heavy backpacks
Even if your spine stays straight through years of hauling your life on your back, compressing the spine by carrying a heavy backpack can actually affect how tall you'll grow to be — and how tall you'll stay.
There are bones in your lower spine called lumbar disks. When we're young, the disks are full of water, which makes our spines move more easily. The disks contribute to about an inch of our height. As we age, that water starts to dry up. It's why, as Sandhu describes, between the ages of 20 and 60 we're likely to lose an inch to an inch and a half in height from that water leaving your spine. That's just normal wear and tear.
When you add an extremely heavy backpack, five days a week for over a decade, we're basically crushing those water-filled gaps, compressing the spine with all the extra weight. A backpack accelerates the rate at which we lose water in the lumbar disks, causing us to shrink a little bit more quickly.
effects of lack of sleep on height
by this I mean, you having to wake up early 5 to 6 days a week as a growing boy to go to school
and learn useless shit and government feminist/cannon fodder cuck propaganda.
It could be. A single night of no sleep will not stunt growth. But over the long term, a person's growth may be affected by not getting the full amount of sleep. That's because growth hormone is normally released during sleep. If someone consistently gets too little sleep (known as "sleep deprivation"), growth hormone is suppressed.
at school ages boys usually fall asleep very late into the night resulting in even less sleep.
effects of lack of exercise on your height
as a student you don't have enough time to work out and play, because of all the homework you get.
a small amount of environmental change does affect physical growth, and no exercise can stunt your height significantly.
getting bullied and stressing over grades:
Chronic stress can lead to a variety of different biological changes in the body – ranging from cellular-level tweaks to altering hormone levels – and can contribute to many health problems in adults.
And if experienced regularly by children, chronic stress can stunt their growth.
“If you live with intense levels of fear or stress, it gets internalised and turned into stress hormones”,
“If you have high levels of stress hormones every day, these stress hormones actually stop bones from growing.
“Chronic stress inhibits the production of the two most powerful hormones that promote bone growth.
“These are growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-1. A lack of these hormones can stop growth in height.”
Even if your spine stays straight through years of hauling your life on your back, compressing the spine by carrying a heavy backpack can actually affect how tall you'll grow to be — and how tall you'll stay.
There are bones in your lower spine called lumbar disks. When we're young, the disks are full of water, which makes our spines move more easily. The disks contribute to about an inch of our height. As we age, that water starts to dry up. It's why, as Sandhu describes, between the ages of 20 and 60 we're likely to lose an inch to an inch and a half in height from that water leaving your spine. That's just normal wear and tear.
When you add an extremely heavy backpack, five days a week for over a decade, we're basically crushing those water-filled gaps, compressing the spine with all the extra weight. A backpack accelerates the rate at which we lose water in the lumbar disks, causing us to shrink a little bit more quickly.
effects of lack of sleep on height
by this I mean, you having to wake up early 5 to 6 days a week as a growing boy to go to school
and learn useless shit and government feminist/cannon fodder cuck propaganda.
It could be. A single night of no sleep will not stunt growth. But over the long term, a person's growth may be affected by not getting the full amount of sleep. That's because growth hormone is normally released during sleep. If someone consistently gets too little sleep (known as "sleep deprivation"), growth hormone is suppressed.
at school ages boys usually fall asleep very late into the night resulting in even less sleep.
effects of lack of exercise on your height
as a student you don't have enough time to work out and play, because of all the homework you get.
a small amount of environmental change does affect physical growth, and no exercise can stunt your height significantly.
chronic stress stunts child growth
getting bullied and stressing over grades:
Chronic stress can lead to a variety of different biological changes in the body – ranging from cellular-level tweaks to altering hormone levels – and can contribute to many health problems in adults.
And if experienced regularly by children, chronic stress can stunt their growth.
“If you live with intense levels of fear or stress, it gets internalised and turned into stress hormones”,
“If you have high levels of stress hormones every day, these stress hormones actually stop bones from growing.
“Chronic stress inhibits the production of the two most powerful hormones that promote bone growth.
“These are growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-1. A lack of these hormones can stop growth in height.”
