America's 1st documented super human

[SamanosukeShiva]

is a 3 years old kid.

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http://m.gmgrd.co.uk/res/84.$plit/C_...A16%3A08%3A207

TODDLER Liam Hoekstra is at the centre of a media and medical frenzy. He’s been dubbed a mini-Superman and the teeny Incredible Hulk. But behind the headlines he’s simply a little boy with super strength.
Liam, now aged three, was born with a rare condition which has allowed his muscle mass to grow much larger than average.
Tests show that he is stronger than 85 per cent of six-year-olds – children twice his age. He could be a future Olympic gold winner, and may also help unlock a cure for lethal muscle wasting diseases.
Extraordinary People: The World’s Strongest Toddler (Five, tonight, 9pm) is another documentary from Manchester film maker Kerry Brierley and Nine Lives, an independent production company based in the city.
Kerry and her TV team travelled to Liam’s home in Muskegon, on the shores of Lake Michigan in America, to explain how he’s the only toddler in the world identified as having the extraordinary muscle enlarging condition.
Parents Neil and Dana adopted Liam when he was just one day old and slowly began to realise he was different to other children his age.
He could walk at five months old when the average age is 15 months and has virtually no body fat, with larger than normal, well defined muscles, 40 per cent more than an ordinary three-year-old.
“At the moment he’s a medical mystery,” says local physician Dr Erlund Larson, who first investigated Liam’s extraordinary capabilities when the little boy’s grandfather told him about his strength.
Dr Larson diagnosed Liam with myostatin related muscle hypertrophy, a condition first found in the Belgian Blue breed of cattle in the late 1990s. Then in 2000 a German boy was also diagnosed with the condition, which promotes above average growth of skeletal muscles.
Dana tells the documentary: “Because it’s such a rare condition, nobody really knows what this abnormality is.” Her son’s high metabolism means he is always hungry. “He can eat and eat and eat and doesn’t gain any weight.”
Neil says: “He’s got the energy of 10 children – it’s going to make me old in a hurry.” The daily routine begins at 7am with a visit to the gym before morning nursery. Liam’s day is filled with physically demanding activities to try and burn off some of his excess energy.
Gymnastics coach Phil Bishop believes Liam is a potential future Olympian. “He’s very unique – Liam physically has the potential to do anything he wants to do in sport and excel in it. It comes down to if he desires to do it.”
Dana adds: “He is drawn to sports. We’re encouraging him to try everything so that he can eventually find his niche. It’s not like we are forcing him into any of this. It’s truly what he loves to do.”
Liam’s 16-year-old sister Morgan does her best to keep up with him when she returns home from school before Neil and Liam head to the sports centre at 7pm to burn off more of that energy. It takes his son a long time to unwind before he goes to bed by 10pm at the latest.
Comparisons are already being made with American swimming star Michael Phelps, who has 14 Olympic gold medals. Liam loves going in the water and swimming helps provide the physical activity he needs.
Geneticist Dr Eric Hoffman hopes research involving Liam’s condition may one day lead to a cure for muscular dystrophy. He believes understanding Liam’s genetic difference could benefit his research.
But it’s also recognised that discovering the secret to his strength could result in knowledge which would be misused by athletes and other sporting performers to improve their own chances of winning.
The cameras follow Liam as experts are finally able to put his muscles to the test, now that he has reached the age of three. At one stage, dad Neil comments: “I know what he can do, but that’s crazy.”
Results of a full DNA profile are awaited and will provide more answers. Dr Larson says: “At some point we will understand what is different about Liam.”
While mum Dana concludes: “At three-years-old, I haven’t looked that far into the future. “I just want Liam to be happy.”

his "documentary" : http://beta.ninjavideo.net/video/27091

[Stilzkin]

This sort of thing isn't new

[Bingbong]

Unconfirmed reports that he's commited to USC already.

[Kilhart]

Unconfirmed reports that he's commited to USC already.

I lol'd

[ephel]

Unconfirmed reports that he's commited to USC already.

Too funny.

[Neoscrilla]

Prolly the illegitimate love child of Mark McGwire or/and Barry Bonds

[Antithesis]

I find it quite funny that alot of "child prodigys" are these middle eastern kids or some shit. And it always cracks me up when they talk about their amazing abilities but at the end say "...but behind the media and stories, he/she is just a regular little boy / girl."

Oh sure, regular, as in superhuman or super-ability regular right? Dumbass journalist need to learn how to write better.

[Qalbert]

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlL...%20america.JPG

[Cephius]

ITT kid develops early, turns out normal

[LinktheDeme]

ITT kid develops early, turns out normal

you mean develops early then has a muscle defficiency because his muscles refuse to grow anymore past the age of 10 and then dies of cancer

[Stiker]

Unconfirmed reports that he's commited to USC already.

I lol'd quite hard.

[Doombard]

already seen something on this kid on discovery channel/history/natgeo can't remember which. Kid is pretty crazy, can do more pullups than I can lol. They said that whatever he has will have no negative effect on his muscles. Other kids have had the same thing he does, just I think they said their muscles would eventually harden to bone and kill them. Difference with him though is that will not happen and he will just be stronger.

[Cephius]

you mean develops early then has a muscle defficiency because his muscles refuse to grow anymore past the age of 10 and then dies of cancer

yes, clearly you and I have different definitions of normal

[Nightfyre]

Medical mystery my ass, they even give the diagnosis one sentence later.

Relevant:

http://blogmuscle.files.wordpress.co.../07/wendy1.png

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/7...musculagq8.jpg

already seen something on this kid on discovery channel/history/natgeo can't remember which. Kid is pretty crazy, can do more pullups than I can lol. They said that whatever he has will have no negative effect on his muscles. Other kids have had the same thing he does, just I think they said their muscles would eventually harden to bone and kill them. Difference with him though is that will not happen and he will just be stronger.

Nah, myostatin-related hypertrophy doesn't have that effect. Myostatin plays a role as a limiting factor in muscle growth, but his body either doesn't produce it enough or at all and/or doesn't respond properly to it. His body basically doesn't know when to stop making more muscle; it's not going to harden into bone or anything like that.

[Gunitsoldier]

Saw this long ago, kid's gonna get all the bitches in the future

[Lucavi]

Potential and results are two different things. For all we know, the kid becomes a stoner at 11 and never lives up to anything.

[willriker]

If he does become a stoner. His appetite, mentioned in the OP, combined with him being a stoner... he might stand a shot at over throwing that japanese dude who has the championship in hot dog eating.

eating is a sport too!

p.s. that japanese dude gets all the chicks, so i guess your both right.

[Despain]

His name's Liam. Surprised no one's made any Taken references.

[alt]

Is he naturally going to become way overdeveloped like the dog and cow? Because that is gonna kind of suck when he gets older during high school, and later in life unless he becomes a bodybuilder or something.

[Ryany]

If this kid is as special as they say, I'm laughing about them talking to a gymnastics coach. It's not anything against gymnastics, I really do respect the athletic ability that goes into performing that sport at a high level. It is just that even the best gymnast in the world likely make less of a living off of it than some benchwarming NFL/NHL/MLB/NBA or soccer player.

Edit: I just noticed the gymnastics coach didn't mention just gymnastics.