I get emails from people asking me whether they can still grow anywhere from 1 inch to 9-11 inches all the time and for some of them, I answer it is possible and for others I don’t even reply.
Like I said multiple times before, the growth plates are the main thing that the average person needs to consider if they want to know if they are going to grow taller or not. Now I am not talking about growth spurts, but only a slight increase.
I actually think it is very unreasonable to believe that one would be able to get 9 inches of extra height in a few months from any type of technique or method, although there have been some cases where people have grown at this rate, although I think it is extremely strange.
So when is the true last age that a natural growth spurt can still happen?
I want to move the reader away from the idea that they are going to be lucky enough to get a 7 inch growth spurt in a few months just because they want to be taller since that doesn’t happen. If it does happen, that is wonderful and this website is something that one should not need to refer to. I write this website for the people who are the majority, the people who are slightly older and never get the type of height boost that they want, but are concerned that maybe it is already too late for them.
The question should be changed from “When is the true last age that a natural growth spurt is possible?” into “Is it possible that I can still get a growth spurt?” to the real question that can be answered. “Can I still grow?”
Technically growth spurts are just the phenomena where the vertical increase in height is slightly higher than what is predicted to be average by an pediatrician or endocrinologist during a short period of time.
Growth spurts turn out to occur very rapidly and happen usually in a range of just a few short months. They usually happen during the summer time where a person can grow around 4-5 inches over a 2-3 month time range. It happened to me and it happened to other people. For some people, they never get the increased vertical growth but increase in height at a very steady rate, at around 2-3 inches every year, until they are finished. If that is the case, then we can say that this person never technically had a growth spurt, but that their growth rate was constant.
So the better question, and the question I can answer would be “What is the true last age which a person can possibly grow?” which can be rewritten in the more personal way “I am a certain age, can I still grow?”
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“Hi, I’m ENTER YOUR AGE years old. Am I Still Growing? Can I Still Grow Taller?”
In Related News…
In a recent interview the actor Armie Hammer (played the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network) with Conan O’Brien said that during the summer between the 9th and 10th grade, probably when he was either 15 or 16 he increased his height by 9 inches within the span of a few short months, or as he says it, 1 summer. Whether that meant he grew in 2 or 3 months do make a difference. Armie talks about all the growing pains he would feel in his legs at night as his bones were being stretched out. In 9th grade he was shorter with a small gut, and looked pudgy.
Conan states in the video below that he was sort of a short kid in high school and that he grew overnight and that somewhere in the late sophomore year, within the period of 2 months, he grew like the Hulk. The same thing happened to Armie Hammer in terms of the growth, and it seems that the exact same thing happened to both of them, where it happened over night.
The bad part of this insane growth period is the amount of pain they went through. They talk about the leg cramps. Armie stated that his hips even popped out of their socket, which is even more interesting. From just ordinary walking, the hips would just pop out.
