Let me state another confession. For me, I have already achieved what I wanted out of this website. I have found an answer to my questions, a solution to my problems. When I started out working on this website all I wanted to really find was to see whether it was possible to create or develop some type of device or method to increase the height of people without using the limb lengthening surgical tehcniques that we are all already very familiar with.

I have seen enough limb lenghtening videos and read many personal diaries to know that the process of limb lenghtening is very painful, very time intensive, very expensive, and can lead to a large list of medical complicaitons. I wanted to find a way for adults with closed growth plates and children with open growth plates to increase their height, using a less invasive, cheaper, less painful way.

In my searching, I have already found at least half a dozen really effective ways for children with open growth plates to legitimately increase their height and growth rate. For adults with closed growth plates, I have found also around 3-4 major ideas that will work.

So far I can claim at this point that I truly believe that from my knowledge at what types of research is going on and what inventions have already been developed which most of the public is not aware of, the technology and science is already here to give humans across the world a fulfillment of their dreams to increase their height. I have found the pieces and have connected them all together in a near complete picture and say that a less invasive height increase procedure is already possible.

So, we already have almost all of the major pieces of the puzzle and we already understand and have invented all the main pieces to make height increase completely possible. The technical side have mostly been achieved. This is for a less invasive surgical process. 

I can promise the people reading this that if the US government put about $50-100 million into the funding of a few dozen Ph. Ds to develop the entire process and precedure out in 10-20 years, everything can be done and they will succeed. One of the major problems these days is that humans can not really perform experiments and testing on other humans but I have met and known enough people who are willing to be test subjects in these experiments for height increase since they want it so badly. There are people who are willing to be a part in this project to make the human species a bigger race.

It is absolutely possible from a technical perspective to say that one day within 20 years you will be able to increase your height rather easily if the funding can be found for the right scientists to combine the knowledge that they already have. By then, I will be almost 50 and I probably won’t find that type of news or science interesting anymore when I become completely comfortable and accepting of my height and size, but for the younger generation, for the people who will want that ability and chance to be taler, they will be lucky to have it. I hope one day the people who get that height increase treatment will be able to appreciate the kind of research and work the past generation of scientists had to do to create and develop the medical technology they will have at that time.

I was doing more reading recently and I thought more about how the bones keep their thickness in tact with a relatively constant thickness. Obviously besides increasing in length, the bones are also constantly changing in the radial direction, which is termed appositional growth. To keep the bone width about the same the rate of bone absorption by the osteoclasts and the rate of bone creation by the osteoblast must be equal.

Here is a theory that I am proposing although I haven’t been able to get to a medical textbook to confirm this yet. My guess is that if we can figure out the direction in the radial direction on how bone is created and resorbed, we can simulate cartilage regrowth in the same direction to recreate a new growth plate by the natural process through either a stem cell implant or a chondrocyte/hyaline cartilage implant.

The osteoclasts seem to be working closer on the inside of the long bone, in the trabecular inner region breaking apart the nonliving calcium crystal deposits and the lacunae pits. The osteoblasts on the other hand creating the osteoid and forming new layer of bone seems to be occuring just underneath the layer known as the periosteum. from this process, if we think about the direction of bone growth, from creation to destruction, we can see that the direction of bone growth is inward. As the older bones gets replaced by the newer bone, but still keeping the constant distance in thickness, that should mean that the inner bone cells gets pushed closer and closer to the middle where they eventually get to the osteoclasts which dissolve the bone cartilage formed around there.

My suggestion then is that if we might be able to do a far less invasive surgical procedure where we just attach or plug the layer just beneath the periosteum with mutiple cartilage implants in a way to surround the bone to form a donut shape. If the direction of bone growth is in the radial direction going from outside in, then theoretically the attached cartilage would then be able to fuse into the cortical bone and slowly completely surround the entire bone and develop into a new growth plate. We know that the entire body get’s all of its cell replaced every 7 years, or so goes the urban medical myth. I don’t know what is the turnover rate or average life expectancy time of the bone cells going from the outer layer to the inner layer but if it is less than 1 year, we should be able to possibly get the entire bone area to absorb cartilage for regorwth layer.

However, the cartilage design will have to be at least 5 layers. There must be the initial sacrifice layer which the bones will eventually ossify once the cartilage gets embedded into the cortical bone over time. There must also be a layer of perichondrium on the other side of the cartilage which will eventually be used to encapsulate and protect the third layer from beign penetrated by blood vessels. It seesms that vascularization of the cartilage in the growth plate seems to result in the ossification process. The perichondrium which was around seems to be able to keep the blood vessel out, at least for a certain amount of time. Finally, at the middle of the cartilage implant will be the actual growth plate cartilage with the right chondorcytes, collagen, and proteoglycan inside.

Imagine in your mind the picture of a Macdonald’s Big Mac and you have an idea of what I am talking about. The outer bread loafs represent the cartilage which will get ossified in the gradual embedding process. The meat patties represent the perichondrium which will be to protect the middle layer and give the middle layer it’s growing abilities, and the middle patty represents the real cartilage which will eventually become what will be our new growth plates. The design of the implant must also take into consideration the constant ossification rate of the initial cartilage so the implants can’t have constant thickness themselves, but move from the intial contact to be thicker than the later thickness of the implant.

Now this is where I would like the readers (you guys) to finally give your professional opinion on this idea. I am almost positive the direction of appositional or radial bone growth goes from outside inwards. So we can possibly allow for a this process to push the implant slowly inward into the bone, until one entire thick region of the original metaphysis area gets replaced completely by cartilage.

Me: This is another post in a long series which showcase the tall people in different professions around the world. Here is a list of the tall actors that have been on the big screen whether in the blockbuster movies or the television series. I find it fun to find out how tall some actors and actresses are since I wanted to compare them to real life. They all seem to look a lot bigger on the screen than in real life. I also wanted to add to the list a little.

1. Wilt Charmberlain at 7′ 1″ – In Conan and the Destroyer

2. Kevin Peter Hall at 7′ 2″- the actor who played the Predator in first Predator movie

3. Anthony Robbins at 6′ 7″ – In “Shallow Hal”   (suffered from Pituitary Gigantism)

4. Calvin Lane at 7′ 6″- in an episode of “Walker Texas Ranger”

5. Igor Vovkovinskiy at 7′ 8″ – in movie “Hall Pass”

6. Charles Richard Moll at 6′ 8″ –  as baliff on NBC sitcom Night Court from 1983 to 1992

7. Christopher Lee at 6′ 5″ – for Count Dracula and Count Dooku.

8. John Cleese at 6′ 5″ – for James Bond Q and many others over the years.

9. Patrick Ewing at 7′ 0″, Shawn Bradley at 7′ 6″, Charles Barkley at 6′ 6″, Larry Johnson at 6′ 5″, and Michael Jordan at 6′ 6″ – on Space Jam

10. Kevin Durant at 6′ 9″ – in movie “Thunderstruck”

11. Steven Seagal at 6′ 6″ – for Under Siege series

12. Dolpha Lungren at 6′ 5″ – Rocky IV and recent Expendables movies

13. Semmy Schilt at 6′ 11.5″  – In one of the Transporter movies

14. Lou Ferrigno at 6′ 5″ – “Hulk” impersonation

15. Tony Dodd at 6′ 5″- “Final Destination” series

16. Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister at 6′ 5″ – Known for playing in the role of gangster and/or thug

17. Jeff Goldblum at 6′ 4″ – Jurasic Park

18. James Avery at 6′ 5″ – Uncle Phil on “Fresh Prince of Bel Air”

19. Vince Vaughn at 6′ 5″ – “Wedding Crashers”

20. David Hasselhoff at 6′ 4″ – Baywatch and TV personality

21. Rick Fox at 6′ 7″ – “Single Ladies”

22. Penn Jillete at 6′ 6″-6′ 7″- Magician and TV speaker

23. Ryan Stiles at 6′ 6″ – “Drew Cary Show” and “Two and Half Men”

24. Vincent Schiavelli – at 6′ 6″ – “Batman”    (suffered from Marfan’s Syndrome)

25. Michael Clarke Duncan at 6′ 5″ – For “The Green Mile”

26. Joe Manganiello at 6′ 5″ – For “Spider Man”

27. Hulk Hogan at 6′ 5″ – Wrestling

28. Stephen Fry at 6′ 5.5″ – For recent Sherlock Holmes movie, a very long list of work associated

29. John Lithgow at 6′ 4″- “Shrek” voice and 3rd rock from the sun

30. Adam Baldwin at 6′ 4″ – “Chuck” series

31. Jason Segel at 6′ 4″ – “How I Met Your Mother” and “Freaks and Geeks”

32. Jason Momoa at 6′ 4″ – for “Baywatch” and and Conan Movie

33. Rory McCann at 6′ 6″ –

34. Kevin Durand at 6′ 6″ – “Wolverine” Movie, “Legion”, “Robin Hood”

35. Ralf Möller at 6′ 6.5″ – Conan, The adventurer series

36. Ray Stevenson at 6′ 4″ – Rome TV series

37. Liam Neeson at 6′ 4″ – Schindler’s List

38. Daniel Cudmore at 6′ 7″ – X-Man: The Last Stand

39. Jack O’Halloran at 6′ 6″ – was in a few Superman movies

40.

(Note: The next list was written by a person names Stian Nielson from the IMDB website. link of the source list is located HERE)

Tall people

This post is for information and resources reasons only. No information on height increase is posted here. All of the names and listing was actually found from the website Tallpeople.com (source HERE). This is not my information but a reprint since I thought it was nice information to know and have on this website. Just another resource to use and have around.

I wanted to put another post to showcase the people who have been listed to be among the tallest in the world who has played the sport of Volleyball, nationally, professionally, or locally.

Note: I am sure that there are probably more guys who are in the 2.10 meters to 2.14 meters range who play Volleyball that I have not found or listed on this post. I know that there are some Dutch and Swedish Men’s Volleyball teams where middle blockers are up to 6′ 11″ in height. 

For Females

From Wikipedia….

Nelly Alisheva – She is a middle blocker from Russia who currently plays for Omichka Omsk in the Russian Super League. Nelly was born on born December 20, 1983 in Lipetsk and she stands  2.05 m (6 ft 9 in). Nelly Alisheva (Russian: Нелли Алишева; born December 20, 1983 in Lipetsk) is a Russian volleyball player. She is 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) tall and plays as center. She plays for Dinamo-Yantar Team since 2003.She is the tallest of left-handed women of the world (The second tallest is Valentina Borrelli).

Yekaterina Aleksandrovna Gamova (Russian: Екатерина Александровна Гамова) (born October 17, 1980 in Chelyabinsk) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the gold medals at the 2006 and 2010 FIVB Women’s World Championships, and the silver medal in both the Athens 2004 andSydney 2000 Olympic Games. She is 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) tall with EU size 49 feet, making her one of the tallest female athletes in the world.^[2][3] Her role is outside hitter/opposite.

For Males

Renan Buiatti: 2.12m. tall volleyball player. Renan born in Brazil and have 22 years old. Some media say 2.17m other 2.16m

Wilt Chamberlain – 7′ 1″ (2.16 meters) – President of volleyball association. Chamberlain played volleyball in the short-lived International Volleyball Association, was president of this organization, and is enshrined in the IVA Hall of Fame for his contributions.

From Wikipedia….

Kay van Dijk (born June 25, 1984 in Oosterbeek, Gelderland) is a volleyball player standing at 7′ 0.75″ (2.15 meters tall) from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he ended up in ninth place with the Dutch Men’s National Team. He is a member of South Korean Gumi LIG Greaters volleyball team since August of 2008.

Dmitriy Muserskiy (born 1988 in Makiivka, Ukraine)^[1] is a Russian volleyball player, who competes for Belogorie Belogorod and the national team. He has competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where Russia got to the final and won against Brazil. He won 31 points in that match and was Russia’s best player.

Aleksey Valerevich Kazakov (Russian: Алексей Валерьевич Казаков, born May 18, 1976) is an Russian volleyball player. He was born in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Kazakov was a member of the national team that won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Four years earlier in Sydney he gained the silver medal. He is 2.18 metres tall, making him one of the tallest athletes in the world. (other sources say he is 2.16 meters tall)

Continuing on with a tradition of finding the tallest people around the world, I present today the tallest female models in the world. In certain professions like basketball, volleyball, and modeling the factor of height does play a major role. For modeling, the people in the industry state that people who have long, tall thin bodies seem to be able to make most type of dress and clothing look good on the model who has the right body shape. I don’t know anything about modeling myself but I would guess modeling is based on looking good and people in general assume that being taller means being more attractive.

For a long time the title of the tallest female model in the world went to a California resident named Amazon Eve who stood a little over at 6′ 8.5″ (or 2.05 meters) tall. (source link HERE) She apparently was trained to be a personal trainer but in recent years she has developed a lot of popularity on the internet for her pictures which makes her look ever bigger. Now a large percentage of her income comes from modeling gigs and she is very proud and happy with her height.

That title recently appears to have to be given up to the Brazilian native Elisany Silva who stand at 6′ 9″ (or 2.06 meters) tall. (source link HERE) I had written a post about Elisany before who I featured as a contender for the title of the world’s tallest teenager. At the time of this writing (2012) Elisany would be age 16 or 17. However, the cause of the great height of these two female models are not the same. Elisany has been diagnosed with gigantism which is from a pituitary tumor issue while it has not been confirmed that Eve has her size from any form of disorder.