Posted on 04/07/2022 3:54:00 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Quite a few young men would like to increase their height. However, a study by nutritionists shows that they do not benefit from increased protein intake in terms of their adult height. In contrast, young women often see it as problematic when their height significantly exceeds 1.80 meters. Here, during growth, a protein intake adapted to the recommendations can even cause a reduction of a few centimeters.
While an increase in protein intake had no effect on body height in the boys and young men, a clear relationship was found in the girls. According to the scientists' calculations, an average increase of about seven grams of protein daily above the intake recommendations leads on average to an increase in height of one centimeter. "If no increase in height is desired, girls may even achieve a reduction in their later adult height by a few centimeters during growth by adjusting their protein intake to the recommendations, i.e. by not unnecessarily raising their protein intake," says Remer.
In boys, there are interactions with sex hormones
Even at intakes clearly above requirements, protein still has significant growth-promoting effects in girls, according to the data. In principle, protein intake should not be markedly higher than recommendations, such as 48 grams per day for 15- to 17-year-old female adolescents, the researchers said.
However, in reality, daily protein intake for many children is considerably higher, in some cases by 1.7 to 2 times. "Possible long-term consequences of correspondingly high protein intakes have not yet been satisfactorily examined," says Prof. Remer. "Only for bone stability have we been able to observe positive relations with increased protein intake in past studies, provided that the fruit and vegetable intake was not too low and thus the diet-dependent acid load was not too high."
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Be careful, girls. It might not be good to try to fool Mother Nature.
Reminds me of the studies showing that genetically Japanese are no shorter than Europeans. They simply eat less red meat while growing up and that reduces height.
1.8 meters equals 5’9”
You can’t supercharge a body nutritionally, so the implication is that women aren’t taking protein. I can’t see why it wouldn’t affect boys as well, at least to the point of their maximum growth.
1.8 meters = 5’11”
1 inch is approximately 2.54 cm
What if a boy thinks he was born a girl, will protein make him taller?
Science can now create a real race of Amazonian women that can compete with trannies.
Since the average height of women is about 5’4”, an extra inch or two for most of them is NOT the end of the world. My wife is 5’10”, and she looks great! Sometimes she has trouble getting the clothes she wants properly sized, but is an able seamstress.
Note: She didn’t have a whole lot of protein growing up. Dutch genes dominated.
The fact is good nutrition during adolescence and earlier enhances growth. It can activate certain genetics as well that increase growth.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-23896855
“Men’s average height ‘up 11cm since 1870s’”
Abraham Lincoln was 6’4”, which by today’s standards is tall. By his day’s standards he was a giant. You can really tell when you see his pictures visiting the troops.
Relatively speaking, the (binary) male body is geared toward building muscle; the (binary) female body is geared toward building fat. It is genetic, and hence hormonal. The female body also has only about 80% the hemoglobin of the male counterpart: Nutrients are transported by the blood. (Women historically faint more than men because they have less oxygen supplied via the blood.)
Thus, a female body is more sensitive to dietary protein increases, since her body is not optimized to convert protein into muscle; i.e., it is not geared toward anabolism.
If a female athlete approaches the type of low body-fat percentage that a trained male athlete has, she may lose her menses. (It is not nice to fool Mother Nature.)
Regardless, the human body can only digest and assimilate so much protein at one time. A common amount cited is about 15 grams at one time. Many Americans get more than that.
Malnourished girls would obviously be susceptible to this effect. Vegans might (I say might) be more susceptible also. (Hemp protein is more efficiently assimilated than almost any other plant protein, including Soy, is almost as high in protein content as Soy, and is more digestible than Soy. It also is uniquely high in Globulin protein.)
One alternative approach for those who want to optimize protein utilization is the ingestion of Indian Gooseberry (Amla, Amalaki, Emblica). It promotes a positive nitrogen balance; i.e., it is a natural, edible, non-steroidal anabolic substance. It is a food-grade fruit, and is naturally higher by volume in Vitamin C Complex (not just isolated Ascorbic Acid, but C with associated Flavonoids) than almost any food.
Another major factor is fat consumption: Natural, wholesome fats are the precursors to anabolic hormones (i.e., they are lipids). As Udo Erasmus once said: If you want your children to grow tall and big, feed them a high-fat diet in their adolescence, and then (good luck!) convince them to lower their fat consumption in adulthood.
Yes. See 14.
With today’s American girls, taller is not the problematic dimension. :)
Flawed study. Height during growth depends upon genetics and the amount of exposure to sunshine, the Vitamin D kick.
That is partly true, and partly false:
Vitamin D plays a role, but not the sole role; the same is true with genetics.
Vitamin D is NOT a vitamin*: That is the official/legal name that the FDA recognizes. It is made in response to insolation (incoming solar radiation) upon the epidermis by converting 7-dehydrocholesterol into the active steroidal hormone.
Diet plays a major role in how much of that precursor the body produces. Sunlight plays a major role in how much of that precursor is converted.
Other major factors are that few people in “civilized” nations expose enough skin to full-spectrum sunlight - especially in the cold months. The darker the skin, the more that sunlight is needed. Indoor lighting is dim and, with few exception, is not adequately full spectrum.
* Vitamin:
The proper, consistent, scientific definition of a vitamin is: an organic compound that the body MUST have to be healthy, i.e., to prevent a deficiency state (disease), but that the body CANNOT make.
Cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3) is NOT a true vitamin - it is a steroidal hormone - but the government has decreed it to be one. One need not ever ingest actual Cholecalciferol to have an adequate supply of D3; one need only eat proper foods and get adequate sunlight on skin. The associated deficiency state - Rickets - is not alone sufficient to make it an authentic vitamin.
Linoleic Acid [18:2 Omega-6] and Alpha-Linolenic Acid [18:3 Omega-3] ARE true vitamins, but the government has decreed them not to be ones. That is why nutritionists, in retaliation, named them Essential Fatty Acids [EFAs]. The body cannot make either one (although it can make derivatives from them via Delta-6-Desaturase, e.g., Gamma-Linolenic [18:3 Omega-6] and Stearidonic Acid [18:4 Omega-3], and there are consistent known deficiency-state symptoms associated with their chronic lack in the diet.
(See Johanna Budwig and Udo Erasmus, among others.)
If all growth factors [race, hormones, disease, age, country, latitude, altitude, area [city or farm or suburb or mountains], diet, sleep, exercise, smoking, drugs, air pollution, area drinking water makeup, exposure to lead, etc.,] are not accounted for then it is a flawed study.
Impossible to reach such a protein growth determiner as too many variables present. Even a third grader can figure this one out. Did they do a comparative height/protein study on the Dinka tribe? Probably not. As I say, appears to be a totally flawed study.
Very interesting. Thanks.
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