I have done so far 10 product reviews on products and services that are claimed by the seller online that it works to increase your height even after your puberty stage and your growth plates have fused. I have concluded that 9 of them are scams and the other one was something that I am just not sure on, but if I had to bet, I would say it doesn’t work.

Here is how I define the word “scam”. A scam is the act of where one person gets another person to believe in something that they know is not true. The scammer is lying. In additon, the scammer knows they are lying and doing it intentionally. Some people really do believe their products work so they are not intentionally lying. Does that mean that they are not held accountable? I would say less so. Just as in criminal court, there is a difference in punishment for people who commit murder which was premeditated and or accidental, we should always take into account the intentions of the person who is lying into consideration.

So to be a true scammer, a person must be intentionally lying to you to make you believe in something or do something. When it comes to our small niche, the scammer wants you to give them money. The absolute truth is that 99% of all the products and services sold across the internet that claim to get you to grow taller will NOT work. In addition, the person who is selling it knows that it will NOT work. SO the act of them saying that the product did work and selling it on a false pretense makes them a scammer by default.

so

1. The product does not work

2. The seller knows the product does not work

3. The seller chooses to state that the product does work

4. The seller chooses to sell the product.

All these 4 parts create the definition of a height increase scam and scammer.

In conclusion, to answer my original question “Will I ever do a review on a product or service and NOT say it is a scam?”

In the internet space where anything and everything is promoted and sold just to get the next potential customer or victim to open their wallet and pull out their credit card, I would state that my answer is “NO”.

I don’t believe I will ever review a height increase product or service sold on the internet and conclude that it is not a scam. the main problem always goes back to the first part that makes up the scam 1. The product does not work. There is currently no magic bullet or easy way to gain height so no product being sold as a supplement or E-book or exercise routine will work. So everything sold online is basically a scam unless the science of the mechanism is valid.

This is the first review I will do that is not really selling a product but selling a type of service. I know, this is not a real “Product Review” but more of a “Service Review” but the idea is the same. There is a website that is claiming that from using either their services or products they can help you gain extra inches in height. I look at their practices, they technique or strategy the intend to use, and review whether their practices seem legit and feasible.

Today I look at the site AddingHeight.Com . On the main first page, they start off with a warning message, telling you to stay away from height increase scams. That is nice of them to do that. I’ve seen this type of front page before and I would call it a sales page. The picture of a doctor on the right side is the same doctor picture of another product which I reviewed in the past, the (Company That Will Not Be Named) product/program.

At the bottom of the page is a cute seal with bold letter words saying “100% money back guarantee”. Then they challenge you by asking you the question “Are you ready to take the first step towards your new life as a taller person?”. They continue by saying that “there is nothing to lose and everything to gain”. Well what about my money if it turns out the service or product I buy doesn’t work?

When we go to the section “How the Program Works” there is a very short explanation that apparently we can still gain extra height from our spine which is not complete bone. The “Adding Height Program” is supposed to quickly and easily improve your posture problems that led to bad spine compression and other stuff that takes away from your true height. The end of the page ends with the same question to challenge you “So are you ready to take the first step towards your new life as a taller person?”. The exact same follow up phrase appears after it with “there is nothing to lose and everything to gain”.

On the “Join Now” section you are supposed to pay $50 to get the program. You can pay using credit card, money transfer, paypal, order by mail, etc.

Conclusion: I decided to stop reading after this point and just say that this site and whatever service or product they sell is a total scam. At least the other scam sites offered you some thin low content E-Book. This site doesn’t even offer that. I am really, REALLY getting sick of these types of websites that have sleazy crafted sales pages with reused pictures of “doctors” and “100% money back guarantees”. This site is one of the worst scam sites I have seen so far. Stay away from this site. I am going to add this page/site to the scams section.

A few days ago I was doing research for another article and I stumbled upon another amazing resource which I have not found before. I am surprised that a forum/board this big and well established had not come into my radar sooner. Anyway, the organization is an actual Non-Profit 501 (c) (4) Membership Organization. Their website is www.nossaonline.org . Remember that the website ends with a .org, not a .com since it is an organization.

It seems that this organization is a really big and well established. They were featured in the documentary S&M: Short & Male which I had briefly eluded to in a previous post that talked about a male who went through with limb and leg lengthening surgery to escape the ridicule and frustration of being so much shorter than his peers. The website has been around since 2006. They have their own Facebook, Twitter , and Youtube channels and profiles. There seems to be even a NOSSA TV. The organization seems to have support groups located in different cities in the US. You can sign up and join the group for $25 which goes to some station in NYC. In addition, there is a forum, a chat room, and even a single’s group on the website. In the forums section, they seem to tackle every single one of the topic that can come up for being short living in a tall person’s world.

I am impressed. I will definitely be putting this site on the resources section of the website.

In their about section HERE, this is what their manifesto seems to be….

There is no absolute definition of short. Short is a relative measure.

“Short stature” has been defined by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists as height more than 2 standard deviations (SD) below the mean for age and sex. Currently, this would correspond to heights of less than 5′ 3″ and 4′ 11″ in adult men and women.

Currently, the average height of a male in the United States of America is approximately 5′ 9″ tall and the average height of a female in the United States of America is approximately 5′ 4″ tall.

NOSSA considers short stature to refer to any male person 5’7″ and below and any female person 5’2″ and below in height.

We based this on the results of our own research and discussions regarding short stature.

NOSSA recognizes that people may feel short not because of some specific measure, but because of their countries of origin, workplace environment, friends or other factors.

That is why all people who support the mission of NOSSA are welcome to apply for membership in our organization.

We also recognize that some men who are 5’7′ and below and some women who are 5’2″ and below may not feel that they are short statured.

If you wish to discuss this further with us, we invite you to join our message forums by clicking here.

In a recent post I did, I had talked about the recent talks going around about the possibility of using the technology of Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound, LIPUS as a way to increase our height and grow taller. The article can be found HERE. It turned out to be a far bigger subject than I anticipated and the article was getting very long since I was copy and pasting large sections of scientific articles and webpages on there for the readers to learn. I guess the first article was just an introduction to the technology with some background information on the history and theory behind it.

Note: I really hope you read the previous article because it is really critical to understand what you ar doing if you plan to use the technology correctly to get the height increase you desire.

This article will be more focused on the talks that state that the technology an be used to increase height. What is kind of interesting is that there is already quite a few websites already up selling the LIPUS devices like this website called Exogen from Canada. The website is right HERE. From the website….

Last night while I was lying in bed I was listening to a podcast with the guys at Internet Business Mastery and they were talking about some ideas on how to help increase the traffic coming to my websites and an idea came to my mind. I remember seeing on Pat Flynn’s website that he posts his monthly website earning report which I thought was very interesting and cool. I sort of wanted to do something similar to what Flynn does but I have chosen not to make any money from this project. There is no ads on this website or emailing lists or opt-in pages or anything like that. I have learned some stuff about internet marketing but I don’t plan to use any of those tactics on this website unless they are completely honest and transparent. So the idea I had was that I decided that instead of doing a monthly website earnings report, I would do a monthly website traffic data report.

There will be 5 main sections I wanted to report. The report will come out at the end of each month, if I can manage it. They are…

1. The basics

2. The visitors data and graph

3. The content data and listing

4. The search data and listing

5. The locale data and listing

I am not exactly sure when I started this blog/website. I would guess maybe 6-7 weeks ago. Right now there is supposed to be a total of 202 blog posts/articles up already so I know that I have been writing a lot of content and give as much real, honest, quality stuff as I possibly can. I was using Google Analytics to track the trafic information and I do find myself getting kind of addicted watching and checking my traffic analyzing software all the time, right after I wake up and right before I go to bed. Since I enjoy it, I thought you guys might enjoy it too.

Note: Since I am using a Macbook Air, not a PC with a WIndows OS, I don’t have the little application called “Snipping tool” to capture a picture on my sceeen the traditional way. I learned that to capture a picture on my screen if I am using the MAC OX I need to type in “Command” + “Shift” + “4” (in that order) to get the arrow scrow to turn into sort of a cross hair. That is what allows me to take pictures. Once you let go of the picture dimensions, they get automatically saved to your desktop background. I like it.

Note 2: I have been using the Google Analytics because it was free for over 3-4 months but recently I really started to enjoy using Clicky instead. It is not free after the first 4 weeks or so but the data that comes to you is real time, so if you are the impatient type and enjoy watching real time information flowing into your ocmputer (liek me) you might enjoy the service. It costs only $5/month to have 3 website domain names for each month. I spend $85 to get to track 10 domain names for an entire year. I liked the deal and that is the information that I will be showing for each end of the month.

Note 3: Today is only the 30th of August so it is not technically the end of the month. I will try in the future with these monthly reports put one of these up on the last day of the month. Note that I said I will try to get it up on the last day of the month. And also I will do a day range of 60 days instead of the monthly or 30 days range since this is the first monthly report and I had gone over the 1 month point already.

So let’s Begin…

Natural Height Growth August 2012 – Monthly Website Traffic Data Report

1. The basics

2. The visitors data and graph

3. The content data and listing

4. The search data and listing

5. The locale data and listing

Since I was doing research on the Lujan Fryns Syndrome for the last post, I realized that a good follow up post would be over the topic of body types. However, I realize that there are like over thousands of webpages already dedicated to explaining this idea of body types.

We all are very familiar with the 3 basic body types idea developed by Dr. William H. Sheldon during the 1940s. I’ll just post from an article the information about the body types (taken from the Muscle And Strength website)

ECTOMORPH

An ectomorph is a typical skinny guy. Ecto’s have a light build with small joints and lean muscle. Usually ectomorph’s have long thin limbs with stringy muscles. Shoulders tend to be thin with little width.

Typical traits of an ectomorph:

• Small “delicate” frame and bone structure
• Classic “hardgainer”
• Flat chest
• Small shoulders
• Thin
• Lean muscle mass
• Finds it hard to gain weight
• Fast metabolism

Ectomorphs find it very hard to gain weight. They have a fast metabolism which burns up calories very quickly. Ecto’s need a huge amount of calories in order to gain weight. Workouts should be short and intense focusing on big muscle groups. Supplements are definitely recommended. Ectomorphs should eat before bed to prevent muscle catabolism during the night. Generally, ectomorphs can lose fat very easily which makes cutting back to lean muscle easier for them.

MESOMORPH

A mesomorph has a large bone structure, large muscles and a naturally athletic physique. Mesomorphs are the best body type for bodybuilding. They find it quite easy to gain and lose weight. They are naturally strong which is the perfect platform for building muscle.

Typical traits on a Mesomorph:

• Athletic
• Hard body with well defined muscles
• Rectangular shaped body
• Strong
• Gains muscle easily
• Gains fat more easily than ectomorphs

The mesomorph body type responds the best to weight training. Gains are usually seen very quickly, especially for beginners. The downside to mesomorphs is they gain fat more easily than ectomorphs. This means they must watch their calorie intake. Usually a combination of weight training and cardio works best for mesomorphs.

ENDOMORPH

The endomorph body type is solid and generally soft. Endomorphs gain fat very easily. Endo’s are usually of a shorter build with thick arms and legs. Muscles are strong, especially the upper legs. Endomorphs find they are naturally strong in leg exercises like the squat.

Typical traits of an Endomorph:

• Soft and round body
• Gains muscle and fat very easily
• Is generally short and “stocky”
• Round physique
• Finds it hard to lose fat
• Slow metabolism

When it comes to training endomorphs find it very easy to gain weight. Unfortunately, a large portion of this weight is fat not muscle. To keep fat gain to a minimum, endomorphs must always train cardio as well as weights. Usually supplements may not be needed as long as the person has a high protein intake in their diet.

Me: So the real thing I wanted to get at was if you had only had to choose between two of those body types, but not the mesomorph, which would you take, the endomorph or ectomorph? 

For example, say the ectomorph was 6′ 7″ and weighed 190 lb while the endomorph was 5′ 7″ and weighed 220. Which one would you rather be?