9 Effective Tips To Grow 6 Inches Taller

While a good height is considered a benefit, it’s vital to remember that our genes play a major role in determining it. Therefore, prioritizing health over height is preferable for overall fitness and well-being. That said, if you want to grow taller, certain tips may help. Although genes predominantly determine one’s height, certain food habits and environmental factors can also influence it to an extent (and up to a certain age). Our height can affect how we perceive ourselves and how other people perceive us. It might affect our sense of self and how we interact with others. In some circumstances, it may even affect our career prospects. In this article, we have discussed the 9 effective tricks that may help increase your height. Continue reading to know more and thus get the answers to questions like, “How can I get taller?”

How To Grow 6 Inches Taller?

According to a study published in the BMJ Global Health journal in 2021, children in 64 low-income and middle-income countries were not meeting the WHO child growth standards. The study analyzed publicly available data from 145 Demographic and Health Surveys obtained from 2000 to 2018 of children under 5 years. It found that boys showed 10% slower linear growth, while girls had 11% slower linear growth when compared to WHO standards.

To know how to get taller, It is advised to follow a balanced diet, exercise frequently, especially weight-bearing exercises, and get enough sleep.

Thus, it is important to cultivate the right practices to boost growth in kids for them to avoid stunted growth. Here are some tips that may help boost your height.

1. Eat A Healthy Breakfast

A healthy breakfast plays an essential role in maintaining proper growth and development of your body.

Skipping breakfast can be a bad sign for your overall growth, especially your height. You should eat a proper breakfast to boost your metabolism. It influences your body growth including skeletal growth substantially.

2. Avoid Growth-stunting Factors

Taking drugs and alcohol can cause stunted growth. Avoid these addictions right from a young age. Proper nutrition is essential for a child’s growth as malnutrition also translates into a short height. Excess of caffeine and smoking disrupt the growth of kids. So, it’s highly advisable to make children stay away from these bad habits to ensure proper growth and development of the body.

3. Get Plenty Of Sleep

Adequate sleep and rest help in the overall growth and development of the body. Growing kids and adolescents require 9-11 hours of sleep every night. Nighttime is considered to be a growing time for kids. You should create a very calm and noise-free environment to get a deep sleep. Good sleep in return helps you to grow in height effectively. During sleep, your body produces growth hormones in the pituitary gland. It further helps in the proper growth and development of your body.

4. Eat Right Foods

Proper growth and development of the body requires a perfect balance of all the essential nutrients. To fulfill this, you can opt for the diet supplements as per your age group along with your proper diet. Balanced nutrition is very important for maintaining a healthy body, especially in kids. When looking for foods that help kids grow taller, include the ones rich in essential vitamins and minerals. Here are some of the key nutritional factors you should look out for (1):

• Protein: Provides essential amino acids needed for tissue growth and hormone regulation.
• Leucine: Activates the mTOR pathway to promote cell growth and repair.
• Zinc: Supports cell growth and bone health and influences the growth plate.
• Calcium: Is essential for bone strength and proper bone mineralization.
• Vitamin D: Aids calcium absorption and supports bone maturation.
• Vitamin A: Promotes healthy cell function and immune responses.
• Iron: Supports growth in children with iron deficiency and anemia.
• Copper: Influences bone development and IGF-I levels.
• Iodine: Is crucial for thyroid function, which regulates growth.

5. Increase Your Immunity

Immune system plays a vital role in the body’s growth and development. To ensure a good height, it is important to keep your immune system fit and functioning. Regular illness or disease can cause stunted growth. Immunity can be enhanced with vitamin C which is abundantly found in oranges, grapefruits and lemons.

Quick Tip

For teens between the ages of 14 and 18, the recommended amount of vitamin C needed per day is 65 mg (for girls) and 75 mg (for boys) (2).

6. Exercise Your Body

You may also try exercises to increase height. Regular sports and exercise can boost the growth and development of your body.

Do swimming, yoga, biking and running along with a good diet and proper sleep to treat hormonal disorders and ensure the proper development of your body. You must also do some stretches or ‘grow taller’ exercises to help you gain height. Yoga has proved to be very effective in growing taller.

Fatemah, a beauty and lifestyle vlogger, tried stretching exercises for 21 days to increase her height and saw visible changes. She claims that her height has increased from 160 cm to 165 cm and has grown 2 inches in 21 days. In her video, she says, “At first, I myself wasn’t sure it works. But I tried it and now I can say it’s perfect and actually works. It works even if your growth plates are closed (i)”.

Quick Tip

You may try yoga asanas like Tadasana, Vrikshasana, and Chakrasana to improve your flexibility and stretch your body.

7. Practice Good Posture

Practicing good posture can help you grow 6 inches taller. Always walk and sit in a straight posture to gain good growth in height.

8. Small And Frequent Meals

Eat 6 small meals in a day instead of 3 heavy meals to increase your bone density and stimulate your metabolism. Your growth hormone and height gain totally depend on the food that you eat. Hence, it is essential to get the required vitamins and minerals for gaining the natural growth in height.

9. Maintain Ideal Body Weight

Obesity can have a bad effect on your height growth. Hence, to gain good height or atleast grow 6 inches taller, it is vital to maintain an ideal body weight by following a balanced diet and regular exercise.

Gaining just 6 inches of height after a certain biological stage is a challenge. That is why it is essential to have a basic understanding of the human body’s growth phases. Continue reading to learn more.

Understanding Growth Phases

Understanding how we grow taller can help us support our bodies during development. Growth starts even before a baby is born (fetal stage), and is influenced by its mother’s health. After birth, we grow rapidly as babies (from birth to one year) and toddlers (one to five years).

But the major growth spurts happen during childhood (ages three to eleven) and adolescence (ages twelve to eighteen) when bones grow longer. This growth stops after puberty (3).

Factors like genes, what we eat, and our environment affect how tall we get. Good nutrition and a healthy environment are important for proper growth. Learning about these growth stages can help us ensure we are doing everything we can to support healthy development.

“How to grow taller” is a question that many people ask, and the above tips explain some effective ways to get taller. But how long does it take to grow taller? Find out in the next section.

How Long Does It Take To Grow Taller?

Factors such as genetics, nutrition, and exercise affect your height. You start growing taller when the growth plates at the ends of your long bones produce new bones. One stops growing after adulthood as the mature bones fuse together.

Children with short stature may have a chance at height growth. A study showed that a dose of 0.32 mg/kg/ week of growth hormone for 6 months helped kids grow more than 4 centimeters tall (4). You also can consult a doctor to find out the most effective and safe methods for growing taller.

It also is important to keep in mind that our height is determined by our genetic makeup. For instance, if most people in your family are short, you could be short as well. This is one reason becoming noticeably taller during one’s formative years can be a challenge. Hence, setting sensible goals for your height is key.

Growth can be influenced to some extent through lifestyle practices like a healthy diet, consistent exercise, and adequate sleep. However, you cannot alter your genetic composition. Hence, it is best to focus on living a healthy lifestyle and exercising in order to gain lean muscle mass. This way, your body could appear taller too.

Infographic: How To Look Taller

You may not be able to grow six inches taller after a certain age as your growth plates stop increasing. However, there are a few natural remedies you can follow to look taller. Simple changes in your hairstyles, clothes and other changes can make you appear taller.

Check out the infographic below for more such tips.

Illustration: StyleCraze Design Team

Frequently Asked Questions

Is it possible to increase 6 inches after 18?

Jesse Feder, Clinical Dietitian at the Memorial Regional Hospital, says, “It is possible to grow 6 inches after the age of 18. However, this is extremely rare and most likely due to a medical condition.” In other cases, if you are wondering how to increase height after 18, you can always dress up well to create the illusion of a longer figure. Some options you can try for this are vertical stripes or color-blocked outfits.

How can I increase my height by 6 inches in a week?

According to Jesse, “It is not possible to increase your height by 6 inches in a week.” He adds,“ You can make sure you get enough sleep, proper nutrition, and exercise to ensure you grow properly.”

Does jumping make you taller?

No, the act of jumping or jumping higher will not make your bones grow or make you any taller. However, what jumping does is remove any decompressions in your vertebrae, stretch your spine, and possibly give you a taller appearance.

Does gyming increase height?

No, there is currently no scientific evidence suggesting that exercising or gymming makes you taller. This is because your height is determined by genetics, and you will stop growing once your growth plates stop increasing. You can eat nutritious food and engage in physical exercises that fix your posture, which may give you a taller appearance.

Illustration: Effective Tips To Grow 6 Inches Taller

Image: Dall·E/StyleCraze Design Team

Unlock your height potential with natural growth techniques. Click on this video to get some effective tips to grow taller, from following balanced meals to performing targeted exercises.

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Reda Elmardi is a registered dietician, certified nutritionist, and certified strength and conditioning specialist trainer. He has more than 10 years of experience and has been an NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist Trainer since 2015.

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  Jesse FederRDN/LDN Jesse Feder, RDN/LDN, is a Clinical Dietitian at the Memorial Regional Hospital. He is also a certified by the American College of Sports Medicine as a personal trainer (ACSM-CPT) and the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA-CSCS).
  
  Jesse Feder, RDN/LDN, is a Clinical Dietitian at the Memorial Regional Hospital. He is also a certified by the American College of Sports Medicine as a personal trainer (ACSM-CPT) and the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA-CSCS).

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