let's talk about how to increase your height is it possible yes it sure is in practice over the years i've had a handful of patients who had kids that really were not developing and that certain children in the family were taller but another child really was not growing like they should and so they wanted my advice so i'm gonna tell you what i recommended because it was successful now normally between age one and puberty you should grow roughly about two inches a year and then when you reach puberty it should be about four inches a
year and then you pretty much stop growing between the ages of 18 and 20. and that's a generality because some people stop growing a little bit before that and yet others continue to grow a little bit longer than that but that's roughly the age group that you stop growing so if you're that age or less and you want to grow a little bit more what i'm about to tell you may help you and of course there's a genetic limitation however if you are deficient in certain nutrients that can significantly affect your height so the three
hormones that are involved in growth our number one human growth hormone okay and that is produced by the pituitary gland and it works through the liver the next hormone is igf-1 that's insulin-like growth factor number one and that hormone is made by your liver and it's controlled by the growth hormone and then we have a thyroid if the thyroid is not producing enough hormones that can create a stunted growth so let's start with the growth hormone what could create a growth hormone deficiency well the number one nutrient that can affect growth hormone is zinc so
children with stunted growth are mainly deficient in zinc and people with a growth hormone deficiency are usually deficient in zinc so zinc is a very important trace mineral needed for more chemical reactions than all the other trace minerals combined and a couple things that will create a zinc deficiency consuming too many foods with phytates and phytates are in all the grains so all those so-called healthy whole grains that they tell you to eat can create a major zinc deficiency and then of course you have other things that will deplete zinc sugar refined carbohydrates alcohol caffeine
stress not consuming enough foods or zinc like let's say you don't consume any red meat or shellfish or let's say you're a vegan okay all those things can create a zinc deficiency the other thing that can create a growth hormone deficiency is starvation now i'm not talking about doing fasting with all of your nutrients i'm talking about starvation where you're starving your body of all the vitamins minerals nutrients amino acids essential fatty acids that type of thing now personally i think i stunted my growth because i'm only six two my dad's six five my brother
is six seven i think he could be six eight my mom is six foot no she's five ten but i am only six two and i think what i did to stop my growth was i wrestled in 9th grade 10th grade 11th grade 12th grade and then starting in college before i fractured my neck and you talk about having to cut weight and starve yourself through the season that was me so remember one time i had a wrestling match and i had to cut weight and i was way over so within three days i dropped
a tremendous amount of weight and to do that i wore these plastic bags and i exercised pretty much all day and i sweat and i barely drank hardly any water i think i ate a few celery sticks and a couple french fries from mcdonald's and a few other things that were not the healthiest thing on the planet but i was weak i was tired i was pushing myself and of course i made weight and then i just totally pegged out again and that went on for some years so all that starving and exercise and stress
and lack of nutrients probably had a significant negative effect on my overall health so as far as growth hormone deficiencies you need zinc okay you also need enough protein you need sufficient protein so those people who do not consume enough protein can inhibit growth hormone and then number three this is very important sleep apparently growth hormone works when you're sleeping okay so if you're not sleeping that well if you have sleep problems and you're a teenager that could be the thing that can set your growth next thing on the list is obesity the more fat
that you have on your body the less growth hormone that's going to be activated and then you have other factors like smoking or second-hand smoking that can inhibit growth hormone and also caffeine i mean think about how many teenagers that are consuming massive amounts of caffeine and sugar which will deplete your zinc now out of all the age groups it's the teenager group that consumes the most ultra processed junk foods so talk about nutritional deficiencies now there's one more nutrient that can create a deficiency in growth hormone and that is a lack of vitamin d
now that's a common thing nowadays with kids because they don't go outside enough pretty much sitting behind the computer the great majority of the day now as far as the other two hormones we have insulin growth factor if there's any damage with the liver let's say for example your liver is fatty because you eat a lot of carbohydrates or high fructose corn syrup that can inhibit that hormone igf number one and affect your growth now when we get to the thyroid gland thyroid gland is very sensitive to an iodine deficiency so with an infant or
a small child or a teenager that does not have sufficient iodine that can greatly stun your growth iodine is mainly in seafood shellfish uh see kelp and it's in other foods that are grown close to the seashore but if that food is grown inland chances are it's not going to have much iodine so if you're watching and you're a young adult or you're a parent that has a child that wants to maximize their height these are the things that you want to put on the list number one a good trace mineral product that has zinc
in it okay because you never want to just take zinc alone you want to take it in a blend of all the trace minerals number two this is the product that i would search out and find and recommend it's called pituotrophin pmg it's a product that is sold by a company called standard process you can look it up and i'm not affiliated with that company but it's a really good product to support the pituitary gland that makes growth hormone and i personally recommended it and saw the difference in height of certain kids that took it
you just want to take one before bed for about three months the next thing on the list is to get a lot of sleep if you're not sleeping that is a factor you need to address i'll put some links down below of what to do if you have insomnia and this is a really common reason why people are zinc deficient too many phytates in the diet phytates are in grains so you need to avoid grains and that way you don't have things in your diet that are actually blocking zinc and then the next vitamin of
course is vitamin d ideally the best way to get vitamin d is through the sun okay get your kids out in the sun several hours a day that would be very very smart if they can't do it then give them a vitamin d supplement all these things are going to maximize your height potential but you also must focus on your diet and i think the best way to figure out the healthiest diet you should be on is take a look at what everyone's recommending especially the food pyramid okay look what the government is recommending and
then use that as a check sheet to do the opposite okay the majority of your diet either whole grains or starchy carbohydrates in the form of potato whole grain rice things like that those are the foods that you absolutely want to emit from your diet they're going to tell you to avoid saturated fats and consume more vegetable oils now you want to consume saturated fats and you want to avoid vegetable oils because you can do that safely because your carbohydrates will be very low because you're not going to be consuming sugars now when they recommend
consuming fruits and vegetables they're also allowing you to consume canned fruit and even fruit juice as your fruit and vegetables so i don't recommend that because that fruit juice is pasteurized and it's so concentrated with sugar it's not benefiting you in any way at all now of course i'm going to tell you to avoid red meat well where do you think you get zinc red meat is one of the best sources of zinc so in summary the best diet would be the healthy ketogenic diet now if you're trying to maximize your height should you do
fasting well i think you should do intermittent fasting because one of the potent stimulators of growth hormone is fasting but just to make sure you get all your nutrients let's say you just do the type of fasting that you you avoid snacks and you have three meals or even two meals but these meals are really nutrient dense i think that can help you so anyway try some of the things i recommended and then come back and type in your comments down below so we can hear your success story i think the best next video for
you to watch would be on zinc check it out i put it right here
