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Today I learned that Paul Donald Wight II, AKA Big Show (a WWE wrestler), had a surgery done in the 1990s on his pituitary gland to stop his acromegaly. Would it be possible to do the opposite; to induce acromegaly or gigantism by carrying out a procedure on the pituitary gland?

by /u/TitanBrass in /r/askscience

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