hub=WFive

Liam has given his mother a black eye and once punched a hole in the plaster wall during a tantrum. "That's called attitude," his mother said.

 

[Warhammer]

God forbid he does something wrong and you have to beat his ass. The kid will kill your ass.

 

[Ahura Mazda]

The images of him as a 3 year old are not that amazing.

 

[DA Dent]

Now they have to find a kid that lost his hair and shows signs of doing very well in business.

 

[AnorexicBatman]

Also a feisty little girl who wants to be a reporter...

 

[Prison Mike]

now this kid is going to be a lab rat for the scientists. this is why the kents did not want the public to know about clark! lol

 

[DV8]

this is pretty interesting . . . if it weren't on Fox News and their propensity to embelish facts, I would be downright mind-boggled . . .

 

[zahanbil]

I've heard one of the down sides to this is the fact that his growth is most likely going to be severely stunned, because of all the muscle mass not allowing him to gain any weight.

On the topic of real life X-Men: there's supposedly a kid in Asia that has eyes similar to a cat and can see in the dark.

 

[Sentinel X]

I would hate to be the guy to calm this kid down when he gets his temper tantrums...yeesh!!

 

[carrrnuttt]

I've heard one of the down sides to this is the fact that his growth is most likely going to be severely stunned, because of all the muscle mass not allowing him to gain any weight.

Wolverine!!!

 

[Timstuff]

I wonder if this kid will be qualified to participate in sports, or if his condition would be considered "cheating?"

 

[zahanbil]

Wolverine!!!

I wonder if this kid will be qualified to participate in sports, or if his condition would be considered "cheating?"

I've been wondering the same thing

 

[Shemtov]

I wonder if this kid will be qualified to participate in sports, or if his condition would be considered "cheating?"

Once I had a dream that in the marvel universe they had a mutant baseball league.

 

[Manic]

He must've ripped his mother's vage apart on the way out.

 

[Shemtov]

Theres a kid like this, In germany.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...55C0A9629C8B63
I'm gonna shave my head, put on an eyepatch and go to thiese two kids, Danial Tamnet, That Japenese Iron Man guy, The RubberBoy, Zamora the painless, ming Natasha Demkina the x-ray vision girl, and Yves Rossi The jetpackman, and ask them to pacticipate in the Avengers Iniative.

 

[bullets]

the next step in human evolution is almost here.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Evolution is coming baby... give it a couple thousand years... this kid will go on to father hopefully 8-10 children... then they go on to father/mother as many... and off we go.

 

[Manic]

The mother of his children will have to be a member of the Master Race, though. Which, of course, means it's time to unleash the hidden offspring of Grace Jones and Dolph Lundgren.

 

[titan101]

I would hate to be the guy to calm this kid down when he gets his temper tantrums...yeesh!!

" I WANT MY COOKIES !!!!!!!!!!!!! * throws a car through the house wall * "

 

[StorminNorman]

The University of Michigan has already sent recruiters