When the website was first beginning I had written a post listing which steroids have been discussed with the possibility of increasing height or stunting growth. The post “Grow Taller Using Steroids , Part I” has been one of the most visited posts and it seems that the effects of steroids have never been answered. Would they stimulate or inhibit height?

The answer is that it really depends on the type of steroids one decides to use. Some steroids have been shown to actually increase the growth rate in children with still open growth plates, and others accelerate the senescence of the growth plates and increase the maturity of the bones.

Something we really should be asking ourselves is this “What is the technical definition of steroids?”

It turns out that the term “steroids” refers to any type of laboratory created synthetic hormone which will have similar effects as the sex hormones aka androgens the males of our species releases in their testicles.

Note: This information is below taken from the Steroids.com website.

The definition of an anabolic steroid as defined currently in the United States under (41)(A) is that “anabolic steroid” means any drug or hormonal substance, chemically and pharmacologically related to testosterone (other than estrogens, progestins, corticosteroids, and dehydroepiandrosterone (7).

What we the general public refers to when we use the word “Steroids” are the anabolic steroids type. If we were to use the technical term for steroid found from the field of Chemistry, we would get something different which would not have the same function for the context of the subject we are talking about.

It seems that steroids are then just the synthetic version of testosterone. There has been many studies which show that for males, the hormone that makes them become “men” in the biological definition, is from the androgen testosterone which is made in the male gonads. When a young adolescent male starts going through puberty, they get both the rush of the female androgen estrogen and the male androgen testosterone. The female gonads, the ovaries also produce progesterone but that it not our talk for this post.

It is testosterone which makes males feel stronger, have bigger, thicker muscles, and have increased sexual drive and sexual stamina.

However, there is another type of hormone that is released by the human endocrine system which have similar effects towards making people feel younger, stronger, and increased sexual drive. That is the growth hormones or hGH which is released by the pituitary gland. This is what we as height increase researchers are looking into.

And for me personally, this is what I would also label as a steroid. If a company is manufacturing synthetic versions of the somatropin, I would also call it a steroid.

In my definition of the word “steroids”, it refer to lab derived versions of the Growth Hormones made by the pituitary gland and the Testosterone made by the male gonads.  

There has been many, many people who claim that steroids is bad for a kid who is still growing. Everyone seems to quote the famous horror stories of stunted growth and shrinking testicles, but from what I have researched, there has not been even 1 study which shows the direct link and harm from steroid usage and really bad negative side effects. If a person can direct me to at least 3 PubMed studies showing negative consequences of using steroids within physically mature males I would greatly appreciate it.

If “steroids” are just testosterone and gonadotropin, then why is it bad for a person?

It is bad if a teenage boy who is already having his body filled with hormones get even more. That is like turning an already horny teenage boy even crazier with sexual frustration with more testosterone. It could turn that teenage male potentially violent from sexual repression.

The thing is that I don’t study the science on how to get bigger muscles and how to increase male sexual performance, or stamina. That is for another researcher. Let’s get back to how steroids affect height.

So if steroids are just growth hormones and testosterone, how would they effect the growth process of a person with open growth plates?

As for height, the synthetic steroids for growth hormones derived from the hypothalamus-pituitary gland region of the brain like Genotropin, Somatropin, Humatrope, would actually increase the growth rate and the final height of people who take it. However, the effects may be very small. When we look at the case of Lionel Messi and how he started to take Growth Hormone injections to prevent him from becoming too small in life. The story about Messi and his height was that when he was a young kid, his parents noticed that he was much shorter and smaller than his peers. From doctors testing him, they had concluded that Messi was short statured due to what is known as Growth Hormone Deficiency. The growth plates in his body had the receptors to accept any GH that was in his system, but there was not enough being produced. If Messi did not take the injection, because his body (pituitary glands and adrenal glands) was not producing either the hGH or the IGF-1, he would have ended up much shorter than his current stature of 5′ 7″ which is still on the short side for professional soccer/futbol players. I wrote a post about the unique situation of Messi in the post “Lionel Messi Using Growth Hormone Therapy To Increase Height And Grow Taller”.

I have shown in previous posts that if a male gets too much testosterone into their system while they are still growing ie in their puberty phase, it will convert aka aromatize into the female androgen estrogen and that is what will speed up the rate at which the chondrocytes in the growth plate are being depleted. From my research, it seems that estrogen has been the real activation key on not just determining when the cartilage in the growth plates will disappear, but also when the stage of puberty will begin. This is why people tell a person who decides to use steroids that they are going to end up with stunted growth. If you get too much testosterone into the system, that just leads to more estrogen which will strip the resting zone of the chondrocytes needed for further longitudinal growth.

Clear Examples:

In this article from the LA Times in 2007 entitled “Estrogen’s history as a growth limiter” we find parents who asked physicians to inject their daughter with estrogen to limit her growth and height so that they can always take care of her.

In the post “Alpha, Above Average Testosterone Males Are More Likely To Be Taller, An Endocrine Explanation” I had shown that males who might have slightly higher rates of testosterone rate in their body than their male peers might end up being taller than them as well as more violent and dominant in behavior. However we must be careful not to get too much of the testosterone.

In the post “People Who Lack Functional Estrogen Receptors Become 7 Feet Tall?” I had referenced at least 2 cases of males who had a genetic trait where they did not have receptors in the growth plate to accept the estrogen in their system, which meant that their growth plate cartilage never completely ossified and they ended up being 6′ 8″-7’0″.

Lastly, I have cited this study many times but I will reference it again. The study “Normal bone growth requires optimal estrogen levels: negative effects of both high and low dose estrogen on the number of growth plate chondrocytes.” shows that if a person has too much or too little estrogen in their system, they are going to have stunted growth. There is an optimal level of estrogen. For most men, we go through with puberty later than females so we have on average an extra 2 years of growth before our plates ossify due to the chondrocytes running out. This suggests that having a little extra testosterone might be actually beneficial for height increase but only up a certain point. However, there are a certain portion of the male population that already has too much testosterone and taking the steroids will only lead to decreased final height.

At this point, there is no way to separate which males in a group will steroids actually stimulate height increase and which males steroids would inhibit height growth.

The point that this post is supposed to make is that there is a link between using steroids and possibly stunted growth.

However if we decided to take the other type of “steroids” (which I have defined) in terms of synthetic recombinant growth hormones aka somatropins like genotropin, humatrope, etc. it would not stunt our growth but actually increase it if one is going through the puberty phase.

In addition, there are steroid derivatives like Anavar and Letrozole which have PubMed studies backing up the theory that these aromatizing inhibiting compounds will increase the growth period and stop the chondrocytes from being used up too quickly making the final height increase.

At this point I don’t know if the human body can ever become fully saturated with too much growth hormone from taking GH injections. From the pathologies of Gigantism and Acromegaly and how they affect the human body, it would seem that the human body might not have a saturation point on at least somatropin uptake.

 

 

In one of the most pivotal posts I had written for the website entitled “The Connection Between Regenerating Deer Antlers and The PTHrP, PTH And IHH pathway for Cartilage Regulation, PTHrP Seems To Be The Answer (Big Breakthrough!)” I had looked at the connection between the IHH-PTHrP master regulator signaling pathway in the growth plates, and the principles behind how the antlers in deers continue to regenerate and grow longitudinally almost annually.

That post linked above is one of the biggest breakthroughs I have had in the research in being able to push the endeavor slightly closer.

I would now like to refer to the picture to the right which I took using my iPhone 4s of the medical research textbook “Bones & Cartilage, Developmental and Evolutionary Skeletal Biology” by Brain K. Hall. The book was found recently at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Washington.

Although the photo is crooked by 90 degrees, it is still very clearly visible that the way that the deer antlers seem to suggest that they grow is that there is a small pocket inside the relatively hard bone-like tissue where the mesenchymal stem cells or progenitor cells are located which will eventually turn into chondrocytes and then into osteocytes.

This sort of suggests the idea that as long as we can get a sizable colony of mesenchyme into the human long bones, the mesenchyme might have the strength to push the bones apart and thus expand the bones longitudinally. Of course this idea must be checked and compared to the human body’s structures to see whether we can even take the principles of one biological system arrangement and use them in another.

The 2nd thing we must also consider is the fact that the way the antlers or horns are shaped suggest that there is a break in the bones so that the hard bone matrix does not completely surround the mesenchyme progenitor cells. Horns are actually different from antlers. Horns are made of a type of material that is not as strong as bones. From the picture of the horns in the 1st picture, we see that the horn material and the bones surround the mesenchyme. However, it seems that there is a break or a edge-edge boundary layer break between the horn material and the bone material which would suggest that the mesenchyme which will differentiate into chondrocytes use this boundary layer as the source where longitudinal lenghthening is even possible.

When we try to search further into this idea, we first have to do more research on the composition and structural arrangement of the deer antlers and ask whether the human long limbs have a similar structural arrangement.

From the Wikipedia article on the antler.…

While an antler is growing, it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone. Antlers are considered one of the most exaggerated cases of male secondary sexual traits in the animal kingdom, and grow faster than any other mammal bone. Growth occurs at the tip, and is initially cartilage, which is later replaced by bone tissue. Once the antler has achieved its full size, the velvet is lost and the antler’s bone dies. This dead bone structure is the mature antler. In most cases, the bone at the base is destroyed by osteoclasts and the antlers fall off at some point.

Analysis:

It seems from the Wikipedia description that the tip is what grows taller being all cartilage, and the cover is the perichondrium. Once the mesenchyme runs out of progenitor stem cells to turn into chondrocytes, that is some type of molecular or genetic signaling pathway which gets triggered turning the velvet cover which is just the perichondrium hard into something like the analogue to the human’s long bone’s periosteum from vascularization and ossification. Then the antlers reach the final length and they get sheded. From one source, it says…

After the breeding season, cells start to de-mineralize the bone between the pedicle and antler, causing the antler’s connection with the skull to weaken and the antler to fall off

So that is the initial guess from me on what happens during the antler longitudinal growth.

However, is the deer antler made of the same type of composition as say the human long bones?

From the study “Mineral composition of antlers of three deer species reared in captivity” three species or types of deers antlers which were shed were taken and analyzed for their composition.

Dry matter, crude protein (31.99, 35.16 and 36.59%) and total ash (62.94, 62.54 and 60.27%) contents were similar among the three species, whereas the fat content was greater (P<0.05) for swamp deer (5.08%) compared to axis deer (2.31%) but compatible with hog deer (3.14%). Concentrations of calcium (23.44, 23.43 and 22.05%), magnesium (0.73, 0.80 and 0.74%), cobalt (9.01, 8.04 and 7.67 ppm) and zinc (33.50, 32.14 and 35.81 ppm) were not different among species…..Concentrations of the heavy metals, lead and cadmium, were similar among the three species. It was concluded that the concentrations of various minerals in the fallen hard antlers of the three species of deer were similar to those reported for bones of domestic animals.

This study sort of suggest that the antlers one might find shed in the woods have around the same composition as bones of farm animals that have been domesticated. But the key to ask is whether the matrix of the antler is as strong and resistive to tensile and compressive loads as the bones that is underneath it. My guess at this point is that the antler’s don’t have that high of a tensile strength.

Note: It is important right now to realize that there is a clear biological difference between the term horn and the term antler.

Let’s now look at the example of the elephant’s tusks, the rhinoceros’s horn, and the horns in other mammals like the  medium sized whale like sea creature, the narwhal’s tusks. From the wikipedia articles on these mammals, the narwhal’s tusk seems to be an elongated canine teeth in the whale. For the rhino, it’s horns is made form keratin, which is the same type of basic element found in human hair and nails.

As for the elelphant’s tusks, they are supposed to be….”modified incisors in the upper jaw”. So the tusks do grow in length as the elephant is in it’s growing years.

From the article in Wikipedia about elephants…

“They replace deciduous milk teeth when the animal reaches 6–12 months of age and grow continuously at about 17 cm (7 in) a year. A newly developed tusk has a smooth enamel cap that eventually wears off. The dentine is known as ivory and its cross-section consists of crisscrossing line patterns, known as “engine turning”, which create diamond-shaped areas. As a piece of living tissue, a tusk is relatively soft; it is as hard as the mineral calcite. Much of the incisor can be seen externally, while the rest is fastened to a socket in the skull. At least one-third of the tusk contains the pulp and some have nerves stretching to the tip. As such it would be difficult to remove it without harming the animal. When removed, ivory begins to dry up and crack if not kept cool and moist.”

The whole point at this section of the post is to find other animals, hopefully mammals which have parts of their bodies that still grow while they are adults, similar in shape, structure, and strength to human bones.

We see two cases where the bone like material which grows in length is actually teeth in the animal. I would assume that if we cut off the tusks, then the bone like horn will not regrow back. In one case, with the rhino, the material of the horn is actually very weak, and made of the same type of compound as our hairs and nails. Elephant tusks are strong, but definitely not as strong as human bones. The ivory that human artisans which can carve into is weak if the bones become weak from drying. The ivory is just the elephant’s analogue to the dentin found in human teeth.

This short side look seems to suggest that the way and basic principles in which horns in animals grow in length can not really be used viably towards height increase. The material of horns are much weaker than human bones, so this might explain why lengthening is even possible when one tries to put a pocket of progenitor pluripotent cells inside to push the wall of organic matrix around it.

We have to look at antlers, not horns since antlers seem to be made of the the same type of components as human bones.

It seems that for antlers, the growth in length originates from the top, or tip of the appendage. For horns, the growth is from inside the horn, between the horn material and bone underneath. From the website for the National Park Service,….

“…Antlers, on members of the deer family, are grown as an extension of the animal’s skull. They are true bone and are a single structure They are generally found only on males. Antlers are shed and regrown each year.

Horns, found on pronghorn, bighorn sheep, bison, and many other bovine, are two-part structures. An interior of bone (also an extension of the skull) is covered by an exterior sheath grown by specialized hair follicles, as are your fingernails. In fact, your fingernails and the exterior sheath of horns are made of very similar materials. Horns are never shed and continue to grow throughout the animals life. The exception to this rule is the pronghorn which sheds and regrows its horn sheath each year.”

So it seems that antler’s are extensions of the skull of the animal, which is real bone. Antler’s can be shed (usually annually) while horns almost always continues to grow longer throughout life. As we remember from the previous post on the link between antler regeneration and the PTHrP-IHH main regulation pathway, for the longitudinal growth to happen in antlers, there must first be a wound, which must not be closed. The wound area must form a blastema, which will grow into the mesenchyme-bone arrangement seen in antler-based animals leading to longitudinal growth.

It might be that for us to be able to achieve longitudinal growth, we might have to inflict some type of bone disruption in the form of distraction ,incision, or cut which would give the bone wound area time to form a blastema, to push the separated bone areas apart from each other in the direction we desire.

If we are going to try to do that using the principles we learned from antler regeneration, we would also have to figure out how to get the progenitor cells which will development in the aftermath to stay on the path towards the chondrogenic lineage and not differentiate too quickly into the osteogenic lineage giving the cells enough time to enlarge/hypertrophize to push the area of incision apart.

{Tyler-Here’s a study I found recently on deer antler:

Comparison of the Effect of Velvet Antler from Different Sections on Longitudinal Bone Growth of Adolescent Rats.

“The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of velvet antler (VA) from different sections for promoting longitudinal bone growth in growing rats. VA was divided into upper (VAU), middle (VAM), and basal sections (VAB). An in vivo study was performed to examine the effect on longitudinal bone growth in adolescent rats. In addition, in vitro osteogenic activities were examined using osteoblastic MG-63 cells. VA promoted longitudinal bone growth and height of the growth plate in adolescent rats. Bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) in growth plate of VA group was highly expressed compared with control{If the growth is mainly due to BMP2 that does not show much promise for adult height increase as BMP2 is expressed in adults}. The anabolic effect of VA on bone was further supported by in vitro study. VA enhanced the proliferation, differentiation, and mineralization of MG-63 cells. The mRNA expressions of osteogenic genes such as collagen, alkaline phosphatase, and osteocalcin were increased by VA treatment. These effects of in vivo and in vitro study were decreased from upper to basal sections of VA. In conclusion, VA treatment promotes longitudinal bone growth in growing rats through enhanced BMP-2 expression, osteogenic activities, and bone matrix gene expressions{The non BMP2 effects have the most potential to taking effect in adults like the bone matrix effects/The bone matrix may actually be catabolic to growth by constraining so if VA can degrade the bone matrix that can stimulate growth}. In addition, present study provides evidence for the regional differences in the effectiveness of velvet antler for longitudinal bone growth.”

“Typically, the antler is cut off near the base after it is about two-thirds of its potential full size, between 55 and 65 days of growth, before any significant calcification occurs. “

“Longitudinal bone growth in control rat was 617.4 ± 34.2 μm/day, and administration of VAU significantly increased the longitudinal bone growth to 718.6 ± 48.6 μm/day”<-This is actually huge. 16% growth increase approximately.  Assuming this works for all bones it would take a person from 69 to 80 inches or almost a foot taller.  Note though that growth rate does not always correlate with total growth.

VAU(or upper region of the deer antler) was most anabolic to longitudinal bone growth.VAU has the most epiphysiseal content.

Deer Antler also stimulated osteoblastic growth which the scientists speculated is likely contribute to the longitudinal bone growth.  However, this possibly could only increase growth rate but it could also increase total longitudinal bone growth by increasing the amount of growth per growth plate cell(more bone matrix, etc.)

From recent searching I came across another supplement which some people claim to be more than just another muscle bulking supplement, but also make people taller. The supplement is known as Deer Antler Plus from the website DeerAntlerPlus.com.

On the website the only benefits this health supplement claims to be useful in is towards….

• Strength
• Endurance
• Muscle Recovery
• Muscle size and definition increase
• Increased Immune System
• Helps Joints

No where on the webpage does it claim to help people increase height. However some Grow Taller websites like GrowTaller3000.com makes the claim that the muscle building definition would also help make people taller. From the Grow Taller 3000 website….

Velvet antler is an herb used extensively in Chinese medicine. In fact, other than ginger, it is one the most important herbs to use in the Chinese culture. The name velvet antler has nothing to do with the fuzz on the antler. It has to do with most of the antler that is gelatinous and cartilaginous before it becomes calcified as the deer ages.

The antler will be dried and used in either powdered or pill form. It is said to cure many ailments, such as, arthritis. It is also known as a cancer preventative, as well as, an immune system enhancer and a growth agent and muscle builder. In fact, it acts in exactly the same manner as the synthetic form of HGH. The difference being that velvet antler is completely natural.

Since velvet antler stimulates both immune system and the growth and repair of muscle tissue it is also known as an anti-aging herb for both men and women, a muscle builder for athletes and as a male enhancement herb for sexual vitality.

Any further research in terms of searching google led to little except an old post from HeightQuest.com about the possibility that the extract from deer antler might be used for height increase (post “Grow taller by eating deer antlers?”) The post is long and it was hard for me to summarize Tyler’s result. The post seems to imply that the extract from Deer Antlers might have chondrogenic properties (like helping it differentiate down the chondrogenic lineage or induce chondrocyte proliferation) but it might not be the best idea to take it orally.

If I was to view the website from the point of view of an Internet Marketer, I would say that this website is designed very similar to the Elevate GH supplement/website which I had reviewed many posts back in “Review Of Elevate GF Height Increase Pill, The Other Internet Marketing Supplement”

I think I can easily end this post by saying that this product has never been intended to be sold as a grow taller supplement, although it seems to have the active ingredients of HGH which might be helpful for children who are still growing. The HGH which would make children with open growth plates taller than just through their natural growth progression would in an adult with full bone maturity help them increase physical vitality, make them feel younger, and help them gain more muscle mass back. There are enough PubMed studies which show that if you as an adult with closed growth plates take HGH into the system, you will feel younger, gain slightly higher energy, become more “cut” or defined in your muscles, and possibly also increase sexual performance and stamina.

It would seem that the only link between made between this Deer Antler Plus oral supplement with possible height increase was made by one website that is now inactive.

However as we all know this is a website devoted to the research of height increase, not muscle size increase. So I will leave this product from full judgement since that is not our job as height increase researchers.

This is another product that I found from a Ayurvedic Indian Online Shop that is similar to Ebay.com called AyurvedResearchFoundation.com. It is also found from another website.

The product is called “Long Looks Height Gain Capsules”

Quick Analysis:

From just a quick glance at the ingredients that are supposed to be in the pills, there is nothing that makes me believe that any of them would cause bone increase, or osteogenesis, much less chondrogenesis. It does seem to be sold towards younger people and it is said to work only on adolescents to young adults, age 25. This product would be valid if it had any type of bone increase or bone mineral density compounds but it does not from my own research.

There are things like…

• Neem Extract Powder
• Amla Extract Powder
• Spirulina

From the Wikipedia articule on Spirulina,…Spirulina is a cyanobacterium that can be consumed by humans and other animals and is made primarily from two species of cyanobacteria.

Neem Extract seems to come from a tree and has been used in medicine for a long time to treat multiple types of medical conditions. If I was to take a guess, the Neem Extract seems to be used a lot towards lowering inflammation. From this other reference HERE…

Amla extract seems to be from a plant. From this website HERE, I take the section on Amla Extract…

Amla Berry (Amalaki) or Gooseberry, is a rich, whole food source of vitamin C that exhibits antiviral, antimicrobial properties. It is the primary rejuvenative herb used in the famous “Chyawanprash Herbal Blend” in Traditional Ayurvedic Medicine. 

When used in conjunction with medicinal mushrooms and MSM, amalaki powder is of great benefit as a vitamin C potentiator. Amalaki is also used in accelerating the healing process of tissues and decreasing inflammation. Because amalaki provides significant amounts of antioxidants, it has also been used to balance out the blood sugar.  

Amalaki has a synergistic relationship with medicinal mushrooms, and for this reason will complement herbal elixirs. Use amalaki extract in smoothies, homemade ice creams, fruit/vegetable juices, or mix with water. For external use, amalaki extract can be used in homemade lotions, body scrubs, and skin creams.

Conclusion: 

If I was to take a guess, I would say that the Long Looks Height Gain Herbal Capsules is a mixture of plant and tree extracted compounds which have anti-inflammatory and anti-viral properties. This might not have osteogenic or chondrogenic properties but it might improve the overall immune system of a still growing person and allow them to have less occurences of illness while they are growing up. There is evidence that every time a young child develops a serious illness when they are young, their Bone Mineral Density increases and the rate of longitudinal growth in their bones decreases slightly. If this compound was taken, it might help optimize the normal growth rate and progession in a young kids. However, there is no way that this sold product/supplement will be able to increase the growth rate in a child. It can only possibly decrease chances of minor stunted growth.

From the product description section….

 

Something that I have also been seeing a lot of recently is this product called ACCU-HID Height Increase sold on the website HikPik.com. It would appear that the product being solve is a grow taller “program” which consists of a insole, a small pamphlet and a CD. The cost on the website is 1990 Rupees which converts to around $36.50 USD on today’s money exchange conversions.

On the front page it says…

ACCU-HID Height increasing product is a well-known Japanese product helps you to grow height in natural ways with the usage of magneto therapy. Using our products, you will be 100% satisfied and can find the noticeable results within 90 days of regular usage. If you want to increase your height than ACCU-HID Height increaser is the best way to increase height naturally without any side-effects.

How Does ACCU-HID Height Increaser Works?

ACCU-HID Height increasing device develops the production of Hormones within the human body by naturally reactivating pituitary glands. You can wear this height increasing device or product in your feet for just 20 Minutes with shoes in the morning & evening for regular 90 days and you can find the results guaranteed. Normally, your height will grow up to 3 to 5 Inches.

ACCU-HID helps in Developing Hormones

In order to get the best results from ACCU-HID, you can stimulate the nerve points below your feet and it will help in growth of hormones within the human body resulting in growing your height. ACCU-HID is being designed by experts and professionals by computer by following newly developed scientific concepts that aim to stimulate nerve points of one’s feet. This stimulation resulted in improved growth of hormones which further leads to increasing development of the cartilaginous part of the vertebrae & the bones in the lower part of the body. Normally your growth can be stagnant due to the inactiveness of you pituitary glands. ACCU-HID, reenergize your pituitary gland.

Spinal Cord Extension

Several scientific research have proven that most of the young ones can grow few extra inches taller even after bones in the lower part of the body become ossified. It has been proven that human height can increase up to 35% after the growth in the length of the thigh bone, shin bone and other bones in the lower part of the human body; the length of the spinal cord also increases. Human body is consists of special 33 bone segments known as vertebrae. Out of these 33 vertebrae, lowest nine are constitute in immovable bones. Other 24 vertebrae are movable. Disks are located between each of these 24 vertebrae. The height is being influenced by the thickness of the disks. The total number of disks presents in the human body is twenty five and these all are accountable for your height increase.

Perfect Stretching & Exercising With ACCU-HID

There is possibility that your spinal cord can be lengthy to 2-3 inches with the regular usage of Original ACCU-HID height increasing device with appropriate stretching regular exercises. The extra growth in hormones is developed by the proper usage of Original ACCU-HID height increasing products. The bones will not only grow in height but also become thicker & stronger. Regular and appropriate stretching & exercising methods can become more result-oriented and this can result in increasing your height up to 2 inches by renewing your bones.

Direction to use ACCU-HID Height increase Device …

Wear ACCU-HID Height increase Device in your shoes for at least twenty minutes a day.
• Do regular stretching, walking, and exercise.

• For best results with ACCU-HID wear it two times in a day that is 15 Minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in evening.

• Do not overuse ACCU-HID otherwise it can cause pain in your feet. So it is strongly recommended to not to use it more than 40-50 minutes in a day. Don’t overuse it which may lead to pain in your foot. So it is advisable to use not more than 30 minutes.

Analysis & Interpretation:

The fact that this website has a product sold in the currency of rupees says that this product is created by and for people in India. Under the Contact Us tab I found the address to be 944, Karol Bagh, New Delhi, India-110005. For more contact information you go to 
Call Us: 91-9266944466
Email: info@hikpik.com

So what is the verdict? It would be easy to just say that this product is another scam being peddled to young kids in India who feel insecure about their stature and does charge a high price in relative comparison to how much the average Indian person aka GDP of the country of India. On some side places of the webpage they change the product price to be 1200 Rupees which is a lot of money.

If we wanted to do a deeper analysis on the actual product, we realize that the insole that is being sold has the exact same theory being used as the YOKO or KIMI insoles which has been reviewd by this website (at “Product Review 2 – Yoko Height Increasing Insoles”) but also other real legitimate height increase research websites on the internet like “Acupuncture to Grow Taller“. Tyler has concluded for a long time that these Insole based grow taller products are scams. It was tested by Sky years ago on his EasyHeight.com website where he actually bought the insole and tried it out to give it a chance. After 2-3 years of doing the Insoles, along with other techniques and methods he developed Skye did not increase in height. So at least for him, the Insoles did not help in making him grow taller.

It would seem that this product is the exact same thing sold as what was found in the 90s in Japan when the YOKO and KIMI products came out. The explanation on why these insoles would work are the same too. They talk about the fact that the bumps on the Insole will stimulate pressure points on the soles of the feet to increase pituitary gland production increase.

What the website and the product sellers also get wrong is to suggest that the product will “reactivate” the pituitary glands to secrete growth hormones again when it is well known in neurobiology that the pituitary glands never stop secreted the growth hormones, aka somatotropins. It is only that after a person reaches in age past puberty, the rate at which growth hormones are released is decreased dramatically.

The programs to make a person taller by 3-5 inches within 90 days after doing the stretching exercises and wearing the insoles for 20 minutes a day. I personally would feel a lot better if they just tried to sell the grow taller stretching guide than the Insoles since that is the section of information that will give at least a temporary increase in height.

In conclusion, this product of a insole ACCU-HID Height Increase by the website HikPik.com would not work. Is it a scam? Yes it is.

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Many months ago, when the website/blog was being first developed, I thought I would try to do a Product Review Series on the types of pills, supplements, or drinks that were out there selling the miracle pill to make people grow taller and increase their height.

After around the 10th product review, I got tired of writing the same type of review over and over again, trying to stay completely objective and give every single sold grow taller supplement or height increase pill a complete fair assessment. I stopped writing the series, but I have not stopped writing product reviews. It is just that I have stopped trying to organize and keep everything so neat and easy to locate.

So this is another review, this one called MONSTER BS FORMULA which is sold on the website Adultheightincrease.blogspot.com 

Update April 15, 2013: After doing a little more research it seems that HeightQuest.com has already done a review on the website AdultHeightIncrease.Blogspot.com at “Is Adult Height Increase a scam?” looking at two compounds that they have been selling at least back in Sept, 2010. It is interesting that Tyler would reference a Homeopathic formulations website Dr. Reckeweg’s formulas. He had concluded that from the blue and red pills that it might be possible that Joey might have figured out some combination that might really work. Relevant formulas would be R34 Calcossin, R46 Arthiritis Formula, and R73 Spondarthin. Joey wanted to stimulate for Collagen Type II increase.

There were supposed to be X-rays of people who took the compounds but I don’t think there was any updates for proof that the homeopathic formulations for adult height increase really worked. Of course all this was back in 2010. Who knows what has happened since then in the development and evolution of the website and all those trials.

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From a first quick look at the website, it seems that the person decided to create it from the Blogspot blogging platform, unlike WordPress is free to start and open. It is colorful and I would say well designed for a blog. There is even a Discussion Board connected at Official Discussion Board for the Adult Height Increase Product. I do like the creator’s/Tim’s mission statement.

Mission Statement

A blog dedicated to development and proving of a true 100% oral adult height increase product.

I would say that the 2013 version of the website seems to be the next phase in the blog. There is a nice documentary video from the Make Me Taller boards which were uploaded to the sidebar. S&M: Short and Male – a documentary by Howard Goldberg from MMT Admin on Vimeo.

From what I can tell about the current formula Tim has created, there is 2 parts to it, the PTH-C Formulate and the Muscle Builder.

For the PTH-C Formula...

Removes some calcium from the bones by stimulating parathyroid hormone and suppressing calcitonin to keep them softer  enable them to attain a “growable state” akin to hyaline cartilage or the material of the growth plate and baby skeleton.

For the Muscle Builder…

Increases supply and utilization of oxygen to tissues through increased lung inspiration capacity and faster circulation to influence the stem cells  to create cartilages to grow the softened bones through action similar to hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Analysis & Interpretation:

Tyler said that this idea of Tim’s/Joey’s might work.  From looking at the old 2009 posts and the discussion boards, the formulations creator has been able to get quite a few to buy the compound.  Some of them claim to get interesting tingling feeling in their joints, like knees and shins. Others had other side effects.

There have been claims by a few people that they did seem to grow around 1/2-1 inches rather quickly in the next few weeks after they started taking the mixtures.

If I was to break down the science, I would say that calcium removal from the bones is a reasonably good idea. I agree that if you wanted some type of oral supplement to work in a non-invasive approach to lengthen/stretch the long bone, the first step is to make the bones sort of elastic enough to cause plastic deformation in them. The calcium hydroxyapatite crystals are what makes the human bones so strong, giving them really high compressive loading values. It is absolutely true that the Parathyroid Hormones have this way to cause the calcium in bones to be either resorbed or stripped out.

However my counter-arguement is how would a person control which areas in the body should the formulation work on? would the formulation also make the vertebrate and ribs also “softer”? It doesn’t seem to suggest just where the formulas will have their functions on, in either a local or systemic approach.

Plus, if the bones like get stripped of the calcium, the person would have a weaker bones, which would mean that they are likely to have bone partial collapse. If you can strip bones of their hardness due to calcium, the entire skeletal structure would be so weak that the person with weak bones would be crushed by the weight of their organs to a puddle of muscle and skin on the ground.

As for the 2nd part, the muscle builder, it would seem that the person would link to the scientific study “Stem cell mobilization by hyperbaric oxygen”. The argument is that with a hyperbaric chamber, which give the individual 100% oxygen, would give the stem cells much more chances to differentiate into the chondrogenic lineage. The researchers wrote in the study…

THE GOAL of this investigation was to determine whether exposure to hyperbaric oxygen (HBO₂) would mobilize bone marrow-derived stem/progenitor cells (SPCs) in humans and animals. Pluripotent SPCs from adults exhibit properties similar to embryonic SPCs and hold promise for treatment of degenerative and inherited disorders

The study does suggest that the stem cells in the body would increase and increase the Nitric Oxide concentration byt stimulate NO production. I agree that there is a correlation between NO increase and CNP increase and possible height increase since I wrote a post a while back between the connection of CNPs and Nitric Oxide. However the study does not talk about the stem cells differentiating specifically into chondrocytes and then forming cartilage. It only says that the stem cells are increased. If I was to guess, those stem cells are more likely to differentiate into bone cells, osteocytes and osteoblasts.

The type of cartilage we are looking for, hyaline cartilage is actually avascular and is formed in non-aerobic aka anaerobic environments. This means that chondrocytes and cartilage are formed in places without oxygen. Oxygenation has always been associated with calcification and ossifcation, which I talked about in the post where I explained why the Articular cartilage don’t seem to calcify and ossify due to Chondromulin Type I and the the Sox-9 gene (post is “Why Does The Epiphyseal Cartilage Disappear But The Articular Cartilage Remain? (Breakthrough!)”)  This means that on a theoretical basis, at least the 2nd part of this grow taller formulation makes no sense.

In addition, when I searched further around the webpage, I was taken to another blogspot page where the Monster BS Formula is sold and marketed as a Muscle Increase Formula,

Interestingly, Tyler wrote a post also about the use of using Hyperbaric Chambers on his blog entitled “Lengthening your Body with a Hyperbaric Chamber?”. He had concluded that the HBO did not increase any of the normal markers which would indicate increased chondrocyte expression like Collagen Type II, Aggrecan, etc. However it does make the mesenchymal stem cells move around faster. It seems that there might be some increased chondrocyte increase but the increased atmospheric pressure seems to equalize out the increased expression of chondrocyte, if there is any.

Conclusion

If I was to guess at the website and say whether it is a scam or not, I would say that it is only half a scam. I would believe that the people who are trying really do hope to find a real solution. However they are not willing to put themselves in danger or harms way by being the guinea pigs to test trial out the formulations they make. I am not sure whether the people who run the website actually charge desperate height increase seekers a lot of money for the powders or pills they are supposed to take. I don’t think that the people who are trying to make formulations are deliberately trying to trick the people who buy these formulations.

So the two main problems I have with these guys is that they are not willing to try out the stuff themselves from fear of side effects and damaging their own bodies but give the stuff to other people passing off the stuff. They are also charging the desperate people for these formulations many money from it, which I believe 99% of the permutations and combinations they will try will do nothing expect maybe poison the subject’s/guinea pig’s bodies.

I would say that they are trying ideas and hoping something works. It may be for them where the formulations guys is also hoping that maybe one day they will find one that does work. They are also hoping to make money from doing all this research, instead of for nothing. Most of the people who are willing to put this much research on the endeavor of growing taller after growth plate ossification are probably hoping to also make money from it in some ways, which would include me, Tyler Sky, Hakker, and so many others. We wish to change the world, make billions of dollars if we are successful, and also find out a way to become taller and be called a genius.

As a conclusion, I have sent Timothy at the email address adultheightincrease@gmail.com a message asking whether he is willing to come on the Natural Height Growth Podcast to be interviewed about his research on making grow taller supplement formulations for so many years.

Let’s hope he will accept the invitation to talk with me. Like I always say, anonymity and privacy is something I will always protect to the podcast interviewees.