Michael Hermanussen Explained

Michael Hermanussen (born 26 April 1955 in Hamburg) is a German pediatrician and professor[1] at the University of Kiel. He is known for his work on growth and nutrition.

Life

Hermanussen studied medicine and worked as a pediatrician at the University of Kiel from 1982 until 1989. He investigated growth and child development (auxology) and first described mini growth spurts.[2] Since 1990 he cooperates in international joint projects with scientists and also works in a general pediatric office. He organizes national and international meetings on growth and nutrition. From 2003 to 2011 he was a member of the scientific board of the German society for Anthropology[3] and he is chief editor of ”Human Biology and Public Health”.[4] He is the founder and head of the Auxological Society.

Scientific Work

Hermanussen developed new mathematical methods for improved diagnostics of growth disorders[5] [6] and a new technique for estimating final adult height.[7] He developed mini-knemometry, a new and accurate technique for growth measurements in children. This device determines the lower leg length at an accuracy that growth becomes measurable within a few days.[8] [9] [10] [11] In addition he developed a similar technology for measuring growth in rats within intervals of a few hours. This technology was important for the better understanding of the effects of growth hormone.[12] [13] His investigations resulted in a significant improvement of growth hormone therapies.[14] [15] For the first time, Hermanussen showed that anorexia nervosa patients do not only stop growing they even can shrink.[16]

Since 2002 he works in nutrition and obesity, with particular respect to monosodium glutamate on appetite regulation.[17] [18] During this project Hermanussen showed for the first time that convenience food contains neurotransmitters.[19] In the global debate on the causes of stunting, he argues that stunting is not a synonym of malnutrition, but is socially conditioned.[20]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: new staff at CAU, 2004. 2009-01-08. de.
  2. Hermanussen M, Geiger-Benoit K, Burmeister J, Sippell WG . 1988 . Periodical changes of short term growth velocity ("mini growth spurts") in human growth . Ann Hum Biol . 15 . 2. 103–109 . 10.1080/03014468800009521.
  3. Web site: website of "Gesellschaft für Anthropologie". 2009-01-07. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100127102746/http://www.gfanet.de/en/home. 2010-01-27.
  4. Web site: website of "Human Biology and Public Health". 2023-04-05.
  5. Hermanussen M, Largo RH, Molinari L . 2001 . Canalisation in human growth: a widely accepted concept reconsidered . Eur J Pediatr . 160 . 3. 163–7 . 10.1007/s004310000706.
  6. Hermanussen M, Meigen C . 2007 . Phase variation in child and adolescent growth . Int J Biostat . 3 . 1–16 . 10.2202/1557-4679.1045. free .
  7. Hermanussen M, Cole TJ . 2003 . The calculation of target height reconsidered . Horm Res . 59 . 4. 180–3 . 10.1159/000069321.
  8. Hermanussen M . 1988 . Knemometry, a new tool for the investigation of growth . Eur J Pediatr . 147 . 4. 350–355 . 10.1007/bf00496409.
  9. Hermanussen M, Geiger-Benoit K, Burmeister J, Sippell WG . 1988 . Periodical changes of short term growth velocity ("mini growth spurts") in human growth . Ann Hum Biol . 15 . 2. 103–109 . 10.1080/03014468800009521.
  10. Hermanussen M, Seele K . 1997 . Mini-Knemometry: An accurate technique for lower leg length measurements in early childhood . Ann Hum Biol . 24 . 4. 307–313 . 10.1080/03014469700005052.
  11. Hermanussen M . 2003 . The measurement of short term growth . J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab . 16 . 7. 969–971 . 10.1515/JPEM.2003.16.7.969 .
  12. Hermanussen M, Rol de Lama MA, Lama M, Burmeister J, Fernandez-Tresguerres JA . 1995 . Mikro-knemometry: An accurate technique of growth measurement in rats . Physiol Behav . 58 . 2. 347–352 . 10.1016/0031-9384(95)00062-n.
  13. Hermanussen M, Rol de Lama M, ((Tresguerres JAF)), Grasedyck L, Burmeister J . 1998 . Short term growth: evidence for chaotic series of mini growth spurts in rat growth . Physiol Behav . 64 . 7–13 . 10.1016/s0031-9384(98)00023-7.
  14. Hermanussen M, Geiger-Benoit K, Sippell WG . 1985 . Catch-up growth following transfer from three times weekly im to daily sc administration of hGH in GH deficient patients, monitored by knemometry . Acta Endocrinol . 109 . 2. 163–168 . 10.1530/acta.0.1090163.
  15. Hermanussen M, Geiger-Benoit K, Burmeister J, Sippell WG . 1987 . Can the knemometer shorten the time for growth rate assessment? . Acta Paediatr Scand Suppl . 337 . 30–36 . 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1987.tb17124.x .
  16. Hermanussen M, Geiger-Benoit K, Sippell WG . 1987 . Negative growth" in anorexia nervosa assessed by knemometry . Eur J Pediatr . 146 . 6. 561–564 . 10.1007/bf02467353.
  17. Hermanussen M, etal . 2006 .

    Obesity, voracity and short stature: the impact of glutamate on the regulation of appetite

    . European Journal of Clinical Nutrition . 60 . 25–31 . 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602263. 16132059 .
  18. Hermanussen M . 2008 . No consensus on glutamate . Eur J Clin Nutr . 62 . 10. 1252–3 . 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602828. 17538530 .
  19. Hermanussen M, Gonder U, Jakobs C, Stegemann D, Hoffmann G . 2009 . Patterns of free amino acids in German convenience food products: marked mismatch between label information and composition . Eur J Clin Nutr . 10.1038/ejcn.2009.116 . free .
  20. Scheffler C, Hermanussen M, Bogin B, et al. . 2020 . Stunting is not a synonym of malnutrition . Eur J Clin Nutr . 74 . 3. 377–386 . 10.1038/s41430-019-0439-4. free .

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