I guess it does not affect our life expectancy, depending on how much stress you actually applied to your body. Let's have it like this, I have met this tall mexican guy who played basketball in my school, during his development he managed to break his knee in some way. It was so bad that it stopped growing and they had to limb lengthen his legs in order to make them be paired. He was growing excessively! He might be like 6'5" right now idk. My point is, we are not the first persons doing LL, and LL is also done in dwarf persons, kids who get their knees plates broken, or any person in general who breaks their legs. However, I guess it depends more on how much STRESS you applyz If you go from 5'8" to 5'11", if much 6'0" probably there wasn't much stress done. But in my case, if I am willing to go from 5'1" to 6'0" them my body won't even support it and I might die right away after the treatment is done. Probably I am exaggerating but it does depends on how much you are forcing your body to grow is what I mean. If yo uchoose to grow 3-4 inches then probably you aren't harming that much your body. Also, the younger you are, the best. Why? You produce more HGH during your youth years, even if you are done growing like me, you keep producing a lot of HGH. It will start to decrease during your mid-late 30s though so just be sure to do LL as soon as possible that is why I want to do it now that my plates have been right away closed... but I am still hoping for a miracle (yeah sure...)
Uppland, there is not proof, its just common sense. Breaking your bones, creating new tissue and torturing yourself for months will definitely change the way body works. Let alone complications that might rise..
I think that all this thing about stress to body from LL is just bull . I think the main factors are :a ) blood circulation may be diminished from extreme amounts of lengthening b) too much pills with lead to poor immune system c) phycological stress can have adverse effects to the body
This topic's worth further discussion.
I think it may decrease life expectancy. Hear me out, when you lengthen your limbs, your heart has to work harder because now you have more vascular tissue. So perhaps this can lead to CVD in the future.
Not 100% sure though, can someone ask one of the doctors in a consultation what effect limb lengthening would have on life expectancy?
Quote from: MakeMeTallAF on July 25, 2020, 03:47:55 AMI think it may decrease life expectancy. Hear me out, when you lengthen your limbs, your heart has to work harder because now you have more vascular tissue. So perhaps this can lead to CVD in the future.
Not 100% sure though, can someone ask one of the doctors in a consultation what effect limb lengthening would have on life expectancy?
No need. They most likely won't admit it even if it's true.
Quote from: MakeMeTallAF on July 25, 2020, 03:47:55 AMI think it may decrease life expectancy. Hear me out, when you lengthen your limbs, your heart has to work harder because now you have more vascular tissue. So perhaps this can lead to CVD in the future.
Not 100% sure though, can someone ask one of the doctors in a consultation what effect limb lengthening would have on life expectancy?
Most of the work of heart is to feed our internal organs, brain takes a lot of blood, so if you use it too much... are you shortening your life? Bowl takes a lot of energy in generating new cells, bone is creating new bone continuously...
I think that CLL doesn't affect life expectancy, it is a old procedure and people sometimes break their bones.
That's true, I actually have no clue if it actually affects life expectancy.
I think if we asked a doctor like Franz who no longer does CLL, then we might get an actual answer. He has no reason to lie because he has no skin in the game anymore.
But to be honest it's possible not even the doctors know because there aren't really many long term studies on CLL.
Something to think about, it's gonna damage our body one way or another. Without the surgery, our prolonged depression will shorter life expectancy too.
Quote from: Optimize on September 29, 2014, 02:22:48 PM Hello guys, how do you do?
I am a 20 year old male 167 cm (5'5.7 ) and I have been interested in LL for quite a while, but since I don't plan to undergo a surgery anytime soon I never actually considered being part of a forum. Well not until I got this question in my head.
We all know that it is believed that short people live longer. The reason for this has to be a gene that protects us from the effects of ageing, according to a quick Google search. But I was wondering about the heart. The fact that it pumps blood through the veins nonstop 24 hours during the whole life should cause heart tiredness. So by increasing the height, by stretching the muscles, aren't we increasing the amount of work the heart has to do during our lifetime? This should lead to heart problems, shouldn't it?
Don't get me wrong, I would gladly sacrifice a couple of years from my life in order to be 10 cm taller, with a condition that those years are in the old age 
Pardon me if it is a naive question : Not a doctor.
Pardon me if I made any grammar mistakes: Not my first language.
You will live shorter, because being a short male adds unnecessary cortisol and stress which shortens lifespan and increases suicide risk.
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