Genetics & LL

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wow I actually just looked up the proper way to measure wingspan, by stretching your arms sideways against a wall and measuring how high your hand goes up the wall and my wingspan is a lot closer to my height, maybe even a tiny bit taller. It’s weird though because my arms look short to me in relation to my body, but that could just be my own dysphoria. I probably just compare myself to people with much longer wingspans in comparison to their bodies. I need to stop doing that, don’t want to be obsessive.

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Yes stop before you get proportion neurosis is even worse than height neurosis because you can't change it so stop now before it is over burn your ruler and leave any conversation involving proportion before it's over

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not considering it, especially now, but aren’t there arm lengthening surgeries as well though? My goal is 5’8-5’9 which would then make my wingspan short but still within the normal deviation which I am okay with.

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It's like I'm talking to a wall

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People go on about epigenetics influence in height and looks but it‘s just unproven speculation. What is scientifically known is that height is sadly just a meiosis gamble. It‘s a polygenetic trait (= one trait determined by many alleles). You can get any possible set, good or bad, nature doesn‘t care if it‘s good or bad because sexual reproduction is just there to create diversity because a species with diverse offspring is more likely to survive environmental change. You can even inherit genes from your grandparents etc.
Can you change the height outcome with a bad genetic set? Well yea it depends. We all know hormones are the expression of a genome so if you artificially push growth hormone BEFORE growing is done yea. Why else does someone with a pituitary gland tumor get to be 7‘2 tall? Same goes for hgh deficiency.
Of course it is not only hgh determining height but many factors like absorption of nutrition, IGF-1, estrogen (the more you have the earlier growth plates fuse) etc etc.

If you do LL it won‘t change your genes, idk why anyone could believe this. What your child inherits is random again. Depending on your partner you can amplify the chance of tall/short of course. Honestly just look out for your child from early on, something ANYONE in my life failed, and you will be fine. If your child is still growing you can still adjust it with aromatase inhibitors or hgh (transhumanistic but honestly its better than suffering indefinitely).

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i sware no my father is 5.7 my mom 5.8 and iam 5.7 even thought i drank milk every day my2 brothers are 5.11

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I mean given your mom is the female equivalent of a 6’0 or 6’1 man and your dad is the male equivalent of about a 5’2 female I guess there would be a lot of variety in your genetics. Were your siblings more active than you? Did they sleep more than you?

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Tbh ur genetics really really fked u....there was actually more chance of u being above 5'10 thn below it....so sorry to break it to u but tht is the case....ur a result bad height gene combinations but dn't worry i think u still have unexpressed tall genes inside u..choose ur wife reasonably and ur children wld do fine👍🏼

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There's a tendency to try to come up with reasons why you're not tall when you're short, but the truth is that if you're living in a first world country, eating crappy, processed foods and going to sleep late every night is not going to make you shorter. It's really the luck of the draw, and my doctor explained it to me that if you have a dad who's 5'10 and a mom who's 5'0, like I do as an example, then your height is supposed to be anywhere from the height of your mom to the height of your dad, so that 10 inch variation is perfectly expected genetically, there's no "I'm supposed to have been".

Whatever the case, you either get leg lengthening to be taller or you find acceptance with your current height.

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Quote from: KiloKAHN on February 08, 2021, 08:33:40 AMThere's a tendency to try to come up with reasons why you're not tall when you're short, but the truth is that if you're living in a first world country, eating crappy, processed foods and going to sleep late every night is not going to make you shorter. It's really the luck of the draw, and my doctor explained it to me that if you have a dad who's 5'10 and a mom who's 5'0, like I do as an example, then your height is supposed to be anywhere from the height of your mom to the height of your dad, so that 10 inch variation is perfectly expected genetically, there's no "I'm supposed to have been".

Whatever the case, you either get leg lengthening to be taller or you find acceptance with your current height.

Words of truth but still some members are so idiot that they believe that they stunted their growth because they become 1 inch shorther than their fathers (although their mothers maybe 5 inch shorter) or because they have one cousin who is a basketball player or because they slept only (!) 8-9 hours per day.
Plain stupidity from people that can't accept that their born to be short, something completely normal which can be changed though with LL.