Abul Bajandar - The Tree Man

Abul Bajandar - The Tree Man

Now who doesn’t love the adorable Groot from the Guardians of the Galaxy, right? But did you know that a disorder called “Tree man Syndrome” actually exists in real life? And one of the most well- known cases of this rare genetic disease is 29-year-old Bangladeshi Abul Bajandar.

Abul has been suffering from this condition for over two decades, which causes bark-like growths mostly on his hands and feet. This made doing normal everyday tasks like eating, taking a shower or brushing his teeth extremely difficult for Abul. But in 2016, a team of medical experts offered to give him treatment for free, from which the doctors surgically removed more than five kilos of growth off his limbs!

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