Question by : Is it theoretically possible for us in the future to reactivate our growth receptors?
As of right now, once we reach a specific age our growth receptors are turned off. I understand that the long bones actually fused, so that’s almost impossible to do anything, but what about other parts of the body? Not just activate growth receptors, what about deactivate growth receptors? deactivate hair growth in unwanted places. reactivating the growth receptors in the penis (it’s a tissue) or receptors in various bones without e. plates that fuse. Is it possible theoretically in the future? I think the penis is interesting, because it doesn’t have a plate that fuses. The receptors merely deactivate. There has been studies showing that some people who took large dangerous doses of growth hormones like hgh and igf-1 achieved very small gains.
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Answer by gene_frequency
The facts of life, ey? To make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it’s been established. Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutations give rise to revertant colonies like rats leaving a sinking ship, then the ship sinks.
Ethyl methane sulfonate is an alkalating agent and a potent mutagen. It created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table.
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i’m not sure what gene_freak is going on about, but…yes, in theory it is possible. ‘growth receptors’ (i assume you mean hormone receptors) are membrane receptors that will recieve a signal from outside the cell, then induce a repsonse cascade which alters cell function at a genetic level. It’s not only a case of turning off the receptors, but also turning off the production of the hormone.
The genetic basis is there, yes. But the problem is hormones very rarely have a single function (i cannot think of any examples, but i’m not ruling it out). This means that there is no hormone for growing your penis.
The other problems are we don’t know exactly what genes control hormone synthesis, hormone receptors etc. It’s not a case of turning a gene on and getting a bigger penis. More and more we are finding that histones and DNA modifications (known collectively as epigenetics) play a major role in cellular function, almost as much as DNA itself.
In theory, it certainly is possible. The facts are, we just don’t know how to do it