Follow-Up to inversion table and glucosamine discussion. 2-3 CM gain in spine

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2 inches/5CM is quite a lot, you won't get that from just stretching. 2CM is probably the max for most people, theoretically.

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I agree, 5cm is too much to get, it would take something revolutionary to reach that. I'll still gladly take 2cm though, that combined with 5cm of LL could make me solidly average height in my country with a 52% SH ratio.

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Quote from: Uppland on March 31, 2015, 09:41:42 AM2 inches/5CM is quite a lot, you won't get that from just stretching. 2CM is probably the max for most people, theoretically.

The theoretical max is actually 5CM. That's how much taller some 6' astronauts were in space. That number is obviously unrealistic for spinal gains on earth though.

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Science is awesome!

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Quote from: NewHeights on April 01, 2015, 11:56:36 PM

Science is awesome!

Thats what Ive been saying all along, its theoretically possible, and not dangerous, we just don't have methods for accomplishing it yet other than going into zero gravity.

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Quote from: FutureLengthener on March 31, 2015, 02:24:17 AMI've done glucosammine for a few months now. Definitely no significant gains, but I don't want to quit and shrink, even if just a mm lol. I wonder, does gluco work by making you retain your night height or it bumps your morning & night height up the same amount?

I'm going to look into Yoga. Even just doing the cobra pose while I read or use a laptop could help. I'm a big spine guy, I really think it should be possible to gain up to 3 inches...My 86 year old grandpa went from 5'11 to like 5'4 from disc generation, the spine is clearly a malleable part of the body. If it can shrink by 7 inches, why can't it grow by just 2? Just 2! That's all I would ask for. Apart from thickening the discs, you could try growing the actual bones--studies showed low intensity pulsed ultrasound could make bones grow and thicken, if you apply it to the spine ideally it would make it grow with the moving parts in proportion...as long as you don't apply any sudden or extreme force to your spine, you WON'T end up paralyzed. Humans with spines that sensitive would have been weeded out by evolution.

Dont want to disappoint you brah, but I "ve done that, been there" will be the advice I want to give you. I did gain for almost 1cm by stretching the   out of my body for 2 months. Its unrealistic to gain 2 inches 1-1.5 cm should be what you are expecting. And you have to keep doing it till the rest of your life because gravity is a real bitch and will take back your hard work :p

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Quote from: FutureLengthener on March 31, 2015, 02:24:17 AMI've done glucosammine for a few months now. Definitely no significant gains, but I don't want to quit and shrink, even if just a mm lol. I wonder, does gluco work by making you retain your night height or it bumps your morning & night height up the same amount?

I'm going to look into Yoga. Even just doing the cobra pose while I read or use a laptop could help. I'm a big spine guy, I really think it should be possible to gain up to 3 inches...My 86 year old grandpa went from 5'11 to like 5'4 from disc generation, the spine is clearly a malleable part of the body. If it can shrink by 7 inches, why can't it grow by just 2? Just 2! That's all I would ask for. Apart from thickening the discs, you could try growing the actual bones--studies showed low intensity pulsed ultrasound could make bones grow and thicken, if you apply it to the spine ideally it would make it grow with the moving parts in proportion...as long as you don't apply any sudden or extreme force to your spine, you WON'T end up paralyzed. Humans with spines that sensitive would have been weeded out by evolution.

How much gain you got from Gluco? Is it with or without stretching exercises?

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Quote from: FutureLengthener on March 31, 2015, 02:24:17 AMI've done glucosammine for a few months now. Definitely no significant gains, but I don't want to quit and shrink, even if just a mm lol. I wonder, does gluco work by making you retain your night height or it bumps your morning & night height up the same amount?

I'm going to look into Yoga. Even just doing the cobra pose while I read or use a laptop could help. I'm a big spine guy, I really think it should be possible to gain up to 3 inches...My 86 year old grandpa went from 5'11 to like 5'4 from disc generation, the spine is clearly a malleable part of the body. If it can shrink by 7 inches, why can't it grow by just 2? Just 2! That's all I would ask for. Apart from thickening the discs, you could try growing the actual bones--studies showed low intensity pulsed ultrasound could make bones grow and thicken, if you apply it to the spine ideally it would make it grow with the moving parts in proportion...as long as you don't apply any sudden or extreme force to your spine, you WON'T end up paralyzed. Humans with spines that sensitive would have been weeded out by evolution.

I completely agree with you about the spine.  I also consider myself to be a proponent of spinal lengthening.  I mean why in the world isn't there more work and focus being done on increasing height by means of the spine? 

Lets think about it:

-You are naturally ~1" taller in the morning because your spine decompresses and elongates overnight
-Astronauts get ~3" taller after being in space for a month or more

So it is empirically proven right there that it is totally safe to elongate the spine a few inches.  Naturally, the next question is how.  Well I already found a thread on the old forums discussing increasing height by injecting gel into spinal disks to make them thicker.  The starter of the thread suggested using ultrasound guidance to aid in this.  I looked into it further and found that this is already something that is being routinely done for patients with advanced degenerative disk wear.  And I believe at one point I even came across a statement saying that the patients do in fact get taller from such a procedure.  I am very surprised that this isn't being discussed on these forums.  I'm sure that there are some doctors out there who would perform this procedure on patients for cosmetic purposes (getting taller).  It sure seems like it is safer and cheaper than LL. 

Here is a link to an article I found discussing the gel injections:

http://pratt.duke.edu/news/duke-bioengineers-develop-new-approach-regenerate-back-discs

What do you guys think?

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How common is this to not shrink through day?Is this variable for each person?I think my height doesnt change at night.Or did i measure wrong idk.

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Quote from: KrP1 on January 12, 2015, 02:15:11 PMthats a scam  , if you want to grow leg lengthening is the only option. i had an inversión table and you dont grow anything atmost 0,5cm that goes away when you stop using it

Really, I am so amazed to know that it totally does not work.