So many times I get messages where people ask me what they can do to grow taller. Some people who are very determined give very strong messages saying that they are willing to do anything or take any type of supplement to get the type of height that they want but I sometimes wonder whether they really want it as much as they claim.

The truth is that there is often a hidden unspoken exception to their height goals. This is the fact that they won’t go to the option or choose going through with the surgical method for height increase. They are willing to try any type of method or technique EXCEPT for limb lengthening surgery. Well in my opinion I think that they are then just not really truly serious about the endeavor then.

I know people who have been spending over a year (or two or three) taking the supplements, buying strange insoles, and clamping their legs using the Lateral Synovial Joint Loading method to get even 1 cm of real permanent height but they still don’t achieve any real noticeable height increase which can be more than just measurement error. They have probably spent over 1000 hours towards stretching, exercising, swimming, and such to hope for that permanent height gain as well as many thousands of dollars on trying every option under the sun except for the limb lengthening surgery.

But they always stop before going to the last, real, most obvious option. Surgery. So my question to the reader who seems to only kinda of want it “How badly do you want it? What are you willing to give up and sacrifice for a chance to reach your height goals?”

You say you can take the pain, and you are willing to put in the time, effort and make the multi-year commitment but why not choose the sure thing, the easy option.

I may be using a bad analogy but… to choose all the possible ways to increase height except limb lengthening surgery can be similar to what a sexually frustrated 30 year old virgins may try to do in learning how to pick up women, signing on to dating websites, and hiring matchmaking services but draw the line at just hiring a escort or prostitute for the sole purpose of just sex.

There is a clear solution for your height increase problems. Yes, it will be very expensive, maybe in the range of around 50,000-100,000 even. You will have to give up 1 year of your life, have to live in a different country in a hospital where you can’t speak the local language. You will go through excruciating pain when you turn that screw on the rod to pull your tibia or femur apart. You will have to go through at least 3-6 month of physical therapy just to walk again. But those are the things you have to give up for this one endeavor.

Just go to the forum MakeMeTaller.org and see how the people there treat the fact that limb lengthening surgery is just another normal aspect to their lives. A sizable portion of them went through with the surgery, sometimes even for just 4 cm of extra height, which can possibly be achieved through normal exercising and stretching, but what they show in terms of what outsiders may think is insanity or craziness in their dedication towards increasing their height, I look at them and it shows just how strong the human spirit is and how the strongest determination will give them what they wanted.

Since the dawn of humanity, the shorter half of human kind have had billions of people wishing that they were taller. However that desire and wish to be taller was something they kept secret, something they hoped would just happen to them, like a painless easy growth spurt that is natural and proportional. well maybe life will never give them that type of easy way for height.

When I look at many of the females who walk by me as I walk down the street in Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea which is the plastic surgery capital of the world, I feel both confused at the girls but also some admiration for the people who are willing to go under the knife and have surgeons cut open their face and cut off bone just so they can become more “beautiful”. These people felt that beauty is important so they are willing to do ANYTHING that they can to achieve that dream. Surgery is a accept way to enhance oneself in the region of the world I live in. In america, many people might try to look down at these people and say that these women who get plastic surgery are stupid, or insecure, or have low self-esteem, and maybe they are right, but that still does not take away from the fact that millions of young teenage korean females are willing to have the bones in their face broken, cracked, removed, etc. for something that they really want. Theire desire is strong.

And for our desires, our desire for height should be strong as well. If you only kind of want to be taller but not be willing to put in the work in terms of say gritting your teeth and go under the knife, then maybe you really just don’t want it bad enough.  There is pain, but one of the regular posters said that the pain they would feel in say 1 year of limb lengthening surgery to gain 10 cm or 4 inches of height increase will more than make up for the fact that they will gain the confidence to finally not be insecure or so fixated on their height anymore. For men, maybe their dating lives will improve and where once women rejected them on their height, the same type of women will finally give them a chance. These men have their own lives and felt that being taller is quite possibly the most important thing in their lives, more than say earning more money, getting a better car , or working out for those 6 pack abs. They chose to focus on this one aspect and go through with the surgery to get what they wanted.

Before Ilizarov came along and perfected the external fixator device which now bears his name and given him world recognition, there was absolutely NO CHOICES. Now that is a statue of Ilizarov in a part of Russia where there is also an orthopaedic clinic named after him. Now we are lucky to be in such a modern world and do finally have the option to be taller even after our growth plates close. We can get surgery. And from the research I have done the surgery can be not as resource intensive as one might expect. There are cases where a person can get 3 inches of height for $30,000 and will take around 6 months to recover in. The member Apoptoesis from the Make Me Taller forum would get the limb lengthening surgery twice, once from 5′ 6″ to 5′ 9″, and then again to go from 5′ 9″ to 6′ 2″. This shows that there is something we can do now.

The problem is just that maybe we just don’t want that growth or height increase as badly as we think we want it. The next time we say on a internet board or talk to ourselves telling ourselves that we should continue to do the stretching exercises and taking the supplements, maybe we are not being honest in ourselves on how much we are really willing to try and go through for our goals.

If I or any of the other height increase seekers really wanted it, I’d go for the limb lengthening surgery. I personally know a few friends who now work as Investment Bankers or Hedge Fund Managers or surgeons who pull in 7 figures a year so it is clearly not a money issue. Are these people who make so much money not willing to accept the idea of putting a small bit of money down and put their life on haitus for one year to get the guaranteed growth that they are looking for. Sure, some people would try to give the counter-arguement that the limb lengthening surgery is very dangerous with possibly serious cripplying consequences, but that is just another reason, even if it is a completely valid reason, for why they have let their own fears to create rationalization and justifications on why they are not willing to take the final, the easiest way for true permanent height increase that we have right now.

Our short grandparents or great grandparents never had this choice but we do have it. So are we willing or have enough of the desire to take this choice and opportunity or are we just going to sit and wait, and wish that some benevolent group of super genius researchers from some secret lab in the world will come up with a solution for our non-invasive height increase desires? Maybe that secret desire will never come to be.

Maybe it is time to accept the idea that we either choose limb lengthening surgery or accept our short height and move on with our lives. I can’t promise you as the readers that even after 10 years of dedicated, intensive research that I or Tyler would find the solution. Maybe we will never find it and give up, like Sky and Hakker before us.

Is it okay that you don’t get the growth and height increase you want or is your desire so strong that you would make the greatest sacrifice for this dream?