How to Grow Taller with Closed Growth Plates?

Natural growth stops around the age of 19 for girls and 22 for guys, as the new bone-making growth plates, i.e. epyphysis at both ends of your long bones solidify. There is no "natural" solution proved by scientifical evidence that can restart or prolong this process. But several people on the internet have reported growing after puberty by sticking to alternative routines, like Zixia, whose awe-inspiring story, you will find below through the link to her 4-years long blog that she eventually left after reaching her goal. Nothing is impossible from the spirituıal point of view, so keep reading on to see what others did, that you can do too to make your dream come true!

There are some ways to cheat nature in your quest to add more inches to your height, which can be grouped as :

1) Stretching Routines for Your Upper Body

2) Remodeling Techniques for Your Lower Body

3) Oral Supplements to Help Tune Your Body in Growth Mode

4) Bioenergetic / Esoteric Practices to Change the Shape of Your Body

No need to remind that getting a good night's sleep, eating healthy and being active through the day help promote all of the above, though they may not be enough one by one.

The soft pads (cartilages) which hold together your 33 vertebrae retain a spongy, flexible structure for your whole life, unlike your long bones which solidify after puberty. They can be stimulated to become thicker through regular practice of specific stretching routines. You want to add more space between your vertebrae and keep that gained space little by little.

Lots of stretching routines can be found in height increase communities, blogs and websites; however you will find most of them to be too weak or negligible for your goal. After you run through a handful of preliminary exercises to avoid muscle cramps, you will want to concentrate all your power on top stretches, like Cobra stretch, Cat stretch, Table stretch and Super stretch.

You can expect to get anything between an inch to 2 from stretching, but this should be supplementary. If you're past your puberty, you should be loading on your legs, which is the best shortcut to a dramatic increase in your height. The best increase you get from your torso, as it shows a soft structure, you may lose some of it this way or another. But once you've managed to elongate your long bones when they were soft and had them hardened again, that's all yours, forever.

These techniques deal mainly with the concept of creating microfractures in your bones and then stretching and filling them while resting. The most common ones are :

1) The Ilizarov Surgery : Shinbones are cut in two and then stretched out slowly, at a rate of approximately 1 mm per day, by wearing special orthesis day and night for 6 months straight, with added physical therapy to help muscles and nerves to catch up with the elongating bones.

While total expected growth may exceed 2 inches, this surgery comes with considerable risks of its own. Legs might be infected during the open surgery or later from the metal nails used for stabilization, which might even lead to amputaion.

There are also many social and finanical drawbacks. The patient is expected to sacrifice his professional life for the 6-months hospitalization period, followed by an as much longer physical therapy stage where he gets used back to walking with the aid of crutches.

So one who considers undergoing this surgery must not only possess all the financial resources to afford a whole year's treatment, but also take the risk of losing his job.

2) The Shinbone Routine : This method asks from you to sprint in a fast and intense manner to create microfractures in your shinbones and extend them with ankle weights while you sleep.

Looking just perfect in theory, this method is way less promising in practice : it is impossible to follow it even two days in a row, set aside months. You are asked not to leave your bed after 60 minutes of heavy sprinting, only except for 2 minutes to take a piss. However, as you can imagine, those many gallons of water one has to take in in order to cope with the extreme physical effort spent on an hour of relentless sprinting hardly empties in one short pissing session. You will have to take off all the ankle weights you have so hardly put on your legs every time you're in need, only to put them back on a minute later and no need to remind that your sleep is going to be disturbed a lot more, as you will be likely to feel thirsty for the remainder of the night of pain.

Free online versions of the shinbone routine can be found on many websites dealing with height increase.

Except for growth hormone injections prescribed to teen with growth hormone deficiency by medical doctors, there is a wide array of natural/herbal supplements to help the physical routines.

1) Milk : Preferably low-fat milk, or better yet, soy milk, helps a lot in the formation of new bones by providing the essential calcium. Yoghurt, kefir and white cheese make great alternatives.

2) Vitamins & Minerals : Niacin (vitamin B3) and zinc are crucial in promoting natural growth. Vitamins C (orange, lemon, grapefruit) and D (sunlight) also help bone formation and maintenance.

3) Core Aminos : Though most aminoacids -building blocks of our body- are already found in most vegetables, the particular intake of the Arginine/Ornithinie combination before bedtime on an empty stomach is believed to increase HGH levels up to 500%.

WARNING! Avoid Arginine/Ornithine/Lysine triple combinations for the purpose of height increase as lysine is supposed to compete with arginine during absorption.

4) Bodybuilding Supplements : Though it's not their primary target, bodybuilding supplements may help increase your height as they help your muscles grow.

While these supplements are great catalyzers to your desired achievement when taken considerably, you should definitely avoid all kinds of scam pills and homeopathic medicine which claim to increase your height effortlessly, as their usually undisclosed ingredients may contain poisonous substances.

Esoteric traditions broadly refer to the likes of self-hypnosis, scientific praying and creative visualization, while the best known bioenergetic practices include qigong, reiki and yoga.

Dr. Joseph Murphy has discussed most of these options with clarity and in great style in his best-selling masterpiece, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, which is an essential read for anybody who considers himself an apprentice in the ways of spiritual healing.

Making effective use of these methods comes by shifting one's viewpoint on life towards the motto "body as energy", since they focus, for the most part, either on balancing a somewhat disrupted bioenergetic state which might cause a physical disease in the body, or transferring universal energy in order to amplify one's inner power such as to help one overcome an actual disease.

Wish to check out :

1. Dr. Laura De Giorgio (PhD)'s website at http://www.deeptrancenow.com for the most comprehensive self-hypnosis recordings, including a particular Grow Taller set,
2. The blog of Zixia, a past Qigong experimenter from China, who managed to grow 4 inches in 15 months at http://zixialinmm.blogspot.com/.

Persistence and simple-mindedness are key to your success when physical reality tells otherwise. Good luck with growing taller!