Strong Kid

One one of the various blogs I read, I was pointed at an article about one strong kid.

Turns out this kid is one of the very few (perhaps 100 at most) human beings who have a rare condition which involves a lack or inhibited state of the protein myostatin. It is far more common in animals, to the point where there is a sub-breed of whippet known for the mutation. (Look at the pictures on both pages-it's kind of eye-opening.)

There's an eight-year-old in Germany with a similar condition.

This kind of stuff makes stories like this one a little more plausible. The fact that Grutte Pier apparently died of natural causes at a young age also suggests he had something a little bit "off" about him. (Not to mention various other stories.)

Random speculation ahoy.