Sometimes I find new ideas for posts from the traffic sources I see on the people who find this site from searching other supplements or techniques to grow taller. That was originally what lead me to certain ideas on height increase like using the MFiii and wrote the post “Height Increase Using MFIII“. The whole idea for me back then sounded strange and I never fully made a conclusive opinion on it. The source for the MFiii was sheep placenta (supposedly) and it contained stem cells. At the time I wrote the post, I was not very knowledgeable on how it would be possible to increase height except to take a shot at making the best educated objective guess on its possible effectiveness.

However, the traffic sources yesterday showed that a person was looking for another type of height increase and grow taller supplement which I have never seen before, something called “Double Action V  Growth Enhancer Supplement, Gain Height and Taller“. When I tried to see where the supplement was being sold at, it was found to be sold on Ebay HERE and the cost of the supplement was very high. The bottle seems to carry 180 pill tablets at 350 mg of active ingredient at a price of $80. The product seems to be sold and tailored for people based in Japan so I would guess that the product is also made and distributed only for Japanese people.  It is branded as a dietary supplement.

Analysis: What is most interesting is that at the bottom is a clipping of the chart which shows 7 people who took this dietary supplement and got on average around 10 cms of height increase. That is almost 4 inches. The most interesting thing is that these people are in their 20s, and even a couple are in their 30s. Although I can’t read Japanese, I can guess that this product being sold on Ebay is being branded as a pill that is for people who are passed the natural growing phase to increase in height again. This is the big claim that many other scams do. When you claim this type of revolutionary technological product, there must be some substantial scientific evidence backing it up. There are names of people in the chart. The seller’s name is hi-hawaii, and HERE is his online profile. Overall, the seller has a 99.9% rating which means that he/she is good at doing the shipping, distribution, and accounts receivables. The rating is not to rate that the products were good or effective, but only that the seller could get their products to the buyer at a fast, easy way. It seems from a quick look that hi-hawaii is mainly focused on selling cosmetic and body image enhancer products, all of them Japan derived or created. From the item distribution process, we see that the payment style is through PayPal, which is extremely good for the seller. The return policy is 14 days, and the buyer has to pay the shipping costs. If I remember the cost of international shipping, I am almost positive that the cost of shipping international to return such an item would be extremely high, so even if a person did buy a product and found it bad, they probably wouldn’t want to spend additional money to send the product back to get their money back. The hassle, cost, and effort that would be required to return this item, with only 14 days probably after the first day of payment received, means that the seller is not giving the buyer any time limit to ever get the refund ever at all. I was always going to claim that whoever is selling this product is a seller with bad practices because they are selling a product that can never work, but it seems that the return/refund policy and process is also near impossible so they are doing something immoral too. I personally don’t like the business practices of the seller and I judge that because they claim such a dietary supplement to be able to give on average 4 inches of extra height for people in their 20-30s that they are also selling a bad and ineffective product.

Analysis #2: The glycine, L-Arginine, and GABA are the amino acids which some people say do help increase height, but only for people who are still growing. The St. John’s is a traditional medicinal extract with healing properties but no connection with height increase. The coral calcium and calcium shell is for the Calcium which is reasonable. The collagen peptides might be good in possibly make the articular cartilage become thicker and maybe reduce the possibility of articular cartilage deterioration and damage over time, however that does not mean that the articular cartilage will increase even by 0.5 cm for height over time. The soy protein is for the protein content which would be helpful for a person who was still young enough to get the effects. The vitamin mix would be worth it just to get  a complete vitamin nutritional value and the daily recommended amounts. The fact that the directions say that the directions asks a person to take 6 pills a day means that the idea might be to overload the body with the protein, calcium, protein, and vitamins. I don’t know what such effects would be but I would guess that the body would at come point, to keep the homeostasis, would reach a saturation or level of diminishing returns on the effect of these vitamins and nutrients. Any excess proteins, amino acids, calcium, etc. might get flushed by the blood and lymphatic system out through the urine and blood stream out of the body. If this product was rebranded for just children who are still growing, or children in countries where growth is stunted due to lack of nutrition, it would probably work if the ingredients list is real and accurate. However the pill is branded for and shows its effects for people already past physical maturity. It won’t work for that demographic so it is ineffective.

From the sales page on Ebay…

Double Action V  Growth Enhancer Supplement, Gain Height and Taller – 63g (350 mg x 180 Tablets)

Gain your Height

Suitable for someone who are serious about wanting to gain your height.

Ingredients: Giycine, GABA, St.John, Coral Calcium, L-Arginine, Collagen Peptides, Calsium Shell, Soy Protein, Vitamin Mix

How to use :

Take 6 tables a day before bed time. (with warm water)

Should start with small quantity at first and increase it.

Recommend :

Sleep before 11p.m.

Avoid Alcohol, coffe, tea, soda  and smoking.

Exercises like basketball, jogging, jumping,swiming, pilates,yoga,pilates, stretching every day.

Keeping Condition :

Avoid sun light,away from children and keep in dry area.

Please avoid for who get allergy from ingredients or when you pregnant or during feeding.

This is samples of people who took this supplement for 3 months, age 18-36, height start at 159.3 – 169.8 cm. and gain height 3.1 -17.1 cm. (average 10.2 cm.),but please consider that how height can you grow, it depends on each indiviual person.