The study entitled “Temporal and Spatial Expression of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins In Extracorporeal Shockwave-Promoted Healing Of Segmental Defect” (Full Article) I am finding that the effects of ESW may be better for osteogenesis than chondrogenesis.

Analysis: What we see is that the ESW therapy applied on induced femur defects resulted in mesenchymal aggregation, hypertrophic chondrogenesis, ossification. They all showed intensive levels of antigen expression in the cell’s nucleus. You have rats with defects have the ESW used at 500 impulses at 0.16 mJ/mm^2. The femurs that got the treatment had more mesenchymal cell aggregation, hypertrophic chondrogenesis, and more ossification. The BMP-2, 3, and 4 have some form of immunoreactivity. They conclude that somehow the BMP plays a role in ESWT to lead to cell proliferation and bone defect regeneration.

The first page of the study article was clipped and posted below.

Me: Again and again we find more and more products which sell the claim that the capsule, pill, or tablet you take orally will help increase height. This product is sold as a pill for growing children. This product is sold in India as a Ayurvedic Medicine formulation. What I found really interesting is that this product is VERY cheap ($1 USD). The location is at Allahabad, which is a major city in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in India. I know that it probably is a waste of my time to even review a product like this since I can’t be conclusive in seeing how feasible it is.

There are links on the internet like from IndiaStudyChannel.com which discuss the possibility of using this aryuvedic mixture concoction for children to increase their height but I would not be comfortable buying anything of this nature for my children.

What is interesting to me are the ingredients inside which I found from this link HERE…

From the website DrugNeed.com…

Me: From doing the recent research into ayurvedic medicine to see how viable was these traditional Indian homeopathic methods to increase height (like from the Herbo Height Therapy of Dr. Bagga), another compound that appears over and over again in the forums and boards was this thing called Medhorinum. When I tried to put the name into google, I’m finding it spelled another way, Medorrhinum.

Apparently this Medorrhinum (I’m going to spell it this way from now on) is a common homeopathic and ayurvedic medicine which I think is derived from a plant  source (might be mineral source, I’m not sure).

Analysis: From only looking through the links on the first page of google’s search results, it is really hard to figure out what this homeopathic medicine does. It seems to prescribed to cure at least a dozen types of medical ailments. What is noted is that from the sources that I linked below, it is prescribed to help treat chronic rheumatism. From the medical dictionary, rheumatism does not have to imply arthritis. The definition: “rheumatism – any of a variety of disorders marked by inflammation, degeneration, or metabolic derangement of the connective tissue structures, especially the joints and related structures, and attended by pain, stiffness, or limitation of motion”. This medorrhinum is also prescribed for children who are dwarfed and stunted. The last part is that it helps treat Multiple Sclerosis, which is another name for the disseminated sclerosis part. Somehow this homeopathic remedy is related to the well known STD Gonorrhea. At this point, I think this homeopathic idea for height increase has absolutely no scientific backing or validity whatsoever.

From our old trusted Homeopathy resource ABCHomeopathy.com database…

A powerful and deep-acting medicine, often indicated for chronic ailments due to suppressed gonorrhoea. For women with chronic pelvic disorders. Chronic Rheumatism. Great disturbance and irritability of nervous system. Pains intolerable, tensive; nerves quiver and tingle. Children dwarfed and stunted. Chronic catarrhal conditions in children. Nose dirty, tonsils enlarged, thick yellow mucus from nostrils; lips thickened from mouth breathing. State of collapse and Trembling all over. History of sycosis. Often restores a gonorrhoeal discharge. Intensity of all sensations. Oedema of limbs; dropsy of serous sacs. Disseminated sclerosis.
BETTER, at the seashore, lying on stomach, damp weather ( Caust.)
WORSE, when thinking of ailment, From daylight to sunset, heat, inland.

From WebHomeopath.com… (exact same information as above)

The Gonorrhoeal Virus 

A powerful and deep-acting medicine, often indicated for chronic ailments due to suppressed gonorrhoea. For women with chronic pelvic disorders. Chronic rheumatism. Great disturbance and irritability of nervous system. Pains intolerable; tensive; nerves quiver and tingle. Children dwarfed and stunted. Chronic catarrhal conditions in children. Nose dirty, tonsils enlarged, thick yellow mucus from nostrils; lips thickened from mouth breathing. State of collapse and trembling all over. History of sycosis. Often restores a gonorrhoeal discharge. Intensity of all sensations. Oedema of limbs; dropsy of serous sacs. Disseminated sclerosis.

Me: This may be one device which might actually help increase one’s height a little, at least temporarily, and only for people who already are losing height from spinal and vertebral curvature. When I was first getting started on the website, I remembered that on Ebay and Amazon there were quite a few Traction machines for sale and I was supposed to review the products but I realized it would not be possible to review the machines if I hadn’t tried them out myself. Since I am not in a stable location right now, I can’t buy the big machine so I couldn’t review the traction machines.

For the longest time, many people has claimed that the traction machine can increase people’s height. In terms of common sense physics principles, that seems reasonable. You are lying horizontally like you are sleeping. The force of gravity is thus not compressing down on your vertebrae so your disks decompress a little. The traction machine holds your head or neck steady on one side and then holds your feet and ankles clamped on the other side. With a lever , you slowly increase the distance between your head and neck with your feet and ankle.

The infomercial is really, REALLY cheesy and they claim that people in advanged age can gain 5-7 cm extra height and that adolescents can gain 7- 15 cms. That claim is just ridiculous since that means a height increase of up to 6 inches. As for medical treatment, the claim is that the traction machine can also decrease the symptoms of deformed spinal disks such as soreness, aches, bone spurs, and insomnia. The testimonials and actors are just horrible since they get a group of foreign people all saying how much they like the device in different languages. It is supposed to be able to stretch all 37 (or 27) joints in the spine (I think). Apparently this device is approved by some Chinese Organization with a Certificate that few people other than the Chinese can read. They really are trying to sell you on this device and it costs about $2000-3000 USD.

The video was taken from Youtube video link HERE

Me: When I was on the All About Height Board from the Network54 forums, I found that the posters were talking about this Doctor from India, the New Delhi area named Dr. Bagga who seems to claim that he has managed to develop and create a type of herbal formula system which can help at least kids grow taller.

The website for Dr. Bagga is called HerboHeight.com. Although the main page is up, most of the links are dead, probably because the site was created more than 10 years ago. There is a discussion on this guy on the website ABCHomeopathy.com. the sad fact is that this guy is only briefly mentioned and the post titled “Increase Your Height” has over 1000 replies and posts, with many people wanting to grow taller. They also talk about him on the New Height Increase Message Boards on Network54. This post was made in 2005 and the poster says that the therapy did not increase his height at all. From this link source HERE, I found this Dr.’s Contact Information. I would assume this is really old information so his person’s office might not be there anymore.

Herbo Height Therapy
Clinic of Dr. O.P. Bagga providing herbal treatment for increasing height. Claims effectiveness even after 35 years age. 
Address: Bazar Lal Kuan ( Opp. Koocha Pandit – 1st Floor ) Delhi – 110006. Phone : +91 – 11 – 23262426. Email:drbagga@herboheight.com
http://www.herboheight.com

[Note: Like I have said always with these products, there is no way to tell if the height increase that comes after taking such supplement or doing the technique was because of the actual product or from actual natural height growth.]

In my searching, I actually found a clipping in an old magazine on this Dr. Bagga’s Herbo Height increease therapy. The clippings are on the left. They are taken from Google Documents source link HERE  which is the April 2002 edition of magazine “Competition Science Vision” pg. 155.

A thing to note is that I don’t have much hope for using this therapy to help adults gain the increased height they want, but this therapy might be useful in giving us another clue in the puzzle on putting everything together.

When I googled the name “dr. o.p. bagga” into google what I found was that there was a few forum discussions on the possibility of his therapy working.

The first thing I notice is that this advertisment section is placed in many of the old magazines. it was in many of the monthly editions of the Competition Science Vision magazine, from 2001 and 2002, to even 2005. I think at this point, we can mostly conclude that this “Dr.” was running a scam since if he has to take out advertisement in a children’s or teenager’s magazine, they are really just selling something not credible.

Me: The Last resource link I wanted to cite was from the All ABout Height Boards HERE. One of the poster writes..

I found this youtube video (source link HERE) and I thought the infomercial was well done.

I remember trying to make the heels in my shoes thicker years ago and I do notice that my confidence or state of mind improve from wearing taller shoes and looking taller.

If you are willing to wait a while (like a few years while the science and research catches up) then I might suggest for the guys to go with these really nice looking lifts aka height increasing dress shoes. I think the main selling point with this brand of thick heeled shoes is that they are more comfortable than some others. They say the insoles are ergonomically designed.

[Marketing Lie Alert! – The issue with this product is that although they claim the shoes are supposed to make you appear to be 10 cm taller, the sellers are very deceptive in not making the note that the 10 cm increase is from not wearing any shoes, but not compared to a person wearing average heel thickness shoes. If this was the case, the claim would be that the shoes only increase in appearance height of 6 cms, not 10 cm, since most dress shoes already have about a 1.25-1.50″ (3-4 cms) . This is a sort of a marketing trick to make the product seem better than it really is]