How to grow taller?

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Im 15, male and growing. But at the moment im only 5" and i want to grow a lot more taller. Any1 have stories?

Hey man, I'm 16 and only 5'3". There isn't really a sure fire way to ensure your growth, but not smoking and staying fit will help to make sure that if you are gonna grow any more, that you will and not have that growth stunted.

well you could always ring around and ask your local castles if they still have "the rack" that you can hire...other than that, i dont think you can do all that much to increase your height other than to eat healthysome people are tall, some are short. people who judge you on your looks arent worth getting worried about

i'm lovin your picture you got cool and to aduka... play some basketball.. i shot up a lot when i started playing

Cool's picture is indeed cool.

The height you reach depends on your bones. They contain a "growth plate" where growth takes place - fairly steadily before puberty, and then exposure to testosterone at puberty gives you a growth spurt. Eventually, however, the exposure to testosterone makes the growth plate "fuse" and you stop growing permanently. That typically happens around 16 or so, but it can be much later, especially if you started late. People who start late sometimes end up taller than those who start growing early, because they got more years of pre-growth spurt growth in.

Look at your parents. You will probably end up taller than the average of their two heights.

sleep could do it too...one time i grew two inches after having more than 10 hours of sleep and i slept early too...or maybe that's a sayin made by your parents to want to goto sleep early

LOL in less than 24 hours i've been told twice my avatar is 'cool' matches my name , yayumm asian man, i think you find that everyone is taller after they sleep, because throughout the day, your spine compresses due to gravity...

One very important factor seems to have been missed out.Look at your parents, it will give you an idea of how big your gonna be, if your parents are short, you will probably be short also. If there tall, chances are you will be too.Also at 15 you've still got a fair bit of growing to go but by the sounds of it your gonna be a shortie anyhow

fast food! it's all that engineered fertalizers shit that has hormones in it and sopposidly makes you taller... i went to japan and they have all these mcdonalds and kfc up there and you look att he new generation... you see tall aisians... look at Yoa Ming he grew up in the fast food age

Im 13 and right now about 5' 11". It has probably to w/ your genes; or eat a lot of vegetables and fruits because I do, and it tastes good and it's good for you

woah 5 11!!! thats about my height and i'm 15!

Two inches overnight??? I think you forgot to take your shoes off when you measured. LOL

My mom was 5'0" and dad 5'4"... I'm 6'0"... so looking at your parents isn't always true.

well i know years ago europeans were short around the 5' area which today would be considered 6'. basically its evolution i guess

im 15 and 5''. hmm, ive bin like this for ages. i dnt think i ever got a growth spurt. wat WUD be extremely hilarious is if i suddenly got my growth spurt now!!! but hope not, being short is a part of moi :smile:

Height is all about genes, which ones is a random process. My dads 5'9" and my moms 5'8" and guess what I'm 6' tall and the only in my family as tall as me is my great uncle Dave, who is the most like me personality wise. But like I said its random, my sister is 13 and shes 5'4", shes the unlucky one (or lucky) depending on how you see it.

Hey There,,,I'm a 15 year-old girl from Thailand.... I'm 5'5"...Is it possible to growing for 3"-4" for a year?...Sorry my English is not well.

It's possible, but there's nothing you can do to make it happen.

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pssh use einsteins length contraction formula
L\_1 = L\_0 x [ sqrt {1-v^2/c^2} ]
if you can arbitrarily set you length in the negative plane, then you can grow longer in the negative complex plane provided you can travel faster than the speed of light (whether you get faster than it or you somehow slow it down)

LOL cool, your av IS neat! make it three? right! i think sometimes it's your ethnicity? but maybe you just haven't spurted up dude!