Laron Dwarfs - Ecuador

[elflaco9]

Seems like we are getting closer and closer to finding the cure for cancer... Thanks Ecuador for the great contribution..........

[MTHKITEBOARDS]

Hmmmm I don't see Mcdonalds, Burger king, Taco bell, diet coke looks like they eat fresh food, you think that might have something to do with it too?

[groovysherrie65]

So let me understand this, there is a treatment for this syndrome. Why??? These people are probably healthier than you or I. So, now we need to go and fix something that isn't broken. What we should do is find a way to create this syndrome in the "normal" population. These folks will probably live longer than us!

[1d9]

Laron sy. is an inability to synthesise somatomedin C, while the African pygmy has an inability to respond to somatomedin C, right?

[bellatitus]

okey so imune to diabetes and cancer but prone to obesity ill think ill take some of that please!!!! apart from the average height 4 feet!!!!!!

[msbahari]

There is no treatment for this condition yet! this report is not correct!

[kissidude]

they got a funky voiceXD

[JuliatheCoolest]

I just looked that up, that's because Laron Syndrome people are born with a narrow larynx.

[amyrollin]

Laron - Larynx...?

Any connections, I wouldn't presume so.. I'm just curious lol x

[JuliatheCoolest]

No, it's named after Zvi Laron, the man who discovered the syndrome.

[amyrollin]

Ah well, haha good guess I suppose lol. But yeah would make sense to be named after him :)

[wickedqueenamanda]

Freaky

[2fresh4dell]

technically the levels of growth hormone are ELEVATED because, feedback inhibition is lost in Larons dwarfism... He was right about the receptors part though... IGF-1 therapy is a good way to attack this disorder but, it must be done while one is a child...

[DyeTyme]

lol @ their voice

[janicebrian]

I have found one of these lil buggers under my bed.......hmmmmm

[MotleyCorn]

She's a high talker.

[migeru]

were can I purchase on of these dwarfs?

[niamtxiv]

Amazing, I just saw this in late night 60 mins News. These dwarfs are simply amazing. They are proportional as well as they have immune to diabetes and cancer.

[justdeb87]

In a small rural village in Europe, the villagers have a genetic mutation that allows them to be resistant to diseases caused by high cholesterol. Despite binge drinking and fatty food, and their thick, clot-looking bood vessels, they are perfectly healthy and fine and lived till a ripe ol'age.

[evilscape]

ECUADOR, ECUADOR!!!!

[Icyomgwtfbbq]

Dudes they're just normal average people ya know. It's not polite calling people older and smarter then you cute ya know xD.

[jeff29902]

those darfs are so cute....I want to keep one

[neftalireyes8]

Hopefully Hollywood manages to avail from this finding, and is able to properly exploit it. I'm sure they'd be great in comical movies.

[pinecry]

hope it really opens to finding cure for the dreaded C

[jayjayjay]

That's it, I'm converting to Midgetism!

[Bengali25]

they're not midgets , they are dwarfs.

[nataliep101]

they aren't dwarfs, they prefer to be called little people. the term 'dwarfs' is insulting to them

[supr4]

Don't encourage that, dwarfs are dwarfs because they dwarfs.

[iKnowYouSeeThis]

It should not be surprising that their life expectancy is very old, since smaller body types deal with aging well in terms of tissue and bone as well as circulation.

It brings to mind the Indonesian island of Flores and the palaeoanthropological discovery of the meter tall remains of what would later be named 'Homo Floresiensis'.

[wonderfulskirt]

they look cute.

[mglmouser]

They live off chocolate.

[KoroOutbreak]

Fascinating!

[Oli3TB76]

WOW, brilliant vid

[MICHAELTEMPLAR]

it`s hobbiton!

[angloman1]

youre probably find that these people living in remote villages are not exposed to the crap food and toxins that we are in our so-called 'civilized' parts of the world.

Look at people in Europe a few hundred years ago, they were also partly better off from a health + nutrition point of view.

I didnt hear about people dieing of cancer and diebetes 2 hundred yrs ago.

Maybe the 'plague' or even 'old-age'

[iwatcher69]

And that's why I think we've stopped evolving. think about it. All the crap that we've been ingesting, putting in our bodies have shifted the way we develop. As for cancer, What if that was the Key thing for us to develop or evolve. maybe cancer is what cause us to go from the ocean to land. As for the people from the middle ages, they died young from sword, arrows, magic missles and fireballs. They didn't get a chance to grow old and develop cancer.

[anavarro09]

stfu who cares just eat

[iwatcher69]

Your mom's a stfu. fuck you too!!! you fucking piece of white trash!!!!! yeah go ahead and eat you all you can you skimpy whore and end up like big fat mama

[supr4]

That's not how evolution works, we have stopped evolving because weak people are reproducing instead of dieing.

[DissentDispute]

"You scratch my back, I'll scratch your kneecap."

That seems quite fair to me.

[y2knoproblem]

Why does the title say Spain?

[Vincenteh]

I thought the same...

[dudekillr]

same here... just cause the language is spanish....

[DissentDispute]

do joo willy nee some to espain to joo?

[codexbiohazard]

Cool, its a win, win!

[mykimochi]

Fascinating. Thanks for another great vid.

[willkenplace]

these people indeed are special and wouldn't it be fantastic to find that one gene perhaps that would cure cancer among other deadly illnesses~great vid!!