The italian physicist Ettore Majorana is someone who I have always admired and been fascinated by ever since I learned how much the great Enrico Fermi respected his physics abilities and his strange disappearance.

I recently read a paper on a theory on what happened to Majorana where it is claimed that he faked his own death or disappearance and found a way to escape to South America, presumably Peru or Venezuela. While this type of stuff would be interesting only to physics historians, I do have to say that the way Ettore Majorana was able to do original, deep, and insightful research is what I most admire in him.

There is no doubt that this man was extreme intelligent, so much so that Fermi would often lament the fact that Majorana was not there to help in finding solutions to challenging physics problems.

What I am proposing is that after maybe the next 2-3 months, when the majority of the easy papers and posts are finally written up, which will be done soon, it will be time to start synthesizing all the research together from all the posts written in this past year to try to dig for something that researchers may not have seen before.

We will no longer be writing articles which can be duplicated by any ordinary height increase researcher or journalist. I have seen dozens of researchers who can claim that letrozole is the answer to all of their height needs. Well letrozole is rather easy to identify as an important part of our grow taller endeavor since it is clearly written for us to find and read. We need to do more and connect studies and experimental conclusions together to reach new insights and ideas.

We have to go deeper and deeper into the science. There is no other way. It is not possible to stay on the shallow end of understanding and keep on writing about abstracts we find from PubMed. To make any serious breakthrough we need to really sit down and put thing together.

• Currently I am looking over the ideas of possibly weakening the cortical bone layers using reverse ossification ideas making the bones eventually elastic enough to stretch will significantly less force applied. 

• The other idea I have been looking for is ways to cause bone fractures, specifically sharp thin cuts on the bone which can be done non-invasively, maybe through a multiple direction low intensity guided laser apparatus, like that of the MRI-guided focused ultrasound (MRIGFU). I wrote about the possibility of using MRIGFU towards height increase in the post “Increase Height And Grow Taller Using Magnetic Resonance Image, MRI Guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Surgery, FUS“

• The last thing I have been looking at is finding the best growth factor combination needed to cause adult human adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stem cells to differentiate only into chondrocytes.  

– Just a side thought for today. –

Subperiosteal Transmission Of Intra-Articular Pressure Between Articulated And Stationary Joints

“Hydrostatic pressures can be transmitted between synovial capsules. In each of ten rabbits, we simultaneously measured pressure in two joints, one of which was passively ranged, and the other of which was kept stationary. The intra-articular pressure inside the stationary joint changed every time its companion joint was ranged. But the pressure in the stationary joint did not change when the periosteum was transected above the ranged joint. This phenomenon was observed in all four animals that served as their own controls. The study suggests that the intra-articular pressure was transmitted through the space between the periosteum and the bone surface. Alternative explanations, like measurements of venous blood pressure, did not show correlation with hydrostatic pressure changes in the joints. The Floating Skeleton concept suggests a biomechanical rationale for this newly observed phenomenon: that there exists a subperiosteal hydrostatic connection of synovial joints, and that this “net” distributes excess pressures among joints through the periosteal sheath to sustain the integrity of the joint contacting surfaces over a lifetime.”

“correlation between synovial fluid pressure and the pressure in the blood capillary in the synovium”

“intra-articular pressure was transmitted hydrostatically through the subperiosteal space.”

“The subperiosteal fluid can be found in the cambial layer of the periosteum”

So essentially hydrostatic periosteum between the inner bone, the articular cartilage, and the periosteum are connected.

I was looking through PubMed today and came across a little interesting article/study which looked at the socio-economic patterns of height. The abstract was the only thing that I could get but it did reveal something a little interesting. It was just a short segment but I do wonder what the implications of something like this would be.

PubMed study: “Taller – Healthier – more equal? The biological standard of living in Switzerland in the second half of the 20th century.”

Abstract

This paper analyzes the trends in physical stature and body mass of the Swiss population born between 1955 and 1985, based on data collected in the “Living in Switzerland Survey” (Swiss Household Panel) of 2004. Aside from the time trend, we investigate the impact of educational and marital status as well as spatial effects on height and BMI. The results corroborate previous studies: average height increased during the second half of the 20th century for both women and men, better educated individuals are tallest, divorced men are shorter than married men and urban populations enjoy a height advantage over rural ones. We also compare the level and the trend in height to other postindustrial populations to identify key causes of physical growth and conclude that the quality of the health care systems and equal access to it seem to have a greater impact than other redistributive aspects of the welfare state. The relatively low level of inequality in health led to average height in Switzerland that are similar to those obtained in the Scandinavian social-democratic welfare states. Other measures such as income inequality do not have a high explanatory power for the average stature of the Swiss population.

Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

PMID:19797002 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

Analysis

Maybe more than just showing the relationship of how divorced men are shorter than their married counterpart, there was a few other things that this 30 year study between the years 1955-1985 of Switzerland revealed. These are the main things…

1. better educated individuals are tallest
2. urban populations enjoy a height advantage over rural ones
3. the quality of the health care systems and equal access to it seem to have a greater impact than other redistributive aspects of the welfare state
4. The relatively low level of inequality in health led to average height in Switzerland that are similar to those obtained in the Scandinavian social-democratic welfare states

So if you live in the city, you are a little taller than if you lived on a farm. If you are in the tallest group, you are more likely to be well educated.

Healthcare plays a huge part. Because of how equal it is in getting healthcare for everyone, the entire average height of switzerland has reached the level of height seen in the Northern Scandinavian countries.

Years ago I was frustrated over the fact that there seemed to be no good real websites or resources on the internet I could turn to for my height increase questions. I remember finding the Height Quest website and finding it too advanced and scientific to read. At the time, I tried just focusing on exercise with little care to the science. I wanted to get taller and I was not sure whether the exercise routine I was doing at the time, which included swimming everyday, stretching, and yoga poses would really work.

After I did gain the 1/4th of an inch to push my height past the socially accepted height of 6 feet tall, I decided that I was tall enough. I moved on to other things.

After being away for almost 3 years, I came back to focus on this issue. Why did I come back to try to figure out something which no physician or surgeon has ever succeeded in before and think that I would be able to find a solution when the thousands of other people before me who did the research couldn’t figure it out?

I came to realize that a person’s life probably can only have true significance when they are in someway really benefiting the world. I looked on the internet and saw that there seemed to ba a resource for almost everything.

No matter what you were interested in, what you wanted to do, or what you wanted to learn, there was someone who had already figured it out and probably posted a great guide on how to do it.

I looked at the internet and found nothing about how to grow taller which was honest, informative, free, and authoritative. Everything was so scattered, and everyone seemes to be arguing, in deep confusion, or trying to sell a scam.

I realized that with my background, my experience, and my experiences, I had the tools to really try to make a good contribution. All my life, my family seemed to emphasize the point that having height is something that was very important. It seems to have cause certain strange psychological issues and dysmorphia in a few of my family members.

Plus, I realized that there were probably millions, if not billions of people out there who expressed the same thoughts and desires to be come taller, even after they stopped growing.

This whole area of the internet is filled with scams and fake products. There are plenty of pills with calcium carbonate and some oriental herbs which are sold as grow taller miracles. There are plenty of E-Books sold which will do nothing except drain the buyer’s wallet. There are hundreds of websites which all seem to link back to the “Grow Taller 4 Idiots” mega-scam. There are back hat SEO tactics used to push the websites higher up in the search engine rankings.

In the last year, I have reviewed at least 30 products, and none of them except maybe 1-2 has any chance of ever working even for growing kids. I have been slowly trying to cut through the B.S. and see every single method and idea proposed looking for any sign or hint of an idea. Some sections of the website has not been updated in since the beginning because I have been focused so much on the research and the content creation.

And now that it is almost an entire year since the beginning in the summer of last year, 2012. I am proud that I can provide a place where people can go to and find useful and informative articles posted which will help them see that there is real research being done. Sure, there will be many ideas and crazy proposed techniques which will lead me nowhere, but each route I go in for research seems to give me a better and better idea of what is really going on in the human body, in the bones themselves, and in the cartilage which is what really seems to make bones larger.

So if you have something in your own life that you are very frustrated about, whether personal or professional, I would like to ask that you create something to try to solve that problem. The most likely thing is that it is not just you that is suffering from that problem. Probably millions of other people have the same problem. Help make the world a better place and build something that you can be proud of even 30 years later.

Be The Change You Wish To See In The World, and Create Something Of Massive Value

So how do we do this? How can we start our own revolution, our paradigm shifting change? I say to become so good that people can no longer ignore you. I want you to start learning about something which you have always wanted to learn about, or you have always had a deep, dark obsession, madness, or passion about. As long as you can do something for free, where the money is not the thing you are really chasing, you will make it into something that people just can’t ignore, because what you have built is just so useful, so powerful, or so influential.

If you produce and create things that are so high in quality that people will instantly see the value in what you do, then the money will come.

As Pat Flynn, the internet marketer puts it which he applies the key concepts everyday…

1. Provide massive value
2. Earning massive trust
3. Learn and understand the needs and wants of your followers
4. Lead and teach by example.

The Steve Martin Autobiography entitled “So Good They Can’t Ignore You” has an amazing phrase. I took it also from the blog by Cal Newport entitled Study Hacks where his main point is for us to become so good that people can’t ignore us.

So become better at something that you know the whole world will love. Become so knowledgeable on something that people will be desperately emailing you asking you for the secret. If may take many years, if not a decade but you will one day prove all the haters and sceptics wrong. They will have to look up since you are going to be noticed by all the rest of the world. Get ready.