Can Inversion Increase Your Height?

Inversion is quite literally the state of being inverted, or upside down. This involves you hanging suspended from your legs, via some sort of support structure above.

If you're wondering how exactly this is accomplished without potentially falling, there are different devices available, including inversion footwear, which can be used to easily hold you in place while you're on your topsy-turvy adventure, for as long as you wish.

That first journey to the inverted position may be a little stressful, and the blood rushing to your head can also be a little off-putting at first, but once these elements quickly subside you'll find that hanging suspended is not nearly as bad as you may have imagined, and may actually be relaxing, as all the tension is worked out of your body through the opposite gravitational pull.

Inversion is often prescribed as a method of treatment for those with bad backs, as it helps align and stretch out the back muscles, and it's for these same reasons that inversion is useful to grow taller naturally.

Hanging upside down pulls the vertebrae in the spine in the opposite direction, reversing the effects of spinal compression caused by gravity and poor posture, and lengthening them further apart and this happens almost immediately.

Looking at astronauts who have journeyed into the gravity free environs of space, we see that they usually gain two inches in height on average, simply from being in a gravity free environment, without performing any sort of exercise.

If the effects of gravity on the spine are that strong, it's easy to see that they're equally as strong when working in the opposite direction.

This same type of scenario occurs when we go to sleep each night, and our bodies are freed from the effects of gravity of them. We often wake one to two inches taller in the morning than we were when we went to bed the night before.

If you'd like to take up the mantle of performing inversion training, all it takes is just 15 minutes a day to achieve major results.

If you're just 'hanging' around anyway, why not do so while hanging upside down and giving your back a great experience? Inversion can also help with blood circulation and poor posture as well.

Inversion should be tried by anyone, no matter the reasons.

You'll find it's an easily performed and often relaxing routine to go through, and that the results are dramatic are easy to obtain. Just make sure you have the proper place to practice inversion, and your spine will say thank you for it.