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Can Stretching Exercises Increase Height?

Submitted by Lauren on Saturday, 27 March 2010No Comment
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You have heard of surgeries to increase the length of your limbs to grow taller. But have you heard that you can easily increase your height just by doing some simple stretching exercises daily? It is true! In fact, it has been scientifically proven that stretching exercises increase height naturally, no matter what the person’s age is. So just when you thought you are done with getting taller…woohoo, you have got yourself a lifeline here, buddy!

Now this is certainly great news for us guys who have been troubled with a lack of height. The same problem that leads us to discrimination at work, being ridiculed by our friends, and sadly ignored by the opposite sex.

Stretching exercises have been found to help stimulate the body to produce a hormone that is responsible for the body growth. The human growth hormone, or HGH, is a microscopic protein substance that is produced by the pituitary gland after doing physical exercises.

Make no mistake – HGH does not directly make you grow taller. The HGH produced in your body system travels through your blood and stimulates the liver to produce a protein called insulin-like growth factor #1 (IGF-1). The latter is the one that helps the cartilage at the ends of your long bones to multiply and become thicker.

Do you get the picture now? Thicker cartilage = a few inches added to your height!

Not only do stretching exercises increase height by stimulating the production of HGH in your body, they help correct your posture too. More specifically, your spinal curvature. By doing specially designed stretching routines, you help to stretch and lengthen your spine and in the process, add a few more inches to your present height.

It may seem that this method to increase height is a little more time consuming. But the most important points you should take note are: it works, and compared to surgeries, are much less dangerous, painful, and expensive.

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