If you had read the previous post about my theory on why pituitary giants can still grow after their growth plates fused, you should have also read the ending where I claim that we as normal people without pituitary gland problems can also grow just like them, if we can do 2 things

1. Increase the level of growth hormone in our bodies.

2. Make sure the cartilage in our body right now is strong, thick, and healthy. (Taking certain multivitamins can help with this).

However, on the same walk where I had the rather crazy insight that our adult growth can be stimulated by the cartilage at the end of our long bones, I also thought of a truly amazing idea on how to surgically increase a persons’s height using that idea.

The concept really is a biomedical and/or biomechanics idea that I just thought up while walking around (I think I should just state that if you want great ideas to come to you, just start taking long walks around your neighborhood and talk to yourself alone).

My Method

This is the technique or surgical method we can do to increase out height. It has to be combined with the idea the that the other cartilage can be used to grow.

We first look at a picture of the lower distal end of the femur. What my idea is to drill holes into the distal end of the femur and replace the holes with stem cell grown cartilage.

The idea is to connect the cartilage implants with the end articular cartilage. The cartilage implants with be cylindrical and the out edges will be in a screw formation. so something that looks like a thick piece of plastic screw.

There will be 6 cartilage pieces that are cylindrical in shape implanted at a 45% angle into the lower distal end of the femur. We have to make sure that the implanted cartilage is willing to be accepted by the patients body. The idea is to never touch the middle bone part with all the marrow because we don’t want to mess with it.

The screws are supposed to be able to touch just barely the articular cartilage ends which will mean that as time goes on and the cartilage starts ossifying, we can theoretically use humatrope and other growth hormones to stimulate the cartilage to expand. the expansion of the 6 screws implanted in a inward radial direction of the end of the femur at a 45% angle should allow the cartilage to push against the effect of gravity and expand to turn the bones longer. We can even do daily injections of genotropin or humatrope into the implanted cartilages to add even further chondrocyte division and limb length growth.

I am guessing the method can allow for 1-2 extra inches in growth. After say 1-2 years after the cartilage closes again, we can re drill on the same lower femur at the other 6 points on the outer edge of the lower distal end another 6 cartilages to add another 1-2 inches.

What I have not figure out currently is what the shaped of the drill and cartilage implants should be. My first guess is a screw like form, but that may make the increase in height not feasible. so it may be another idea, like a curved cylindrical device in a 6 helical formation. The reason the cartilage can push against gravity is that fact that the implanted 6 caritilages are supposed to go all the way through the bone to touch the other cartilage thus forming an continuous cartilage structure just like picture #2 above.

I know what I just said is a little hard to picture in your brain. It is hard for me to explain even though I thought up this idea. Just imagine a lower curved lens as the cartilage at the end of the femur. There is a 6 part helical formation that comes out of the lens.

In the last real post I had done, I had talked about the interesting case of how Tanya Angus, a pituitary giant grew from the age of 20-30 from 5′ 8″ to 6′ 11″. Her standing height was “only” 6′ 6″ but her severe spine curvature led to a 5 inch lost height. I just couldn’t figure out how it is possible that someone could grow because the two fundamental ideas behind human growth seemed to go against each other.

I was walking on the street when a rather intuitive idea came to me. Follow my logic and tell me if it makes any sense.

The other person I previous mentioned in the previous post was this guy (Brown) who also suffered from acromegaly and he had grown to 6′ 3″ so I am guessing that being able to add height is a common occurrence among pituitary giants. Sow HOW? I remember reading that he was suffering from great knee pain . I know that knee injury is a very common form of injury and pain that happens to humans. Our joints are particularly sensitive to injury, like out knees, hips, and ankles. However, I also remembered what my father told me about my grandmother. My grandmother also suffered from great knee pain, but the knee pain was because she had lost all of her knee cartilage.  All she had was three bones, the femur and tibia with fibula rubbing against each other. So I combined the two ideas together.

< Here is my theory: Pituitary giants grow from using the cartilage at the end of long bones (aka articular cartilage), NOT the epiphyseal cartilage plates which have disappeared.  >

The pain the giants are going through is from the loss of cartilage in their joints (knees) since the cartilage has has to proliferate and expand.

If we look at the picture on the right we can see a picture of what the lower end of a femur looks like, which is filled with cartilage that is about 3-4 mm thick. Now, if we remember the characteristic and dimensions of an epiphyseal plate, it is also about 3-4 mm thick.

Remember that the current theory is that the epiphyseal cartilage after puberty and the signaling of estrogen slows the division of chondrocytes into new ones so the older ones diminish in number through calcification.  Let’s assume that theory is true. So that means that in theory, that area can no longer be a nest for longitudal bone growth. If we assume that new growth can not occur from bone, then we HAVe to find another place where cartilage exists. so what place is the closest to the old epiphyseal position that is cartilage? The obvious and easiest answer is the articular cartilage. The theory for adults is that most adults still have the articular cartilage needed to support and cushion their walking.

If we look at the 2nd picture on the left we can see the canal like wall the epiphyseal plates create between the long bone’s end and it’s middle section. The cartilage is a type of cartilage called hyaline and mostly made of collagen and water. Over time the lower type of cartilage disappears, but the top cartilage still remains. Now, we remember that we keep that cartilage until we are in our middle to late age so that cartilage never goes away.

The key to remember is that the articular cartilage plate and thickness is similar to the epiphyseal plates!

Since the pituitary giant is releasing as much HGH as possible into the liver and creating IGF-1 as much as possible, the HGH will try to go into any part that can possibly replicate. Since the cartilage in the knees is there, the growth factor causes that part to get bigger. This actually makes a lot of sense if we remember that for pituitary gland giants, the first thing they notice that gets bigger that they supposedly stopped growing was the hand and feet. If we remember our anatomy for our distals and tarsals, we remember that the hands have 14 joints, all filled with cartilage. The hands are getting bigger and longer, from using the cartilage at the end. There is still a thin layer in that cartilage to allow for chondrocyte multiplication.  

Where ever there is cartilage, there is growth. If we remember the picture of a skull, the adult human still has some cartilage in some areas of their skull, mostly in the area between the eyes and nose (the eyebrow ridge middle region, just look at a picture of Richard Kiel HERE). Then there is the cartilage close to the jaw area. If you look at the pituitary giant, that is where you really see the major difference in their faces and other normal people.

Let’s look at the hands of well know life coach Anthony Robbins,

Tony Robbins is well know for being one of the world’s most famous and best life coaches for the last 30 years. He is very well known for his 6′ 7″ figure which was only 5′ 3″ when he was 113 or 14. He grew like CRAZY from 14-16. If you see his hands, they are very big, but also proportional. Most people have given a joke saying that tony robbins has “banana hands” because of the size of his fingers. He is also a pituitary giant, but his benign tumor had shrank later in life so he did not need the surgery to correct for that.

So, the main point of this article is to show my theory that the way pituitary giants, and possibly other humans can still grow even through their adult years is to use the cartilage still left at the ends of their long bones.

Then, I suggest then to start taking calcium with Vitamin D3 and Glucosamine with Chondroitin to make sure the cartilage stays around and is thick and strong.

Longitudinal epiphyseal bracket.

“Longitudinal epiphyseal bracket or bracket epiphysis is an uncommon disorder of growth. Alternatively known as a delta phalanx, it is due to an anomalous secondary ossification center that extends longitudinally along the diaphysis{causing anomalous secondary ossification centers may be a way to grow taller}. Although rare, longitudinal epiphyseal bracket most commonly manifests in the hands as clinodactyly and in the feet as hallux varus. ”

“The etiology of longitudinal epiphyseal bracket is not completely understood, but is thought to result from incomplete development of primary ossification centers”<-If this method is the cause then it unfortunately will not likely help us grow taller.

“A typical metatarsal only has a proximal epiphysis, but with a bracket, there is a continuous proximal, medial, and distal epiphysis. The metatarsal cannot elongate normally because of the abnormal epiphysis bracketing the bone.”

In a previous post entitled “Sultan Kosen Is Proof That Height Increase Is Possible After Growth Plate Ossification” I had tried to prove that height increase apparently is still possible after growth plate ossification by looking at the current tallest man in the world as an example. Kosen is the typical pituitary gland giant and what I tried to prove was that from the age of 27 to 29, when his plates should have fused and longitudal long bone growth not allowed, Kosen still somehow managed to add 2 inches in extra height.

The problem with this huge issue is that there is a big information gap and knowledge problem between the general population and people like us on here who are regular readers and height increase researchers. For the average person on the street who hears the facts that a pituitary giant was still growing even in his late 20s while suffering from acromegaly, that make total sense to them. What they have heard and have been taught is that thire pituitary gland is just releasing far much more HGH converted into IGF-1 into their body and that causes their bones to grow.

The other thing the average person would have learned about growth is that the main reason people can increase their bones and thus grow is because they have these cartilages on the ends of their long bones. These cartilage grow longer from increased absorption of calcium, vitamin D, and HGH. Once one past the puberty age, something in the body tells the cartilage to stop getting bigger, and it shrinks and disappears eventually turning into bone. After that is done, one can not grow taller anymore.

So this is the basic education on height increase and growth the average person on the street knows (if that). However, the problem with the average education is that the 2 fundamental ideas directly contradict themselves!

We knew that Kosen was suffering still an excess release of HGH up until he was 29 when a brain operation was done to remove the tumor to stop the excess HGH release. The general news report was that his growth finally stopped. However ,how could Kosen grow with his plates closed, since he was in his late 20s? That question is what got me wondering whether there is something lacking in the fundamental understanding of hieght and growth by endocrinologists, orhtopedics , and height increase researchers like me. I posed the original post and there was one reply to it by Minigolf which claimed that Kosen probably was transgenic for having growth plates that either did not suffer from or suffered at a far lower rate of senescence (the biological process of aging). I would have gone with that arguement and believed that maybe, just maybe Kosen was special even for pituitary giants in that his growth plates were also very extraordinary, if not for the fact that many pituitary giants seems to go through the same problem.

If we remember back to one of my earliest posts, about the unique case of Adam Rainer located HERE, there was 1 critical piece of information that I forgot to mention! It was not by intention I forgot about this critical element, I really did forget. I read from a source (I can’t find it right now) that Rainer apparently suffered a big fall around the age of 21 or and cracked his head open. His brain was injured and that is one rumor on why adam started to grow. The obvious guess is that his pituitary gland was affected in that fall and that led to a lifetime of excess HGH release. 

Now, I wanted to move on to the subject of Tanya Angus. She is quite possibly the most famous case in current of a person who went through something quite extraordinary. The sites and resources I used are Tanya’s Main Website, ABC NEWS (from May 2011), ABC NEWS (from August 2010), ABC Nightline (from March 2010) MSNBC (from June 2009), and the Daily Mail UK (2009).

The general story is that Tanya Angus was an ordinary girl from Nevada who grew at a normal rate. She seemed to have reached her maximum height of 5′ 8″ and 140 lbs when she was at age 18. Now that is a perfectly reasonable height for an american caucasian female. Between the ages of 20 (which is when she started to grow again) and 31, Tanya went from 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 140 pounds to 6 feet 6 inches and weighing 430 pounds. So my big question is ” How is that possible??”

Now, if we look through the news about her and their prospective dates, we realize something amazing. Her height was reported at 6′ 6″ in 2009. By 2010 her height was reported at 6′ 11″. So how did she grow 5 inches in 1 year from her 30th to 31st birthday?

From doing a little more research it appears that her measured height is 6′ 6″ but her curved spine hides the other 5 inches, at least stated by her mother. So maybe Angus didn’t go through another 5 inch growth spurt… The news clearly state that she is suffering from acromegaly, which is the condition developed after one reaches past puberty who used to suffer from gigantism. The news stated that she was STILL growing.

She has been taking a new medication called Somatuline and that has taken her growth hormone rate from 1000 to 600. 300 is considered stable for her.

“”Acromegaly Affects Organs, Too

“The tumor has been growing from the time Tanya hit puberty,” said Strutynski. “Her back is collapsing due to the overgrowth. As she grows her bones weaken and they break down. She is so big, her spine looks like a boomerang.” – “”

From one of the ABC sorces we learn about another guy who suffered from Acromegaly, Wayne Brown.

The group was founded by Wayne Brown, a former history teacher from Buffalo, N.Y., who suffered from years with jaw pain before he was diagnosed with acromegaly in 2004.

Brown, 38, recently published a book, “Alone in My Universe: Struggling With an Orphan Disease in an Unsympathetic World,” which is a compilation of his story and those of others.

“Orphan diseases are the stepchild of the medical industry,” he said. “Because of that, our people get ignored and run over.”

By the time, he sought help, Brown had grown to 6-foot 3-inches tall and gained more than 100 pounds. His shoe size had jumped from a 12 to a 16EEE and his blood pressure was at a high of 160 over 100.

His growth is now under control, but he still has chronic joint pain. “It gets really rough some days,” said Brown.

He administers a subcutaneous shot of growth inhibitor once every four weeks.

So is it that another guy with acromegaly grew as well, just like Angus or Kosen. All of these cases has people who were supposed to have sealed long bones. Somehow they still grew extra inches! If you want to check out Brown’s book, buy it and tell me how tall Wayne Brown was before he started on his growth spurt, and at what age. I can almost assure you that he was probably in his mid to late 20s at least and that most doctors would have said his bones were sealed. So where did his height come from? Note the fact that he still gets joint pain from the growth tendencies.

Something is not making any sense right now. Our current knowledge on what is possible and how height can increased must be changed. Angus apparently grew 3 inches from the age of 20 to 22, which is a very noticeable difference when you are not supposed to grow anymore. So can anyone explain to me what is going on?

This is my conclusion: The current model on how we think of height growth, that one can not grow taller after the epiphyseal plate are sealed, is wrong. Even after our growth plates are gone, we still can grow. 

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This message is from my heart and I hope it reaches to your heart.

I wanted to make a few more confessions. I currently don’t have a job that is making me any income. I started a small consulting company early in the year that does private coaching for men on their insecurities and I have had only 4 clients, all of them non paying. I look at that venture and understand that it is not a success, but I refuse to call it a failure , at least not yet. There is still a lot more work to do in that business idea so it is incomplete and I will eventually get back into that after this project is developed to a magnitude that it can move forward on its own momentum.

I am currently taking a complete break away from developing my primary company and business to build this website to something that is reasonably informative and good so that people looking for solution can find this website. I have not put any ads on the site, no affiliate links, no marketing, way to monetize it. However, I don’t know how long I can keep doing this. I only have savings for 1 year and it is running out. If I don’t find a way to bring in money, I will have to divert my focus and energy away from this topic and website, which is something I don’t want to do.

I have had this deep desire for at least a few years in the desire to create a type of website or resource for people who wanted to learn about how to grow taller. Now that I finally have given myself permission to take the plunge and go into this project with full intensity and passion. For the last month or so all that I have done is type and write about this subject. I have become so tired sometimes and I always tell myself that I need to take a break from it all, at least for a few days. However, no matter how many times I tell myself that I should slow down and take a break, I can never do it.

This subject creates such a strong passion inside of me. When I think or talk about this subject, I can feel the passion come out of me. I know this subject is something I can talk nonstop about and never feel bored over. I will do this project for free, but I really wish I could be paid a little bit for it. I am looking for either a one time small donation of $10 ($20 if you are feeling generous) or a donation of $1 ($2 if you are feeling generous) on a monthly basis. The donations goes to a personal PayPal account of mine and I will use all of the money to pay for the operating fees for this project. You can cancel anytime you want or when you feel like this site is no longer providing the type of great value you used to have.

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I have only been on this crazy little project of mine for only a little over 5 weeks now but after searching the entire internet, at least the ones that are written in English, your website heightquest.com is quite possibly the one true resources that is still going strong and active. All the other resources have slowed or died down in activity and being able to produce and find true and great content.

When I look at the boards on say Giant Scientific, or The Impartial Height Message Board, or HeightForum, or MakeMeTaller, I can see that all of the discussions and possible normal and common questions and answers have all already been answered, at least a dozen times over. I mean, how many times can I keep seeing and reading the same type of message…”I am a 19 year old boy who is 5’5″ and want to grow taller. What can I do? Can I still increase in height?” – This is the average post and we all already know the answer, and what to say. Most often however, we say something kind and PC, so as not to hurt the person too much or destroy their hopes. I never want to be that kind of person who goes around destroying the dreams and hopes of others.

Your dedication in your “quest” is something I admire and I wanted to thank. Without some of the articles and ideas you have found and written about , I would have never know that certain ideas for height increase even existed. You can definitely opened my eyes to what is truly possible. One of the earliest posts I ever wrote about was all of the current options that were available at this time. I found an article written by Sam Snyder on his blog talking about your site and all of the ideas you have found located HERE.

I am amazed at what the list showed. When I first saw the list, I was quite confused and unknowledgeable about many of the techniques and method listed like “Using ultrasound, shock wave therapy, and electrical/electromagnetic stimulation to enhance bone formation” or “Injecting mesenchymal stem cells to influence differentiation of bone and muscle cells”. It took me a while to do some mor research and definitely some reading of scientific journal articles to understand where Sam or you were coming from. Now I understand.

I remember maybe 3 or 4 years ago finding your website when I was randomly googling for random stuff. I still remember your website and I thought the title “Quest For Height” was clever, and that you might have a unhealthy obsession towards such a goal which I didn’t think was achievable, at least at that time. Now I know. Now I can kind of see what you see.

Tyler, I know one day you will have to give up on this endeavor. I don’t expect you to keep on doing this for another 10, 20 years. You may move on but the ideas an methods you proposed will be around for someone else to take up and run with. Thank you for being one of the only resources available that I could actually look to to get a truly realistic and scientific approach to this problem. You started your website on this idea and I will continue the endeavor until someone else can come along with the same type of passion, commitment, and persistence to keep searching and learning.

I don’t expect to keep on doing this for the rest of my life, but I will try to keep on writing insightful, detailed, and useful articles as much as I can. I am afraid already that one day I will run out of useful stuff to say. One day I may not find or have another good subject to talk about, because everything that can be said has already been said.

This niche of height increase is not big, unlike weight loss. With weight loss, there seems to be a new diet or fad idea every few years. There are nearly millions, if not hundreds of millions of people who are already writing about their weight lose program or schedule on their own personal blogs, but those probably only gets read by themselves, and 3 close friends. What we write about is soooooo much harder to do, so much more difficult to find a solution for.

You are at least 3-4 years ahead of me on knowledge on what is going on in the scientific community. I still have at least another 100 ideas, methods, and product to look through and review at least. That will last me at least a few years. It seems like every day I hear about a new product or method being mentioned. But I will get to it. I will one day be able to review every crazy idea on height increase on the internet, and maybe in the world. I know, I sound like Sergey and Larry when back in 1996 in their Stanford dormrooms and believed that they could collect all of the data and information from the world wide web and organize them all in a orderly way. I think this niche is small enough that only 1 person (maybe 2 people) can do all of the work. I can’t imagine the whole subject area being more than say 1000 posts. I just past 180 posts after 5 and a half weeks. If I keep on going at this rate, I should be able to cover all of this topic in less than 2 years, even if the rate at which I produce articles and posts decrease by 50%. Like I stated before on a previous post, I want this site to be the first place people find on their google rankings when they type in something like “how to grow taller”. I want the people to be informed, and wise on what is possible.