Can I Increase My Height After Puberty?

Growth in the body is largely regulated by the release of growth hormones, which peak during adolescence, causing those increased rates of growth.

These hormones can continue to remain high well into a person's 20's though, depending on several factors.

As a general rule though, natural height increase will cease before a person hits adulthood.

The good news is that even if you've stopped growing naturally of your own accord, you can actively pursue several different paths which can force natural growth on your body.

How is this possible?

The main reason boils down to the aforementioned growth hormones, the production of which can be drastically lessened or increased through diet, pills, or other methods.

Additional methods can also be looked at, some of which we'll look at below.

First though, back to growth hormones.

If you've followed the baseball steroid and illegal substance scandals over the past few years, you've undoubtedly heard of human growth hormone, or HGH, a substance which can be used to dramatically increase the level of these hormones in your body, leading to incredible weight and strength gains, height gains, faster recovery from injury, and much more.

These substances are considered dangerous though, and should be avoided.

In place of the HGH shortcut (and we know shortcuts and easy routes and usually never the answer), the same effect on a slightly lesser scale, as far as height gain goes, can be achieved through several different avenues.

Stretching exercises that target the spine are just one of these ways, promoting growth of the spacing between your vertebrae, and increased height.

You can also gain height by canceling out negative effects which may actually be decreasing your 'real' height.

Poor posture is one of the most common areas in this category, with the spine, and sometimes legs, being accustomed to poor positions where they are not stretched out to their fullest extent.

These issues are, for the most part, corrected with just a little effort.

Years after you hit puberty, and thought the ceiling had been reached, lo and behold, it isn't so.

Height increase is possible well after puberty, and is relatively easy to accomplish all things considered.

It just takes a little dedication and time until results will start coming your way.