Many people believed that being tall could give you authority to others. Because according to a research, the taller you are, the more people can see you that you possessed sound knowledge, thus you can become more powerful. For these given reasons, it is fully expected that many others are dedicated to add some to their current height. But is that possible? What are the factors that can affect a height growth? You may ask. Well, below are some of the most known elements that affects human's growth in terms of height.
Nutrition
Nutrition is the most important component of every human in the world. Hence, it will have the biggest impact in man's height growth. If your body doesn't possess the necessary nutrition, your growth will become slower. The most important vitamins are the Vitamin D, phosphorous and calcium. Also, iodine and zinc are also comes as priorities. Without these mentioned elements in your body, you will surely end up with smaller than what you would expect.
Pituitary Gland Tumors
Are you familiar on this term? This organ inside your body can develop a tumor - though some were born with it - which will emit a massive amount of human growth hormone that mostly affects the growth of a human faster than normal. Having this kind of case is usually considered as "gigantism". On the other hand, there is also the opposite called the genetic mutation that can cause "dwarfism".
Gender and Genetics
Regarding this case, males are usually born taller than females. But considering the genetic factor is what most people often do. They commonly based their height from the height of their parents or relatives. Which is actually relatively true.
Amount of Sleep
This one factor affects human height growth. This is the reason why children needs a lot of sleep since the human growth secretion is larger when they are sleeping than when they are awake.
Physical Activity
This is also very important in affecting your growth. When a person does a regular exercise or a certain activity, it can help their body for a better blood circulation, which then help to improve the bone nutrients therefore stimulate bone growth and bone density. All of which are factors in improving height growth.
Diseases
Usually, diseases mostly affect only our weight growth. Unfortunately, that is not usually the case. Diseases are divided into two classes - the acute and chronic diseases. Acute diseases are the ones that affect our weight while the chronic diseases affect our height.
