<p>I'm currently 5'10", and I really want to hit that 6'0" mark. I'm 18, so I don't think I'm done growing yet completely. However, I am already taller than both my parents, who are probably around 5'7" and 5'3". I'm not wishing to gain a foot in height (although that wouldn't be too bad), I just want to grow an extra inch or two before I stop growing permanently. What can I do (other than painful operations, taking hormones, etc) to maximize my chances?</p>
<p>Your thread title makes me think of those stupid questions people ask on Yahoo Questions and get stupid answers that end up featured on the Fail Blog.</p>
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<p>Speaking of stupid questions, here’s one of yours that I came across:
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<p>But in all seriousness, I really am desparate for helpful answers and would appreciate them very much.</p>
<p>My question comes nowhere near yours in terms stupidity.</p>
<p>[How</a> to Grow Taller - wikiHow](<a href=“http://www.wikihow.com/Grow-Taller]How”>How to Grow Taller)</p>
<p>Your height will increase till at least 20-22, and a bit (probably unnoticeable) till probably till 25. Heavy resistance training may help.</p>
<p>According to this research paper,it is possible to gain height throught milk consumption,at least between age 12-18.
[Does</a> milk make children grow? relationships between milk consumption and height in NHANES 1999–2002 - Wiley - 2005 - American Journal of Human Biology - Wiley Online Library](<a href=“http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.20411/abstract]Does”>http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.20411/abstract)</p>
<p>[Cow’s</a> Milk and Linear Growth in Industrialized and Developing Countries - Annual Review of Nutrition, 26(1):131](<a href=“http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.nutr.26.010506.103757?journalCode=nutr]Cow’s”>http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.nutr.26.010506.103757?journalCode=nutr)</p>
<p>What you’re forgetting is the difference between 5 10 and 6 0 is 2 inches…</p>
<p>Oddly, my daughter asked her doctor this same question last month. She’s only 14 and is 5’ 3 1/2", which doesn’t bode well for her volleyball aspirations. She took one of those worthless online “how tall will I be” questionnaires which says she’ll be 5’5", and she’s not happy about that.</p>
<p>The doctor told her there isn’t anything she can do that will guarantee an increased rate of growth, but did encourage her to eat right and exercise for the best chances, and get plenty of calcium for strong bone growth. But there is no magic pill to grow taller.</p>
<p>Hopefully we can all learn to be happy with the size and shape life gave us.</p>
<p>Take aromatase inhibitors knows as ai the less estrogen you have the longer you grow.Also doing interval training such as basketball(good reason they are tall) would make your body make more growth hormones.</p>
<p>That doctor is wrong!</p>