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If you mean increasing your adult height, the transcripts offer little support for doing so through growth-hormone boosting. Height growth happens during development, and once growth plates are mostly closed, the guest says only a couple more inches of growth are expected.

  • If you’re still growing: Puberty timing affects adult height; early puberty can reduce it. The discussion also cautions against deliberately gaining excess body fat during childhood, which may bring puberty earlier.
  • If you’re an adult: Better posture can make you appear taller, but it does not mean your bones grew. Dorian Yates attributed his apparent extra height to standing straighter after posture-focused training.

The transcript does not establish a lifestyle method for increasing adult bone length; growth-hormone treatment is discussed as a medical matter with risks, not as a do-it-yourself height strategy.

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