No bro,
The cartilage in in your nose,ears, and joints stays the way it is becuase it is not desinged to change to bone.
Here is an abstract of a study.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/art...gi?artid=34445
I'll quote it as they describe what is going on far better then I:
"Estrogen caused this proliferative exhaustion and fusion to occur earlier. Our data suggest that (i) epiphyseal fusion is triggered when the proliferative potential of growth plate chondrocytes is exhausted; and (ii) estrogen does not induce growth plate ossification directly; instead,
estrogen accelerates the programmed senescence of the growth plate, thus causing earlier proliferative exhaustion and consequently earlier fusion."
Once it is fused it is fused end of story. Doesn't matter how long you take off.
Now if someone is abnormal and there growth plates don't respond to estrogen then it doesn't matter whether they take time off or not.
jagdpanther
Originally Posted by jagdpanther
No bro,
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