One Does Not Simply Grow TallerThe Lies Of Grow Taller Systems
I'm sure you've seen those advertisements that claim to make you taller magically even if you're 50 years old and hunchbacked. Everybody knows that after adolescence, after your bones are completely ossified, you are destined to your height forevermore.
Is this really true? Are all those how to grow taller systems complete BS and simply taking advantage of the desperately short? Is there no method for me to grow taller? The reality is, one does not simply grow taller. Short of limb lengthening surgery, it is not feasible to grow your bones after the growth plates have closed. There is room for increasing height and it does not include breaking your shin bones and extending it.
The facts about growing taller.
When you're a wee baby, much of your bones are that squishy soft flexible substance called cartilage. As you get older, slowly the cartilage hardens into solid bone. During puberty, growth plates at the end of the bones experience a growth spurt activated by your growth hormones.
This is what causes you to shoot up throughout adolescence. After adolescence the growth plates totally fuse into bone and short of surgery, absolutely nothing will make them grow once more. Any program that claims to get you taller by growing your bones is a scam.
So is there no hope?
You're not in Dante's inferno, you don't have to abandon all hope just yet. There is one proven way to increase height and it does not involve growth hormones, hypnotism, or surgerybodily hormones. It is to increase the length of your vertebrae.
The Burmese women of the Paduang tribe place brass rings around their necks to lengthen them. It is reported that some have even increased it over 15 inches! How is this even possible?
Your spine consists of 33 individual vertebrae with inter-vertebrae fibro-cartilage between each disk. This acts as a cushion and shock absorbers that shield our spine. This cartilage is capable of growth and growth even into old age.
How do you grow these cartilage ?
1) Stretching
Stretching and exercise enables the free passage of blood and fluids throughout the disks, promoting growth. It also decompresses the cartilage so that it expands to its full potential.
2) Proper sleep
Gravity compresses and minimizes the space between your vertebrae and over time your spine will take form in this reduced state, stopping you from reaching your optimum height potential. Proper sleep counteracts this compression effects of gravity and helps to straighten the curve of the spine that gravity has so cruelly contorted.
Helping your spine to get longer and healthier not just gets you taller, but it greatly improves posture. Good posture makes you look confident and consequently, taller.
What's the conclusion on these grow taller systems?
They work! But not in the way they're advertising. You will not grow 4 inches in four weeks. You also will not get your limbs longer or increase growth hormones that will miraculously get you to grow when you're 35 years old. What will take place is if you follow the exercise program, you will lengthen your spine 1/2" to 2". And if you maintain the exercises, some or all of these gains may become permanent.
If you're short, a 1/2" to 2" is a miracle and will do wonders for your self image and self-confidence. Couple this with some height increasing shoes, and you can become three, four, even five inches taller! Important thing though is to first get a good program and stick to it.
Is this really true? Are all those how to grow taller systems complete BS and simply taking advantage of the desperately short? Is there no method for me to grow taller? The reality is, one does not simply grow taller. Short of limb lengthening surgery, it is not feasible to grow your bones after the growth plates have closed. There is room for increasing height and it does not include breaking your shin bones and extending it.
The facts about growing taller.
When you're a wee baby, much of your bones are that squishy soft flexible substance called cartilage. As you get older, slowly the cartilage hardens into solid bone. During puberty, growth plates at the end of the bones experience a growth spurt activated by your growth hormones.
This is what causes you to shoot up throughout adolescence. After adolescence the growth plates totally fuse into bone and short of surgery, absolutely nothing will make them grow once more. Any program that claims to get you taller by growing your bones is a scam.
So is there no hope?
You're not in Dante's inferno, you don't have to abandon all hope just yet. There is one proven way to increase height and it does not involve growth hormones, hypnotism, or surgerybodily hormones. It is to increase the length of your vertebrae.
The Burmese women of the Paduang tribe place brass rings around their necks to lengthen them. It is reported that some have even increased it over 15 inches! How is this even possible?
Your spine consists of 33 individual vertebrae with inter-vertebrae fibro-cartilage between each disk. This acts as a cushion and shock absorbers that shield our spine. This cartilage is capable of growth and growth even into old age.
How do you grow these cartilage ?
1) Stretching
Stretching and exercise enables the free passage of blood and fluids throughout the disks, promoting growth. It also decompresses the cartilage so that it expands to its full potential.
2) Proper sleep
Gravity compresses and minimizes the space between your vertebrae and over time your spine will take form in this reduced state, stopping you from reaching your optimum height potential. Proper sleep counteracts this compression effects of gravity and helps to straighten the curve of the spine that gravity has so cruelly contorted.
Helping your spine to get longer and healthier not just gets you taller, but it greatly improves posture. Good posture makes you look confident and consequently, taller.
What's the conclusion on these grow taller systems?
They work! But not in the way they're advertising. You will not grow 4 inches in four weeks. You also will not get your limbs longer or increase growth hormones that will miraculously get you to grow when you're 35 years old. What will take place is if you follow the exercise program, you will lengthen your spine 1/2" to 2". And if you maintain the exercises, some or all of these gains may become permanent.
If you're short, a 1/2" to 2" is a miracle and will do wonders for your self image and self-confidence. Couple this with some height increasing shoes, and you can become three, four, even five inches taller! Important thing though is to first get a good program and stick to it.
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