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Height Increase
My height is about 5.3 & I want to increase my height my age 19+ .my height was stopped when I was 16 years of age. I have done swimming , cycling, running to increase my height and also done the 4 month course of Ayurveda medicine but my height still doesn't increase, please help.
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Dr. Chethan R S
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11 yrs exp
Bangalore
Hi..... Men grow height-wise until ~21 years old, although depending on the person they may experience slight changes until 25.
For someone in their later twenties, you're already not producing the regul ar pulsatile bursts of growth hormone needed to stimulate longitudinal growth, but even if an exogenous source was provided, the growth region of the bone known as the epiphyseal plate has already shut down, so you'd only grow laterally. If you get doses of growth hormone as an adult, you develop a condition known as acromegaly....
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