I was going through the forum Make Me Taller when a certain thread did increase my curiosity “JTS Implant for height increase?“. The forum members were rather excited about this technology and the science is indeed there backing up what is claimed.

It seems that there is a way for at least young kids to lengthen their legs using a type of device that does not involve surgery. There is actually a YouTube video referenced entitled “What Is The Lengthening Procedure Like?”

On the website Implants For Children there is a section that talks about what exactly is the JTS implant at “What Is JTS?”

The Science Behind This Limb Lengthening Method Without Surgery

Due to some type of illness or disorder which will cause the bone tissue in a limb/leg to be useless and can not be saved by surgeons, there is a type of metal implant that is surgically implanted in the place where bone tissue used to be.

This implant is mechanical in nature. There is a small but powerful gearbox in the implant. The gearbox is strong enough to release an output force which is high enough to pull legs apart using a special gear mechanism.

To lengthen the leg, the gear is put in an external drive unit. The drive unit is turned on causing electrical current to run through the electrical coil in the drive unit. This causes a magnetic force to be created rotating at 3000 rpm.

From the webpage…

“This rotation is captured by the magnet within the implant and is passed through the gearbox to extend the device. The implant will grow at 1mm every 4 minutes, thereby slowly stretching the soft tissues”

The benefits of this type of leg lengthening is that is is very precise, it is noninvasive for the stretching, does not require sedation, low chance for infection, is almost pain free, and the patient can go home the exact same day.

Implication For Height Increase Seekers

While the forum members got slightly excited about this prospective new method, they quickly become disenchanted when they found out that this method would involve where there would have to be a metal implant permanently placed in their body as well as having a major portion of their leg bone removed for the metal implant to be go in.

The device is only allowed for kids who have suffered from some type of disorder which caused major parts of the bone tissue in their leg to be damaged beyond repair and the child also has to be young enough where they would most likely still have growth plates meaning that they are supposed to be still growing taller. The implant is almost always done for one leg only so that the implant can increase in length at the same rate as the other leg which is not infected so that when the child is finished growing taller and the growth plates in the limbs fuse, the implant is finally set in its final length and no longer increased any more.

The technology is really incredible, but I would suspect that most people who want to grow taller would have no desire to go through a very invasive surgery in the beginning and have an extendible metal implant permanently placed in their body. It probably makes more sense for people to go through with the limb lengthening surgery with the external fixator or internal rods to increase the length of their legs instead because at least after 2 years at most (usually 1-15 year), a 2nd major surgery is done where the internal rods or the external fixator is finally removed.

This method for potential height increase is viable, but there probably is not that many people who would be willing to go through with it. In Addition, of the few locations around the world which does this type of metal implant and external drive lengthening, none of them currently would allow any healthy person with good legs to go through with this type of surgery for a cosmetic reason for only increasing their height.

In this series which shows how growth and overal adult height is correlated with other areas of one’s life, I move towards the connection between educational attainment and self reported height of men at the age of 18.

Study #1: Height at age 18 years is a strong predictor of attained education later in life: cohort study of over 950,000 Swedish men.

RESULTS:

The odds ratio (OR) for attaining higher education 7-27 years after baseline was 1.10 [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.09-1.10] in fully adjusted models per 5 cm increase in height. Men taller than 194 cm were two to three times more likely to obtain a higher education as compared with men shorter than 165 cm. The association remained within brother-pairs, OR 1.08 (95% CI 1.07-1.10), suggesting that non-familial factors contribute to the association between height and education attainment. A significant interaction (P < 0.0001) was found between year of birth, height, and attained education, showing slightly weaker associations among later birth cohorts.

CONCLUSIONS:

The strong positive association between height and educational achievement remaining after adjustment for year of birth, parental socioeconomic position, other shared family factors, and cognitive ability may reflect educational discrimination based on height although residual confounding cannot be ruled out.

Analysis:

So this almost 1 million large in size of Swedish men back in the 1970s had their height noted when they were 18 and then it seems that at the age of 27 (or 7-27 after the height was reported) they were found by the researchers and asked about the level of education they did achieve at the end. The researchers were testing to see what were the socioeconomic effects of height.

The most striking thing that was stated was probably “Men taller than 194 cm were two to three times more likely to obtain a higher education as compared with men shorter than 165 cm.”

This translates to mean that men who were taller than 6′ 4″ were 2-3 X more likely to get a college degree than men who were shorter than 5′ 5″. So can we blame it on genetics, saying that taller men are just smarter than shorter men? Or is it the result of upbringing, where the human tendency to discriminate against shorter men resulted in shorter men having less confidence in their own cognitive abilities and thus give up on attaining as much higher education as their taller counterparts?

The statement “suggesting that non-familial factors contribute to the association between height and education attainment” might shed a little light on this issue.

This shows that when the study was done on brothers who obviously had slight height differences, the same educational difference was also noticed. Brothers (like sisters being siblings) probably are as close in genetic material as possible. The biggest difference that can be seen between one brother and another brother from a phenotypical point of view would be height. On average, the brothers should be around the same level of intelligent although it would be clear that on an individual sibling comparison one side would on average be smarter than the other.

This means that genetics may not be as important towards educational attainment as say the social feedback one receives from one’s teachers and professors for being of a certain stature.

There is also a correlation with the fact that for people who are born in later order compared to their siblings, the correlation between height and educational attainment is decreased.

The researchers concluded at the end that the difference in educational attainment from height difference was of “cognitive ability may reflect educational discrimination based on height“. This means that because a person might be taller than average, they more likely got positive feedback on their cognitive abilities which lead to them developing the confidence to go through with higher levels of education.

Note that the following factors were all considered and factor out to standardize the results as much as possible…

• year of birth
• parental socioeconomic position
• other shared family factors
• cognitive ability

While I personally have not done enough research yet on the effects of how acquiring the habit of smoking in one’s prepubescent years will affect one’s growth and eventual adult height, this study I found does show a correlation between the effects of how one will turn out in terms of final adult height with the amount of smoking one’s mother did while they were still pregnant with us.

The results from previous/past studies looking at how the high levels of smoking the pregnant mother will effect the adult height of the unborn baby show that any stunted growth is minimal. There was a fraction of an inch of decrease in height but that was explained away from researchers stating that there were so many variables to consider and that the slight difference could be just as well explained to be from lower social classes, less ability to get to resources like nutritious food to eat, etc.

In fact, for girls there seems to be no height change at all for girls where their mothers smoked or didn’t smoke. The researchers for this study went back and tried to prove conclusively that if the mother did have a habit of smoking extensively, the baby would ultimately result in some noticeable amount of decreased height.

Study #1: Smoking in pregnancy and development into early adulthood.

Abstract

This study I recently found sort of actually contradicts an old idea that have been going on.

Study #1: The association between height and birth order: evidence from 652 518 Swedish men.

Results:

Unadjusted analyses showed no differences between the first two birth orders but in the fixed effects regression, birth orders 2, 3 and 4 were associated with 0.4, 0.7 and 0.8 cm (p<0.001 for each) shorter height than birth order 1, respectively. The associations were similar in large and small and high-SEP and low-SEP families, but were attenuated in recent cohorts. Birth characteristics did not explain these associations.

CONCLUSIONS:

Birth order is an important determinant of height. The height difference between birth orders 3 and 1 is larger than the population-level height increase achieved over 10 years. The attenuation of the effect over cohorts may reflect improvements in living standards. Decreases in family size may explain some of the secular-height increases in countries with decreasing fertility.

Analysis

Now this is just one study but the study seems to be done on over half a million Swedish men where the measurement of height was taken when they were just 18 years old, which is believed to be the average age when the vertical growth in males should have stopped.

The old idea that was stated by other scientific studies was that the siblings and kids who are born later like child #3 or child #4 would end up to be taller on average. The rational for that was that the uterus for the mother during the first pregnancy (and maybe also the 2nd pregnancy) would have been smaller than the subsequent pregnancies. The size of the fetus or baby before birth is said to have been determined by the size of the the uterus or womb it was carried in. Maybe to the average person without anytype of obstetric training, it might be ‘common sense’ to think that once the baby before birth pushed the womb up to a certain size, the uterus will start to go through the contraction signifying that birth is supposed to occur.

There are already some studies that show that larger females in terms of taller mothers and mothers with wider hips do give birth to heavier and taller babies. In some old posts I had used the logic that the size of how big a person will become may be mainly determined by how large they are at the moment that they are born. My logic back then which seems to be proven false from this study is the idea that the larger the uterus and womb was from the start the larger the baby will be before it actually comes out.

I would have guessed that children born later in order should be bigger. However this study says that the earlier children, the 1st and 2nd child of a couple seem to become taller. Why?

What is noted is that there might be a social-economic correlation between decreased family size and increased children sizes. This might mean that the size of a child can be partly determined by the amounf of resources (ie food, time, energy) the parents of the child can give to it on an individual basis. Perhaps as the first and second born, the child gets more attention and energy from the parents than if they were the last of a ‘litter’ and the decrease in resources due to resource sharing alone from having so many siblings is all that is required to end up just slightly shorter than one’s older siblings.

Update 7/19/2013: This small battle over legal issues has finally been resolved since the website was turned back on and the domain names were given back. It was resolved when I called the Terms of Services department of Blue Host and tried to argue my point. They informed me that all that I had to do was to take down any information about the company that is making the claims, which would be two posts written in the earliest of the website’s development, and they would turn it back on. After weighing over the options, the only thing that I could do with the limited amount of options was to accept the terms that I was forced into. I turned off the 2 posts and the website was allowed to go back up. I hope this type of issue does not happen again and I am currently taking action to protect this website and make sure that DMCAs and other legal issues will not happen again.

Update 7/18/2013: I would get an email this day from the tech support department of BlueHost saying that they were forced to take down this website because the DMCA that was written was claiming that a Trademark rule was being affected, not a Copyright rule. I would seem that a counter-DMCA is only applicable and good for Copyright issues, not Trademark issues. I was not made aware of this fact since I am not a lawyer. I only did what was advised to me at the time yesterday when I called the sales or legal team through the BlueHost contact services.

Since the website was shut down as well as all of the other websites that I have, I had to give an email to all of the regular readers and loyal followers of this website with the following message…

As a loyal follower and reader of the Natural Height Growth website I have to inform you that the website has been currently suspended by the hosting company BlueHost.

This is due to a malicious act by the company who sell the (Product that is not named) named (Company that is not named) International Inc. based in Quebec, Canada.

They have sent a DMCA cease and desist letter claiming that I and the website Natural Height Growth have used their Trademark illegally and gone through the proper legal procedures to make sure that the negative review I wrote about their product is breaking a Trademark rule.

I followed the companies first request to take down the post which was a review of their main product claiming that it would not work as well they claimed on their sales webpage.

They would email BlueHost again asking that I take down another section of the website, the one about Scam Companies, which they are listed.

The 2nd one is information is not even my own but taken from the website Short Support so legally they have no way to really inforce it in the courts.

I sent BlueHost a counter DMCA request as instructed by the legal team whom I called but today they have taken the website down. It seems that the instructions that were given to me was wrong. DMCAs on trademark can not be replied with a counter DMCA. I only followed the directions.

Bluehost is afraid of legal action but they should not be. There is no way that a person or Organization who sells a horrible, possibly scam product on the internet would be able to make enough revenue or have deep enough pockets to take either me or BlueHost to court and win. What bluehost is doing is protecting themselves from civil suit.

I have no idea when the website will come up, if ever, but it seems that jealousy was the main culprit. Hopefully I will be able to bring the website back up within 2 months.

Update 7/17/2013: I would get another email today from my hosting service provider today where the people of this company who is selling a grow taller product online is again claiming that I am infringing on their copyright laws because I claimed on the Scam Companies section of the website which is actually information taken from another website. If they have a problem, the issue is not with me, it is with the other website since that website is the real source. However, this 2nd request from the company to BlueHost has pushed me over the edge on how greedy and malicious they are trying to be.

This is why I wrote a very long email to the sales department of the company with an Official Response in the title.

Email Title: Official Response        To: Sales Department of Intended company

Your recent order to my hosting company for a DMCA forced me to learn much more about the legal issue behind this issue.

The first complaint seemed to have validity when I first got the email and I was ignorant of the legal aspects. I complied to your company’s request to be cautious and actually reviewed the entire situation. I took down the post to be civil.

Now your 2nd request which was not a formal DMCA and actually linked to a webpage whose information which is not mine but from the Short Support website (who I made sure to reference and cite) shows that you guys thought you can abuse the DMCA policy. On the 2nd request, you guys have absolutely no validity.

This is what the cult of Scientology has done to silence its critics who write bad things about them. Many people in the legal profession realize that this rule is being abused. and your company is doing just that.

I would assume that this (Company Who Will Not Be Named) company is a real company selling some type of Chinese based products. The Patent is probably real too. But you guys know as well as me that there is a 60% chance that in court, the judge will side with my side just based on the legal aspects.

(Update 6/14/2014: It turns out that this company does NOT have a real patent, but only a trademark claim, which I found and kept as a legal document. I looked at the patent databased on Canada and there is no mentioned or listing of any type of product developed by the company.)

I wrote a bad review for the product and you guys are trying to silence it. I am citing the Fair Use rule from the US. Since you guys appear to be a real company and have a product that may not be a complete scam, I will be willing to keep that 1 post in “private mode”.

I have filed a formal counter-DMCA against the company.

In the long term, any business that is based on selling a below average product which can not produce the results its consumers really hope for does not have a sustainable business model. I did NOT say your company sells a scam product but that it can not give the massive height increase that its customers are really hoping for.

You guys should have known that one day someone will come along to clean up this specific area of the internet and formalize it. It will no longer be in a “wild west” style where everything goes and  any height increase e-product will be bought by desperate individuals hoping for any answer.

This how I see the situation. If (Company that is not named) has big enough pockets to file a suit against me, then a counter-suit will come directly after the end of the first suit, since I would know that this corporation has deep pockets to take from. I will go after all of this company’s asset.

Cool your heads, If you guys consider yourselves smart, you would use SEO, PR, and company branding to make your company better and stronger and figure out how to push your websites up higher in the Google and Bing search rankings.

If however your primary emotion on this issue is a zero-sum, competition way of thinking, with the primary motive being vindictiveness and revenge for me stating the most obvious, you can not win in any arena, in the courts, in business, or in life, at least in the short time. I ask that you guys review your own intentions and emotions.

If you think the only way for your company to ‘win’ is to attack the person who is actually trying to make the internet and the world a better place, by giving actual real hope to desperate young teenagers who feel low self-esteem, and educating them as well, then ultimately your business will fail.

I can show you guys at least a dozen emails from people who write from all across the world thanking me for creating this website which is being so helpful. They tell me how tired they are of all the scams and fake product on the internet and feel extremely thankful and grateful that I have created this authority website that they can turn to for this issue.

Maybe it was that back in 2006 when the internet was younger people were more naive and ignorant of the facts of what it really takes to become taller and that allowed for the company to do really well in sale but in 2013 the people are becoming smarter. Sales numbers might still be there but mostly likely they would be decreasing over time.

At the end of the day I would actually be even willing to help you guys and promote the book if it was helpful and rewritten. I was even going to write a review on the Patent you guys have listed to possibly show that your product is based on real science and maybe the (Company that is not named) is actually valid and shows high efficacy.

I have been wrong before. I had stated that the organization Biomedical Growth Research Initiative was a scam in the beginning, but after exchanging emails with Harald who is its representative and answering his questions, I wrote a public formal apology stating that his organization was real and I have been helping promote the organization ever since.

Refer to Post: www.naturalheightgrowth.com/2012/08/28/public-apology-to-the-biomedical-growth-research-initiative/

So show me the patent and maybe I can look over the science and validate your product.

Like I said to Tyler from Height Quest and every other website who is in this endeavor, ultimately our goal is to possibly find a solution.

This endeavor is too big for one person or even one corporation to take on. We should be working together and helping each other, not fighting.

I have always stated that maybe we will not find anything even after all the work, but at least we can create a resource that all people should be able to turn to so that all of their concerns, issues, and questions can be answered.

That is why Tyler is actually supposed to come and join me in running the website some time this month. We are going to combine our minds together.

The real key to winning in business is to become better then any one else and provide more value to your clients and customers than anyone else. I refer to the Anthony Robbins video below.

I will not fight you guys, but if you guys choose to throw the first punch, we will be sure to bring everything we have. Cool your heads. Be professional, Give value and make a contribution to the world.

Original Post 7/16/2013:

Just yesterday I got a message to my personal email inbox from the website’s host provider BlueHost’s Legal Department stating that someone has issued an official cease and desist letter and asked that I take down a post of a review of a product they are selling.

Due to something known as the Digital Millenium Copyright Act many corporations can send this DMCA letters to people who they wish to shut up. The Church of Scientology does this practice all the time. Due to how much money Scientology has, they have the financial resources to actually have a bit behind their bark. They can take multiple people to court and play the big bully who pushes the smaller organizations around.

I will not edit anything of the old post when I actually reviews the product. I commend these people because they are using the most modern Internet Marketing tools to get backlinks and use SEO techniques to push their website up. However the product they sell does not produce the results that the people who buy from them are hoping for.

Lie #1

They claim to Bluehost that they have tried to contact me multiple times. I have NEVER gotten an email from they s and I actually went back through the email naturalheightgrowth@gmail.com inbox and search it carefully to see if they did indeed give something to me. There has been nothing.

Lie #2

They claim that I purposely hide the ‘contact me’ information. It is on the right sidebar. It was originally at the top right corner but it is now at the bottom right corner. If they took even 2 minute to search, it would have been easily found.

Note: If we were to go to court, I will show the judge this post I am going to post right now and ask that they use the Wayback Machine to check the layout of what this website looked like for the last 3-6 months and they will notice that the contact information was consistently on the right sidebar. Even 17 year old kids have been able to message me. How is it possible that these people who are supposed to be smart enough to run a ‘company’ not be able to find that text on the ride sidebar.?

I don’t want to say what exactly is the name of the product because it will be less antagonistic to these people. The fact is that this company and the product it sells has been listed under the list of companies which are scams on the website Short Support.

I have checked the company and it is NOT registered in the Canada Company Database. Judging by the name of the company, I would suspect that you are Chinese or associated with some Chinese based product. I would guess that it is probably registered and valid since there is a lot of information on the product cited.

I have looked up that patent they referenced and it is NOT in the records for Google Patents. “Pharmaceutical preparations for the treatment of growth dysfunction; Synthetic peptides for pharmaceutical purposes; Vitamin and mineral preparations for use as ingredients in the food and pharmaceutical industry.” I checked the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and it is not there either. It could be that because this company is based in Canada and I should be using another directory but I can’t find enough information about this company.

Just because these people have a legal company means nothing. I have a legal company too. I know enough of the legal stuff to show that I have not infringed on any of the copyright rules. I personally have done Trademarks before for my own US based company’s name and product. The fees are around $200-$800. I also know people who have done Patents before, those also taking thousands overall, in the range of $1000 – $20,000. I have already done research years ago to know how much a lawsuit from beginning to end will cost, including all of the attorney fees, which is usually around $50,000-200,000.

If these people want to waste both party’s (mine and their’s) money and time on legal action, then I will take them on. However, I think there are better, more useful, and more productive things that we can be doing with our lives.

I may not be in the USA or Canada, but I have NO problem in flying back and going to court to prove these people have a company that is selling ineffective products and that I did not break any rules citing the Fair Use rule.

I don’t know how much the legal fees of hiring a lawyer is in Canada, but I have a good idea on how much it would cost to do it in the US. If you guys file a suit against me, there is no way you guys can win, legally, through technicalities, or due to plan morals. The judge will side with me since I have read the wording on the Fair Use rule for 17 US107. Maybe due to the fact they are in Canada the Fair Use rule is interpreted differently but in the US, I know I am correct.

Plus, if I get angry enough at these people for wasting my money and time to go through a stupid legal battle, I will at some point do a counter-suit on these people.

There are already enough Scams trying to cheat people who wish to grow taller out in the internet which makes the internet a worse off place. This company and the product is only making things worse.

My website Natural Height Growth is one of the only honest websites on the purpose on trying to figure out how to help people increase their height, if that is even possible. My website is making the internet a more honest, transparent, better place.

If these men from Canada even took the time to read the actual post, then they would realize that I never claimed that the product they offer is a total scam. My point which is expressed as one of the last sentences is that the product can not deliver the type of results that they claim. Maybe a person can gain 1/2 an inch of height when they are in their 30s from the instructional exercise manual, but they will not gain the 3-4 inches that they really want.

I will talk to the BlueHost representatives about this issue tomorrow and see what needs to be done.