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SINGAPORE - When Jeremy Cheong, 41, attended his secondary school reunion party in 2024, he said his former classmates looked their age - with wrinkles on their faces and frown lines between their eyebrows. Standing among them, the administrative executive l'Nice to be called ah boy': Rare hormonal condition leaves 41-year-old looking forever young
SINGAPORE - When Jeremy Cheong, 41, attended his secondary school reunion party in 2024, he said his former classmates looked their age - with wrinkles on their faces and frown lines between their eyebrows. Standing among them, the administrative executive looked like a young man in his 20s. He could even have easily passed off as one of their sons. «Nobody really explained to me that because my cortisol production had stopped, I had to be on steroids for life. The good thing is that I won't age. It actually took me 10 years to realise it,» Cheong told The Straits Times. Cheong looks forever young due to a rare condition called panhypopituitarism. The condition is caused by the reduced production of hormones in the pituitary gland, a pea-size organ that sits behind the bridge of the nose at the base of the brain. «The gland controls many of our hormonal functions, like our thyroid gland, the maturation of our sexual organs in both gender, production of growth hormones, the regulation of human output from our body,» said Dr Mok Shao Feng, a senior consultant in the Division of Endocrinology at the National University Hospital. Read more
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