Me: From a recent email that I got from another height seeker, I was informed of another website out there that promises to be able to deliver to its visitors the dream of height increase. The website is www.herbalhealthteam.co.uk.

From the start, I could start off claiming that it is another scam pulled off by people who are just trying to get the money from poor, desperate naive people who desire to be taller. However, I have been getting A LOT of emails and comments on past posts where they claim that I should not be making claims on that fact that certain products like Gloxi and GrowthMax when I have not tried out the products themselves. That is a valid enough point to show that one should not start to judgement, criticize, or condemn some person, idea, or thing because they have not tried it out themselves out.

Yeah, but I also know that I wouldn’t enjoy getting a fork stuck into my eye without without going through the experience. There is a behavior in psychology known as avoidance where people psychologically avoid in terms of thinking patterns of idea they know are harmful and destructive to their self or ego. I am practicing the same type of behavior through action by purposely avoiding websites like these.

This is the segment of their claim from the height increase page…

“Grow Tall” of course will work for people of all statures.  No matter whether you are a teenager or an adult.  An increase of 1inch to 6 inches can be obtained with the “Grow Tall” growth supplement.  “Grow Tall” has a high success rate and studies have shown that a percentage of 96 have been shown, for people between the age of 13 and 40 who have used  this unique supplement.  It has proved to be a product for height gain which of course has increased confidence and the overall well being of the persons who have taken the wise decision to use this unique formula.

I am going to stick to my claim that these product sold online, but especially any type of pill, capsule, supplement, all natural vitamin, or herb, are not effective in making people taller after they have reached physical maturity. And this website claims adults can increase their height by 1- 6 inches. That is a total lie.

Point #1: The website for herbalhealthteam.co.uk seems to sell not just height increase herbs/pills, but they also sell pills that are suppose to be able to do these miracles too…

• Improve male fertility
• Increase breast firmness
• Take weight off
• Remove lice
• Add weight on
• Whiten your skin
• Increase the size of the male penis
• Regrow hair
• Improve one’s memory
• Attract the opposite sex using “passion pheromones”

Okay, I am not going to go any further in this review because it is a clear waste of my time. If any website is willing to not only make the claim that they can give you herbs to grow taller when you are an adult, that is bad enough. However this “team” of sellers claim to also have the solution to whiten one’s skin, using “passion pheromones” to get the opposite sex for sex, and increase the size of the male penis has gone way to far. There has been enough articles that have come out to show that the pills that claim to make the male penis longer and larger are lying. I remember years ago in Late Night Television there was this infomercial about a product/pill that lead to “natural male enhancement” (aka penis enlargement) which was being advertised by 80s pornstart Ron Jeremy. However the product and company which sold the stuff was eventually convicted of legal issues (source). With the skin whitening thing, it is a very common desire for the South Asian community in the UK so maybe the UK based website is targeting the large demographic, and there is already products like “Fair and Lovely” or “Fair and Handsome” sold in many South Asian and Middle Eastern shops in the UK. For the hair regrowth part, I am not sure about. However there is absolutely no pheromone out there that actually works to attract the opposite sex. If there was, I’d want to know about it and buy a gallon full of that stuff.

Me: This idea was a very easy idea once I found the PubMed article and understood its implications. In the study we see that when glucosamine sulphate (GS) and chondroitin sulphate (CS) were used in the treatment of surgically created focal cartilage defects.

The results showed …”surfaces of the ACI-repaired sites appeared smooth and continuous with the surrounding native cartilage“. We know how hard it is for articular cartilage in the knees (and other joints) to grow, if they even do regrow at all. this showed that with either a GS & CS oral intake or injection, the articular cartilage regrew back! What we are seeing that the thickness of the cartilage layer increased, and from a axial direction, that means the human vertical has been increased, or their height has increased.

This proves for me within a 99.9% confidence level that if you did start taking both glucosamine sulfate and chondroitin sulfate you will at least regain the 1-2 mm you might have lost through the years of wear and tear on the surface of the articular cartilage in the joints. I know that my grandmother has no more cartilage in any of her knee joint ends so this would probably help her a lot. . If however the GS & CS is not supposed to be taken orally because the mineral supplements can not get to the long bone ends of the articular joints due to capillary diffusion bottleneck issues or stomach digestive acids breaking it apart, it would still work to get the mineral to be directly applied in the epiphysis region through injection and get at most 2 mm of extra height. I know, it’s not a lot of extra height increase but it is a start and I think I have proved without a shadow of a doubt of the first real supplement that can lead to some (but very little) height increase during one’s adult years.

[Note: This PubMed study has already been cited before in a previous post on this website, however I am not sure which one though.]

From the PubMed article link HERE….(For the Full Text article, click HERE)

Eur Cell Mater. 2011 Mar 15;21:259-71; discussion 270-1.

A preliminary study of the effects of glucosamine sulphate and chondroitin sulphate on surgically treated and untreated focal cartilage damage.

A question that was posed to me a while back by Tyler was over the fact that maybe I should also be joining in and trying out the routines and programs like the LSJL method to gain the height that I desire. Well I felt like I was “put on the spot” as they call it and I wanted to clear that issue up just in case I get more request, questions, and concerns raised about it again from future doubters.

Well, I decided not to go through with any exercises and routines because of 4 main reasons.

1. I have already tried out the exercises and gotten the real height increase I had hoped for. I went from a 5′ 11.75″  max height to a 6′ 0″ max height (which is only a 0.25″ increase) so I can finally say that I am 6 foot tall if I was ever questioned by a cute girl who was judging me on my dating potential due to size. I have finally become “acceptable” for 80% of the females out there. My chances of mating has essentially quadrupled from reaching this weird society created standard height cut off point.

2. When I did the exercises years ago (2 to be exact) I actually hurt my lower back on from using the inversion table and also hurt one of my knees using the ankle weights. Those small pain and injuries have stayed around and has not gone away so I guess I could say I developed some form of chronic musculoskeletal issue with my lower back and knees because of my height obsession years ago where I did use the machines and exercises. That has taught me a lesson and made me avoid trying out those crazy height increase devices from this point on. I think I have developed a healthy avoidance behavior to those things.

3. From being in a Asian country for the last half year, I realize that I am probably taller than 90% of the people of the country I’m in. It helps keep things in perspective and I realize that in some countries, I might even be considered “tall” which is really surprising.

4. I am in my last 20s now (28) and I sort have been able to accept my size and I don’t feel like I need to be any bigger to prove to anyone else of my sense of worth through height. I’m most happy with how big I am now.

[Note: This article post will also be a webpage/section of the website so it will be continuously edited and added upon as the site evolves. Maybe new supplements and minerals will be found]

[Warning: If you choose to buy supplements, food, or any form of “drug” due to the advice of this website/webpage you do so at your own risks. Me and my team at Natural Height Growth will not be held liable for any illness, injury, and even possible death that can result from you taking the recommended substances.]

Frequent Question To Me: What Supplements, Vitamins, And Pills Should I Take To Increase My Height And Grow Taller? Or something similar to that nature of a question.

My Answer: I think it is time to try to answer this extremely difficult question as well as I can now. I’ m going to try to fulfill this herculean task once and for all. For the longest time I have been trying to avoid writing this post because I have only been researching only on the techniques an ideas on how to invasively increase your height after you have reached adulthood and your growth plates have ossified and disappeared.

Supplements, Vitamins, Minerals, Formulas, Potions, Mixtures, Pills, Capsules, Steroids, Drugs, Compounds, Liquids, Drinks, Herbs, Plants, Animal Parts, Organic, Nutritional, Non-Toxic, FDA Approved, All Natural, Growth Hormones, these are all terms you have probably typed into google, bing, yahoo, or any other internet search engine because you wished to find a quick, easy, simple solution to your desire to be taller. You want something you can take orally through your mouth and you want the results fast.

Well it’s not going to happen, at least easily. Read the old post “There Is No Magic Bullet”

However there may be the readers who are still young, maybe in their teens from 16-18 who still has a few years left of growth. If they go to check with the endocrinologist they will be told that they still have a little bit of growth plates left.

Three critical sources used are “How to grow taller if your growth plates are still open” (1), “Lateral Synovial Joint Loading Supplement Guide” (2), and “How much can supplements help with LSJL?” (3), all from HeightQuest.com.

[Note 2: I know there are a lot more supplements, vitamins, and minerals that are listed in other places but I will not start to add them until I have done my own research on the compounds]

[Note 3: The links below will be linked to the Amazon Associates Program which makes the website act as an affiliate link to the Amazon store. If you choose to click on them and buy through the link, the website will be getting a commision from your purchase. Overall, the purchase price of the Amazon product will not be  increased. Thank you.]

So this guide is specifically created in 2 sections, one for the people who are still growing, and another section which is for people who are completely done with the natural traditional growth process.

Section 1: For the people who are STILL growing

Supplements…

• Alfalfa – Dosage: Go with instead 300 mg Ipriflavone (source), (2), Other sources: source, , source 
  
• Astragalus – Dosage: Unknown at this time (source) – Other sources: source, source, source, source
• Calcium Phosphate – Dosage: Unknown at this time (source) – Other sources: source
  
• Chondroitin Sulphate – Dosage: Unknown at this time – Other sources: (1), (2) 
  
• Chrysin – Dosage: Unknown at this time – Other sources: source
  
• Creatine – Dosage:Unknown at this time – Other sources:(2)
• Folic Acid – Dosage: Unknown at this time – Other sources: (2) –
• Glucosamine Sulphate – Dosage:1000 mg -2000 mg daily – Other sources: (2), source, source  
• Hyaluronic Acid – Dosage: Unknown at this time – Other sources: (1), (2), source  
• L-Dopa – Dosage: Unknown at this time (source)  – Other sources: source, source
• Leptin – Dosage: Unknown at this time – Other sources: (2) 
• Lithium – Dosage: Unknown at this time – Other sources: (2) – (Prescription Needed)
• Melatonin – Dosage:3 mg before bed. Take every odd day, take melatonin every odd day before sleep, Melatonin helps decrease excess estrogen and promotes good sleep (source) – Other source: (2), source, source
  
• Niacin (Non-Flush, aka Vitamin B3) – Dosage: Taking niacin for prolonged periods causes the liver to get used to it and requires you to increase the dosage, but increasing dosage above 500 mg will damage your liver a lot!
• So to get around this, we have two options:
• 1) Take 250mg – 500mg every odd day upon waking up. Then eat breakfast 3 hours later. Crucial.
• 2) Take 250mg upon waking up as above. And then Take another 250mg 3 hours after supper but before bed. Every odd day.*
• When do I take it? In order for the Niacin to properly work, it is recommended to take on an empty stomach, 3+ hours after eating or in the morning upon waking up. After taking the niacin, you cannot eat for another 3 hours so it is best to take it at night before bed or morning right after waking up (source) –  Other sources: (2), source, source, source 
• Quercetin – Dosage: Unknown at this time – Other sources: (2) [Update: Don’t take Quercetin w/ Lithium since their effects inhibit each other.
  
• Reservatrol – Dosage: Unknown at this time – source, source
• Royal Jelly – Dosage:1500 mg, 1 per day (source), (2), source, source, source, source 
• Vitamin D3 – Dosage:1000 IU per 25 pounds of body weight (source) – Other sources: source, source
  
• Vitamin K2 – Dosage: 1 capsule (2000mcg) daily (source) – Other sources: source

Foods…

• Milk – source (found at your local food market)
• Sophorae Beans – (2), source 1 (found at your local food market)
• Velvet Beans (aka Mucuna Pruriens) – contains 40mg/g of L-DOPA (source), source, source (found at your local food market)

Foods To Avoid…

• Soy Based Foods – Tofu, Soy Sauce, Tofu derivatives- This is due to the phyto-estrogens inside soy based foods – (website post about link between soy based foods and inhibited growth)
• Tomatoes – Avoid It (source)
• Broad Beans – Avoid It (source)

Section 2: For the people who are FINISHED growing, with Closed Growth Plates…

If you really wanted to try supplements, vitamins, and pills even though your growth plate cartilage are completely gone, you can still start trying the listing below and see what happens.

[Update #2 5/27/2013: I recently wrote a post that has given my opinion that there is probably not going to be a single type of compound a person can ingest which will allow them to grow taller after growth plate closure. It is “No Chemical, Supplement, Pill, Or Vitamin Ingested Orally Can Increase Height Or Make Someone Grow Taller After Growth Plate Closure”. This post was where I decided to STOP RECOMMENDING the supplements below this message for adult height increase.]

Note 5: I recently found on the LSJL Forums a thread that was started that claims that my website, Natural Height Growth is a “semi-scam”. The thread is entitled “HEIGHT QUEST AND NATURAL HEIGHT GROWTH=SEMI SCAMMERS“. I can assure the person named “panos” who wrote the thread that this website is not a “semi-scam”. Refer to an very old post which I wrote many months ago entitled “Am I A Scam?” which I decided to update from reading your thread, which I will put at the top of this website for all future cynics and non-believers. For anyone else who wants to criticize me, this website, and the endeavor, read that post before you speak.

[Note 4: Height growth is NOT guaranteed, but theoretically possible….]

• Astragalus – Dosage: Unknown at this time (Possible reason for effectiveness)
• Glucosamine Sulphate – Dosage:1000 mg -2000 mg daily – (Possible reason for effectiveness)
• Hyaluronic Acid – Dosage: Unknown at this time- (Possible reason for effectiveness) 

[Update #1: Due to new evidence in research, I have decided NOT to recommend quercetin as a height increase supplement because I don’t believe it will be effective from my personal research]

• Quercetin – Dosage:  – (Possible reason for effectiveness)

[Note: This is one of the most important posts and summarizes the research that has been going on for the last 4 months.]

Me: I think it is time to show to the world just what the last 4 months of research has brought up. Here is my claim from the PubMed studies I’ve found…. “Epiphyseal growth plate regeneration, regrowth, implantation, and transplantation is completely possible!”

We have already shown that we can create chondrocyte mediums who can allow us to grow chondrocytes into cartilage.  We can even buy the chondrocyte mediums with the progenitor cells from the companies I have already listed on this website. Here are the 3 posts I’ve written before that I want to cite.

From the last post, “Epiphyseal Plate Transplantation Through Vascularization (Breakthrough!)” we have seen that growth plates can be transplanted into new subjects and the subject will go through longitudinal growth.

Let me cite previous posts looking at this subject.

1. Hyaline Cartilage Engineered By Chondrocytes In Pellet Culture Compared To Cartilage Implants (Important)
2. Injecting Chondrocytes Into The Physis From Physeal Distraction Of The Epiphysis
3. Increase Height Through Surgical Method By Cartilage Harvesting And Chondrocyte Implantation With Growth Factor Injections

The first post showed that growth plates were being grown from chondrocytes taken from the epiphyseal plates of the host or subject and then

The 2nd post showed that if you inject chondrocytes into the fracture of a distraction where there is already the growth plate it will lead to increased longitudinal growth.

The third post was my own first original idea on how the process of long bone distraction, cartilage harvesting, and then re-implanting of chondrocytes would work.

The 6 steps for the proposed idea were…

1. Remove progrenitor mesenchymal stem cells or chondrocytes from the subject.
2. Grow the MSCs & chondrocyctes until they form the rest zone formation of growth plates.
3. Implant this into a distraction of the long bone. 
4. If not in-vitro grown epiphyseal plates, transplant it.
5. Get the host body to accept it. 
6. Get longitudinal growth to start again 

At this point I can say with complete confidence that every single step in my proposed method to increase height, at least one study or experiment has already been done and been proven by researchers around the world. This is the real thing, and every single step has been proved successful in implementation.

Me: This story was also found from the Make Me Taller Forum (source link) and from the first look of it, it doesn’t seem to be at least an April Fool’s joke like the last one.

Analysis: The thing is that while the article says Pierre grow 2 inches from 5′ 7″ to 5′ 9″ but in the video he actually claims only 1.5″ of height increase, which for the height increase seeker’s community is a big difference. We are talking about at least a 1 cm difference in claim between the two sources. In the Mirror UK it seems he increased his height by 3.15 cm. It also shows that he is not 5′ 9″ but “just shy of it”. He claims that if you join in the 6 weeks program you are gauranteed to increase in height by 2 cm. For Pierre he has been doing those exercises for “a couple of years”. It involves combining pilates and yoga along with strength work and speed work. There is a device which is similar to the traction machine which stretches out the body (at least the vertebrate). In terms of the science behind the idea, there is some very similar ideas to Sky’s Old theory. Pierre seems to suggest that high intensity exercises like sprints help elevate the HGH release rate which we researched and shown to be real. In addition those sprints will cause microfractures which will eventually heal and lead to bone lengthening (or at least he claims). There is also height increase “by inducing spinal decompression which stimulates growth by increasing the fluid capacity in the spinal disks” as Pierre says. The GymBox apparently is willing to give you a money back refund if you try out the 6 week program and don’t grow the 2 cm that they promise you. So the program seems to involve the science of spinal decompression, inducing microfractures, and increased HGH levels. When I looked at this Pierre guy on Google, he turns up to be a real trainer based on the UK with his own website, company, and LinkedIn profile.

Conclusion: From a quick google search on the term “A-Grow-Bics” there are a few articles all written by UK sources looking at this claim. There was an article written by Daily Mail UK, Standard UK, Reveal UK, Mirror UK, Female First UK, and also the GymBox website. The gym is held in London and you can join the 6 week program for 200 pounds and they offer a refund if you don’t get the 2 cm increase that they promise. Tyler on one of his posts years ago said that he hoped that one day people can go into the local gym and ask a personal trainer to get them on a program which would allow them to increase height. Maybe that day is finally here.

You can watch the video below where the fitness trainer Pierre Pozzuto claim a few things which seems very incredible.

Daily Mail UK article link HERE…

New gym class A-Grow-Bics promises to add inches to your height – but is it a tall story?

By LUCY WATERLOW

PUBLISHED: 11:51 GMT, 22 October 2012 | UPDATED: 12:17 GMT, 22 October 2012

It sounds ideal for short men like Simon Cowell and Jamie Cullum who may want to be taller than the ladies in their lives, while petite women such as Kylie Minogue and Lea Michele could ditch their sky-high heels if claims from a new gym class are true.

Fitness chain Gymbox say they can have developed a workout that guarantees to make you taller. They are so confident of their claim, they even offer money back to anyone who tries it and doesn’t grow at least 2 cm.

Fitness trainer Pierre Pozzuto developed the gym class which involves a mix of pilates, yoga, strengthening and speed work – plus a session on a scary-looking 15th century-inspired rack.

Such implements were once used to torture people but Pierre insists it isn’t a painful experience as it’s designed to gently stretch the body once the muscles are warmed up.

Pierre developed the six week course because he was keen to increase his own height from 5ft 7.

He said: I wasn’t the biggest guy in the world and it always bothered me, so at the age of 26, I decided to do something about it. I set about designing a set of exercises to help me grow and they worked – so much so that my height jumped to nearly 5ft 9 in only a few months.

Tall order: From left, could Simon Cowell, Jamie Cullum and Tom Cruise gain in stature by following fitness trainer Pierre Pozzuto’s techniques?

‘When I told a few people, they begged me to help them grow too and that’s the aim with the A-Grow-Bics class.’

Pierre said his class works by inducing the Human Growth Hormone (HGH) through repeated sprint exercises.

He said repeat sprinting also ’causes micro fractures in the bones that repair in a week encouraging them to strengthen, remould and grow.’

The rack, yoga positions and inversion exercises, such as hanging upside down from the feet, are also said to increase height ‘by inducing spinal decompression which stimulates growth by increasing the fluid capacity in the spinal disks’, according to Pierre.

But Dr James Noake, an expert in sport and exercise medicine, told Style magazine he was skeptical about Pierre’s claims.

‘The discs between our vertebrae are made of tough material, with little capacity for expansion, and the rigid join structures either side of them will be resistant to lengthening,’ he said.

He added that the rack was ‘highly unlikely’ to permanently help someone become taller while encouraging micro fractures was ‘a little alarming’ and ‘unlikely’ to be caused by speed work in those with healthy bones.

But Gymbox insist they can add inches to anyone who follows Pierre’s method.

Managing director Richard Hilton said: ‘People join our gyms for all sorts of reasons, but one of the more unusual requests our trainers often receive is for exercises to aid growth. While we know this is a tall order, Pierre’s techniques are head and shoulders above the rest and really do work.

‘We are so confident in this class that we guarantee all participants will grow by at least two centimetres – if not, we’ll happily give them their money back.’

The six week A-Grow-Bics is held at Gymbox’s Farringdon, London, branch, at a cost of £200.

Watch Pierre Pozzuto explain his height-increasing techniques below…