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Why can't adults grow any taller?

Why can't adults grow any taller?

I tried hard to grow taller because of my height, from my school days, I experienced the feeling of low self-esteem! Once I was 18 years old and 165cm tall. now more than 10 years later, I am still 165cm! I failed, but I know the way, a very cruel way, I hope you won't try it.

My height is a real handicap, and many female classmates have told me, "If you can grow 10 centimeters, you can be more handsome than Takeshi Kaneshiro"!

I believed it. I heard that playing basketball helps you grow taller, I played basketball. I heard that more sunshine can help calcium absorption, so I did. I heard that eating more ribs and gnawing on bones could help me grow taller, so I ate more. Now my skin is so dark and shiny, and I am so fat that I can't walk without gasping for breath! I'm dark, short and fat...I have low self-esteem!

Being short in height, it's really too much of a disadvantage to fall in love and get a job. I can not catch up with the stewardess, can not do modeling! Since I was a child, I dreamed that I could stand on the runway and enjoy the highlights that belonged to me. Since I was a child, I have had the dream of a toad to eat the white swan. Because of shortness, the dream was shattered.

After more than 10 years of muddling through, I've resigned myself to my fate. Because there's no money! What does height have to do with money? Of course it does, because money makes you taller!

Because of money, you can go abroad to do "broken bone heightening surgery". The effect is immediate, really! Only you have to bear a huge risk, the risk is so big that you may be disabled for life.

For the so-called height in the outside world, are you willing to go for the extremely risky "broken bone surgery"? Broken bones, sounds creepy! Simply put, decide for yourself.

"Bone augmentation", also known as limb lengthening, was first used in patients with severe trauma, unequal legs and severe bone defects.

To achieve lengthening of the foot bones, the leg bones need to be cracked and steel pins passed through the bones and stretched little by little every day. It's a long process and the person goes through tremendous pain every day.

And this surgery takes an exceptionally long time, often several years. The surgery is not done all at once, and there is a high risk of infection and blood clots in the process.

Even if you are lucky enough to survive the surgery and achieve your goal of growing taller. There are various after-effects that can occur after the surgery.

Seeing this, do people who desire to grow taller still dare to go for the option? There are ways to grow taller, but it's not worth it to face that much risk for the sake of just growing taller.

So, work on your self-confidence, your height can't be changed anymore, change your aesthetic perception!

The bones that have the greatest impact on a normal person's height are the thigh and calf bones, the length of which, basically, determines our height. Many adults are limited by their short height, especially want to increase their height through some way. Nowadays, there are also many businesses on the market, marketing products under the gimmick of height increase, however, no matter which method or product on the market, it can basically be said that it is a scam.

Adults, whether thigh bone or calf bone epiphysis has closed, and the epiphysis closure time is different for each person, basically by their own genes, some people close early, some people close late. Most people will close their epiphyses around the age of 16-18, with girls closing a little earlier, and when they reach adulthood, their epiphyses will close completely, and there is almost no possibility of growing taller.

So if you want to grow taller, you have to find a way to do it before your epiphysis closes. For example, weekday nutritional intake, is a prerequisite; adequate sleep time, can also determine a person's height, now many children sleep time is short, which is very detrimental to the growth of height, because the secretion of growth hormone in the sleep to be much higher than when awake; there is also physical exercise, usually the child to participate in extracurricular activities, do not always sit at home.

Of course it's not entirely impossible for adults to get taller, and there was a surge of surgical augmentation at the turn of the century. This is through surgery, the thigh bone or calf bone broken, and then implanted steel nails, and with the stretching equipment. There is a distance of a few centimeters or more between the broken bones, and the bones will continue to grow long bone cells after they are broken, filling in the gaps that have been stretched out, thus achieving the effect of increasing height. However, the risk of this kind of surgery is very high, paralysis, disability and death cases have occurred, and even if the surgery is successful, it will take about a year to recover, the weight-bearing capacity and athletic ability of the leg is also affected, many future sports will be limited, and after the age of the person, no one knows what hidden dangers will exist. Therefore, we are very much not recommended to use this method to increase height.

To summarize, there is no better way for adults to increase their height, but through sports and exercise it is entirely possible to make their own physical health, there is no need to pay too much attention to height, and presumptuous.

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  There is no way to grow taller as an adult. First of all, it is important to understand that the growth of height is related to the continuous growth of bones. If the epiphysis of the long bones has closed and the long bones stop growing, the height is basically stabilized, and it is difficult to have a significant increase in height. In adults, the epiphyses of both the femur and the tibia have closed, so there will be no significant change in adult height.

  The epiphyses of the long bones close around the age of 16-18 years in most people, earlier in girls and a little later in boys, but basically by the age of 20. After adulthood, the epiphyses close completely, and there is almost no possibility to grow taller. At the turn of the century there was a surge in surgical augmentation, in which the thigh or calf bone was surgically broken and a steel spike was implanted, along with a stretching device. There is a distance of a few centimeters or more between the broken bones, and the bones will continue to grow long bone cells to fill in the stretched-out gaps after they are broken, thus achieving the effect of height increase. However, this kind of surgery is very risky and has resulted in cases of paralysis, disability, and death in the future. Even if the surgery is successful, it will take about a year to recover, and the leg's weight-bearing ability and athleticism will be significantly affected, limiting many sports in the future.

  Compared with height, physical health is the most important. Factors determining height are not only congenital genetic factors, but also some acquired factors. Before the epiphyses are not closed, it is necessary to supplement nutrients, especially high protein foods, foods rich in calcium and iron, foods rich in vitamin D, and so on. Regular physical exercise is very important to promote the continuous growth of long bones.

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Modern science can make adults grow taller, it just requires surgery. Also known as bone lengthening surgery. This means that the bone is broken on both sides of the leg, and then the top and bottom of the fracture are fixed with steel nails, which are connected to a frame on the outside. By adjusting the frame and pulling on it about 1mm a day, the bone is lengthened, which means that the body can grow taller. For adults, this is currently the only way.

Because the human body after adulthood, epiphyseal closure occurs, the bone stops growing, any drug other treatment measures are meaningless.

However, there are surgical risks associated with doing this surgery, it takes at least six months before and after, and may lead to non-union of the interrupted fracture, malunion of the fracture, and reoccurrence of the fracture after removing the shelf itself. The bone lengthening frame is shown in the picture below.


There is, but it's painful. The fastest is broken bone augmentation, but it's not recommended.

There is another one, by yourself. If you're not 25, it's still possible. Quit masturbating, 5k a day, 200 touchdowns, 8 100 meter sprints, and 40 minutes of stretching when you're done. Gradually increase exercise over a couple months. It will be tiring, hold out for at least a year or more and there is a chance you will grow a few more centimeters.

In adulthood the epiphyses near the joints have closed and it is no longer possible to grow the bone on normal growth, there is a method of breaking the bone and then slowly lengthening the broken section to allow it to grow in the way the fracture heals. However, this method is extremely painful and has a very long duration, and during the growth of the bone, the muscles are pulled and the pain is unbearable. Now the medical technology is not recommended to do this, there is a great risk and complications, the current regular hospitals are basically not willing to do this type of surgery, some private plastic surgery hospitals or institutions in order to money often advertise to the public can be done. Domestic do this very few. Currently there are very few reports, India in this regard to do more.

Epiphyseal closure, there is no longer any medicine or method that can make the bone extend! So don't believe in the so-called methods on the market, maybe you can grow taller through surgery, but there are huge risks and complications, the regular hospitals are basically not willing to do this kind of surgery, unless plastic surgery, orthopedics and so on can 😊

I've grown some more since I turned 25, just more slowly, probably related to my usual habits, I prefer to walk and stand with my head up, and the main thing I've found is that my back must be straight at all times.

Ma Yun is not high but rich, everyone is after him, when a person knows that the height has been fixed! Still obsessing over the issue of height, that is not a brain problem, there is so much time to obsess over the issue of height might as well think about how to earn money, since height is not your advantage! Then play your other strengths, since you can not rely on face value to eat, then rely on the strength to speak, rich height looks like, age is not a problem, the problem is that you must have money. Life in the world is not as good as nine out of ten things, the key is that you yourself is not a potential stock.

Growing taller is the hardest part for me.

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