Tallest Living Man

Apparently he wants to stop growing, I was wondering what the major health issues would be for someone that is this tall. I would seem to me, that it would be very hard on the heart.

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Wow. Imagine that.
I guess he suffers from Gigantism? I looked a bit and it seems some compliations of it are diabetes and problems with glucose, hormonal disruption (irregular menstruation, delayed onset of puberty)...

I wonder what the brain operation was for in the first place..

and i thought i was tall, im only 6'6''

I have a short friend who thinks getting stoned stunted his growth, I can't tell him no thats BS, cause I've been the same hieght since I was 15 lol


is this the dude that billy crystal made a movie with? you know what I am talking about? I swore I saw a movie and he was with some sort of russian giant.

That giant from the movie was from Romainia.
He was only 7' 7"

I smell a sequel.

the guy from the movie "my giant" was george muresan (something to that name) he was an nba player for about 2-3 years. I believe it was the washington bullets...

well, being very tall can lead to many physical problems, heart, spine... Tall people have it easy though.

I saw a discovery channel thing on this. What happens is that the petuitary is all messed up. The person never stops growing. A giant would be weak.
When the petuirtary swells it hi ts the optic nerve aventually making the giant go blind. It also makes thier head a lot more sensitive.

THat is an explanation for the david and golaith story. if you hit a modern "giant" on the head in the right place with a rock (prepositions ) th e"giant" would fall down dead.