20 Most Shocking Human Bodies

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The human body is a very strange, and complex thing. One change in DNA and a body can completely change. Subscribe to Talltanic http://goo.gl/wgfvrr #10 - The Claw The lobster claw hand is a mutation where an individual’s hand or foot has a cleft where the middle finger or toe should be. These split-hand and split-foot deformities are also sometimes associated with hearing loss. Thankfully, there are surgical procedures that can correct most of these malformations. #9 - SCID SCID or Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disorder is also known as the Boy in the Bubble Disease. This disorder is when the person is born without an effective immune system. The idea behind the bubble is that it was an isolated space that was free from unfiltered air and life-threatening pathogens that would quickly kill someone with a dysfunctioning immune system. The disease was made known to the world through the movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble in 1976. The film gave us a glimpse of what life was like for David Vetter since he lived in those conditions in real life for 13 years. #8 - The Werewolf Syndrome Hypertrichosis or the Ambras syndrome affects as few as one per billion people, with only 50 documented cases since the Middle Ages. People with the werewolf disease have extreme excessive hair growth on the shoulders, ears, and face. #7 - The Aging Disease Progeria is a rare but severe genetic disease. Most individuals diagnosed with progeria don’t live past the age of twenty. The mutation disrupts the protein that provides support to the nucleus during the fetus’ growing period causing the child to age at an extremely rapid rate. The mutation affects as few as one per every eight million births. #6 - Stone Man The Stone Man’s disease is one of the most rare as well as the most incapacitating genetic conditions you could have. Throughout a person’s life bone tissue begins to grow where connective tissues are meant to. Individuals with this mutation may even begin to grow a second skeleton. If the bone tissue begins to grow into a second skeleton, the person will most likely eventually turn into a living statue. Even though there are only 800 confirmed cases in existence, it can come about in multiple ways, some as small as receiving an injection from the doctor. There isn’t currently a cure, but cases are helped with painkillers. #5 - Inside Out Gastroschisis is the genetic mutation where some if not all of your internal organs are grown on the outside of your body. Almost 2,000 babies are born with this mutation each year. The risk is greatly increased in young mothers. Years ago infants born with their insides on the outside only had about a 50 percent chance for survival. Now a days, infants born with this mutation are given an 85-90 percent survival rate. #4 - Double Muscles You used to see those really strong little kids or even toddlers lifting weights and doing other crazy gym routines all over tv. As it turns out, they most likely had a double muscle mutation. During development, if a child either doesn’t react or doesn’t have enough of the protein called myostatin, it results in a mutation that gives double the muscle mass and makes these kids incredibly strong. #3 - On All Fours The Uner Tan syndrome was named after the evolutionary biologist Uner Tan. According to him a person who is affected with this mutation walks as a quadriplegic, which means on all fours, and they are afflicted with a primitive mindset and communicate through primitive speech. This mutation was brought to light when scientists first discovered the Ulas family in 2005. There was a big debate whether the family was a product of reverse evolution. #2 - Conjoined Twins Polycephaly is a genetic mutation that results in a mammal having two or more heads. It is the result of several different embryos fusing together. It is seen in conjoined twins and occurs once every 200,000 births. The survival rate for a conjoined twin is only about 35 percent. #1 - The Potato Woman It all began when she was born with a pimple on her lip. It remained the same size for the majority of her childhood. It had taken years before several other bumps in varying sizes began popping up all over her body. Her husband loved her unconditionally but died from depression after her condition grew worse and worse and he couldn’t afford to pay for the treatment she needed to heal. Now every inch of her body has been covered by these tumors which cause her a great deal of pain. She has seen countless doctors that either cannot treat her or their treatment is so expensive she cannot afford it. This lady lives with her son and his family but is shunned by the rest of the villagers and has been nicknamed the “Potato Woman” because of the tumors that cover her body.