"Toddler" is 20 Years Old, and Forever Young, Due to Baffling Medical Condition

Brooke Greenberg may be 20 years old, but she charcoal always trapped central the physique and apperception of a toddler, due to a abstruseness medical action that has baffled medical experts for years.
"From age one to four, Brooke changed. She got a little bit bigger," explained her father, Howard, during the family's actualization on Thursday's "Katie" with Katie Couric. "But age four, four to five, she stopped."
Since then, Brooke's acme and weight of 16 pounds and 20 inches accept remained a constant. She wears diapers, is pushed in a stroller, gets fed through a agriculture tube due to a too-small esophagus, and communicates like an baby would, estimates her mother Melanie.
"Like 6 months," she explained on the show. "If she's happy, she'll cackle and laugh."
Doctors accept told Melanie and Howard, who reside in Maryland, that there is no added accepted case like Brooke's in the world. And at atomic one medical able believes that Brooke's action could authority the key to the bubbler of youth.
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"Here's a woman 20 years old who has actually chock-full aging," explained Dr. Eric Schadt, administrator of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multi-Scale Biology at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York, who aswell appeared on the broadcast. He said he took an absorption in Brooke's case afterwards years of her accepting no analysis from added doctors, and that her case could "blow a accomplished acreage of science advanced open."
This is absolutely why the Goldberg ancestors has fabricated the accommodation to go accessible with their story, Howard told Yahoo! Shine. "The acumen we are accomplishing it isn't to put my ancestors on television," he said. "Finding out that her DNA architecture is absolutely altered than anyone else's brought to our absorption that we could help. So eventually, at the end of the rainbow, there will be something that comes out of all this. I accept anybody is actuality for a reason."
Howard and Melanie accommodate affliction to Brooke day in and day out, and accept watched their adolescent daughter, 17-year-old Carly, concealment her earlier sister by developing commonly over the years. They accept they accept generally acquainted abandoned in their struggle.
"It hasn't been easy," Melanie told Couric. "We don't accept anybody absolutely to about-face to, to acquaint us what to expect." Doctors accept no way to even actuate how continued Brooke may live.
Still, her parents say they yield alleviation in the actuality that she's actuality now, and accept she does not charge to be convalescent of anything.
"If somebody agape on the aperture appropriate now and said, 'It's a affirmed pill. Accord this to Brooke and she'll be fixed,' able-bodied aboriginal I would say to him, 'She's not broken.' And B, I would say, 'Thank you, but no acknowledge you," Howard said in a video filmed for the "Katie" show.
To analysis Brooke's condition, scientists are account every individual letter of the adolescent woman's DNA. "That would fill, like, 3,000 of the Harry Potter books that my kids like. That's how big her genome is," Dr. Schadt explained, abacus that, so far, scientists accept put her genes in bake-apple flies to see if it helps them reside longer. He added that the Greenberg's yield alleviation in the actuality Brooke has aswell helped with analysis into altitude including Alzheimer's, affection ache and cancer.
"That," he said, "is a appealing amazing allowance to be able to accord to humanity."

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