(cache)We May Have Found the Swole Pill

We May Have Found the Swole Pill

ozempic burns muscle plus fat, creating legions of people who look like empty sacks. but pharma has finally found a way to make people look like they lift.
Oliver Bateman Does the Work

Jun 28, 2025

In 2004, a German toddler shocked neurologists at Berlin's Charité hospital. At four and a half years old, the boy could hold seven-pound dumbbells with his arms extended. His quads bulged like tree trunks. He was roughly twice as strong as other kids his age.

This wasn't some toddler CrossFit cult, nor was he dosed with steroids. He'd been born with a genetic mutation that shut off his body's production of myostatin, a protein that inhibits muscle growth (it literally means "muscle remain").

His mother, a former sprinter, carried one copy of the mutation, and several of his relatives were known for their unusual strength, including a construction worker who could unload heavy curbstones by hand. Like Belgian Blue cattle and "Mighty Mice" before them (cattle and mice breeds genetically engineered to be freakishly muscular), this toddler's family was naturally hypertrophic.

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