Something I noticed yesterday while I was looking through the Analytics software was that some people were finding my website through searching the term “Jin Fang Grow Taller”. I got curious and wanted to see who was this Jin Fang person. It turned out people were finding my website because of my “Scam List” section where I had listed that the website YingYangEdu.com as a scam and I remembered that I had found the website a long time ago when I was first putting together the website and I had associated the website and the seller as a fraud without really doing the proper due diligence to make sure this person is really a fake.

From the link to the website, I decided to spend at least 10 minutes to really give an accurate look at the possibility that the height increasing pills can work. What I noticed first is that the website is designed with a minimalist style which is a clear difference from the usual type of webpages I find who sell height increase pills. This type of supplement or vitamin Jin Fang is selling is called “Grow Taller Herb Supplement“. When I tried to go to the product page I was lead to a dead link and there was nothing that was being sold.

As for the person, it seems that this Jin Fang is also working with another Chinese traditional medicine doctor named Xue-cheng (John) Shang. They do have a short biography on their background, education, and credentials. Xue-cheng claims he studied medicine in a university in Shanghai and had practiced being a orthopaedic surgeon for over a decade before coming to the US. Jin Fang has been studying acupunture and traditional chinese herbal medicine since she was very young.

It seems that this herbal supplement was created in 1998. She has been practicing traditional chinese herbal medicine since 1983. These two people who are probably husband and wife are based in Fairport, NY.

The issue with this product is that they claim this product is supposed to be used for kids who are young, around the 8-16 age range. Apparently this is when it is the golden age of growth. I can only say “DUH!”. Most kids at that age time are sprouting up like bamboo. This causes a big problem for me as a reviewer. I cant claim it doesn’t work because the kid who ingests this pill probably will grow. However there is no way we can really test for the efficacy of the pills due to the nature of human growth. The only way we probably could test something like this is if we had identical twins and one of them took the pills while the other did not during the 8-16 age range. If there is a sizeable height difference after say 6 months then we might be able to say that this stuff really does have the ability to help increase the height increase growth rate. However as a scientist we can’t create the situation to get this height increase supplement really tested.

As for the idea of traditional Chinese Medicine and herbs have the remote chance of really helping kids grow, I would say there is a chance those claims can be real. Many traditional plants like Ginseng, Ginko Biloba, Garlic, and such which the ancient Chinese Alchemists and Doctors thought to have medicinal property was somehow proven in Western Science Labs in the last 50 years to have some chemicals inside which can do the stuff that was believed in them. As the saying goes, most legends and myths do have a kernel of truth in them, just like in stereotypes. As for other ideas like Acupunture, that alternative medicine practice is now a widely practiced medicine art in many suburban US communities. From the town I was living in just 6 months ago, there was an acupuncturist office in most office spaces. Some medical professionals have tested to see if there is any real effectiveness in acupuncture and the testing shows that it is more than just the placebo effect.

The ancient theories on Ki, chi, and prana have no scientific equivalent. We could say stuff like the “chi” the chinese talked about was really electrical signal pathways, nerve signal pathways, or lymph lode channels to create some form of analogous anatomical sense but we would be guessing.

As for the medicine really working, it might really work. From the website and judging only on a first appearance, it would seem that these people are Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners and the Jin Fang did formulate something which she believes help in the growth rate of children. It may work. However there is not way to say this claim with complete confidence. In my searching and research there has been a least a couple of legends or stories of how adult dwarfs who was suffering from achondroplasia maanged to grow 1-2 inches in height after practicing and using chinese medicine ideas.

As of the right now the website YingYangEdu.com is still up the webpage that sells the pills is not up so I don’t think there is much more that needs to be discussed.

Going off of the topic of the last post I sort of had another flash of insight on why the more I thought about the issue of females who develop this need to always wear high heels. I had been putting all of them in a single category but I think now maybe there is actually two groups.

The last time I looked at my sister, an old girlfriend’s mother, Victoria Beckham, Kim Kardashian, Tila Tequila, and some honorable mentions like Little Kim and Amanda Seyfried. I tried to group them all together into one unque groups, girls who are below average in height who develop height complexes and try to overcompensate by wearing high heels. However that may have been the cause but I forgot to consider what could be the individual girl’s desired intention and result from wearing the high heels. Is the reason they are wearing high heels to look better and be more attractive to the opposite sex, or could there be another darker desire?

First of all, my opinion has to effect whatsoever on the life path and end result of the girls I am trying to psycho-analyze. Maybe today was a slow day and I just wanted to write a long post on some boring mental masturbation topic which will never get more than  5 people ever seeing it. And that’s okay. However maybe this post will help the reader understand the thinking process of girls who feel that they are too short and wish deeply to become taller.

I would divide the groups of girls into two groups, the feminine and the masculine. The feminine are the girls who desire to wear heels so that they can be more liked by guys and be treated better. The masculine are the girls who purposely always wear the high heels to overcome some sort of challenge and feel the need to dominate and intimidate, if that extra height would even work out.

With girls like my old gf’s mother and kim kardashian they are probably more on the feminine side. They probably would love to become taller but if they had to give up their beauty and looks for the size, they wouldn’t because that is what they value most and they express a sort of feminine energy. Even in the boardroom and at work, they still exude a feminine energy and understand that ultimately, the masculine way of competition and dominating is not the better way to handle difficulties. In the city I am in, I would guess most girls are feminine so their reasons are for the feminine ones. They desire to be liked more, fit into society so they don’t get ridiculed, and be more attractive so they get more attention.

With girls like my sister, tila tequila, and victoria beckham they have the masculine energy. At some deep level they really do feel lacking in some quality and they desire to always be in control, and be winning. They would give up their looks for size because their ultimate value is more about controlling, dominating, and winning through competition. At some level they realize most people in the world, but especially men will always be bigger than them. They feel intimidated and feel sort of helpless over the fact that they will never directly know what it feels like to wield that type of strength. They may have tried to using force and just persistence an effort break through social barriers. The perfect example is Hajnal Ban, Australian Politician. She is an aggresive strong female who really goes after what she wants.  Many women who always wear high heels at work say they do it so that they can be lightly more intimidating and strong like a man so that the men and other women will respect them more. This is about respect, which is not a feminine trait. We saw from the People magazine quote by Victoria Beckham that she wanted to break past the modeling fashion industry even when they thought she was not tall enough. She eventually succeeded but for that type of success with so much rejection, a female must develop the types of qualities and traits which would be traditionally thought as masculine.

I think at some core level, anyone who desires to be taller have either a predominantly feminine or masculine reason. There will be a mixture of both reasons but almost always, one of the energies is slightly stronger and larger.

The feminine desire to be taller is to be stop ridicule and bullying, gain more acceptance by other people, win love from a person who might not have considered the person before because of size, and be more attractive. Their way of influence is through compromise and soft seduction.

The masculin desire to be taller is to gain more respect, intimidating, commanding  authority, overcome challenges, and pushing to win in competition. Their way of influence is through charm and persistence.

This is one of those posts where I speak on an opinion of mine. It just seems to be a casual statement of a general observation. It seems that many girls I know who are below average in height are in general more likely to wear high heels than average sized or tall females. Sure, this might sound like the stupidest claim of all short of being called common sense but it is something that I did want to throw out there. I’d like to provide a few examples from my own personal life and a few examples I’ve seen with more famous people.

One of my sisters would consider herself on the short side being somewhere between 5′ 3″-5’4″. By USA standards, she really wouldn’t be classified as “short” but maybe slightly below average in height. And she has a huge obsession with always buying and wearing high heels, ones that are at least 4 inches. Almost all of her shoes are heels, and maybe 2-3 pairs are flats. For her Senior prom and other dances she was very adamant on wearing high heels even though there was probably dancing. An arguement developed between her and my mother because she had to alter the prom dress to add inches to cover up the extra length of the shoes. However that alteration lead to the dress being too long so a 2nd alteration had to be done to reduce the drag of the dress. Being a girl it took her many days to decide on a dress and that only resulted in more complications.  Since she was very opinionated on her need to wear those heels, my mother got frustrated in her enough to state something along the lines of “I’m sorry you ended up short but what can you do? Wearing high heels your entire life can’t cover that up” Maybe in 20 years my sister might need to go to a therapist to work out her height issues and also her mother issues.

Another example is a past girlfriend’s mother who was supposed to always be wearing high heels. Apparently she was very insecure about her height. I would have guess she was about 5′ 1″-5′ 2″ which for a 45-50 year old asian female is not that short. The first time I saw her I was surprised since she was taller than what I expected. It seemed like she was comfortable with wearing sneakers when exercising so maybe her height insecurities are not as severe as come other people. It seems that she just really cared about her appearance and would always wear heels at work and in the office.

Where I am now, in the city, in my location, there is a specific type of female I see at coffee shops and cosmetic stores who will always have high heels on. it doesn’t matter what type of weather is outside and how crazy slippery the ground is from ice and snow. They will always wear high heels at the risk of slipping and breaking their ankle. There is no compromise with these types of girls. I know these girls are coming so easily because their heels have a very loud and distinct clop or thump sound when they take a step. You can hear them coming even 30 feet away with headphones on. You can close your eyes and have a clear image of where all these girls are in your peripheral region. I am almost positive that a sizable portion/percentage of the females I see walk past me everyday on the city block and streets do have some form of height complex and insecurity. Or maybe it is just that they are too concerned about their appearance and what other people will think of them. It is a very appearance conscious country I am living in right now.

One celebrity I’ve heard who always wears her heels is Victoria Beckham. Her husband is the world famous futbol/soccer player David Beckham who used to play for the Galaxy. I’m not a big soccer fan but I do know most of their story and her heel obsession. Being a man who has an intense interest over the subject of height and height increase, my guess on why she is always wearing those shoes is that she has some bit of insecurity over her size. Her husband David is billed at 6 feet tall (1.83 meters) and her height from Celebheights.com is at 5′ 4.25″. I know from reading the celebheights heights before that the site has a reputation for often decreasing the real value of celebrities by an in or so for the most controversial profiles on the site so I would be willing to guess Victoria is probably 5′ 4.50″ and 5′ 5″ at her maximum but I could be short-changing her. Interestingly on the IMDB.com her height is listed at 5′ 6″. I might have to bump up her height to range between 5′ 4.50″-5′ 5.50″ which is just a slight increase. It seems she has a trademark to high heels and she suffers bunions from her dedication to them (source). In this article written about her from People Magazine they state “For instance, despite her slim frame and gorgeous looks, she’s still self-conscious about her height. “I’ve never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model [she is five feet four], so therefore I want to create an illusion,” she explains. “People always think I’m taller than I am — not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It’s all relatively streamlined.”” At this point I am not sure what is Victoria’s real height but it seems that my theory on why she always has to wear high heels is true. She is self conscious about her height. She did try to break into the fashion industry and she had difficulty because of her height.

The next celebrity I wanted to look at is socialite Kim Kardashian who has been famous for the reality show “Keeping Up With The Kardashians“. In recent years she had become even more famous because of multiple business pursuits like clothing lines and fragrances. It is well known that Kim is also a big wearer of the high heels. In most resources I have found she is listed at 5′ 2″ but she says she is 5′ 2.5” which I would guess is absolutely right. I don’t think a girl as attractive, successful and rich as her feels the need to overcompensate also for her height. By USA female standards she is below average in height and she could be described with the word “short”. There seems to be even a website dedicated to her height HERE. She is often wearing platform heels and high heeled stilettos. However it seems that overall, she might have a bette self image over her height than some other girls. There have been some pictures where you do see her in footwear with no heel height increases. It seems that Kim is just very conscious of her appearance and a girl’s height is part of her overall attractiveness. I’m going to guess that if she had a chance to add a couple inches while giving up her facial looks she wouldn’t take it. She uses the heels to make her looks be increased. She might be hesitant to take off her heels but if she has to, she will which shows that her self image is not that directly linked to her height and she probably doesn’t have a height complex like some females and men. We know that she was married to NBA player Kris Humphries who is listed at 6′ 9″ and they looked like a strange couple in pictures making some people to wonder how they even make it work when even the act of kissing seems really hard to do (source). If I was to play couch therapist I would say maybe she reason for trying to date Humphries was an unconscious way to compete with her tall sister Khloe who has a 6′ 10″ tall husband Lamar. It might have been Kim’s way to state indirectly that Khloe and her husband’s size will not intimidate her and that she can get a guy just as tall (well, maybe 1 inch shorter) as her sister. As with her other sister Kourtney, she is even shorter at 5′ 0″ and she seems to be just as adamant in always wearing high heels as Kim, if not even more. Overall, Kim Kardashian may also be wearing high heels so often because she is trying to overcome some form of insecurity, which may not be completely height based.

The last “celebrity” that I’ve noticed who seems to be using her use of high heels as a way to overcompensate not just for height but a height complex is Tila Tequila. This girl seemed to have gotten famous because she was once the profile who had the most “friends” on Myspace. In recent years I haven’t heard much about her except that she might have gone slightly crazy and have gotten in trouble with the law “Lindsay Lohan style“. I think I read somewhere that even her bodyguards couldn’t put up with the weird stuff she was getting herself into, and these are the type of people who are used to dealing with the weird stuff that celebrities do with their eccentricities. I don’t think I have ever seen a picture of Tila without some really high heels. In some ways I feel really sorry for her because she is very petite. Her height has been listed on IMDB as 4′ 11″ but I would suspect that a female that small in stature is probably pushing that value up more. She might be closer to 4′ 10″ than 4′ 11″ and it seems a few internet sources also says the same thing. Her last name Nguyen means she is Vietnamese in ethnicity and I have said before that the vietnamese are ethnicity one of the shortest groups of people. It is what it is and maybe in 30-40 years better living conditions in Vietnam with more protein for the younger generation will prove that the Vietnamese don’t have an ethnic propensity to be idiopathically short. I have already wrote in previous post that previously believed short nations like China and India have had their younger generation increase height by around 6-5 cm for the last 20 years. The dutch were the shortest groups of people more than a century ago and look at them now. Whatever it it Tila seems to have some complexes and psychopathological issues and one of them may stem from her small size. I know that she was dating a 6′ 4″ football player and this seems to be another classical case where a really small girl is trying to unconsciously overcompensate for her size by being with someone so much bigger. Maybe she thinks that he might be able to give her children which can kill her lineage of short genes and get his size genes passed on instead. But that is not a gene game I’d want to play. There are places like this post HERE that calls her a “midget”. In the end I don’t want to say anything bad about Tila because it seems she already is suffering.

As an after thought, there are some honorable mentions like Little Kim and Amanda Seyfried. They also seem to have a need to always bee seen in public with high heels. With Seyfried she might be more comfortable with her height.

For the 3rd Natural Height Growth episode I wanted to review some of the biggest issues that have been coming up in terms of projects or subjects that seems to consistently come up on emails and message that I get

I wanted to keep the length of time short and pack it with as much relevant content.

Episode #2: On The LSJL Device, Zixia Qigong Method, Lance Ward Review, And Biomedical Growth Research Initiative

In this episode I wanted to tackle 4 topics which I thought was the most interesting. There is first a few website operations stuff I wanted to take care of specifically the question about activating the forum, the monetizing of the website, and the frequency of putting up the podcast episodes.

The first subject was over the topic of the Biomedical Growth Research Initiative with Harald Oberlander at harald_oberlaender@hotmail.com I wanted to briefly talk about the organization which has been around and the funding they are looking for.

I give a look at the method of trying out Qigong which got popularized by Zixia on her blog. Then I also look at and give my opinion on Lance Ward.

The main focus was really the last topic where I talk about my continued effort in trying to figure out the logistics on how I get get the Lateral Synovial Joint Loading device built in a reasonable time frame. There are quite a few projects and things going on these days.

Due to the low volume of the music from the last two episodes, I have decided to switch the intro and ending music up for something that is slightly louder. The music that I decided to use for this episode, and probably subsequent episodes to come, is entitled” Air on the G String” performed by the US Air Force Band using the String Orchestra instruments and Symphonic Pieces form. The original composer is Johann Sebastian Bach from the Baroque period . You can get the music Mp3 track at MuseOpen.Org which provides a source where you can download non-licensed, non copyrighted music which you can use for one’s purpose. The specific link is HERE.

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After maybe 4 months of soul searching I’ve decided that I will go through and monetize the website in some ways because it doesn’t even make any common sense not to put in a few entries for cash flow. For the longest time I have been very adamant on not turning this website into a source of cash flow and steady income for me on my future projects but I now feel that I have been maybe too naive and innocent over this.

I’ve put in at least 1000 hours of work in turning this website into the most complete, best resource and ultimate guide for the subject of height and height increase on the internet space (at least for websites in English). It has real resources for almost anything that a person would need. I was listening to The Lifestyle Business Podcast and something just clicked inside of me earlier today and I decided to turn this website into something more professional, clean, and streamline.

The “Supplements Guide” section and the “Exercise Program Guide” both have Amazon Affiliate Links now, there are now at least a few “Donations” button scattered around the website on various posts which are linked to Paypal Accounts. I know that if I decide to integrate the Google Adsense service to this website I would start generating 10X as much in money as I would with just Affiliate Links. There is still no Ads, no fees, or products that I am pushing to the readers. Like I said on the message at the bottom of the website, I will NEVER endorse a product which I don’t truly believe in or have not done real research on.

As a reader, you will never be forced or required to ever pay for anything on this website. No one can tell someone else to buy something that they don’t want. Everything is free and the value that will be provided will only increased and get higher quality over time. If you as the reader chooses, you don’t have to use any of the affiliate links or donation buttons that are on this website. You can always choose an alternative resource to pay at.

I don’t consider myself a sellout but as a average, flawed human being at a deep level I feel a little selfish and would like to profit a little from this project. At least enough to pay for the website hosting fees, podcast episode hosting fees, and make some extra to pay for some bills and maybe even start to pay for a portion of the rent. But that type of “dream” won’t occur overnight but will probably take at least a year or two.

The audience to the website is getting bigger and I am now put under far more obligation and have more responsibility to the readers and future readers to only produce high quality posts from this point on. I have had even real Doctors approach me and write to the website email on how great and important this website is to them since there is finally a resource like this on the internet. There are more people everyday who write to the website email asking me to review articles and products they’ve found on the internet. I in turn have granted all of their request and done the best I could to give them what they really want.

As a business man who owns over 4 separate businesses and working on many other projects, I do think in terms of profit/loss and want to make sure that this venture over the long term is profitable for me. Of all of my businesses and projects, this one is the closest to my heart. It has been something I wanted to build for the longest time. All the other businesses, some which are in import/export, cosmetics, consulting, renting, and footwear were all started because of the money. This website was started for the impact, and in the long run I know that this website will probably grow to be the biggest and most impact ful of all of the businesses that I own.

At the end of the day, maybe 10-20 years from now I would wish 3 things for myself professionally.

1. I have been able to give the world a real gift in some way making a big contribution.
2. I would have gone back to school and gotten the advanced degree (Ph. D) in research and engineering.
3. I would have reached financial freedom through proper investments, allocating my assets properly, generating multiple streams of income and cash flow, and build systems and businesses that are automated.

This website is a way I can help achieve two of those goals, reaching financial freedom and making a big contribution It also in a way helps prepare me for the course work and science material for graduate school as well.