Something I realized today after I was getting really frustrated writing up a post which I think will be a breakthrough post was to wonder what exactly you as the regular reader and visitor is getting in terms of value from this website.

I know that I won’t be finding the solution to all of our problem, how to grow taller after our growth plates have closed, any time soon. If the reason you are coming to this website is to hope that one day soon I will figure out through my research an answer to our problem, I think you will have to wait a long time.

Since this type of research will take a long, long time so why do you, the regular visitor still come to the website?

I hope I am not being patronizing but I try to be realistic on my endeavor. It is hard. This thing is super difficult, harder than trying to get through a engineering undergraduate course load, a graduate theoretical physics class, or a medical school 4 year program. At least those things people in the past have been able to get through and succeed in.

Whether I succeed or not, I don’t get a prize or medal even if I succeed and find something maybe years later from now.

The research is long, intense, and requires that I delve into subjects which I previously tried to avoid with all effort. During my undergraduate engineering courses, I preferred physics and engineering problems, not biology and genetics studies. I am learning VERY SLOWLY each day and the fact that I have to use a Medical Dictionary every time I come across a word which I don’t know about (ie. immunohistochemistry, glucocorticoids, glycosaminoglycan) which is about once every 2 minutes means that it takes me about 3 days to pick up and fully understand what even one main idea means. I am moving slower than even a turtle, but a snail’s pace. Refer to slomo to the right.

I am not a genius, and I am not diligent in my work ethic. I lack many qualities which would allow me to succeed in most endeavors in life.

What I do have is that I am persistent and willing to give my effort in trying something which most people think is a waste of my time. However I am finding that as each month goes by, I get a little better at reading those PubMed articles, get slightly better at understanding the genetic implications of what the Authors write about, and can start to make some headway in coming up with some original thoughts of my own.

So far, most of what I have written about is from the work and effort of other people before me. All I try to do is relate and translate the work of people many standards of deviation smarter than me to a language and way that would let me and the readers understand better.

All that I hope for is that by the end of this year, 20013, I will be knowledgeable enough to be able to make some coherent, reasonably accurate theories and ideas on how we can start to try to get the human height to increase.