TWO REASONS WHY YOU CAN BE TALLER EVEN IF YOU'RE PAST 25

These two scientific reasons are:

1) The physiological curvatures of the spine, and

2) The expansibility of the invertebral cartilages of the spine.

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL SPINAL CURVES — It is said that an infant who is still unable to sit up, doesn't have these curvatures. But, as he grows up, curvatures develop.

Dr. E. H. Bradford explains this and writes, “The so-called physiological curvatures of the spine, not found in the fetus or in infants unable to sit up ... results from the necessity of the curves in balancing the trunk with its anterior load of viscera when in the erect position, and in carrying the head erect.” There are three curves. One at the neck, which is a forward bend; in the middle, a backward bend; and in the lower back, another forward bend. It is said as one grows older, the depth of these curves increases because of the weight of the head and torso and because of bad posture. By decreasing the degree of each curve, therefore, height can be increased. exercises in this program will help you do this.

THE EXPANSIBLE INVERTEBRAL CARTILAGES - It is a known fact that a person is taller after he wakes up in the morning than when he is about to go to sleep at night.

Dr. E.H. Bradford, speaking on, this, said, “The fact that person is taller in the morning than at night has long been known and has been attributed to the expansibility of the invertebral cartilages.” And he quoted Brodhurst: “The effect of pressure on the invertebral cartilages is shown by the loss of height which is sustained at the end of the day. Thus, it is well known that a man of middle stature who remains in the erect position during the day will lose nearly one inch in height, and that this is regain only after he has been in the recumbent position for six or eight hours.”

That these vertebrae of the spinal column can be expanded or lengthened is shown and proven by a certain custom of Burmese women of the Paduang tribe even at present. These women place brass rings around their neck to lengthen the neck’s seven vertebral discs.

And it is reported that some have stretched the length of their neck from 15 to 20 inches! The exercises in this program are intended to help you lengthen your spine to a certain degree. This is only one of their purposes. Many have written about man's physical stature. But, we would like to quote excerpts from Dr. P. de Puky's work, The Physiological Oscillation of the Length of the Body: “The invertebral fibro-cartflages form nearly half of the length of the whole spinal column. . .”

“Not only the great resilience of the invertebral fibro-cartilages but also the curves of the spinal column play a considerable role in the daily oscillations of the body ...”

In the newly born, the vertebral column is almost absolutely straight, except for the slight curve of the sacrum. After the fourth month when the child begins to try to sit up, the curves of the back are forming gradually. First, the weight of the chest bends the column forward, then as the child is learning to walk, the danger of falling headlong makes it force makes it force the loins forward, forming the lumbar curve.

“The intervertebral fibro-cartilages play a most important role in the forming of these curves; without them the spinal column would make an almost straight line, except for the pelvis.

“A young man owes his body height largely to a continually swollen condition of his intervertebral fibro-cartilages.

During the day, owing to the pressure of the body’s weight, the intervertebral fibro-cartilages flatten and this is the reason why a man is not so tall in the evening as he is in the morning; for the same reason, he will be shorter while walking a long distance than when lying down. This decrease in height after a long walk is particularly pronounced if he has carried a heavy load at the same time.

"... and when we keep in mind the great capacity of cartilage for absorption and giving off water (amounting up to twenty times its volume), it is obvious that cartilage plays a great role in the daily oscillation of body length.”

From the findings above, it is evident that the fibro-cartilages may be considered the seat of the daily oscillation of the body length. The cause of this phenomenon is two-fold:

1) The physiological curves of the vertebral column become more curved in the course of the day, giving thus a decrease in the length of the body; during the night they recover their original form, which means again the

lengthening of the body. The bending of the spinal column, the increase and decrease of its curves are all expressions of work of the fibro-cartilages between vertebrae in the sense of statistical mechanism. Anterior concavity of the column means stretching. The thicker the fibro-cartilage, the more it will yield to the two forces: pressure and pull. That is why the young with thick fibro-cartilages show a greater daily oscillation of the body length than is seen in old people with thin fibrocartilages.

2) It is the variation in the water content of the fibro-cartilages that gives the daily changes in their thickness, i.e. absorption of water by the fibro-cartilages increases the distance between the vertebrae and thus the length of the body and there are 23 intervertebral fibro-cartilages.

This article written by a noted person in the medical profession thus supports the two approaches or methods toward increasing one’s height. The methods can all be reduced into one word: S T R E T C H I N G. That stretching can increase a person’s height was also accidentally discovered and proven in France by Dr.Francois Sambucy, head of the Paris Clinic. Dr. Sambucy was once a cripple and he took up medicine to relieve or treat his rheumatism. In treating his patients who came to him for relief of spinal pressures and rheumatic ailments, he discovered that traction could also increase their height, for as much as two inches in

some.

In his clinic, he used suspension from pulleys, racks, vibratory manipulation and other unusual devices for treating rheumatism and arthritis, believing that rheumatism originates from the vertebrae.

When one of his patients discovered that one could increase his or her height by stretching the vertebrae, word traveled fast, and soon many flocked to him — not for rheumatic ailments, but for an increase in height.

“They go through the same stretching treatments given to patients with spinal column problems,” he said. Pulleys, racks, and other devices were used to flex the column.

Some of those who came for height increase were women married to very tall men, policemen and mailman, among others.

“The exercises and the stretching did it”, he said. “But the fact that it adds to a person's height is strictly a chance discovery ...”

Through the exercises, his patients claimed to have increased their height permanently.

With all his devices and gadgets, his clinic ironically looked like a

torture chamber of the medieval times.

If this scares you, you will be glad to hear the news that you do not have to subject yourself to “torture racks” or be suspended from pulleys or be pressed and rolled in different and unusual positions. Exponents of height increase principles and discoveries say that nowadays, you need not undergo these torments in order to become taller. You can do so by merely performing the prescribed and simple exercises.

You don't need pulleys, any apparatus, drugs, injections, or any artificial means. And it takes only a few short weeks!

How to Be TALL?

This article will help to answer the question 'how to be tall?'

“Scientifically speaking, the universal notion that at or about the age of 25, the joints have attained their permanent condition of growth, is now seen to have been erroneous,” anthropologists of the famed Smithsonian Institute said. According to them, height measurements indicate that men and women of 40 are still growing, some even up to the 50th or 60th year. It sounds incredible, doesn't it?

But recent evidence confined by the noted anthropologist, Dr. Ales Hardlika, indicates that growth can continue until age 40 or shortly after. Some noted men who made the same studies on a persons height were Dr. Henry G. Beyers, M.D.,United States Navy; Dr. E.H. Bradford, from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; Dr. Rene Ledent from Annales de Medicine Physique et Biologique; Robert Roaf, from the Journal of Bone and Surgery; and Dr. P. de Puky, M.D. from Acta Orthopedica Scandinavia.

Dr. Henry G. Beyers in the Journal of Experimental Medicine in his article, The Influence of Exercise on Growth, wrote “...... any increase in measured standing height discovered within a few years, after 20 could be caused by a change in posture, the correction of a stoop or merely improved tone of muscle or expansion of invertebral discs induced by physical training.” T'he experience of one Clifford Atkins of New York, 54 years old, confirmed this. 

He testified that his height increased by 1-1/2 inches after performing the specific and recommended exercises. Many are shorter than they should be only because of a bad posture, which causes or aggravates the curvature in the spine. By correcting bad posture alone, others reported an increase in height by 2 or 3 inches. Another way of increasing one's height is by stretching the elastic vertebral discs of the spine.

These two methods alone can greatly effect the change. But how do you make use of these methods? Will you need some apparatus? Some gadgets or exercisors? Injections? No. All you have to do is to perform some simple, tested exercises for a few minutes a day, right in your own home. These exercises are all contained in this blog.

YOU TOO CAN ADD INCHES TO YOUR HEIGHT

Yes, I knew it!

The guide that will be revealed in the later post can help you add 1 to 5 inches to your height . . . but you have to do your part. Generally speaking, you know that nothing worthwhile can be yours without sincere effort from your end.

The price is a few minutes of your time every day in performing simple and easy exercises laid down in this dynamic program. If you perform the exercises and heed the suggestions in this blog regularly and correctly, you will surely increase your height in a matter of two, four or six weeks. And this is not long, considering the rewards.

But, you must give your full heart and determination to your goal. Don't lose interest until you achieve your purpose. When you sometimes feel lazy, get-up and start exercising. And don't stop too often just because you want to recall a date, go to the movies, compute the profit you'll make in a business enterprise, or read a fascinating novel. Give time to these exercises. Discipline yourself and perform them. Maintain your interest. Don't let it fade. Keep your desire burning. That was what you read this blog for. Don't listen to inner discouragements because there will be moments when doubts will assail you.

While undertaking the program, you may feel you are not adding any inch to your height. You find yourself saying, “I don't see any improvement. Perhaps, I'm only wasting my time,” because you expect immediate, visible results.

Don't give in to the temptation. Go on performing the exercises, and a few days after you completed the exersices, you will be surprised to find an amazing increase in your height. Give the exercises enough time to produce results. You don't plant palay today and expect a harvest the next day. You don't plant a tree and bear fruit the next morning. Everything in this world takes time.

You need time too before you reap the results. They will come after two to six weeks. If results do not occur after that time, it may be because you expended half-hearted efforts or you didn’t perform the exercises every day.

Do your part and the results will take care of themselves. You cannot expect good results if you perform one or two exercises for a minute or for a few seconds, then stop and rush to your date or pick up the comics and take the day off. Perform the exercises daily for six weeks straight, even for just 10 or 15 minutes a day, yes, day in and day out, then you can judge what these exercises are worth.

This moment, make a solemn promise to yourself that you will consistently perform these exercises everyday for six weeks. Don't start the program until you have decided to pursue the program earnestly.

CAN ONE WHO IS PAST 25 STILL INCREASE HIS OR HER HEIGHT?

Is it possible for me to add some inches to my present height?

“No!” you may say “It's impossible!” Time and again, the word “impossible” has hampered man's progress.

When Thomas Alva Edison said that he would invent what later became the first electric lamp, people laughed at him and said, "Impossible!"

When Henry Ford's neighbors saw him working on his automobile, they sneered at him and said it couldn't be done. "Impossible!", they said.

When people first heard about the telephone, they said the same thing. When some first learned about the telegraph, they dismissed the idea, thinking it was merely a joke or lie, something impossible!

And when some doctors and men of science declared that one could increase his height or stature if he or she were past 25 years old - many did not believe. They scoffed at the idea, because it was an accepted belief that a person's height stops when he reaches 25, or just 21 years.

Accepted beliefs can err though. For years, the world was believed to be flat, until someone proved it was round. For years, many dismissed the possibility of increasing one's

height - until the idea proved itself.

When this news, this scientific discovery, was first advertised, many undoubtedly thought that it was some kind of a racket. The reaction is understandable because the idea was then new and revolutionary, and we know that any new and revolutionary idea meets some kind of opposition at the start.

But the truth, as always, comes out. In France, Europe, Canada, India, and the United States, Height Increase institutes and studies sprang up. And reports from happy students supported the fact that one could still add inches to his or her height even if he were more than 25 years of age.

When this revelation was presented in the Philippines, many didn't believe it. But those who tried it, wrote back reporting their success and expressing their gratitude. And those who were rewarded were those who didn't think it was impossible.

How Do I Get Taller?

Tall man with short man.

Before saying anything about " How Do I Get Tall?", let me tell you the advantages of being taller. How many times has someone called your attention to a walking man and a woman and said, “Hurry, look at the couple down the street. The man is shorter!” Yes, the short person often suffers many setbacks and ridicules— in romance, in applying for a job, in taking a course in college, or in social life. A person is also often attracted to the opposite sex who stands tall. All things being equal, people prefer the taller to the short one. When two men enter a classroom full of young ladies, the taller one is likely to attract greater notice and admiration.

In applying for a job, the taller one is again more likely to be chosen. In fact, there are jobs which even specify a certain height requirement. Even in some courses in college, like Nursing, a certain height requirement is required. We know some ladies who wanted to take the course but could not because they did not meet the height requirement. You also know how short people are fun of because of their height. Yes, in social circles as well, all things being equal, the taller person earns greater prestige and respect than the short one.

History and everyday life reveal cases of people who suffer frustration and ridicule because of their short stature. For example, it was said that despite his power and his soul stirring love letters, Napoleon Bonaparte suffered marital difficulties with his beloved Josephine because of his shortness. He was only 5'1”. There are also those who suffer from inferiority complex because of their shortness. A young lady who is head-over-heels in love with a young man is ignored simply because of her lack of height. There are many secret loves dying unexpressed because of short stature.

Just imagine how life can change if you could only add two, three or even just an inch to your present height. Many of the good things in life are literally beyond reach just because of a lack of few inches in height. But, three weeks or a month from now, you will walk down the streets with your chin up, all smiles, because then, you shall have become taller!

How Do I Get Tall?

Don't worry. You'll be TALLER — with all the information in this blog.