Height Management: Add a few inches to your height

[Ami69]

I am not that short but i think few inches can do the magic. I will like to add a few inches to my height. I have been taking vitamins these days and i just read an article about good stretching exercise. do you think good stretching exercise and vitamins can do the magic?.. do you know of any sure way i can add few inches to my height?

[bigbang]

Hi Ami,

What's your age? If you are above some 19, i have no hope for you with the Vitamin therapy. The growing age is said to be upto 19's or so. Stretching exercises might help, but it's likely that the "magic" won't happen. If you are so particular, a surgery may help. And be happy with what you got. That's the best way.

well, i'm hitting 24 next month. as for surgery, nop i'm scared. i thought there was an easy way. there seems to be over a million techniques online claiming to work but i think i am too old for that. i'll keep my stretching exercise though who knows? thanks bigbang!

[techbuzzie]

Dear,

Yes, these techniques is not even working for teens.

So better go for a surgery. If you aren't so particular, just give it a try, me too

think like it will not work. All the best with the plan.

who wants to be a midget! but if you are really small and your family gene's are of a small people you can be that tall at all.

i think the best way to be tall is done during your teen years. because your pituitary glands secretes more growth hormone. once you hit the age of 21 it slows down in the secretion of growth hormones.

if you are not yet 21, do anything you can to enhance your pituitary gland. do vitamins and stuff just be sure it is under a supervision of a doctor.

Yes, I would like to agree with Arcel. Your height is regulated by your body. I can't think of any exercise or supplement to increase height.

Height is a genetic thing which means it depends on your parents. If you parents are tall then you have high chance to be tall too. I am not aware of how you can manually increase your height as it is something natural.

As already noted in the thread, I believe height is controlled mainly by your genes. If both you're parents are short, you'll pretty much end up the same way. I think it doesn't stop at your parents though, wouldn't it extend to your grandparents as well? I've never met him, but my dad said his father is really tall. Everyone on my dad's side is pretty tall... except for my dad. I'm around 5"2, but I'm taller than both my parents and my sisters. My younger brother is about an inch or two taller though. I'm not 21 yet, Sso I think I may still have a slim chance of growing a little more.

But anyway... I also agree that at 24, you're probably done growing - unless you go with surgery, as others pointed out. I didn't even know you can extend your height through surgery, actually.

Yes I read that your grandparents affect yourt height too. Another thing that I notice is that most boys grow taller than their parents. I am taller than both of my parents.

[sparky]

I don't think exercise and vitamins will help you grow taller at that age my friend. If anything you will only shrink if anything from now on.

Unless you get one of those racks from medieval times that they used for torture to stretch you out a bit

Let us know if you do find a way though - I'm sure most of us would like to be a bit taller

Exercises may help you to grow taller but only at a younger age. At 24 most people have stopped growing and even if you can increase your height, it would be too little, too hard. The natural way to increase your height is through stretching exercises which take a lot of time and dedication to be effective. That's why some people opt for surgeries - they are much easier but you know there are negative effects.

I have never heard of anything that will help a person grow but being 6 feet tall myself I never really wanted to get any taller. I did hear an interesting fact on the subject though.

If you take your height at age 2 and double it that's within a few inches of how tall you will be.

Of course you never wanted to grow any taller. Six feet is pretty much the barrier between average and tall. Unless you compare yourself with professional basketball players who are much taller than that. I personally think that height doesn't matter, despite businessmen trying to sell their grow taller products saying height does matter.

[ZackFaire]

If you want to get taller, you should save up money and go on a space trip.

Based on from what I know, gravity is pulling on some kind of body part within your body and it prevents you from growing taller at a certain age. If you go out to outer-space and relieve your body of gravity, this "object" in your body might allow you to grow taller.

Just put lifts in your shoes. lol. Doing something intrusive to your body is a horrible idea. I guess the vitamin therapy wouldn't be so bad, but surgery? They only do that if it is necessary to improve your quality of life, it's not cosmetic.

[Walker]

As they said...begin working on your area of interest in the tender age...and you would be just fine.

You should have done lots of pull ups and swimming at young age to have material difference in your height.

No doubt, the height is mainly defined by your genes, but one make a little difference by his/her activity too.

At 24, you are past the age group to bring any difference to how tall you are !!!

So...just enjoy and learn to live with it...

Regards,

Walker

I think height is mainly determined by genes and the time which you can grow taller is during your teenage years when going through puberty. So exercise, jump more and skip more when you're young! I heard that milk helps too.

After that, I think its quite hard to grow any taller and the only way of doing it should be to have surgery.

In my opinion, height doesn't really matter much even though guys may be better off being taller. Just be satisfied and feel happy about youself.

I have been through this phase. I am 5'4" which is average for a girl but i always envied girls who were taller than me. i tried to do everything except surgery. Obviously nothing worked. Now i have accepted my height and am very happy.

[William]

I don't think you should worry so much about your appearance.
Everyone is special in their own way, so why alter yourself to others standards ? Don't be so harsh on yourself and perhaps focus on more important things ?

of course, height stretching techniques can help to improve height of the body. Another way to stretch our body is by doing pull ups . Vitamins can also help to some extent, as it is very necessary to our body .

My son has been diagnosed with short saure and he has been taking Increlex, which is am insulin growth booster. It has worked very well for him. He has grown over 2 inches in the last 8 months and has packed on a lot of weight as well.

Wow, surgery for increasing height? I've heard of it before but I've never heard of anyone actually doing it (or planning on doing it, for that matter) except for on the likes of tv and in print. If it were myself considering such a surgery I can only imagine that I likely would be scared to death...yikes.

Although I can't say I don't understand your reasoning behind wanting to do this (we all have our reasons for what we do or want to do) I am curious to know how much research you have done on the subject.

You mentioned something about not being scared and, from the things I've ever heard about this kind of surgery, wow, I don't know how you "couldn't" be scared so I was simply amazed by your response. Obviously, you are much braver than I, that's for sure.

As for whether there is any 'magic' to gaining yourself some inches, hmmm, I can't be 100% sure but I will say I highly doubt it.

Sure, there are plenty of formula's, pills, exercises, etc one can try but, as for making you 'magicly' grow, well, I think that would be another story altogether. Either way, good luck to you, I hope you get the results you're looking for, regardless of how you go about getting them.

I think you can be taller if you do some sports like Basketball or voleyball ...
Stimulants are worse! They even don't work sometimes and they make your life shorter!

actually i was also a short,stretching exercise did it magic in improving by heights..its true try stretching exercise it really works,

I am short and i wish I could add a few inches to my height but that is like going against yourself. If you are short you should be proud because all those grow tall drugs out there are just scams who want to suck your money and sell you fake and dangerous drugs. No technique works actually. Once you are born short, that is it.

[world learner]

I tower my entire family when it comes to height. My parents are short and most of my brothers and relatives are short too but I am very tall with long limbs and at times I feel bad about my height. It makes me feel like the odd one out.

I am short too but I don't feel too bad about my height because I am taller than Zacchaeus in the Bible. It is better to be short and healthy than adding artificial hormones into your body to mess your body chemistry up in the future.

I have always wanted to be tall- until i realized that it's better to be short. I am a little tall for my age, but being short would be a LOT better. You can have more relationships without the problem of height.


^^^^^^Point: Better to be short

being tall has so many social benefits unless you are extremely tall and the odd one out. being short too has some benefits unless maybe you are extremely. Average height is the best in my opinion but I woudn't worry if I were just a few inches below average height.

In fact I wouldn't worry even if I were short like a dwarf. I've observed short people live longer than tall people. just look around, how many old people you see are tall? tall people normally get back problems and die anywhere from 50