Sleep and Stunted Height

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QuoteConsequently, the amount of GH secreted during a 24 h period is similar whether or not a person has slept during the night. These results argue against the belief that sleep disorders in children can inhibit growth through a daily GH deficit.

QuoteIt is concluded that variation in sleep duration between children is unlikely to have an important influence on growth.

QuoteIt is highly unlikely. Human Growth Hormone is released during the slow-wave sleep, which is concentrated in the early hours of the sleep. The last part of the night is important for REM sleep, which affects mood, learning and creativity. So getting less sleep than your body craves is more likely to stunt your mental growth than your physical growth.

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Quote from: ghkid2019 on May 14, 2020, 07:52:59 AMObviously sleep impacts your height. If you sleep less then you get less GH pulses. GH pulses mostly come at night during REM sleep (usually dreaming state, though many do get in REM sleep without dreaming).

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Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on May 13, 2020, 10:22:09 PMSeems pretty straightforward to me. It's been discussed at length here too, and it's been argued that HGH production is concentrated in the early hours of sleep:

Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on May 13, 2020, 10:22:09 PMSo if you indeed slept "0-2 hours" during all your teenage years, you might have reason to worry about stunting your mental growth more than your height.

Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on May 14, 2020, 09:58:08 AMShow some sources then. The sources provided here either conclude it's inconclusive or that there's hardly any relation to sleep and height. Provide us with another source.

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Quote from: ghkid2019 on May 14, 2020, 07:52:59 AMObviously sleep impacts your height. If you sleep less then you get less GH pulses. GH pulses mostly come at night during REM sleep (usually dreaming state, though many do get in REM sleep without dreaming).

But I doubt it stunted you more than an inch, two MAX. Definitely does influence your height, but nearly nothing compared to getting   genetics. Genetics determines basically the majority, barring except of course a lack of nutrition or malnourishment. It might've kept you from reaching your genetic potential, but don't act like if both your mom and dad was 5' 2 and you slept all day you would be 6 foot or something. You probably still would've been 5' 5 if you slept like a baby all 18 years of your childhood. Genetics overrides everything. You get mfers in Africa being 6' 5 with like no nutrition and lookin like twigs- they aint tall cuz they got the secret sleep schedule or food, they call cuz their DNA be tall.

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Quote from: Bruce Wayne on May 15, 2020, 04:25:59 AMhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-of-human-height/

https://kidshealth.org/en/teens/sleep-growth.html

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