So many times I get messages where people ask me what they can do to grow taller. Some people who are very determined give very strong messages saying that they are willing to do anything or take any type of supplement to get the type of height that they want but I sometimes wonder whether they really want it as much as they claim.

The truth is that there is often a hidden unspoken exception to their height goals. This is the fact that they won’t go to the option or choose going through with the surgical method for height increase. They are willing to try any type of method or technique EXCEPT for limb lengthening surgery. Well in my opinion I think that they are then just not really truly serious about the endeavor then.

I know people who have been spending over a year (or two or three) taking the supplements, buying strange insoles, and clamping their legs using the Lateral Synovial Joint Loading method to get even 1 cm of real permanent height but they still don’t achieve any real noticeable height increase which can be more than just measurement error. They have probably spent over 1000 hours towards stretching, exercising, swimming, and such to hope for that permanent height gain as well as many thousands of dollars on trying every option under the sun except for the limb lengthening surgery.

But they always stop before going to the last, real, most obvious option. Surgery. So my question to the reader who seems to only kinda of want it “How badly do you want it? What are you willing to give up and sacrifice for a chance to reach your height goals?”

You say you can take the pain, and you are willing to put in the time, effort and make the multi-year commitment but why not choose the sure thing, the easy option.

I may be using a bad analogy but… to choose all the possible ways to increase height except limb lengthening surgery can be similar to what a sexually frustrated 30 year old virgins may try to do in learning how to pick up women, signing on to dating websites, and hiring matchmaking services but draw the line at just hiring a escort or prostitute for the sole purpose of just sex.

There is a clear solution for your height increase problems. Yes, it will be very expensive, maybe in the range of around 50,000-100,000 even. You will have to give up 1 year of your life, have to live in a different country in a hospital where you can’t speak the local language. You will go through excruciating pain when you turn that screw on the rod to pull your tibia or femur apart. You will have to go through at least 3-6 month of physical therapy just to walk again. But those are the things you have to give up for this one endeavor.

Just go to the forum MakeMeTaller.org and see how the people there treat the fact that limb lengthening surgery is just another normal aspect to their lives. A sizable portion of them went through with the surgery, sometimes even for just 4 cm of extra height, which can possibly be achieved through normal exercising and stretching, but what they show in terms of what outsiders may think is insanity or craziness in their dedication towards increasing their height, I look at them and it shows just how strong the human spirit is and how the strongest determination will give them what they wanted.

Since the dawn of humanity, the shorter half of human kind have had billions of people wishing that they were taller. However that desire and wish to be taller was something they kept secret, something they hoped would just happen to them, like a painless easy growth spurt that is natural and proportional. well maybe life will never give them that type of easy way for height.

When I look at many of the females who walk by me as I walk down the street in Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea which is the plastic surgery capital of the world, I feel both confused at the girls but also some admiration for the people who are willing to go under the knife and have surgeons cut open their face and cut off bone just so they can become more “beautiful”. These people felt that beauty is important so they are willing to do ANYTHING that they can to achieve that dream. Surgery is a accept way to enhance oneself in the region of the world I live in. In america, many people might try to look down at these people and say that these women who get plastic surgery are stupid, or insecure, or have low self-esteem, and maybe they are right, but that still does not take away from the fact that millions of young teenage korean females are willing to have the bones in their face broken, cracked, removed, etc. for something that they really want. Theire desire is strong.

And for our desires, our desire for height should be strong as well. If you only kind of want to be taller but not be willing to put in the work in terms of say gritting your teeth and go under the knife, then maybe you really just don’t want it bad enough.  There is pain, but one of the regular posters said that the pain they would feel in say 1 year of limb lengthening surgery to gain 10 cm or 4 inches of height increase will more than make up for the fact that they will gain the confidence to finally not be insecure or so fixated on their height anymore. For men, maybe their dating lives will improve and where once women rejected them on their height, the same type of women will finally give them a chance. These men have their own lives and felt that being taller is quite possibly the most important thing in their lives, more than say earning more money, getting a better car , or working out for those 6 pack abs. They chose to focus on this one aspect and go through with the surgery to get what they wanted.

Before Ilizarov came along and perfected the external fixator device which now bears his name and given him world recognition, there was absolutely NO CHOICES. Now that is a statue of Ilizarov in a part of Russia where there is also an orthopaedic clinic named after him. Now we are lucky to be in such a modern world and do finally have the option to be taller even after our growth plates close. We can get surgery. And from the research I have done the surgery can be not as resource intensive as one might expect. There are cases where a person can get 3 inches of height for $30,000 and will take around 6 months to recover in. The member Apoptoesis from the Make Me Taller forum would get the limb lengthening surgery twice, once from 5′ 6″ to 5′ 9″, and then again to go from 5′ 9″ to 6′ 2″. This shows that there is something we can do now.

The problem is just that maybe we just don’t want that growth or height increase as badly as we think we want it. The next time we say on a internet board or talk to ourselves telling ourselves that we should continue to do the stretching exercises and taking the supplements, maybe we are not being honest in ourselves on how much we are really willing to try and go through for our goals.

If I or any of the other height increase seekers really wanted it, I’d go for the limb lengthening surgery. I personally know a few friends who now work as Investment Bankers or Hedge Fund Managers or surgeons who pull in 7 figures a year so it is clearly not a money issue. Are these people who make so much money not willing to accept the idea of putting a small bit of money down and put their life on haitus for one year to get the guaranteed growth that they are looking for. Sure, some people would try to give the counter-arguement that the limb lengthening surgery is very dangerous with possibly serious cripplying consequences, but that is just another reason, even if it is a completely valid reason, for why they have let their own fears to create rationalization and justifications on why they are not willing to take the final, the easiest way for true permanent height increase that we have right now.

Our short grandparents or great grandparents never had this choice but we do have it. So are we willing or have enough of the desire to take this choice and opportunity or are we just going to sit and wait, and wish that some benevolent group of super genius researchers from some secret lab in the world will come up with a solution for our non-invasive height increase desires? Maybe that secret desire will never come to be.

Maybe it is time to accept the idea that we either choose limb lengthening surgery or accept our short height and move on with our lives. I can’t promise you as the readers that even after 10 years of dedicated, intensive research that I or Tyler would find the solution. Maybe we will never find it and give up, like Sky and Hakker before us.

Is it okay that you don’t get the growth and height increase you want or is your desire so strong that you would make the greatest sacrifice for this dream? 

Not available at this time – Earliest release date: June 1, 2014

A Honest Guide On How To Possibly Increase Height And Grow Taller, For The Person With Closed Epiphyseal Growth Plates

An guide on Honest, non-BS, logical, scientifically validated ideas to possibly increase the growth rate of height increase during the years when the growth plates are completely closed.

Price Of This Product: Not sure yet

• Length Of Product: over 200 pages. – this will be similar in volume like a thesis application for Doctoral degree
• Number Of Actual Proposed Ideas, Methods, and Techniques You Can Implement: unknown at this time.

The “book” will be quite expensive. There is no doubt about it. If you want one of the regular E-Books that some Internet Marketer who uses Clickbank to go to the – Free Stuff – or The Library section. Those E-Books and E-Products have the regular type of information which you would find in most books. This

Note #1: Unlike the other product which is for open growth plate, there is indeed a Refund for this product. A 30 days FULL refund for this product.

The reason why this product has a refund and the other product doesn’t is because of two main reasons.

1. The price for this product is going to be very high. Many who do want this may not be able psychologically part with this type of cash, if not most people would not be willing to give up that time of time for such an endeavor.
2. The fact is that this whole venture to try to find a real non-limb lengthening surgerical way to increase height is INSANELY DIFFICULT. There are multiple channels and avenues of research I have tried to look into and most of them seem to have little real chance of working. This is little guarantee that the methods I will put in the book will even be able to give 1 cm of height increase.

The refund policy is my way of giving the buyer a way to get out of lossing $300 if they realize they can’t do the steps in the method since there is a high probability and chance of failure and the idea not working.

The Truth: All the information you will find in the book, you can find at some point on the website. At some point I have talked about one of the main ideas already. What I have done is take all the most useful and applicable content from the last 1000 posts and placed them in one place.

At some point I realized that the Supplement Guide and the Exercise Program Guide was not enough. The section I put up for FAQs to help slow down the onset of dozens of emails I get each day still did not stop the emails. This is the way I can put a full stop to the emails. This “book” is the best advice that I can give at this stage in my research.

I will NEVER lie or try to deceive the readers and the visitors to this website/blog. Everything I am showing you is the best content and “secrets” that I have found. There is NO Magic Pill.

Warning: Do not purchase this product on the spur of the moment. I will just say it right now. Do not purchase this product on the spur of the moment. Before you buy this product, ask yourself…

“How badly do I really want it? How much do I really want to increase my height? What am I willing to give up and sacrifice to gain the amount of height increase that I am hoping for?“

I wrote in a post about this exact issue because I understand the psychological resistance there is with this type of purchase. You have been tricked before. The scam artists are many and this entire niche is a cesspool of scams and frauds. I have looked at the past work of the other height increase researchers and seekers before me. I have read everything I could about the research Sky (from EasyHeight.com and LimbCenter.org), Tyler (from HeightQuest.com), Hakker (from GrowTallForum.com), the GrowTallerForum.com (the other small less popular forum), the GrowTallInfo.com forum, Alkoclar, XCrunner211, Bababooey, GiantScientific.com, the people on the MakeMakeTaller.org forum, and any other resources I have been able to find on the internet.

If you are going to put your (or your parents’, siblings’, friends’) credit card information in, I hope you are really ready to make the type of commitment to say that you are really goig to buy the neccesary equipment, make a true commitment, and section off a portion in the day for time to implement the idea out.

Final Message For Right Now 1/26/2013:

If you have managed to read this far down to the post/message, I’ll say truthfully that this book/E-Product has not been written. It will be the 1st edition. Over the next 3-5 years, I will be editing and revising this book to be more up-to-date with any new breakthroughs, ideas, and news I hear. It will also have less spelling and grammatical mistakes.

There is a very good reason for this. It is because I haven’t found any methods or results which really do seem to have a high chance of working for the person who has closed growth plates.

I have decided that even if I get over my own height insecurities and my own issues on how tall I am, I will not stop in my research. This is my calling. I am here to help the world and hopefully make a real difference and make other people’s lives a little better.

So please put your full name and personal email information below to make a reservation for the option to buy the book when it finally is finished. I promise that when the book is finally finished, I will give you a email notice/message that the book is ready for you to easily buy and download for use. There is also a very good chance that I will upload the book to Amazon.com as a Kindle E-Reader file.

Not available at this time – Earliest release date: July 1, 2013

A Honest Guide On How To Possibly Increase Height And Grow Taller, For People With OPEN Epiphyseal Growth Plates

A guide on Honest, non-BS, logical, scientifically validated ideas to possibly increase the growth rate of height increase during the years when the growth plates are still open.

Warning #1: Do not purchase this product on the spur of the moment. I will just say it right now. There is NO REFUND. Please read that last part again.

Price Of This Product: Not Sure Yet

• Length Of Product: over 100 pages for sure. – at this point it is still being developed and in the infancy stages of being finished (ie. 4-5 pages finished)
• Number Of Actual Proposed Ideas, Methods, and Techniques You Can Implement: over 10 techniques, ideas and things which have been documented by real researchers and medical professionals have proven through experimentation in the laboratory to work.

First thing first, the most obvious thing about the book – This book is going to be quite expensive

There is no doubt about it. If you want one of the regular E-Books that some Internet Marketer who uses Clickbank to sell a weak content based book, go to the – Free Stuff – or The Library section. Those E-Books and E-Products have the regular type of information which you would find in most books. This book is real and detailed of only technical information. However that technical information is only used to validate and show definite proof from sources, citations, and references that scientific professionals in the past have seen the same type of results and phenomena.

In this book I will be giving specific step by step directions on what to do. The book is a guide and an instruction manual. Sure, I can spend the next 40 minutes giving as many fluffy reasons on why you should buy this book to justify the of price but I can’t. I am going to let the content and the information built its own reputation.

The Truth: All the information you will find in the book, you can find at some point on the website. At some point I have talked about one of the 4 main ideas already. What I have done is take all the most useful and applicable content from the last 1000 posts and placed them in one place.

At some point I realized that the Supplement Guide and the Exercise Program Guide was not enough. The section I put up for FAQS to help slow down the onset of dozens of emails I get each day still did not stop the emails. This is the way I can put a full stop to the emails. This “book” is the best advice that I can give at this stage in my research.

I will NEVER lie or try to deceive the readers and the visitors to this website/blog. Everything I am showing you is the best content and “secrets” that I have found. There is NO Magic Pill.

Warning #2: Do not purchase this product on the spur of the moment. I will just say it right now. There is NO REFUND. Please read this again. Think rationally about this choice and ask yourself whether you are really going to put the energy, effort, and time to implement the suggestions and steps given.

The reason There is no refund is because I am around 80-85% confident that the methods described in the book will work in increasing the rate of longitudinal growth in the long bones of the person who is still developing with OPEN growth plates. I don’t have 100% confidence because that would be arrogant of me to think I would know all the answers.

The whole endeavor of trying to increase one’s height is a very tricky and sensitive subject.

The most important question you probably should ask yourself is….

“How badly do I really want it? How much do I really want to increase my height? What am I willing to give up and sacrifice to gain the amount of height increase that I am hoping for?“

I wrote in a post about this exact issue because I understand the psychological resistance there is with this type of purchase. You have been tricked before. The scam artists are many and this ENTIRE niche is a cesspool of scams and frauds. I have looked at the past work of the other height increase researchers and seekers before me. I have read everything I could about the research Sky (from EasyHeight.com and LimbCenter.org), Tyler (from HeightQuest.com), Hakker (from GrowTallForum.com), the GrowTallerForum.com (which is not related to the more popular forum), the GrowTallerInfo.com forum, Alkoclar, XCrunner211, Bababooey, GiantScientific.com, the people on the MakeMakeTaller.org forum, and whatever else I have been able to find.

If you are going to put your (or your parents’, siblings’, friends’) credit card information in, I hope you are really ready to make the type of commitment to say that you are willing to actually go through with the stuff that the book talks about.

I don’t intend for this book to make a lot of money. I know very few people would accept the idea of paying $100 for a book. and that is perfectly okay. If I sell not one copy in its existence I will still be okay. This is a book which I am writing for my future children, which I will use on my own children in time since I have confidence in the ideas I propose. This book is my legacy.

I don’t intend to take down this website for a long time, at least until the internet changes so much that this type of format can no longer function. Sky from EasyHeight.com and LimbCenter.org had those sites up for over 6 years. Hakker had his website up for around 4-5 years. If you would like to see what was on those websites you can use the Wayback Machine that archives old, dead websites from the entire internet.

This website/blog is not going away, since I know for a fact that I am making a difference in this world by doing more research on this subject.

[Disclaimer: As always I am not a medical professional but just an obsessive amateur researcher on auxology and height increase, so taking any type of advice from me is at your own risk. I can not and will not be held responsible legally or financially for any injuries or adverse affects that might happen to the individual who does indeed choose to go through the procedures I talk about. I have a high level of  confidence in my own product and my research can indeed stand up to close scrutiny, scientific scepticism, and criticism by people from the medical establishment.]

Before you click on that link below to buy this book, read this final message very clearly!

– This book is for people with OPEN EPIPHYSEAL GROWTH PLATES. If you are still at the age or stage in your life where natural normal growth is still possible since your growth plates are around, then this book is okay to buy. –

– If however your epiphyseal growth plates aka physis is CLOSED, gone, ossified, etc. whatever you want to call it, then do not buy this book. It will NOT help you. Buy the CLOSED EPIPHYSEAL PLATE BOOK instead, assuming that I ever do manage to finish that book and find real viable ideas and techniques.  –

So please put your full name and personal email information below to make a reservation for the option to buy the book when it finally is finished. I promise that when the book is finally finished, I will give you a email notice/message that the book is ready for you to easily buy and download for use. There is also a very good chance that I will upload the book to Amazon.com as a Kindle E-Reader file.

One of the more common questions posed by people who email to the website email is them asking the question which is a variation or derivative of “What Are The Chances For Me To Go Through A Late Teenage Years Or Late Life Growth Spurt?”

This is a really common question that I see on all of the height increase and grow taller boards. For these people they are only in the very early stages of learning about this endeavors.

I have thought about putting this question in the FAQ section of the website.

If felt that the entire question can be almost completely answered by reading the two posts below

Hi, I’m ENTER YOUR AGE years old. Am I Still Growing? Can I Still Grow Taller?

What Is The Most Height Gain One Can Achieve Through Exercises And Stretching After Puberty And Growth Plate Closure?

While the question posted for this post implies that the person asking the question is hoping that a miracle will happen to them which will let them do nothing but be passive in their achievement of height increase, the question and post I linked above implies that the person who wishes to be taller is willing to do more than just hope and may be more active and assertive in their approach for height increase.

To answer the question more directly is is worth pointing out the medically defined age range for most males and females for when they stop the natural growth process.

For males, they stop growing around the 17-19 age range – This is basically exactly the end of the teenage ages since the technical definition of the end of being a teenager is around 18 years old.

For females, the stop growing around the 15-17 age range – This is basically a little below the end of the teenage years. However we do note that females in general even in their development years mature faster than males, in terms of bone maturity and also emotional and mental maturity too.

If the person asking is hoping for a late teenage years growth spurt, then they would have to be more exact on how old they are exactly. There is a major different between 17.6 years old and 18 years old for men. There are enough cases seen where the male manages to continue to add 1-2 extra inches after even the 18 years point. This is due to maybe from the late closure of the male growth plates and also the longer, bigger tail of the bell curve of the distribution of height tabulated for men. The standard deviation magnitude for the male population is large than the standard deviation magnitude for the height bell curve distribution of females.

In all honestly, I would tell the individual that their chances are very low, maybe around 0.1-0.5% if they are anywhere past the age of 17 for a female and 19 for a male. There are many people who might try to counter-argue this assessment by telling me and recounting a story of how their relative, themselves, or one of their friends beat the age range and was the exception but the numbers don’t lie.

Most people who do contact this website are already in their 20s so their odds are severely reduced. I am talking about it to mean that in terms of percentages they might have a 0.001% chance that they would even be able to get 1 inch. However this does not mean that they can’t get some real height increase by focusing on stretching out their vertebrate and realigning their posture. A large percentage of people in a given population has the potential to gain upwards (or sometimes slightly more) of 1 inch in height increase through stretching and posture correction int their 20s. However what they are doing is more like body remodeling or modification, which is NOT a growth spurt.

Growth Spurts imply that the bones in their body went through further the process of endochondral ossification and the height they did achieve is permanent, which is something that won’t go away if they stop doing the stretching.

Maybe the person who messages me might think that they are somehow special, unique, or have a situation which means that they are excluded from the majority but fit that very, very small minority of people who can still grow, but that is always assuming that they think that their growth plates are still open. I would not want to wager that the person has their growth plates still around, but are gone. If a person doesn’t have their growth plates anymore in their limbs, they still have some cartilage in their vertebrate which might still be around which will contribute to the person’s overall height through appositional growth but if those vertebrate growth plates disappear, then growth spurts are almost impossible.

There is one unique case where it is suggested that growth spurts might still be able to occur that was with with the now passed Tanya Angus. Her biography showed that she apparently stopped increasing in height when she was in her teens but her growth was reactivated when she was around 18, which is the age when most females would have complete closure of their cartilage. Of course Angus had the most severe case of Acromegaly that has ever been documented. Where most pituitary gland tumours which cause human gigantism are benign in nature, Tanya Angus had one which seemed to more malignant, at least in terms of the fact that her tumour seemed to grow bigger. If we can prove that Angu’s plates were in deed gone before her pituitary gland was activated, this might prove the idea that even with all the growth plate closed, growth spurts still might be able to happen where the body is enlarged in every single way, not just in terms of height.

So at this point, hope for the best but expect the worst. Be prepared to accept the idea that maybe you are not going to get any growth spurt but be grateful if it does happen. Sometimes the growing does happen, like what happened with Dennis Rodman with his crazy 10 inch of growth at the age of 20, but those cases are very, very rare.

This post is really for the concerned and worried parents out there who might be interested in knowing just how fast their son or daughter should be growing at the age that they are at.

Note: This post is also a key post which will be used to show that if I propose a technique or method for increasing the growth rate of a person who still has open epiphyseal growth plates, for the serious, sceptical, cynical person to see that there is a high reasonable percentage of a chance that the technique probably did do what I had said it would.

All that would need to be done is to compare the average rate of height increase for the time period of a person from say a medical textbook chart to the increases seen from implementing a technique or idea I propose.

First, I would like to cite the Wikipedia article on “Growth Chart” which has a link to the World Health Organization website. There is a link to a PDF entitled “WHO Child Growth Standards” from the www.who.int/ website. This massive book is over 300 pages long so I clearly will not try to read the entire PDF.

Analysis #1: For the WHO child growth standards

I would like to refer the reader to pages to 3 main sections of the PDF

1. pages 32-33 which talks about the growth of boys
2. pages 59-60 which talks about the growth of girls
3. pages 74-77 which compare the growth of girls to boys.

There are charts for all of the three sections. what is interesting is that in this World Health Organization PDF they are comparing the numbers and measurements of the WHO to also the CDC and the NCHS. The study only is looking at the growth rate of very young kids. between the 0-60 months years old group. As we can see from the chart pic on the left there is a non-linear growth pattern for young children between the ages of 0-5 years old. If we look at another picture looking at the growth rate progression of people in general from ages 0 until the ends of puberty, ages 0-22, we see that the entire growth progression chart is also nonlinear.

The graphs like the one (taken from the section 74-77) to the left all show for a y->x axis chart looking at measured height to determined age, in units of cm to months. For the page section comparing the growth of girls to boys, you can see that the heights are all slightly lower for girls compared to boys. This is expected since humans when comparing the sex have a sort of dimorphic distribution of height where the girls and boy height are always diverged apart from each other, but don’t seem to ever converge in the middle.

Note #1: As it is well known, for each different demographic, ethnic group, or nation the growth rate and final adult height of a subset of the entire human population will be different from another. This means that the final numbers or the chart that might be posted at the end of this post will almost always be slightly off from what a real parent would see. What the growth/ height increase progression rate of a child will be different in Vietnam compared to say the Netherlands.

So what does the small chart I have copy and pasted from page 75 actually show about the growth progression in young children from young age, specifically ages 0-5 years old?

If we take a ruler and tried to measure the magnitude of the difference of the y axis versus each year we see that for the first year of life, the growth is the strongest (months 0-12) with going about 40-> 75 cms, a 25 cms increase, which is exactly 1 entire feet in growth. For the 2nd year for average (50 percentile) boys they go from 75 –>90 cm, which is a 15 increase, or 6 inches. For the 3rd year they increase from 90–>97 cm, or a 3 inch increase. This continuation in decrease of growth rate is seen in the 4th and 5th year too. For the issue with girls, they seem to start at about 5 cm shorter than boys at birth and but have a similar growth pattern trend, if not a little less steep growth trend in the first 2-3 years. Since the graph does not continue on for ages 6-18, I had to resort to another graph and other resources to find out just how much a child should grow in later years when their epiphyseal plates are still open.

When I try to type in the phrase “growth progression chart” into google what I mostly get are charts for very young children, babies and infants in the 0-5 year range. Most of the image results reveal the two charts (for boys and girls) belows

Before we look at the charts for the average height growth progression I would like to cite a few PubMed articles.

The first is “Evaluation of growth rate in height over periods of less than one year”

Abstract

The stature of 260 well-nourished children aged between 7 and 10 years was measured at intervals of approximately 1 month over 13 months. The growth rate of each child was calculated over periods of 3 months and 6 months ending in each month of the year. Children who missed one or more measurements, due to absence from school, were excluded from the calculations

Centiles of growth rate for these periods are presented. A growth rate of 3-4 cm/yr is well within normal limits for a period of 3 or 6 months ending in December or January, but is below the 10th centile for periods ending between March and June.

Most children reach their maximal 3-monthly rates in the periods of either 3 or 6 months ending between March and July, and their slowest in the periods ending between September and February.

A child’s growth rate over the 3 months of fastest growth is most frequently 2 to 3 times his slowest rate, but may be 7 or more times the slowest if the latter was very low. There may be no measurable growth during a single period of 3 months in a normal child, but maximal rates of up to 10 cm/yr are not necessarily abnormal. An individual’s maximal 6-monthly rate may be up to 3 times his minimal.

A satisfactory assessment of a child’s growth cannot be made over a period of less than one year.

The 2nd study cited is “[WHO growth standards for infants and young children].” which was written in 2009 in French

Abstract

On the idea of using microscopic engineered nanobots to increase height and grow taller

There have been a few people who have contacted me through email to ask over this idea. They talked about building and releasing nanobots which can swim around our bodies through the blood streams and be able to focus on the old growth plate areas to somehow regrow the growth plates again. They of course never go into detail on how they would be able to convert the nonliving organic hard calcium phosphate and hydroyapatite into the collagenous fibers or how to take into consideration the fact that the human structure can break apart if too much of the hard element which forms bones is removed.

The main problem is that to be able to recreate something similar to what we found in our younger days would require at least 4 step process to do that.

1. The first thing is to remove the inorganic hard calcium reinforced matrix that makes up the bone on the inside, the trabecular bone.
2. The 2nd thing is to remove the inorganic hard material that makes the even harder material, the cortical bone.
3. The 3rd is to be able to direct the blood vessels and marrow in the empty cavities of the long bone long enough for step 3.
4. The last step is in creating the actual epiphyseal hyaline growth plate. This in itself is already hard enough to do, due to the fact that the chondrocytes in the growth plate are stacked in columns, which are not seen in any other type of tissue found in the human body.

Overall, when I hear this type of idea I start to roll my eyes and can not believe that since it seems either too fantastic to believe or too far into the future to make it even remotely realistic for people like us who are in our teens or 20s, maybe 30s to use in our lifetime. It is hard enough for computer scientists today to build robots which have any type of Artificial Intelligence capabilities currently and to extrapolate the technology we have currently to make them microscopic for biomedical or cosmetic reasons seems very fantastic.

The current level of robotics we see today are being advanced further and further in many top universities, military bases, and possibly secret large corporation locations which do insane research and truly crazy breakthroughs. However these research will never reach the eyes of the general public.

I would propose that for any type of nano (or micro) sized robots or mechanical entities to be able to do all the steps I propose above, they would probably have to have at least three main qualities.

1. Safety – The bots will be safe and not hurt the formation process of other systems but especially the nervous and circulatory system.

2. Biodegradable or Can be expelled from the body without hurting the host – meaning that the bots will eventually disintegrate from the human body’s natural immune response. If they can’t be removed without hurting the person then they must be removed in another way, say through the urine or feces. However that means that the robots have to have the 2nd trait, intelligence.

3. Intelligent – It has to follow at at least 4 steps. From what I’ve seen, it might need to learn how to form 3-dimensional shapes or forms to create a pseudo-tissue in the 3rd step since redirecting blood vessels, blood, and bone marrow may be impossible from my known area of understanding of how science can work.

Problems with Safety – We know that if we ever do even find a way to create the nanobot we want for medical application, they have to be safe for the person who has the bots injected into them. This means that when the microbots are swimming through and around the blood vessel system of the body, or sometimes getting into extracellular fluid, they have to be relatively harmless to the tissue in the human body, especially the nervous system cells ,the neurons, and the blood vessels. We must remember that the human brain uses around 20% of all the oxygen the human inhales so a lot of blood will be going to the brain. The brain has a blood vessel impermeable membrane barrier that prevents foreign elements from reaching the brain causing serious problems. If we build bots, they have to be small enough to not cause problems when they are the blood vessels in the brain.

Problems with Biodegradability – If the nanobots do manage to do their job, how will they eventually leave the subject’s body? I don’t think that most safety conscious humans would like the idea of nanobots being left in their body but would rather that the engineers and researchers who created the nanobots have already thought up a way for the bots to leave the human body. This probably means that the bots will have to be passed through body by urine, the digestive system through bowel movements, or maybe even through the pores of the skin. If the nanobots can’t be flushed out, then they have to degrade in the body after a certain amount of time. This could be accomplished from the white T cells in the body which have the function to attack any strange foreign objects that reach the body.

Problems with Intelligence – The most “intelligent” computer that I know at this moment was the IBM “Watson” which beat in the TV Show Jeopardy its human contenders. However that doesn’t mean that many computer research facilities and design locations around the world haven’t already built even smarter computers. The computers are indeed becoming smarter and smarter with using smaller transistors and with better written algorithms, however when you want to create nano-bots, you limit the number of transistors that can go into the nano-bot meaning that the complexity of the bot (and maybe also the intelligence) will be limited.

With the multi step process for the proposed growth plate regeneration, the robots will have to be reasonable big to hold the part needed to be able to implement the steps a software engineer might try to program into the microprocessors of the nanobot, which would have to increase in size.

It might be possible for a nano-bot to have a receiver to a micro integrated circuit like the microprocessors which AMD and Intel make these days. However it would also have a part which would allow it to move in a directed direction since we should not just let the human bodies natural fluid movements distate where the bots should be and how fast they should be moving.

Conclusion – I just can’t see how nanobots can be created for medical application or cosmetic reasons for increasing height any time soon and with the number of technical issues I have raised in the post, I don’t think nanobots will be created to the level of safety, biodegradability, and intelligence which be needed to do something like regeneration of the growth plates at least for many decades to come.