In a follow up to a very recent post where I looked at the possible height increasing potential of Korean/Chinese traditional medicinal plant extracts Eleutherococcus Senticosus and Artemisia Capillaris (spelled wrong last time)  entitled “Scientific Study Shows Chinese Plant Extract Eleutherococcus Senticosus And Artemisia Capillasis Infused In Kiwoomi Rice Enhanced Growth Rates” I was some searching to see if there was any more articles similar in nature and I came across a study that was entitled “Effect of combined extract of Hansogdan (Phlomis umbrosa) and Dalgaebi(Commelina communis) as a milk additive for enhancing the growth of physical heightin vivo“

From the SpringerLink database…

June 2012, Volume 21, Issue 3, pp 875-879

Effect of combined extract of Hansogdan (Phlomis umbrosa) and Dalgaebi(Commelina communis) as a milk additive for enhancing the growth of physical heightin vivo

Abstract

Earlier today I got an email from one of the regular readers of the website Abel and he suggested two post ideas I could write about. The first post was more philosophical in nature and I decided that I’ll save that post idea for a time in the future but I felt the 2nd post idea was something that is worth considering and addressing right now.

The question is “What would you do if somebody found out that you are wearing lifts?”

For some people who are height conscious they might decide to use the shoe lifts to make themselves look a little taller. For some people in the height increase community, the lifts are just another part of their lives, and they make them feel better about themselves when they are outside in public. For people who don’t use the lifts, it is hard for them to understand why a person would choose to wear the lifts to pretend or hide their true height. It seems that the people who don’t understand that so often, people need to do many things to hide their ego or sense of identity and self worth from attack or damage. We all do it, and I will not judge people.

For me, I remember that I tried out the lifts before in my period of obsession to see how they would feel and look. While I never went online or ordered those real lifts you find on some online stores,  I remember going to Walmart and buying a few insoles which were about half a cm thick and stacking them into a shoe or boot to see how well they worked. Overall, I found the experience to be rather nice. Walking out, I did feel a little more confident and less insecure about my height. It felt good and I continued to wear them until I met my girlfriend. At that point, I felt that it was time to go back to ordinary shoes.

I remember that I would always, at the back of my mind, be comparing myself in height to everyone that walked by. it was a really strange obsession I had and the shoes I was wearing made me feel taller and better throughout the day, even if it was a lie. I would find out years later that people actually have to live with some lies to be able to even function in life for certain situations. The ego defense mechanisms like denial, repression, justification, rationalizations, etc. all work perfectly to protect a person from going down the path of depression or suicide.

I personally think that if someone found out that I was wearing some form of height increasing footwear, whether it is the specially designed shoes, or the thick insoles you stuff into your shoes, I might be slightly embarrassed and ashamed at my insecurity and need to use them for a short while. Then I would explicitly tell them that I feel insecure about my height and enjoy wearing lifts because it makes me feel better and more confident when I am outside. Then mentally and emotional move on and go on about my day in some way.

I realize that at my age of nearly 30, so many people everywhere, everyday do things, act certain ways, and buy things for them to use which tries to hide some form of insecurity. For example

1. Balding and/or bald men who wear toupees and fake hair to try to cover up it up since they feel insecure about it.
2. Women suffering from breast cancer who wear hats and wigs to cover up their bald head which resulted from their chemotherapy treatment
3. Middle age men and women who are forced to wear adults diapers because they have some form of medical issue which causes them to have a low ability to control their bowel movements.
4. People who carry inflatable ring cushions/pillows for their severe hemorrhoids problems because they just can’t sit down without it.
5. Having a flatulence problems causing major public embarrassment when they fart at their work place or something similar.
6. The teenage guy who is very smart being prepared at all times carry 1 condom in his wallet in his back pocket for “interesting situations”.
7. The girl who wakes up at 5 am in the morning each day just so she can spend the “neccessary” 1 hour to put on 2 mm thick of makeup to hide what she thinks are her ugliness.
8. The former rocker who always must wear long sleeves to cover up the tattoos he got when he was younger and going through that phase of rebellion and self expression through skin decorations and body modifications.
9. The former suicidal girl who always must wear long sleeves to cover up the scars you would find on her wrists.
10. The middle age male who carries viagra around for “special occasions”.
11. The overweight men who wear girdles to give a look that they don’t have a ever increasing waistline.

At this point, I am willing to tell the readers that in the last few years, after my parents have retired in relative financial comfort, they have gone under the knife to correct for lazy eyes, moles, and crows feet. Me and my siblings have been quick to be confused at why they would choose to do it and made fun of them a little, but after maybe 10 minutes, the jokes and the the taunting stops because we realize that it doesn’t affect them since they are past all that stuff now. They wanted to go through with it, did it, had the resources to do it, and they don’t care about what even their family members have said.

Now, are they just being vain and superficial for wanting these things? Maybe, and maybe not. It doesn’t really matter.

At the area I live in, everyday I see women and men who walk by me with bandaids and wound gauzes on their nose and eye area, from them having that day plastic surgery to change something about themselves. The surgery was for cosmetic reasons, not from a real medical pathology. At some level they had felt it nessecary to have a surgeon cut into their face and change what they were born with because they didn’t feel like they were enough or beautiful enough. We could argue and be upset at them for a decision which we think is stupid but they don’t. People will do whatever they want to do and most of the time, there is little you can say or do to stop them from doing something, if they are really intent on doing it.

At this point in my life, I really don’t care what other people think about me, what I do, or what I think. When I think about the short time I have left on this earth, I realize that I have to just let go of the small things, and focus on the big things in life. If I cared too much about what other people thought of me and the judgement they have of me, it would paralyze me from taking action and changing the world in a world that makes it better.

I have decided to post a video I had shot of a outside shop stand where an old man was selling height increasing insoles at a certain location of the city I am living in currently.

We see that even celebrities do the same thing, maybe even more so with this clip of former Singer Jessica Simpson who was very pregnant come on the Ellen Show with her 5 inches heels. It seems that maybe Jessica Simpson also had a sort of short stature complex. Her current husband is a 6′ 3″ football player while she stands somewhere between 5′ 3″-5′ 4″ (source). She seems to have a strong resistance to stop wearing high heels (source) (source) (source). She has even joked that she wished to give birth to her kid in 4 inch Yves  Saint Laurent Pumps.

Update And Correction Dec.29, 2012: New information and research reveals that the two studies I have posted here are actually two different studies. That was a mistake. Disregard the bottom half of this post, everything under the cut off line. One was done on fish and rats. The other study which I go in a little more in depth on in a future post shows that the 2nd study was done on pigs and humans, with the overall same results.

This may be a huge idea to help keep young kids from having stunted growth due to bad nutrition and living conditions. I am not even sure how I found this paper but I entered the phrase “Effect of plant extract YGF on inducement of IGF-1” into Google and the first result that it gave me led to me to a paper entitled “Study On the Developed Of Rise with Plant Extracts For Enhancing Growth Rates.”

The scientific study and paper was published in the Korean J. Oriental Physiology & Pathology 17(3): 815-818, 2003.

• Note #1: The translation is bad and the word “Rise” should be “Rice“. The study was talking about rice infused with the extracts
• Note #2: The full article in PDF form is available on the link above.
• Note #3: The translation was bad and one of the compounds, Artemisia capillasis, was misspelled. The correct spelling of the plan extract is Artemisia capillaris.

Abstract

Note: Due to the fact that I couldn’t easily just copy and paste the abstract text, I have clipped and pasted a jpg of the abstract section of the document. It is to the right.

Personal Analysis

The big thing for the average reader to take away is that when the two compounds Eleutherococcus senticosus and Artemisia capillasis as an extract were mixed into the rice/ food for both fish and rats, the experimental groups for both animals showed an enhanced rate of growth. It seems that the GH and IGF-1 levels were increased, but I am not sure how those levels can be tested in animals. The Kiwoomi rice that the exacts were infused with don’t seem to be that important so it is probable that we can use any type of rice or food alternative to be used with the exacts, or just take the extracts by themselves.  The researchers claim that the rice, not the extracts “can be helpful for growing children”

Note: Read the introduction part below for a more detailed analysis of the study if you are a serious height increase researcher .

The paper was written by a few Korean researchers in the Korean language Hangul so I had to do a little more searching to find a translated version of the paper. While I did not find a version of a complete translated place for the Korean document, I did find from this source HERE a translated part of the Introduction…

Introduction

Hangul

various kinds of medicinal herbs, green active with promoting the growth of animals and humans have been reported.Used as experimental animals to verify the selected plant growth promoting effects of fish and pork. Acanthopanax koreanum extract from experimental fish extracts and plant extracts, showed that the most effective and the results of these plant extracts fed to pigs, average daily weight gain compared to the control group increased by 7.06 percent. In order to verify the results of this, we measured the secretion of growth hormone (GH) in the blood, and Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) the amount of GH secreted into the blood compared to the control group, and the amount of IGF-1 was significantly higher in the pigs fed plant extracts. Researchers to evaluate the growth promoting effects in humans mixed in the rice plant extracts coated raise U.S. ^ (TM) (Kiwoomi ^ (TM)) were prepared. Raise U.S. ^ (TM) for elementary school students to eat when he was effective in the key growth was confirmed. Dosing did more than raise U.S. ^ (TH) were fed the kids were grown (about 2.14 times). As a result, this is expected functional rice (Kiwoomi ^ (TM)) without any other side effects on the growth of children that help English abstract It has been reported that various kinds of chinese herbs have an activity to promote growth rate in both animals and human. To investigate the growth promoting effect of the selected plants, fish and pigs were used as experimental animals. In fish, Eleutherococcus senticosus extract and Arteinisia capillasis extract were found to be most effective. And these plant extracts were given to pigs. The result showed that plant extracts-fed pigs were significantly increased their body weight gain at 7.06% of average daily gain, as compared to control. To verify this result, secreted growth hormone (GH) levels and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) levels into blood were measured. This result indicated that GH and IGF-1 levels in the blood in plant extracts-fed pigs were higher than those of control. To confirm growth promotion effect on human, we manufactured the mixture of these plant extracts, and coated this mixture onto rice, named as Kiwoomi ^ (TM). When we administered Kiwoomi ^ (TM) to elementary students, it was found to be effective in growth promotion. This result showed that Kiwoomi ^ (TM)-treated elementary students significantly increased their growth rate (about 2.14 times), as compared to untreated children.Taken together, it is suggested that this functional rice (Kiwoomi ^ (TM)) might be helpful for growing children without any side effects.

Conclusion: At this point, I wanted to end the post and I will put the two compounds/extracts Eleutherococcus senticosus and Artemisia capillasis on my list of things to do research on for the future.

Guest Hakker from GrowTallerForum.com give his story, the research he originally was doing, and where he is at now.

Episode #5: Guest Hakker Discuss His Research, Growth Plate Transplants, LSJL, And Other Ideas

Along the way he gives his opinions on using growth plate transplants, the effectiveness of LSJL, Alkoclar, and more. Most of interview was Hakker explaining the difficulty in finding a non-invasive way to achieve height growth. He also talks about the reason the forum was taken down and other issues. Some of the supplements and ideas seem to be able to help people with open growth plates to hold off on the closure and possibly increase in height a little more.

James/Hakker will eventually send an email with all the supplements and their dosages which he and the other researchers have suggested in the past. His personal and last website that is still up is at BioHakker.com.In the interview we also get into other topics like anti-aging and cognitive enhancement through the use of Nootropics, etc. Some profanity was removed because the Natural Height Growth podcast is labeled under iTunes as safe for all public listeners.

As always, if you the listener still have some unanswered questions after listening to the interview, leave a comment or question and I’l try to answer them as best as I can.

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Note: The quality of the sound from Hakker’s/Jame’s end is slightly rough and there seems to be an echo in some parts of the interview. At this point I don’t know how to control and/or remove the sound issue.

Length of time: 36 minutes

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I have been slowly working on the lone bones of a section of a limb of a young pig for the last few days in trying to get a good look at what exactly the growth plates look like up close. I would assume that the morphology and structure of pig’s bone is about the same as human bones.  I put up originally 3 separate videos, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, but I found that the quality of those videos and their size was bad quality and it was hard for you to see what I was actually point at or referring to. So I redid all the content, combined my commentary into 1 and uploaded a 4th  video. It is around 8 minutes long.

Note: There are also 4 pictures at the bottom of this post. I managed to also take some pictures of the actual plates and the bone ends with the plates removed. You can see that amount of definition and texture of the bones and cartilage. Apparently I have finally realized that taking videos and pictures using the 8 Megapixel iphone4s camera is still not good enough to capture the high def., high resolution shots that I was hoping for. Still working on figuring out how to get the right angles.

While I was going through the new websites today, I found an article which is giving an update on the former tallest teen female in the world Elisany da Cruz Silva. It seems that she is dating a guy who is 16 inches shorter than her. Elisany is 6′ 8″ and he is 5′ 4″.

From the DailyMail.UK, I would guess that when a girl is 6′ 8″, it would be hard for a girl like her to find a guy who is taller than her in general. The fact that she is from Salinopolis in Brazil, and only just 17, means that it probably is even harder to find a teenage guy from a nation which has the average male to be around 5′ 7.5″ means that it would be next to impossible. While most girls would choose and prefer to be with taller men, she might not have any choice in the matter.

The guy she is with is a good guy I would guess. It is clear that he likes her the way she is, while she may not be that comfortable with the entire situation.

As she states…

‘What really attracted me was his personality, the way he acts with people and the way he acts with me. 

‘The only thing that really affects us is when we hang out holding hands – it seems like he is my little brother or son. 

‘But I didn’t choose him, God did.’