Can I Grow Taller After Puberty?
As often as the question “can I grow taller after puberty?” is asked, it is more often that the question isn’t asked at all, as many believe they already know the answer, due to the widespread misconception that you can’t grow after puberty. This is of course incorrect.
Firstly, the body may naturally continue to grow well beyond the growth spurt period experienced in most cases during adolescence, sometimes continuing well into a person’s 20’s. This can occur without any process being undertaken by the person in question. In most cases though, growth will stop a few years after the growth spurt has ended.
Of course if growth hormones were the only thing that could positively affect growth, it would be largely left up to luck. The good news is that it isn’t, and there are additional ways to promote healthy growth in our bodies.
Those previously mentioned growth hormones still play a major factor when we’re trying to force growth, the trick is to increase their production through a number of different means. This is largely comprised of healthy dieting, pills, fasting, or other methods.
Growth hormones are becoming more and more ingrained in the mainstream, with the recent controversy in Major League baseball over the use of steroids and human growth hormone (HGH) supplements. HGH pills drastically increase the production of growth hormone in the body, and the fact they’ve taken center stage in this controversy proves the effectiveness of increasing growth hormone levels. Of course those particular pills can be dangerous and should be avoided.
Since HGH should not be an option for gaining height, we need to look at safer and more practical alternatives. The most obvious, and yet still overlooked method, is through stretching exercises. Stretching which specifically targets the legs and/or spine in particular is especially effective, promoting stretching of the tissues in the legs, and spacing of the vertebrae in the spine.
Alternatively, height gain can be achieved by simply cancelling out ways in which other ailments or conditions may be negatively influencing your current height. Poor posture is a major concern that can lead to pain, as well as decreased height. With targeted training, poor posture can be nipped in the bud, resulting in varied improvements.
These are just some of the ways that height can be increased, even many years after you figured your height had hit the proverbial ceiling. Those looking to grow taller after puberty, who are willing to take the time and effort necessary to stimulate change may soon find that while their height did not hit a ceiling after all, their heads may soon do just that.