Brooke Greenberg has just turned 16 last January but she is still weighing only 16 pounds. Her condition has baffled everyone because in many aspects she seems to show an absence of aging of the body.
She is still the size of an infant, but with the mental capacity of a toddler. She also does not have the signs ordinary dwarfism. She still has her baby teeth. Her cognition is that of a child. Her bone age is only that of a 10-year old.
Does Brooke hold the secret to the fountain of youth? Her physicians are hopeful that sorting out the mechanism for her persistent youthful characteristics might lead to more insights on the normal process of aging:
"Brooke hasn’t aged in the conventional sense. Dr. Richard Walker of the University of South Florida College of Medicine, in Tampa, says Brooke’s body is not developing as a coordinated unit, but as independent parts that are out of sync. She has never been diagnosed with any known genetic syndrome or chromosomal abnormality that would help explain why."
via: abcnews
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Wow. This is something else. I thought this could only happen in the movies
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