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Saturday, April 10, 2010

The millimeter methods to increase your height

Lateral Synovial Joint Loading(or lateral loading of the epiphysis of long bones) has the most potential to increase height right now but their are several other methods that I'm trying to increase my height or you can use to increase your height.  Some of these methods I can absolutely guarantee to work with 100% effectiveness unfortunately they only add mere millimeters of height.  But their are ten millimeters in a centimeter and combining all of these methods can result in a significant height gain.

1) Increasing the cortical area and periosteal width of flat, short, and irregular bones

Properties of non-long bones that make it easier to increase the size of those bones as to result in a height increase.

We're not sure whether an increase in cortical area is as a result of an increase in total bone width or if it is a result of internal trabecular(spongy) bone being converted into cortical bone.  Microfractures are not needed to increase the cortical area of short bones(or long bones for that matter) as increasing the cortical area is a result of mechanical signal induced bone modeling.  Since, short bones and flat bones have pretty much the same physiology in all directions, an increase in cortical bone area has the potential to increase height.  I don't know why cortical bone can increase in horizontal directions but not vertical directions in long bone.  Two possibilities:  increase in cortical bone area is only a result of conversion of existing trabecular bone(which would also make increase in cortical bone size ineffective in non-long bones) or perhaps the epiphyseal line inhibits a vertical increase in bone modeling induced cortical area.

Even if increasing the cortical bone area of the non-long bones may not increase height, increasing the periosteal width of these non-long bones definitely can.  With the exception of flat bones, non-long bones are completely covered with the periosteum so any increase in periosteal width will increase height and if the flat bones have the periosteum perpendicular to the vertical axis then an increase in periosteal width will result in an increase in height in those bones as well.

Now, periosteal width is only a small portion of these non-long bones(that's why it's called a millimeter method) and the current examinations of periosteal width increase show only a limited potential for size increase(but as always the current scientific progress is a very slow beast indeed).  Unlike an increase in cortical bone area, increases in periosteal width may not be as a result of bone modeling but may require shearing forces along the relevant bones(shearing forces are a rubbing of the outer covering(periosteum) of the bones).

The following bones can make you taller by increasing their periosteal width:

The top cranial bone of the skull(flat bone)
Spinal Bones
Pelvic bones
Patella bone
Feet bones(including the calcaneus and possibly some metarsal bones)

The following bones can increase your hand size:

Carpals and metacarpals

The following bones can increase your foot size:

Tarsals and Metatarsals

The best exercises to cause shearing forces on these bones is unclear.  Tapping these bones is the most direct method.  Anything that involves rotation or bending of these bones may also be effective such as deadlift/deadlift variations, standing shoulder press,  power clean for combined effect, hanging with rotations, swimming, boxing(not actual boxing but the motions associated with boxing), and running.

Increasing periosteal bone width of non-long bones:

Speed of Height Increase:Very Slow
Guaranteed to Work:  Yes
Potential for Height Increase: Potentially unlimited

Increasing cortical bone area of non-long bones:

Speed of Height Increase: Slow(since it is a function of bone modeling and not a function of repair of damaged bones)
Guaranteed to Work:  No
Potential for Height Increase:  Potentially Unlimited

2)  Increasing the height of your interverebral discs and articular cartilage

Height increase via Chondroitin and Glucosamine
Microfractural induced increase in articular cartilage growth
Direct exercise of the intervertebral discs and how that might increase height

The easiest way to increase your body height via intervertebral discs and articular cartilage is to prevent damage to them in the first place.  That's where chondroiton and chiropractic care come in.  The former by increasing the resistance of your discs and cartilage to damage and the latter by helping to align your spine to reduce shearing based damage.

Supplementing your diet with Glucosamine can help repair disc and cartilage damage.  Microfracture releases bone marrow stem cells that induce articular cartilage and disc growth.  Exercises designed to specifically target the intervertebral discs only causes hypertrophy in the outer covering of the disc(annulus populus) and not the internal part of the disc which resists compression(their may be exercises in the future which can strengthen the nucleus pulposus).  This hypertrophy of the annulus populus may increase your supine(laying down height) as when you're supine there's no need to resist compression forces.

Articular cartilage and intervertebral disc growth can be effective wherever they are present.

Increasing height via intervertebral discs and articular cartilage:
Speed of Height Increase: Very Slow
Guaranteed to Work: Yes(if damaged which is true to some degree for almost everyone) No(if not)
Potential for Height Increase:  High up to restoring damaged discs, limited after discs have been restored to previous strength

3) Increasing your Height by maintaining proper alignment

How proper Skeletal Alignment can make you taller

Chiropractic care(professional or self adjustments) can help make you taller by putting your skeleton in proper alignment.  Massage and massage-likes can help your skeletal alignment by relaxing your muscles and reducing any unnatural pulls that are taking you out of alignment.

Increasing Height via Skeletal Alignment:
Speed of Height Increase: Incredibly Fast
Guaranteed to Work:  Yes(If out of Alignment) No(if in Alignment
Potential for Height Increase: Only as much as you are out of alignment for

4) Increasing your Height via non-bone and cartilage tissues

Gaining Muscle Mass to Increase Height
Gaining Adipose Tissue to Increase Height

Hair and skin also technically can increase body height.  Hair I guess doesn't count because it is dead tissue but skin would count during a height measurement.

Their is no muscle at the top of the cranium but there is a limited ability to gain fat their thus if you gain fat you will be a little bit taller.  Their are muscles at the bottom of the feet, if you hypertrophy those muscles you will be slightly taller(akin to wearing lifts or heels).

Increasing Height via Fat/Muscle:
Speed of Height Increase: Very Slow
Guaranteed to Work: Yes
Potential for Height Increase: Unlimited

5) Growing Taller by causing microfractures in the cortical bone portion of long bones

Studies about causing microstrain/microstretching in the long bones

By causing microfractures in the cortical bone followed by microstrain in the cortical bone portion of the long bones we are mimicking the effects of distraction osteogenesis(limb lengthening) on a small scale.

Microfractures coupled with Microstrain on the long bones:
Speed of Height Increase: Very Slow(Limb lengthening is slow therefore you can imagine how slow a micro-version of limb lengthening would be)
Guaranteed to Work: Yes
Potential for Height Increase: Unlimited

That's a list of all the valid natural non-LSJL methods of height increase their are.  These methods should be coupled with LSJL if you want to accelerate your rate of height increase.  LSJL has the most potential to increase height because it could potentially stimulate the growth plates whereas the other methods of height increase do not.  If their are any other methods I'm missing please mention them in the comments section.