This man looks a decade younger than his real age!
Know why
New Delhi: A 23-year-old man named
Tomislav Jurcec from Crotia looks at least a decade younger than his real age
because he suffers from a rare health condition. According to a report in Daily
Mail, Jurcec has a fault in his pituitary gland at the base of his brain, which
controls growth and ageing.
The gland is about the size of a pea
and located behind the bridge of the nose and below the base of the brain. It
releases hormones growth and puberty hormones, among others, directly into the
blood stream. As per the reports, pituitary tumours are very uncommon as one in
1000 adults have this rare conditon. Sometimes a defected or faulty gene may
also be a contributing factor.
The 23-year-old man did not let the
condition affect his life. Infact, his diminutive size has helped him gain work
as a part-time actor and even landed a role in the highly successful TV show
Game of Thrones.
Jurcec is not the only one known to
live with the condition. A girl named Zeng Yushan from China who was born in
1994 stopped growing at the age of seven because she was diagnosed with a
tumour on her pituitary gland, which caused a deficiency in growth hormones.
Ashley Grossman, professor of
endocrinology at Oxford University, told Daily Mail, 'Now we have artificial
growth hormones, that can be injected once a day, to treat this condition'.
01.07.2017
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