The Weekend Intelligence: The hormone that grew me

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  The Economist. Clark Stanley was born 170 years ago,

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  but what he got famous for would seem right at home today on TikTok.

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  Stanley's snake oil liniment claimed to be good for man and beast.

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  It cured everything, sprains, rheumatism, frostbite, snake bites.

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  Okay, no, it didn't.

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  It didn't even contain snake oil an investigation found.

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  And Clark Stanley was the first person to be pasted with the label Snake Oil Salesman.

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  These days, it's not traveling circuses where such salesmanship goes on.

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  It's social media packed with bogus advice and gray market pharmacies.

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  Everyone still wants their ales cured, various kinds of performance enhanced,

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  to be younger on the inside or look younger on the outside.

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  Today,

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  we're going to go deep on one of the cure-alls that holds sway in the Internet Circus,

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  human growth hormone, or HGH.

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  It's a natural molecule produced by the pituitary gland, crucial for, well,

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  human growth, and it's a real therapy for people with a real need for it.

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  But it can do so much more, say the snake oil salesmen and women of the internet.

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  Feeling younger, sleeping better, boosting athletic performance and sex drive,

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  weight loss, it goes on.

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  Here's the thing about Clark Stanley's liniment.

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