Update 1/21/2013: After going back to this post to review the information that I had previously put up, I realized that this post needed to be redone, edited, and added on the technical details.

There is a theory that if one can induce microfractures, one can then use some form of device or equipment to stretch the long legs where the microfractures which were induced  can lead to longitudal length gain, thus an increase in height. This idea was the main theoretical background behind the shinbone method.

The idea of microfractures has been one of the most researched and tested theories and methods for height increase. The experimenter Sky and his team at LimbCenter.org (which I don’t think exist anymore except on the Wayback Machine.) tried applying the microfracture theory to gain height for over 5 years and in the end, the results were very dismal and showed little success. Through Sky’s effort, he would develop the prototypes and many variations of ideas on how to induce microfractures, including a Shinbone Method, Thighbone Method (which I remember seeing but could never find any information on), and also a Lumbar/Back Method.

In addition, the trainer Pierre Pozzuto would come up with A-Grow-Bics and use the principle of microfractures to explain why any bit of height increase would even be possible for adults. However the results which we do find from his program, which does seem to work for a small group of his clients, can be explained instead by the idea of vertebral decompression, better posture, and some bone realignment moves similar to what we might find in rolfing, or the Alexander Technique.

In my personal opinion, at this point in the research, I would not recommend trying or applying this method. The idea behind inducing microfractures was that the external cortical bone of the long bones in the legs would have a weak enough tensile strength being rather on the brittle side to allow even for a bit of microfractures to come about from repeated kicking, jumping, or running.

In general we remember and note that the tensile strength of human cortical bone, which is cylindrical in nature to give it the most strength in terms of bone strength/volume, is very, VERY high.

The hollow nature of human long bone gives it the strength and durability to land animals who need to stand up right and still be nimble and fast enough to either run for prey or outrun predators. The same idea for hollow bones is found in birds who need the strong hollow bone matrix to hold their body structure up and also be light enough to be able to glide and fly.

It would turn out that when I did a quick Google search for the term microfractures, that the idea is currently already being done by orthepaedic surgeons as a way to heal articular cartilage damage.

The picture to the left is a picture I found from a website where a surgeon/physician is showing in diagram how to perform a type of knee arthroscopy. What they seem to be doing is inducing microfractures that are  just small holes less than 1 mm in diameter in the sub condylar and sub chondral medial & lateral areas of the epiphysis of the upper knee area, where the distal end of the femur is.

It seems that overall the medical professionals have been able to figure out how to use microfractures to cause the healing of chronic articular cartilage damage.

As for the technology to use microfractures to lead to height increase, it would seem that maybe it would just be easier to get medical professionals to cause the microfractures formations. If the idea of microfractures was truly sound, then a medical professional with a few drills will be instead used to cause the bones to develop the microfractures we are looking for. All we then would have to do is prove using any type of bone lengthening device that the induced microfractures can cause lengthening.

However I have wondered whether any chance for bone lengthening is dependent on microfracture shape as well. With the microfracture surgery, the drill in round, hole shape has to reach the subchondral bone level so that the pluripotent progenitor stem cells will be released from the bone marrow inside to cause cartilage formation. This shows that any microfracture technique will in terms of depth be able to reach the subchondral layer. What is left in terms of factors is the shape. The question then to ask is whether  the shape should be a slit in the horizontal direction or vertically since a large bone defect would not do much except cause blood loss. I would guess that a horizontal slit fracture may give the bone a slightly greater chance to be able to expand vertically, thus causing height increase.

There really isn’t much more to say about microfractures which hasn’t already been stated in other posts like the one on the shinbone method or the posts about ankle weights, part II.

I had previously written a very short intro post about the possibility of using the Alexander Technique to Increase Height (HERE). I was getting into the research to see what others have found.

From this Resource (a SHE magazine article on the Alexander Technique website), it seems that a women who has had very bad posture for a long time increased her height from 5′ 5″ to 5′ 7″ after a few weeks of using the Alexander Technique sessions.

From this PDF HERE, we learn that the technique has been used by movie stars, musicians, athletes, and actor students in Julliard and the NYC Actors Studio Drama School for over 70 years. The quote I will take is ,

” The results can be very dramatic; people can gain up to an inch and a half in “lost” height that was due to collapse….”

From the Resoouce HERE it is stated also that “commonly adults gain height”. I found this link to be very useful and informative on what the Alexander method does.

Of all the resources on the internet, the best resource is TheAlexanderGuide.Com . From the website, I copy and pasted the first intro paragraph…

The Alexander technique is a way of becoming more aware of your balance and how you move. It’s based on the premise that most people have bad postural habits that, over time, stop us using our bodies as easily and comfortably as we should. Wrongly used muscles contract and pull down, giving to the classic sign of bad use: head tipped back at the start of any movement, especially sitting or standing.

The way of modern living leads to bad postural habits; shoulders raised and stiffened by stress, neck poked forward over desk work, tired bodies slumped into saggy armchairs. Soon we’ve lost all sense of how we really are, so that what feels natural (because it’s habitual) is widely out of line. That’s why it’s hard to correct our own posture without expert help. The Alexander Technique aims to re-educate the body into moving more easily – relearning the natural grace all children have until they all go to school and start slouching over desks.

How can Alexander Technique make you grow taller?

It’s based on what Alexander Technique teachers call ‘good use of the body’ – allowing the spine to regain its natural curves, holding the head effortlessly in the easiest position and distributing weight evenly over your feet. The bonus is that you look taller and feel lighter.

The Alexander Technique teaches you how to stand, how to sit and how to use a chair. Posture is perfected and the body is taught to move with ease. It is not unusual for Alexander Technique practicioners to have grown by 2-3 cm. It can simply be that their spine was curved or they held their head too far forward. It’s about letting the spine reach its full length. Many of us carry our heads too far back and tilted skywards. The technique teaches you to let go of the muscles holding the head back, allowing it to resume its natural place on the summit of our spines. The head weighs 4-6kg (10-12lb), so any misalignment can cause problems for the neck and body.

How is Alexander Technique different from Pilates or Yoga?

Alexander Technique is not like Pilates in that it does not involve actual exercise (like on the cadillac or reformer) but has some of the same ideas about being centered.

Pilates was developed to strengthen the body core (Pilates originator, Joseph Pilates, was a gymnast who wanted to speed up recovery). Alexander Technique was originally developed for stage performers to “free up” their bodies (Mr. Alexander was an actor). That is, you would not get stiff after an Alexander Technique session like you would after your first Pilates sessions, nor will Alexander Technique do anything for your muscle strength.

Alexander Technique is more about realignment, which is where it comes closer to Yoga. But it does not have the meditative and stretching/relaxing element of Yoga. Alexander Technique is stricly about using your body better and more efficiently.

Me: If I was to go out into the street right now and put adult 10 people in 10 sessions with a licensed Alexander Technique instructor, I would guess that half of them but the end of the 10 sessions would have added at least 1 extra cm of height. The Alexander Technique helps normal people who often live lives where they are slouching and hunched over gain what I have termed “lost height”. In the US based on our living habits, I would say 60% (or higher) of people have at least 1 cm of “hidden height” that they don’t realize. If they were worked on, I would guess a good number of them can increase their height by up to 1-1.5 inches in extra height.

It is because they are choosing not to stand and walk in the right posture. The alexander method redirects the person who goes into the session to learn how to direct and focus the movement of their body. They learn how to stand, walk, and move better.

So in conclusion, the Alexander Technique can help a person gain “hidden height” from better posture and spinal realignment. The technique will NOT give another 2 inches to a ballet dancer or figure skater, or anyone who had already learned how to stretch out their body to the body’s natural limit through training and exercises. It works, and it also doesn’t work. 

One of the first methods and techniques I discovered when I first started doing research to see how one can increase their height and grow taller was the Alexander Technique. I have written two posts about the feasibility, effectiveness, and theory of how the Alexander Technique works in increasing height found HERE and HERE.

When one starts learning about the Alexander Technique, one is bound to also learn about the Feldenkrais method. They are similar in their ultimate goal, which is to help elevate pain, reduce certain pathological conditions, and improvement movement and posture in the individual. First we learn what exactly is the Feldenkrais Method.

Using a very unscientific approach, let’s just see what Wikipedia says about it. You can find the original article link HERE. Again I will copy and post a few of the main points about the method below

The Feldenkrais Method – often referred to simply as “Feldenkrais” – is a somatic educational system designed by Moshé Feldenkrais (1904–1984).

Feldenkrais aims to reduce pain or limitations in movement, to improve physical function, and to promote general wellbeing by increasing students’ awareness of themselves and by expanding students’ movement repertoire.

Feldenkrais is used to improve habitual and repetitive movement patterns rather than to treat specific injuries or illnesses. However, because habitual and repetitive movement patterns can contribute towards and in some cases cause injury, pain, and physical dysfunction, the method is often regarded as falling within the field of integrative medicine or complementary medicine.

Approach

Feldenkrais believed that health is founded on good function. He asserted that his method of body/mind exploration improved functioning (health) by making individuals more aware: “What I am after is more flexible minds, not just more flexible bodies”…. Feldenkrais’ approach was essentially experiential, grounded in tools of self-discovery and movement enquiry.

Techniques

Functional Integration (FI)

In a Functional Integration lesson, a trained practitioner uses his or her hands to guide the movement of a single client, who may be sitting, lying or standing (fully clothed). The practitioner uses this “hands-on” technique to help the student experience the connections among various parts of the body (with or without movement). Through precision of touch and movement, the client learns how to eliminate excess effort and thus move more freely and easily. Lessons may be specific in addressing particular issues brought by the client, or can be more global in scope. Although the technique does not specifically aim to eliminate pain or “cure” physical complaints, such issues may inform the lesson. Issues such as chronic muscle pain may resolve themselves as the client may learn a more relaxed approach to his or her physical experience—a more integrated, free, and easy way to move.

Awareness Through Movement (ATM)

In Awareness Through Movement classes, people engage in precisely structured movement explorations that involve thinking, sensing, moving, and imagining. Each lesson consists of comfortable, easy movements that gradually evolve into movements of greater range and complexity. Awareness Through Movement lessons attempt to make one aware of his/her habitual neuromuscular patterns and rigidities and to expand options for choosing new ways of moving while increasing sensitivity and improving efficiency. There are hundreds of Awareness Through Movement lessons contained in the Feldenkrais Method that vary, for all levels of movement ability, from simple in structure and physical demand to more difficult lessons. Feldenkrais taught that changes in our ability to move are inseparable from changes in our conscious perception of ourselves as embodied. He said that changes in the physical experience could be described as changes in our internal self image, which can be conceived as the mapping of the motor cortex to the body. (This relates to the body image theory that was developed by Penfield in the form of cortical homunculus.) Feldenkrais felt that activity in the motor cortex played a key role in proprioception (the sense of body position). He aimed to clarify and work therapeutically with this relationship, with instructions that involved both specific movement instructions and invitations to introspection.

Scientific studies

In 1999, a randomized controlled trial investigated whether physiotherapy or Feldenkrais interventions would reduce the complaints from neck and shoulder pain and disability….The Feldenkrais group showed significant decreases in complaints from neck and shoulders and in disability during leisure time. The two other groups showed no change in complaints (Physiotherapy group) or worsening of complaints (Control group).

According to Norman Doidge, current research on neuroplasticity, by scientists such as Doidge and Michael Merzenich, may support Feldenkrais’ key theories of somatic re-education.

On the main website (found HERE) that teaches the Feldenkrais method is this claim

“”The Feldenkrais Method is for anyone who wants to reconnect with their natural abilities to move, think and feel. Whether you want to be more comfortable sitting at your computer, playing with your children and grandchildren, or performing a favorite pastime, these gentle lessons can improve your overall well being.

Learning to move with less effort makes daily life easier. Because the Feldenkrais Method focuses on the relationship between movement and thought, increased mental awareness and creativity accompany physical improvements. Everyone, from athletes and artists to administrators and attorneys, can benefit from the Feldenkrais Method.

We improve our well being when we learn to fully use ourselves. Our intelligence depends upon the opportunity we take to experience and learn on our own. This self learning leads to full, dynamic living.””

In the FAQ section, these are the answers to the most frequently asked questions (found HERE). 

What is the Feldenkrais Method?

The Feldenkrais Method is named after its originator, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc. (1904-1984) [about], a Russian born physicist, judo expert, mechanical engineer and educator.

The Feldenkrais Method is a form of somatic education that uses gentle movement and directed attention to improve movement and enhance human functioning. Through this Method, you can increase your ease and range of motion, improve your flexibility and coordination, and rediscover your innate capacity for graceful, efficient movement. These improvements will often generalize to enhance functioning in other aspects of your life.

The Feldenkrais Method is based on principles of physics, biomechanics and an empirical understanding of learning and human development. By expanding the self-image through movement sequences that bring attention to the parts of the self that are out of awareness, the Method enables you to include more of yourself in your functioning movements. Students become more aware of their habitual neuromuscular patterns and rigidities and expand options for new ways of moving. By increasing sensitivity the Feldenkrais Method assists you to live your life more fully, efficiently and comfortably.

The improvement of physical functioning is not necessarily an end in itself. Such improvement is based on developing a broader functional awareness which is often a gateway to more generalized enhancement of physical functioning in the context of your environment and life.

Who Benefits from the Feldenkrais Method?

Anyone—young or old, physically challenged or physically fit—can benefit from the Method. Feldenkrais is beneficial for those experiencing chronic or acute pain of the back, neck, shoulder, hip, legs or knee, as well as for healthy individuals who wish to enhance their self-image. The Method has been very helpful in dealing with central nervous system conditions such as multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and stroke. Musicians, actors and artists can extend their abilities and enhance creativity. Many Seniors enjoy using it to retain or regain their ability to move without strain or discomfort.

Through lessons in this method you can enjoy greater ease of movement, an increased sense of vitality, and feelings of peaceful relaxation. After a session you often feel taller and lighter, breathe more freely and find that your discomforts have eased. You experience relaxation, and feel more centered and balanced.

Successful Students: here are examples of recent successes students have accomplished after work with the Feldenkrais Method:

• a 42 year old computer programmer with incipient wrist problems is able to increase his speed on the keyboard after learning how to use his arms and hands more efficiently.
• a 28 year old woman goes through her third pregnancy, but the first one without back pain.
• a 55-year old woman is able to lift her affectionate 2 year old granddaughter without straining her back.
• a 40-year old cellist becomes so creative in developing new, less strained positions to play in that she able to extend her musical repetoire.
• a 9-year old with learning disabilites can read a full page competently and gains self-confidence in his intelligence.
• a 19-year old diver is able to visualize and perform the complex series of movements needed to accomplish an intricate endeavor more proficiently.
• a 78-year old man walks a mile daily, free of chronic knee pain he’s had for 30 years.
• a 32-year old man learns to reuse his hands after a crippling auto accident.

Professional athletes who have enjoyed the benefits of Feldenkrais include basketball star Julius Erving and PGA golfers Rick Acton and Duffy Waldorf. Celebrities who have used Feldenkrais include Norman Cousins, Margaret Mead, former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, Helen Hayes and Whoopi Goldberg. Famous musicians include violinist Yehudi Menuhin, and cellist Yo Yo Ma.

What Happens in a Feldenkrais Method Session?

Feldenkrais work is done in two formats.

In group classes, called Awareness Through Movement, the Feldenkrais teacher verbally leads you through a sequence of movements in basic positions: sitting or lying on the floor, standing or sitting in a chair.

Private Feldenkrais lessons, called F unctional Integration, are tailored to each student’s individual learning needs; the teacher guides your movements through touch.

People learning the Feldenkrais Method are usually referred to as ‘students’ rather than clients or patients. This reinforces our view of the work as primarily being an educational process.

How Does the Feldenkrais Method Differ from Massage and Chiropractic?

The similarity is that both practices touch people, but beyond that our Method is very different. In massage, the practitioner is working directly with the muscles, in chiropractic, with the bones. These are structural approaches that seek to affect change through changes in structure (muscles and spine). The Feldenkrais Method works with your ability to regulate and coordinate your movement; which means working with the nervous system. We refer to this as a functional approach wherein you can improve your use of self inclusive of whatever structural considerations are present.

How are Feldenkrais Practitioners Trained?

All Feldenkrais practitioners must complete 740-800 hours of training over a 3 to 4 year period. Trainees participate in Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration lessons, lectures, discussions, group process and videos of Dr. Feldenkrais teaching. Eventually students teach Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration under supervision. Trainees gradually acquire knowledge of how movement and function are formed and organized. This extensive subjective experience forms the basis from which she/he will learn to work with others.

The main purpose of the training is for the trainees to acquire for themselves a deep understanding of movement and its formation, to become aware of their own movement, to become astute observers of movement in others, and to be able to teach other people to enlarge their awareness and movement skills.

The training process is based upon the vast body of knowledge Dr. Feldenkrais introduced. Since he integrated into his body of learning theory aspects from a variety of scientific fields such as Newtonian mechanics, physics, neurophysiology, movement development, biology and learning theories, we present some of these aspects in the training program for the trainee to comprehend the theoretical background of the method.

Me: What is clear is that the Feldenkrais Method is practiced and utilized by a minority group of people in society to solve many of their movement pathologies. When I looked through google to see how the feldenkrais method is used to increase height, that was a strong association with the two subjects. Apparently on one of the websites, there was even an unpublished Masters’ Degree thesis on the effect of the method on height (found HERE). There was even an entire book written about the effects on height from using the Feldenkrais Method which I found on Google Books (located HERE) titled “Changes in Height and Postural Stability Using the Feldenkrais Method” . The last resource I found which even talked about the idea of the method allowing for increases in height was found HERE. The PDF is long and I did not take the time to read or look over it to see what the results and conclusion were.

Overall, it turns out there are very few claims that the Feldenkrais Method can be used for the purpose of hieght increase. With this conclusion, I guess we end this topic by stating that the method is not recommended for the purpose of increasing height, but only improved movement, flexibility, and posture.

One of the most basic principles/ideas I learned about how the human body goes through the process at the end of puberty to close the growth plates was the influence of the hormone estrogen. Estrogen appears and again when I was doing research to see whether any type of steroids or growth hormones was being tried by others to help them increase height. Almost all of the other posters besides the original inquirer who asked about using steroids or growth hormones for height increase stated that height increase had become become impossible because estrogen caused the closure of the growth plates. This post was to study and research deeper into what the estrogen really does, how it does it, and how we might inhibit it or decrease its amounts to allow for a longer length of time for our growth plates to work and give us some extra height.

I choose again to just go to google and types in  “estrogen growth” and see what is available. Fortunately 3 scientific articles with titles signaled that there has already been a lot of research and experiments done to see the link of estrogen and bone formation and growth plates closure.

I will first take the abstract for each article and post it here. Then I will do a quick personal educated analysis on what was the most important takeaway we should get from the article.

Article 1: “Estrogens and growth”     

Authors: Simm PJ, Bajpai A, Russo VC, Werther GA.

Journal: Pediatr Endocrinol Rev. 2008 Sep;6(1):32-41.

Source : Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Australia. peter.simm@rch.org.au

Reference Link: US National Library Of Medicine. National Institute Of Health. Resource Link.

In one of the earliest of the posts that was on this website, I had stated the important of having a proportionate body in addition to just having great height. An article was written about the importance of also increasing one’s wingspan or arm length found HERE. The original idea of the site was to find natural ways to increase not just our height, but also our entire size so that our arms, our torso, and our entire body can grow in size in proportion with everything else, just like when we were younger, when we were still growing. That was the idea when I named the site Natural Height Growth. I mentioned in a recent post that the idea may not be possible found HERE, at least not with the current methods and technologies we have available at our disposal. That is why I have decided to focus mainly on just figuring out how to increase one’s height first, and then move on to how to get the body and arm lengths in proportion to the extended leg lengths which will probably be the idea most of the ideas mentioned will try to do.

A person’s wingspan is measured as the length of the horizontal distance from the tip of one’s longest fingers (usually the middle finger) of the left and right arms extended out as far as possible. This body measuring technique is done for certain sports like boxing to measure a person reach, volleyball, and of course basketball. For this post, I wanted to look into one of the methods and techniques to increase one’s arm length, not the torso or shoulder width. I am not sure if it is even possible to make one’s torso and/or shoulders wider, although there is some discussion about that in the body building forums.

When people talk about increasing their height, one of the claims made by the people who believe that height increase is still possible even after the epiphyseal plates are closed is the body measurements of professional sports players, specifically baseball pitchers. The claim is that baseball pitchers often have longer length for the arm they pitch with than the arm they don’t throw with. The theory is that the consistent and intense mechanical movement done when the pitcher throws the ball over time increases the arm bones or joint cartilage so the arm length becomes increase in longitudal length. Ok, if we assume that  idea is is true, then why is there no anthropomorphic measurements or medical records that validate that fact? I would like to see actual written documents that showed that some medical professional did measure a pitcher’s arm length over the course of the pitcher’s baseball career and that they noted the increase in arm length beyond just a measurement error.

Personally, my guess on this type of thinking and theory is that it is the same argument that playing basketball will increase one’s height, when the real reality of the situation is that the causality (direction of logic) should be in the opposite direction. Instead of believing that by playing baseball and being a pitcher leads to one’s pitching arm being longer, maybe we should guess that because one of a baseball player’s arm is the longer one and also the dominant hand, they were given the job of being the pitcher.

From three resources I found (Resource 1, Resource 2, Resource 3) it is shown that the reason why some people are lead into becoming the pitcher was because of their body length, both height and thus, arm length.

From elementary physics we learn that a strong long pole or board long enough placed on a fulcrum turns into a lever can theoretically lift the earth itself under normal earth gravitational force. From the same physics principle, we can say that players with a longer arm can create more angular momentum than person with a shorter arm.

Of course we have to be aware that angular momentum is calculated as L = r X mV . the X is not the operation of multiplication, but of a cross product. the arm length represents the r in the equation. the m represents the mass of the ball. the V represents the initial velocity of the ball when it is first released from the pitcher’s hand. In general, people who are bigger in size has more power in their muscles than small people. The force being able to be release by a larger person who is pitching should be more so the V is larger. In the end, this example of elementary physics is not fully accurate since the operation done is using cross product which means the ultimate direction of the angular momentum is in the 3rd plan of action, which does not have any physical representation anything in baseball. I was trying to make a “hand waving” point.

From Resource 2 I take this part from the article

“His stride is so long, it’s like he’s handing the ball to the catcher,” Hunter said….The tallest major leaguer in history is Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Jon Rauch at 6-11. Mets pitcher Chris Young and retired pitchers Randy Johnson and Eric Hillman are 6-10. A common denominator is that all were late bloomers, none of them harnessing their ability before age 26. That’s how old Van Mil is now.

Note: I had mentioned in a previous post the power of the late bloomer and this comment made in the article seems to agree with that theory. People who are late bloomers and grow their skills and abilities, as well as their bodies later in life seem to be better in the long run. 

The real point of this entire first part is that the logic that one can increase one’s arm length through vigorous exercise may be wrong. That leave one to ask then what other options are available to increase one’s arm length and wingspan so that one’s body can come out looking proportional if one figured out a way to increase ones legs to gain the extra inches in height they wanted.

The simplest method to increase one’s arms is probably through stretching but then that just lead to the same ideas and methods which one have already thought of to increase one’s height. Again the same constraints and problem develop. ie…

“How does one increase arm length when the growth plates in the humerus and forearms have fused? Should one try to expand the cartilage in the elbows and shoulders?

Note: Another key point to remember for those readers who are reading this article interested in increasing their entire wingspan, which includes the torso horizontal length, shoulder length, as well as the arm length.  

We go back to the method and idea of distraction osteogenesis. The arm bones are broken apart, and the two ends are held in place by a steel frame just like the ilizarov device. and one gets physical therapy and the bone lengths are expanded and revealed (thus grown) say 0.7 mm a day until one gets the desired length one wanted.

One thing to remember that this idea of increasing one’s arm length is definitely not as popular or well known as the cosmetic surgery of distraction osteogenesis used to increase one’s height through leg lengthening. Of course that surgery is not well known either and most people are absolutely terrified of the idea of purposely breaking their bones and going through all that pain and physical therapy just to gain a few extra cms of height.

So far I have found only one resource which talked about the idea of doing distraction osteogenesis on one’s arms. It is on the Make Me Taller website. The discussion and posts can be found HERE, HERE, and HERE.

What is absolutely critical to note is that almost all patients who get this type of surgery on the arms are because of medical pathological reasons like a genetic disorder that causes their arms to be twisted or curved. The same is relatively true also for people who use it for the legs, but more and more people these days are getting the distraction osteogenesis done on their legs for cosmetic reasons because they don’t like their short stature. Even less do the arm lengthening for cosmetic reasons. In general, far less people are concerned or care about their arm length or wingspan as much as their height and leg length.

This first article on the method of increasing your wingspan and arm length using distraction osteogenesis was just a quick overview on the reasons, context, and feasibility of the method. I will eventually write another article that takes a deeper look at the method and idea.

I had in a previous post given a historical and factual background on the subject of Neuro-Linguistic Programming which you can find by going HERE. I was supposed to write up a routine or method one can actually use with NLP to supposedly increase one’s height. However after much research it turns out that I have not found anything that can reasonably work. The main resource that combines the idea of hypnosis and NLP with height increase was a previous website or resource which I stated was a scam, DeepTranceNow.Com. However, after zixia of growtallerwithme blog stated that the site can be useful,  I have had to reconsider the claims made by the site.

What turns out the be the first and biggest challenge to finding anny information on the internet is that when I type in the phrase “NLP height” in google, almost all the links available are talking about how one can cure the fear or phobia of heights by using the techniques of NLP. It took quite a while to comb through the unrelated links and google results before some good content could be found. It seems the main thing thing that makes the connection between NLP and the prospect of height increase is always the mention of the story of Milton Erickson and his most unique of case which had taled about a patient who grew 12 inches in either 1 year or 2 years, both of which sound too incredible to believe. (see HERE)

There was only a few resources I managed to find that claimed they had a method of using NLP to grow taller.

The first was an audio E-Product program which is supposed to be able to hypnotized the person to grow taller. I found the resource from Subliminal On Demand (ChargedAudio.com). The program is called “NLP Subliminal CD Grow Taller Now”. When I tried out the sample audio available, the audio consisted of a firm, clear voice giving me instructions and some New Age themed music playing in the background. I couldn’t figure out how well the product they advertised was.

On the 2nd site, Hypno Success , the product being sold was called “Grow 5 to 6 Inches Taller Now NLP Hypnosis CD” . The claim made by the product is stated that you can still grow after puberty by up to 5-6 inches by programming your mind into thinking that you are going through puberty so taht their pituitary can release an excess of HGH. Apparently if you believe it will work for you, then it will work for you. (I think they are trying to use an NLP trick here to make you buy the product). The CD uses NLP, Hypnosis, Brain Talk Technology, Dream Technology to allow you to relax and go deep inside where all true change occurs. It apparently costs $97 to get 1 Audio CD, and it can cost anywhere from $5-$8 depending on the type of shipping. I personally think it is outrageous that you would be charge up to $105 just to get 1 audio CD to teach you how to think to a greater height.

Apparently the next link that talked about growing taller from using hypnosis let me eventually to a sales page selling the Grow Taller 4 Idiots site.

The next link was called Full Hypnosis and it had a nice sales page on the site. Let me post it here

It seems hard to believe but there is an increasing amount of evidence coming to light that suggests that hypnosis can be used to help people grow taller, even in adulthood. In much the same way as you can focus your subconscious mind to increase muscle mass or develop larger breasts, you can do exactly the same thing to increase in height as Chris Chew explains…

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Do you know that it possible to grow taller through self hypnosis even if you are an adult and way past your growing age? Let me guess,perhaps you are reading this article because you want to increase your height but at the same time finding it a tad incredulous that hypnosis can actually help you to increase your height, right? You see, there are many myths surrounding the concept of hypnotism and this is because of movies, comics and reality shows which exaggerate the effects of hypnotism to give it some commercial value and entertainment. That is why many people think that when you are under hypnosis, you are under the control of the hypno-therapist. This is certainly untrue.

On the contrary, hypnotism is already a recognize form of holistic care and therapy helping millions of people all over the world to lose weight, quit smoking, get rid of anxiety, alleviate depression and even grow taller. Yeah, you read that right.

Most major hospitals even have hypnotherapy departments to provide patients who choose hypnotism as a form of holistic therapy for their diseases and rehabilitation management. When you are under hypnosis, you are in a state of total relaxation just like when you are about to fall asleep or have just woken up in the morning. You are in full control of your mental faculty and you can wake up and walk away to attend to any other chores immediately if you choose to do so. Yes, its just that simple.

It is during this half sleep half awake state that your hypno-therapist will suggest positive thoughts to your subconscious mind to heal yourself, get rid of negative bad habits and irrational fears like fear of flying or fear of examination, bad eating habits to lose weight and even grow taller etc.

We all know that our thoughts and feelings influence our bodies through the nervous system and the circulatory system pathways. Our brains communicate with our bodies through the nervous system by sending nerve impulses to the body’s cellular tissues and influence their behavior. Your brain thus in this way is able to affect the behavior of every part of your body with its nerve endings extending right into your bone marrow which generate white cells to combat diseases, your thymus, spleen and lymph nodes, glands of your endocrine system, bones, muscles, internal organs, veins and arteries. In other words, all parts of your body.

Your subconscious mind of yours even control and influence the functions of your body even when you sleep such as your breathing, heart beat, digestion system etc. That means that your entire body is literally “wired” by your subconscious mind.

Your brain is also a gland as it produces thousands of chemicals and hormones to be released into your bloodstream so that these chemicals circulate throughout the body and influence the activities of your body tissues at the cellular level. These cells are equipped with receptors that receive the chemicals being released by the brain and respond to them accordingly.

Since this part of your brain is so amazing and can do such wonders to your body, hypnotism is one of the ways we can reach this part of the brain to instruct it the way we want it to behave or suggest to it to increase the production of HGH (human growth hormones) and IGF (insulin like growth factor) in order for you to grow taller.

Therefore, is it possible for you to increase your height even when you are past your growing age? Well, from the physiological point of viewpoint, based on the intelligent design of human brain, especially your subconscious mind in relation to the body, it is therefore definitely able to create cartilage formation, generate bone and muscle growth that can lead to an increase in height at any age.

That being the case, it is thus very possible that you can increase your height and grow taller with self hypnotism. If you do some research into this subject, there are numerous testimonies of people growing taller with the help of hypnotherapy. However, most people are unable to tap into the power of hypnotherapy to grow taller because hiring good hypno therapist is a very expensive affair. Furthermore, you most probably will not get the results you want with just one single visit to your hypnotist’s clinic and repeated visits will cost you a lot of time and money.

Now, the good news is that instead of visiting real life hypnotist for consultations, you can now perform self hypnosis in the comfort of your own home anytime that you want. In this way, you can thus save yourself tons of time and money in the process of growing taller with self hypnosis.

Me: Overall the claims posted above said nothing of true substance. So I decided to click on the links close to the Article Authors name to see where it would take me. The pages were all just filled with small short messages with affiliate links to various products. One product I reached was the Grow Taller Secrets 1st ed. Another took me to the GHR 1000 supplement which is supposed to make you younger. The last product the links took me to was an actual E- Product program titled “Grow Taller Hypnosis CDs” . The price of one of these programs was $74, which is supposed to be a discount from its usual price of $99. Apparently, after a thorough check of the entire website, the grow taller product seems to be one of a series of self help hypnosis cd programs, which were all about the same price. What the sites hide is the fact that a lot of the products sold are from clickbank. 

The next link was form a site called Hypnosis Guru . The article on the site had a link apparently to the Deep Trance Now website. Coincidentally the Deep Trance Now website is the only website that has shown to consistently sell programs claiming to help the customer grow taller using hypnosis and NLP. To get to the website, click HERE.

On the main page there are the obligatory testimonials for success stories. Apparently this website has been selling these grow taller hypnosis/ NLP products since 1992. A critical question that they seem to try to answer is how the growth plates can be reopened or made to regrow again.

When you are using the power of your mind, it doesn’t matter whether your growth plates have been fused and it doesn’t matter how old your are. What matter is your state of mind, your beliefs and your expectations. Keep in mind that medical schools do not normally teach the influence of mind on the functions of the body, nor are medical archives filled with files on what kind of thoughts produced what kind chemicals in the body and when people do use their minds to intentionally create changes in their bodies it is generally labeled as a miracle or abnormality or spontaneous remission or by any other medically accepted description for areas they simply do not study.