World's tallest man reaches his peak as scientists discover way to stop 8ft 3in giant from growing

Source: Mail Online

The world's tallest man may have finally stopped growing at a towering 8ft 3ins thanks to a pioneering new treatment.

Turkish farm labourer Sultan Kosen, 29, suffers from the rare disorder acromegaly which causes his body to continually produce the growth hormone. 

Mr Kosen's condition was thought to have been caused by a tumor in the pituitary gland which is located in bottom of the hypothalamus at the base of the brain.Doctors though they had cured him in 2008 when they removed the tumour but he continued to grow at a rate of half and inch a year.

But researchers at the University of Virginia Medical Center, who have developed a new treatment after he visited in 2010, say he has finally stopped growing.

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