The other disorder Tyler told me to look into was enchondrodysplasia. However, the problem with the pathology is that a quick google search on the term “enchondrodysplasia” gets very little in resuults but the search engine give a lot of results for chondrodysplasia. In Response to what google is giving, I wanted to do an analysis of what is the effect and cause of chondrodysplasia in people who carry the disorder ,and how it is related to human growth and height.

From the Medical Dictionary Site located HERE.

Definition: an inherited disease characterized by abnormal growth at the ends of bones, particularly the long bones of the arms and legs. Bones of the hands and feet may be similarly affected.

chondrodysplasia puncta´ta  a heterogeneous group of hereditary bone dysplasias, the common characteristic of which is stippling of the epiphyses in infancy.

chondrodysplasia puncta´ta a heterogeneous group of bone dysplasias, the common characteristic of which is stippling of the epiphyses in infancy. The group includes a severe autosomal recessive form (rhizomelic dwarfism), an autosomal dominant form (Conradi-Hünermann syndrome), and a milder X-linked form.

Pediatric orthopedics A defect in development of cartilage especially of long bones, resulting in arrested growth and dwarfism

From resource 2

Chondrodysplasia is a genetic deformation disorder which can result in crippling deformities.  Often mislabeled as “dwarfism”, this condition is actually presented as abnormally short and deformed limbs

Me: What the literature and the links I have found point to is that chondrodysplasia is more often associated with animals like cows and dogs, than just humans. The cause is genetic with the fact that both parents need to have the carrier non-dominant allele for the animal to develop the disorder. However, the non-dominant allele seems to have some form of effect on the dominant allele so even carriers that don’t show the phenotypical aspects that prominently will have some form of manifestation.  The disorder is characterized mainly by the fact that the epiphysis of the long bones go through some weird growth pattern which affects the epiphyseal plates to calcify too quickly. For some typeo sf chondrodysplasia only the long bones like the humerus and femur is affected. That means that people affected by it will be of short stature and can even be below the dwarf medical definition, but they are not dwarves because of the disproportions of the limbs.  

From the US National Library of Medicine National Institute of Health website link HERE , the article abstract is posted.

J Pediatr. 1996 May;128(5 Pt 2):S14-7.

Response to growth hormone in children with chondrodysplasia.

I was once listening to this guy talk at a seminar and he stated something which I have since realized about people in general. People rarely are completely honest with others, and rarer still is being honest with themselves.

He stated it clearly by saying this “The problem you think you have is rarely the real problem you really have. The problem you say that you have in the beginning of a therapy session is almost never the problem you say you have at the end of a therapy session.” That stuck to me a lot because I realized that for so long, for many years I had been lying to myself and to others. I was lying because I was insecure and afraid. My ego was too proud and defensive to admit that I was making the wrong choices and hurting myself in the process.

When a person has lived enough of life and the years are mostly behind them, they develop a very clear 20/20 view on the past. They finally realize where they had make the biggest mistakes, the most critical moments that had the biggest influence, etc. When everything is stripped away, people find themselves naked to the truth.

Here is the real truth that I believe is what is really going on for people who desire to become taller. They  want to be loved and they are not getting that love. They secretly believe that by somehow adding the inches to their body, other people (and themselves) will finally be able to accept and love them. I know that I have always wanted to be taller to get both the respect of other men and the attraction and admiration of women. In the US, my height would be average. If this was many years ago, I would have been completely content with being just average in height. I could have gone through life with complete full acceptance of my height. It was not in my focus since other things were really bothering me.

Very early in this year, a girl I had been with for over a year left me. The way she did it was not in the best way. I found out later that she had started dating someone new the same day she left me. Now that hurt. It cut me like a blade. I missed her, and could not stop thinking about her for over 6 months. I would go to sleep and have nightmares about her leaving me. I would find myself waking up late at night in cold sweats. My sleep was completely destroyed and my business suffered.

I felt at those moments that I was not worthy of love, not good enough for someone as good as she was. I hated the way I looked, the person I saw in the mirror. Now, I don’t think she rejected me because of my height. She liked that I was sort of on the tall side. It wasn’t about my size that she left me, but from other reasons. I came from a good home, had a good degree from a respectable school, and was self employed making ok money. We got along so well in terms of personality. So for me, the only conclusion I could reach was that I was not good looking for her. She stated that she thinks this new guy is good looking and she didn’t think I was good looking.

I will admit for the first time that one of the main reasons that I am in Seoul, South Korea was to possibly get plastic surgery on my face. The plastic surgeons in this city I am in are the best in the world, veyr professional, and highly recommended by clients across the world. The service is great and the fee rates are rather cheap. I went to two of the most famous clinics and got my consultations. The entire process took two entire days of meetings, interviews, and medical checkups. The doctor I saw recommended that I get my eyes, eyelids, nose, jawline, and forehead all done, for around $12,000 for the entire process. I had the money and I was ready to get it done.

I actually got lost on the way to one of the clinics and one of the female strangers who helped me find the way actually commented that I was “good looking” and that “you don’t need the surgery”. I could see in her eyes that she was sort of attracted to me, but at the time I didn’t want to believe her. I felt I had to face the truth that I was not desirable or attractive. I didn’t want to believe that a girl could find me attractive. I felt ugly and I wanted to completely change myself, specifically my face and the way I looked.

Everyday, as I walk alongside the streets of Gangnam-gu I see dozens of people wearing eyepatches, face masks, nose masks, and botox pads, all showcasing that they had their face done. It is completely socially accepted to want to get plastic surgery to change one’s face in this city. People are also expected to be always unhappy with who they are. You must be striving everyday to become better, to be smarter, taller, prettier, richer than your peers. Competition is fierce and no one wants to be in the lower percentile. When you are are among the elite, your greatest fear is that you might drop down the social standing and be ridiculed and ostracized for your failures. In this country based on Confucian values, the need to be judged well by everyone around you is strong. You must always keep an image. If you are not accepted, that is like the kiss of death.

You look on the Korean TV and you see the music and tv stars being mobbed by adoring fans everywhere they go. People across the internet space are always either complimenting on how good looking they are, how thin they are, or how tall they are. I am sure those stars love the feeling knowing that they are loved by so many people. I secretly want to be loved by others as well. I am flawed in my desires to want to be beautiful, to be tall, to be special and unique. I feel that I can’t ever be good enough .What can be done then to feel that I am finally good enough to finally, fully accept and love myself?

I understand now. I would like to be taller, but I don’t need it. I don’t need to add another 10 cm to my height or change my face for someone else to find my acceptable and love me.

So by now for most of us height increase seekers, we know that the height we have in the morning, after we get up from sleep is different than the height we have after we have been standing and walking around for the entire day and when we go to sleep. The drop in height can be upwards of even 3 cm for some really tall people. For me, the drop seems to be around 2 cm.

Recently I was looking through one of the posts on the GrowTallerForum and one person mentioned that apparently the combination of the decrease in weight, and exercise focused on developing the core and abdominal muscles can allow one to develop a higher morning height. At first I didn’t think much of the comment, until I was in the shower (don’t all the great ideas come along when we are in the bathroom) and I realized that from a physical therapist point of view that actually makes sense.

When we are talking about height, and the increase in height, we are almost always talking about the transformation and lengthening of the long bones, since the bones are the limiting factor. However, we sometimes forget that there is more to the lengthening than just the bones. We forget about the muscles as well. The bones is the primary thing that gives us the form we have and provides most of the support. However, the muscles are also used to support the body and the internal organs.

I recently met a college graduate who was trying to get into medical school. He was only 22 and he was already suffering from acute pain from his lower back. For anyone who knows anything about orthopaedics of the back, the L4-L5 intervertebral disk is the one that is more likely to rupture or bulge out causing either a bulged or hernitated disk. However, herniated disks often lead to After learning more about his situation, it turns out he actually has at least 3, possibly 4 herniated or bulged disks. There was the L5-L4, the L4-L3, the L6-L5, etc. When he told me he was not taking any form of medication, I suggested NSAIDs, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory pills. When it turns out he didn’t want to use medication, I suggested to him the Alexander method. After he learned about the alexander method, he asked me about it and I explained the concept of it to him. Then I put the two parts together.

The core muscles in our torso helps in the support of our body, but especially our vertebrate. When a person suffers a herniated disk, the suggestion given by most physical therapists is that one muscle exercise and develop the core abdominal muscles to be strong so they can support and hold up the upper body and head from compressing down on the disks any further causing more pain.

From using simple physics principles, we understand that lose of weight form the top means less work needed for the muscles to be done. So this is what I am suggesting.

1. Lose weight from upper body area, specifically fat.

2. Do exercises to help the core. Focus on the abdominals, delts, and pecs. I personally find swimming, in combination with yoga stretches, and crunches to be the most effective.

The stronger and more developed muscles around the core, not the top means the muscles around the middle should be able to support the upper body. In theory that would mean that the decrease of height because of the downward force of gravity over time during the day can be countered and minimized by the upperward work done by the cor muscles. That can be used to explain why the drop of height is decreased  and the overall height over through out the day has been increased.

In a horizontal direction, the core muscles which have grown bigger and thicker can be relaxed becoming wider, which can even pull the intervertebral disks farther in width when lying down. That can be used to explain why the morning height after we get up can be increased as well.

Personally, I can claim that I first noticed that I passed the 6 foot in height mark during the morning about 1 month after I started to get into my swimming obsession, which lasted for over 4 years. After just 2 weeks of swimming, I noticed that my body was transforming and that I felt lighter, taller, and more fit. 

Before I started swimming, I thought my maximum height was 5′ 11.75″ and my lowest was around 5′ 10.5″. After I started swimming, I found out that my maximum height was over 6 feet and the lowest height I could drop to was 5′ 11.25″

This post will be more informative in nature. I had typed the term “estrogen bone growth” into google and one of the first ranked links was to this article written on pubmed entitled “Hormonal Regulation Of Longitudinal Bone Growth.”

The abstract is below. The article was found from PubMEd located HERE and the most important parts were highlighted.

Eur J Clin Nutr. 1994 Feb;48 Suppl 1:S150-8; discussion S158-60.

Hormonal regulation of longitudinal bone growth.

I was looking through the news the last few days and one article really caught my eye and sort of gave me a new paradigm on thinking about how the human body would behave.

It was from NBC NEWS. Article was originally from HERE. It is posted below with the important parts highlighted.

New DNA project shows us living beyond our genes

Me: This is one of those articles that I would say comes along once every 5 years that brings to the public eye a completely new way of thinking and how to perceive the world. I personally view this type of news similar to when the scientists demoted Pluto from being a planet to a dwarf planet. Or when it turned out the universe was found to be expanding in size, instead of slowing down. It even stated in the article that the new paradigm can be used to explain non-disease factors such as HEIGHT. The fact that the writer of the article mentioned height as the first non pathological factor that the new paradigm can be used to understand shows that the public is well aware that height is primarily determined by the genetics, and that if we figure out the signals, the switches, and the genes that really affect height, we will eventually find a way to do real gene therapy to correct for short stature and increase in height. 

In a previous post I wrote entitled “the genetics of height” I noted that the human genome seemed to have an abnormally small number of genes, around 30,000-50,000. Now this report comes out and it seems we have even fewer, around 22,000. If we are by species 99% similar to the gorilla by looking only at the 22,000 genes, that means only 220 genes separate us from looking like a gorilla. That just seems too small. If we then look at race, then we could say we are 99.9% similar, which means only 22 gene mutation differences separate me from a african male who is living in a tribe in nambia. That for me seems very hard to believe. With this new discovery, nature seems to make a little more sense now. I would hardly could have believed that a person who looks quite different from me was only 22 genetic differences away from me. That would not even explain the reason why my nose is slightly bigger or longer than a male who looks very similar to me. It would seem that there HAD to be more that is controlling our phenotypical traits that just the 22,000 genes geneticists say there are. 

Overall, this article is BIG news and will only lead to a far, far better understanding of the genome and the real controlling nucleotide bases. I really believe this type of news could lead an entire new generation of biologists and geneticists into studying further for the clues to height increase through genetic engineering.

I remember reading the “grow taller 4 idiots” pdf and reading about this vegetable cocktail juice one can make just from ordinary grocery store vegetable that was supposed to help give you the needed types of amino acids. I didn’t really think the cocktail formula was worth adding to this site but since reading about it on the E-product, the juice cocktail seems to appear in other “how to grow taller” websites, specifically this blog.

So here it is.

From Source HERE

Me: One thing I have a problem with of this recipe is that in one of Hakker’s Old posts, he strictly said to avoid Tomatos because of a certain compound that is not helpful in height increase. I don’t remember the exact post or where it was from but tomatos was specified not be eaten for height increase.