Something that me and Tyler realize at this point is that intermittent mechanical loading may be one of the best approaches we have towards something that could work. However that chance is very small. The entire LSJL approach is based on short bursts of mechanical loading that is repeated maybe once or twice a day for a few days and then stopped, and then restarted a week later and have that cycle also repeated.

The reason why any type of stimuli that would be applied to the human body must be intermittent is that the human body (or any living organism’s body for that matter) has this ability to be able to react to stimuli from the external world and shift the way the systems in the body in how they work to a new set point of equilibrium.

The best example of this is when people who first start out trying weak drugs develop a tolerance for the weaker drugs and need to take stronger drugs to get the same type of effect they had when they first started out. Their body after continuous stimuli by the outside influence shifted the way the brain worked either upregulating or down regulating certain types of brain neurotransmitters and that resulting in a new place of physiological equilibirum.

The same principles apply to why Hakker and steroid researchers and users would talk about the need to cycle through the compounds. Cycling allows the body to re-set its equilibirum back to a state where the weaker stimuli would still have an effect.

Tyler talks about the fact that maybe the long bone epiphysis he has been loading for these years might have lost their sensitivity so he had to increase the dumb-bells he has been loading with. He had been able to theoretically increase the duration of the loading effectiveness by going off of the loading for a few days.

In my opinion, the mechano-sensitivity he is talking about is something that is unknown at this time.  I don’t believe Tyler can tell whether his epiphysis will still even respond to loading anymore. It could be that the loading he has done even from doing it intermittently has cause the area of bone to stop being able to respond at all to the loading anymore, whether electrically due to piezo nature of bone or any other type of Wolff’s Law bone remodeling patterns.

It could be that he needs to stop loading for an extended amount of time, maybe 2 months before starting again to give the bone area a chance to regenerate the osteogenic properties again.

This article I found seems to show that bone disorders where bone mineral density drops can be negated by doing mechanical loading

Method and device for treating bone disorders by applying preload and repetitive impacts

ABSTRACT

Bone disorders may be treated by applying a compressive preload and repetitive impacts. The patient may be maintained in a static position and the preload be provided by gravity or compression. The impact load, impact rate, and a number of impacts determined by a physician prior to treatment are chosen to generate electrical signals in the patient’s bone such that the majority of energy of the electrical signals lies between 0.1 Hz and 1 kHz, and the peak amplitude values of the electrical signals lie between 15 and 30 Hz.

Analysis & Interpretation

This shows that for bone growth, the compressive repetitive impacts do work. LSJL will work to promote bone growth. The values that is cited in this paper are very low actually at around 0.1-10,000 Hz. The amplitude of the loading is around 15-30 Hz.

Note: This is not an ordinary post, but a patent. There is more in the Description section of the patent.

To slow or reverse bone loss, doctors have focused their attention on estrogens, calcium, and exercise, used either together or individually. More recently, fluorides and thiazides have been tested as therapeutic agents, but none of these approaches has been successful in restoring a severely depleted skeletal bone mass to normal. In addition, many elderly individuals with advanced bone loss cannot participate in exercise programs due to poor reflexes, motor tone and balance, as well as stress pain and stress fractures.

Certain researchers have suggested an electrical intermediary in Wolff’s law. Wolff’s law states, in short, that bone adapts to the forces acting upon it. In other words, bone will increase in mass and remodel to relieve the applied stress.

Because bone is piezoelectric and electrokinetic, it generates an electrical signal in response to the applied force. That electrical signal then effects bone formation. This is explained in Bassett, “Effect of Force on Skeletal Tissues,” Physiological Basis of Rehabilitation Medicine, Downey and Darling eds., 1st ed., W. B. Saunders Co. (1971). On the basis of Wolff’s law and more recent investigations, two techniques have been developed for treatment of bone disorders. One involves mechanical forces and the other involves electrical forces.

Implications For Height Increase

The patent is an interesting read and shows that we can indeed grow bone mass at least from a short intense repetitive loading on bones so that the bones will induce electricity, which somehow stimulate some type of bone growth.

Overall, this patent is useful in showing that we have at least clear evidence that the LSJL method has already been proposed by some researchers before for bone mineral density problems. This is used to treat osteoporosis, not short stature.

There is supposed to be 2 techniques developed to treat bone disorders. One is mechanical and the other is electrical.

Mechanical –  periodical strain rates and cycling patterns generate maximal osteogenic response in avian bones….an experiment demonstrated that cyclically loading the bones at 0.5 Hz caused bone formation, although repetition of more than 36 cycles did not seem to increase bone formation.

Electrical – in vitro and in vivo measurements showed the electrical potentials developed due to bone deformation…. the development of products for the stimulation of bone tissue electromagnetically.

It seems that the end result for both of the techniques is that the bones being deformed create a electrical signal.

The main thing to get out of this is that LSJL has a very good chance of increasing growth rates in people with open growth rates. It might have a smaller chance of working on people with no growth plate cartilages if we can somehow get the bone layer underneath the articular cartilage to be slightly more osteogenic. LSJL might be able to do that in a small minority of people who try it.