Question:
I get depressed more and more everyday over my height. Im 18 years old
and 5'6.5 but really 5'6 if Im walking around all day. My mother is
average height, 5'4 and my dad is 5'5. All of my relatives are fairly
tall, my moms brother is 6'1. I know a lot of people who have parents
who are abou tthat height but are themselves 5'8 and even 5'10. My
question is for those people who are in the medical field or are
extremely knowledgable. Besides for limb lengthening are there
advances being made for people who have finished puberty to gain
height. I know of all the scams and BS out there but I would
appreciate any hope that could be scientifically supported.

Answer:
Hey Guest, how are you doing? Treatment is directed at the cause of
the growth failure. If the child is diagnosed with hypothyroidism,
treatment is thyroid hormone replacement. Likewise, if the child is
diagnosed with GH deficiency, the treatment is GH replacement therapy.
Although a primary care physician often initiates the workup, the
child is usually referred to an endocrinologist for a more detailed
investigation of possible causes for growth failure. In order to
evaluate a child's genetic potential, calculation of the sex-adjusted
midparental height (ie, target height) is helpful. The sex-adjusted
midparental height is calculated by adding (for boys) or subtracting
(for girls) 2.5 inches to or from the mean of the parents' heights; it
represents the most statistically probable adult height for the child,
based on parental contribution. By calculating the percentile for this
midparental target height, one can determine at what percentile a
child's height is expected to fall. For excellent patient education
resources, visit eMedicine's Growth Hormone Deficiency Center. Also,
see eMedicine's patient education articles Growth Failure in Children,
Growth Hormone Deficiency, Understanding Growth Hormone Deficiency
Medications, and Growth Hormone Deficiency FAQs. Best wishes,

Answer:
I know nutrition plays a major role in growth. For example, how many times have you seen the horrors of malnourished children who are half their normal height. It is a factor. So how do you reverse that? Some of these children have grown again, but many never get what they need to grow to their full potential. Believe it or now, there are many who are not growing to their full potential and do not know it. My personal experience is this. I was a track star in school, healthy young lady, great at all sports and thought I was in great health. I joined the Air Force at 18 and did great. I always measured at 5' 4 3/4". I was rarely sick. But had aches and pains in joints and told that was normal. About 15 years into my career my eyes were 24/24 instead of 20/20 and my height was 5' 4 1/4". I was told that was normal to shrink. I did not like that. I was transfered to California (been over seaseas about 10 years) and was getting ready to retire in the next couple years. That was 1987. In 1998 I started learning about health foods, you know these herbs that MLM sell etc. I took it a little, but then my cousins wife got cancer. That hit us all hard. (full testimony can be read at
). Bottom line is I ended up checking out doctors in Mexico and around the US and some in California who were "curing cancer" through nutrition. I learned all I could learn and for two years not one bad food passed my lips. I took a lot of juiced foods and herbs. I notice a nagging colon pain left and I noticed greater energy and no achy joints. I did not know the depth of it all though. When I retired and got my retirement physical I was 5' 5 1/2" I was shocked and had them measure me 3 times. My eye sight was 20/15 and after studying about the spine I realized my disc were dry and pressed down and now they filled out and that is what gave me my height. I was not as healthy as I thought at 18. I have studied and learned about all the alternative ways that people overcome the so called incurables and the common demoninators are clean water, clean cells, and well nourished cells and drink lots of water. God does the rest. Healing happens. God is the master controller of every cell and science admits they do not know how to interpret the words in the DNA or what that mysterious laser type light that travels between the cells. They know that light is the communicator and they call it a genie on the human genome project. If you want to learn what I learned about health visit my web site at healthMatters. The domain is not dot com but dot ws. God bless and my you be filled with wisdom to take control of your own health and reach the height God said you would be. It is in His Word in the DNA. He put it in HIS BOOK everything about you. Be thankful for our health and His creative power to keep you healthy. He creates new cells continuously, he did not leave you as an orphan. If God stopped his "active" work in you, not another cell would divide and life would depart from your body. :) Apart from His Spirit there is no life. I believe that laser light seen under the microscope is very much His Spirit (via His Word) at work.