Living as a Western Foreigner (American) in a Far Eastern country (Philippines), and standing, as I do at 6’2”, I’m almost always the tallest guy in the room or on the street.

I had a big growth spurt at age 15, when I grew nearly 6 inches during the school year.  In fact, when I came home from my freshman year at private school, after being gone for nine months, people usually didn’t even recognize me, as my physical appearance had changed so much since the previous summer.

I must admit, that sudden change of stature had a marked impact on my attitude.  Being taller, I felt stronger… better… and, whether or not it was all in my head, it seemed people were also treating me differently.  At 15, I started feeling more like a man – less like a boy.

Now, thinking of this, I’m looking over at my five year old stepson who is, by far, the smallest kid in his class.  What do I say when he comes home from school after the class bully has stepped all over his shoes and book-bag, or drawn on his clean white shirt with pencil lead or ball-point pen ink?  Would he be having this problem if he were not so small in stature?  What’s it like to have to literally  “look up” to everyone, while everyone else is “looking down” on you?  I’m reminded of that old song by Randy Newman called, “Short People.”  According to him, “short people got no reason to live!”   Funny song.  Stupid idea.  Voltaire and Gandhi were only 5’3”.   Genghis Khan was only 5’1” tall, and look what he accomplished.  And what about Napoleon Bonaparte?  He was short too, right?

But let’s face it.  If given the choice, it’s pretty certain most people of small stature would elect to be taller.  There’s no question that, all other things being equal, a tall person is afforded certain advantages in life.  What I’ve recently learned, which came as somewhat of a surprise, is that height is not solely dependent upon heredity but on other factors that can fairly easily be manipulated.  Things such as exercise, diet, attitude and sleep habits, in fact, play as an important role in height as what we each receive from our parents’ gene make-up.  After all, my Mom’s only 5’2” and all three of her children are at 6 feet or above in height.  Not much we can do about the hereditary influence on stature, but a whole lot can be done regarding the other areas mentioned above.  It’s been scientifically proven that a person, at any age, can add two to five inches to their current height through a program of proper diet, exercise and sleep habits.  Look it up!  It’s a fact.

Fifty-two and still 5 foot 2?

That was Mom’s dilemma.  She’d stopped growing years before and felt destined to live the rest of her life as a “shorty,” but then learned she didn’t have to.  There WAS a way to increase her height and change her life for the better…  several ways, in fact.  Here’s what she found.

She could try meditation or self-hypnosis.  She looked into this and learned that growing taller through hypnosis has a very low success rate.  It seems that first you have to become a “believer” or it’ll never work.  Mom didn’t believe it.

There are lots of herbs, creams, pills and supplements that claim their use will increase one’s height.  Actually, I think Mom secretly tried a couple of these, but to no avail.  No success with the magic potions.

There was a new program out there, supposedly from NASA, that’s guaranteed to make you taller or double your money back.  Hmm.  I thought those NASA Astronauts were SUPPOSED to be small!  Who knows? The sales pitch online for this one was too long and convoluted and I don’t think Mom ever got through this one.  The pitchman says he could easily sell this one for just under a thousand dollars, that the launch price was just under $200, however, for Mom it would only be $47.  She never made it that far in the presentation, though, so I guess that one was out too.

We talked about having some bone-breaking surgeries to increase the length of her legs, but pain was never her thing and the price tag runs into the tens of thousands of dollars.  What next?

I started Googling for her and actually found some info that looked promising.  Some of this stuff was sounding pretty scientific.  We learned about growth plates and invertebral discs and human growth hormone.  There are common foods out there that, when added to the diet, actually stimulate growth.  There are specific exercises that can be done to help the body come closer to reaching its growth potential.  Posture is also important in increasing one’s stature and I soon realized the old adages of sitting up straight and keeping one’s shoulders back when standing are good advice.  And then there’s sleep.  Not only do we need to get enough sleep to be healthy and to realize our physical potentials, but we also need to sleep in the proper manner.  Some sleep positions actually stimulate growth, while some are detrimental.  Good information!

We even discovered some ways to look taller, even though one’s height hasn’t really been changed.  These include shoes with lifts and clothes with colors and patterns that give the illusion of increased stature.  I think Mom kind of likes the idea a getting a new wardrobe.  Ha Ha.  No surprise there!

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