Why on the hell am I short ?!!! My past

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Quote from: Jack1066 on March 16, 2017, 05:30:46 PMYou have to be really malnourished to stunt your growth. Sounds like you weren't

In which case it's mostly genetics. Maybe you lost a few mm off your height potential but it takes a lot to noticeably stunt it. I heard that short genes are dominant and tall genes are recessive. So it makes sense that you can have a tall dad and grow up to be shorter.

Don't fk yourself up over it anyway. There's no point. You're at what height you are now, take it from there.

I completely agree, lack of calories as malnutrition is what causes height loss, not excess and the body is incredible in how it can manage with poor nutrition, I doubt he even lost a few millimeters. The second part is so important - so many people on this forum are looking for the 'reason' why they are short and become neurotic and depressed, even if that was to blame for why that person is that height, it makes no difference to the present - unless you have access to a time machine to go back and change things, perhaps administer some HGH why obsess and worry about something you have absolutely no possibility of changing? Look at what you can change and put your energy into that.

Quote from: 0184946 on March 16, 2017, 05:35:46 PM
You answered ur own question. It was because u had a crappy diet which almost everyone has as a kid. 20% of height is dictated by the foods u eat so u cud have been maybe a strong 5'6 or solid 5'7 if u ate right back in the day. But eating good or not u wouldve have the similar height u do now give or take some cms. Simply put, the way u are genetically predisposed doesnt need a answer. My friend has diabetes and his parents dont have it neither does his grandparents (maternal and paternal) however, he inherited it from his great grandfather on his maternal side. You can't help the way u are genetically designed.

Edit: i wouldn't consider 5'7 "short" its not tall by any means but wouldnt go as far as saying its short. Where do u live? And secondly, dont waste ur time feeling guilty or regretful LL will always be around and u can safely lengthen 2 inches at ur height that shud put u to a respectable 5'9

I agree, I strongly doubt there would be much of a difference because of his diet, short stature due to nutrition is correlated with excessive lack of calories rather than excess. I like how you said 'The way you are genetically predisposed doesn't need an answer' which is true, genetics determine the vast majority of height, no point in sweating the past either.

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I stopped growing at around 15 years. At the same time my mother told me that she thinks that I'm starting to get bold.
Today, I've been thinking that if you stop growing early, it might have something to do with growing up with too much testosterone. Maybe it speeds up adulthood.
I could be wrong of course, just a theory.

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You are relativley short like million of people because height has to do with much more complicated genetics than your parents height.
Thats why many people are much taller than their parents while other are short.

After all, for half a Turkish 5.7 isn't short as in this country average man is about 5.8-5.85.
So there is no reason to ask why you are not tall. Because thats what your genes meant for you to be .
The only you can do to change it is LL.

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Quote from: Chris on March 16, 2017, 07:48:44 PMI stopped growing at around 15 years. At the same time my mother told me that she thinks that I'm starting to get bold.
Today, I've been thinking that if you stop growing early, it might have something to do with growing up with too much testosterone. Maybe it speeds up adulthood.
I could be wrong of course, just a theory.

Both testosterone and estrogen have an effect on growth and the growth plates, aromatase inhibitors (AIs) are a class of drugs that prevent conversion of androgens to estrogens, and that are approved in the United States as adjunctive treatment of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. Because ultimate fusion of the growth plates is estrogen-dependent in both boys and girls, AI administration may help to slow down epiphysial maturation and allow for greater height potential as to why some people use them.