i am 5'4 and what can i do to increase my height?
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Play golf or baskeball.
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Your best bet is posture - hold your head high and appear taller. The only other proper remedies are medical procedures where they break your legs in different sections and insert material so that when they heal you are taller up to 10 to 15cm can cost over $10,000. Last option - wear tall shoes.
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Naturally?  Then do nothing.  \n\nYou can get a little taller temporarily by doing things like hanging upside down for hours a day and stretching your back.  That's what football players do to get that extra inch for the measurements during the combine.  Not really worth the time though.\n\nBetter to just accept your height and move on.  Height means very little in the long run, and anyone who treats you differently because you're shorter, or taller, than them has their own issues to deal with.  \n\nBesides, shorter people live longer!\n\nGood luck.\n\n**late addition - calcium can't hurt, vitamins can't hurt, and seeing a doctor to examine your growth plates might not be a bad idea.  They should be able to tell you if nature has anything left in the tank for you.
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You should not let your stature bother you.  I know a guy who is 5' 4" and he is a total stud.  It is all attitude.  Stop looking at that stuff on the Internet and get some help.  Sometimes it just helps to talk to someone.  You may need a mild antidepressant.  But, don't rely on pills to make you feel better about yourself.  You can only find that within...
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You can't. But eating Healthy and staying hit helps you attain your full natural hight. You'll only grow so much and you can't do anything about it.\nThough I have heard of a sergery that can do something to make you taller, but I don't know much about it.\n\nBe thankful for the height you have, somepeople are extremely short...for lack of a politer way to say it.
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Nope. It's a myth. In fact, regular exercise during one's growing years actually promotes the production of growth hormones. Height is predominantly decided by your genes. Pullups are the best bet to do what little you can to increase your height. Or if thats too difficult, simply hang from a bar.
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The only exercise that will make you taller are your core exercises.  Strengthening your core (stomach and lower back) will allow you to stand taller without slouching.\n\nThe pull ups you mentioned will only extend the length of your arms (if even that) and will not have an affect on your height.
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The most you can do physically is to improve your posture and stand up straight.  A physical therapist or a modelling school can help.\n\nYou can fake a height increase by wearing high heel shoes, but only try this if you feel 100% comfortable in them, wobbling around ruins the look.\n\nIf you wear high heel shoes always use a neutral colour (like taupe), they make your legs look much longer than they are.\n\nFinally, you need to refocus your thoughts.  Thinking 'short' implies something is lacking, whereas 'petite' describes lovely in a smaller package.       \n\nIf you can define yourself by who you are inside, rather than what you look like, you will be much happier in life.
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Sorry, I can't give you any recommendations to increase your height.  The bones of your skeleton determine your height, and you can't really make them grow any more than they want.  Good news, you still may grow another inch or so in the next few years.  I grew and inch in my freshman year of college to 5'1-1/2"!  My sister grew and inch at the same time, so now she's an even 5 foot! I recommend to come to terms with your "height deficit", take all the short jokes in stride,  and take advantage of tall people over the coming years by making them get things for you that are out of your reach.  And invest in a step stool.  When you get older and move out, you may have to get your own things out of a tall cupboard every now and then.\n\nI've read in magazines every now and then there are ways to dress to make you "appear taller", and you can wear tall shoes sometimes, but unless you are a billionaire that can afford radical surgery/treatment options, love the body your in.  It's the only one you've got.
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- You can increase your height.\n- Not through tablets but very simple excercises.\n- Like you i have gaing some 3 inches with simple and hurtless excercises which treats with you neck, hip and  legs to gain wait with 3 to 6 months.\n- For that explanation of excercise postures you need photo illustrations which i cannot make in in the net.\n- But i can suggest you to get a Height gaining excercise book in the local book shop or in a local library.\n- all the best.\n----------------------------
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ok its hard because is not that you can do something in order to increase your height because its in your genes, however i know that when the people practice basketball they achieve some centimeters. maybe you should try also swimming
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human body grows till the age of 23 which is a madically proven thing. if u want to increase your height then hang from some rod or ceiling by grabing it with your both hands so that you hold the weight of your body through both your arms.(not with one arm/hand). stay hanging for 5 minutes, rest for a minute and repeat again for 5 min. then again rest for 1 minute and then hang for another 5 minutes but this time also do some pull ups of your body.\nrepeat this 5 times a week for 3-4 months and you will feel some change in your height. \ni got myself streched from 5.4 to 5.7 :D\n\nremember do not take any pills, if someone claims that you can increase your height by using their pills then he/she is a lier.
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Naani M, quit this!\n\nYou are 5ft tall, and that's it. That's how you were designed to be so that you can be the person that you are.\n\nOK -- if you really want to be a BIT taller, you can get a thing called an instep which goes into your shoe that raises you about 2-3 cm. Combined with that, you can have thick soles, with a thick heel hammered onto the bottom of your shoe. That will increase your height by another 3-4 cms. Just make sure that the instep and the thick sole are done for you after consultation with a podiatrist or an orthopedic surgeon because you can really hurt your muscles and jolt the bones in your feet if you get some cobbler-on-the-corner to make these for you.\n\nAlso, you can investigate getting a hairstyle that raises your coiffure: simply "teasing" the hair with a comb to puff up the hair helps. But then, I guess you are a south-east Asian, and it's very difficult to "fluff up" that beautiful, straight black hair your people have. \n\nNext -- be very careful of your diet. Always keep thin. There is NOTHING as short as a FAT guy. Keep ultra thin, and wear clothes (especially formal shirts with collars) that have stripes that go up and down. DON'T wear stripes or patterns that go from side to side! That makes you look shorter.\n\nBut what is this all going to do? It's going to make you LOOK taller, but that's not the point. You ARE short! So what the hell? Julius Caesar was short. Napoleon Buonaparte was short. But they ruled the world, man!\n\nSo can you!\n\nGet real, Naani. Stop this obsession with being tall! It's not worth it. For every person out there who calls you "Shorty" (or whatever they call short guys in your country) there are 10 who notice, but don't care. And another 10 don't even notice.\n\nSo ignore the ONE rude guy in your life, and rejoice with the other 20 that think you're great! \n\nPeople will love you, NOT because of how tall or how short you are, but because of WHO you are. Are you an honest person? Are you sincere? Can we trust you? Do you care about us? Are you a good lecturer? Do you treat your students with sincerity? Do you find something in EACH of them that makes you love them for who they are? Are you looking after their interests? Are you looking after your career? Are you trying to be the best qualified person in your field?\n\nStop bellyaching about how high your is a$$ is off the ground! Worry about how high you stand in the opinion of others! THAT'S what counts in life, babe.
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there are better things that you can do to grow taller than just take supplements.. drink a lot of milk (at least 3 full cups per day), play basketball, stretch whenever you can and the most important thing : have confidence about yourself
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you cannot increase your height at this age\nyou can wear higher heeled shoes to increase it thats about all
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You are more likely to get taller by eating more calcium, since your height is dependent upon how large your bones are, and protein is more about muscles.  \n\nHonestly, though, I don't think there is anything that will help you get taller in a month.  Your genes and the amount of calcium you have had to date in your life would play a big role in your overall height, but there is no way to naturally stimulate your growth like that.
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heightmax or any other kind of pill that makes you tall stretches out your tendons, makes them weaker, and you will end up in a wheelchair by the age 30.  don't do it.\nYou will get taller if you are only 15.  I know i did.\nJust eat healthy and work with what you've got.  Don't take any pills.  However, if you are extremely desperate for height, when you are done growing you can go through a painful and expensive surgery where doctors cut your femur (thigh bone) in half and inject metal knobs that allow you to create more space between your bones, and it mends itself, adding about 1-2 inches at the most\nbut that's too much hastle, just work with what you've got, i'm sure you're beautiful and height is something u shouldn't have to worry about