Im 19 yrs old, I’ve been 5′ 8 3/4" for about 4 years now. So obviously I’m assuming I’ve stopped growing, I wish I were taller though, atleast 6′ its just a personal preferance so I’m wondering is there any kind of growth pill or supplement I can take to help me grow taller? I’m sure basketball players might know a thing or two to help them get an extra few inches or so.

I’m 17 turning 18 in May and I just joined a gym so that I can bulk up some muscle mass. Right now I’m 155 lbs and am 6 ft 3 inches tall.

I’m considering adding a supplement to my diet so that I can help my muscles grow.

I was wondering if whey protein is the way to go. I heard that it’s pretty new and that it works pretty well.

I’ve read online that I should take whey protein isolates. Does anyone know any brand that they can prefer me to and when and how much whey protein I should be taking.

Prologue
“I told you, I don’t have it!” The dark-skinned, white haired, old man spoke, struggling against the younger, stronger arm around his thin and fragile neck.
“Then where the hell is it!” Said the 27 year old man. His hair, swept in a pony tail kept whipping on his green scarred face.
“Sa chathair a cailleadh de ór, in The Lost City of Gold”, the old Irish man, of Celtic origins’ final words before Flintlock, the younger man, twisted the old man’s’ neck three hundred and sixty degrees.
“Thank you for your co-operation”, he said with an evil glint in his eye and an equally evil smirk on his face.
Chapter 1
The first time Vladimir Lev set his grey eyes on Afsoon Arash, he knew that the journey they were about to embark on, wasn’t going to be a pleasant one. She was his exact opposite in every possible way, through his 21 year old eyes. Whereas he was casual, muscular, and broad shouldered, she was emaciated, dressed as she was off to parliament, and had that cold look through her glasses and in her eyes that were colder than Vladimirs’ city, Siberia.
“You Vladimirovich?” Her first of many questions, in a high shrill voice.
“Vlad” Vladimir put forth his hand. She did not shake it.
“Have any leads of its whereabouts?” She forenamed. Forthwith Vlad replied,
“Haven’t a damn clue.”
“Bloody communists can’t do anything right.” She muttered with the thick Persian accent she had.
“Better than selling a bloody rug” replied Vlad, mimicking her accent.
“Touché. Now the medallion was last seen in Dublin, Ireland, at some second rate hotel. The Academy informed me that the trip money was given to you. Am I correct?” Afsoon glanced up from the folder she was looking at.
“Done. Two first class tickets to Dublin. We’re going Air A.K., The academy’s private airline. We leave in five minutes, Dubai Airport.” Said Vlad looking up from the BlackBerry.
“How do we get there?” she inquired shyly. “I didn’t know the academy had an airline.” She said, changing the subject.
“Gee, do you know any means of transportation?” Vlad asked sarcastically. Afsoon touched his shoulder and together they vanished from the spot.
Approximately twenty three milliseconds later, above the average teleportation speed, they appeared in a female lavatory, five meters away from gate 26, A.K. Airlines flight to Dublin. “How the hell do you get used to that?! If I was claustrophobic I would have passed out!” Vlad exclaimed, on all fours on the floor of the washroom.
“We are in the girls’ washroom. Does that make you feel any better?” teasing him, she said.
“What?!” his voice now a whisper. Then he shrunk. And shrunk. And shrunk until he was the size of a rat. “Put me in your purse and get me out of here!” His voice came out in a helium sound.
“Fine. But if you touch my wallet, I’ll flush you down! That’s one flaw in your skill.”
Once back to regular size after a visit to the men’s room, Vlad joined Afsoon in the line for their gate.
“Gate 26, last call, gate 26.”
Something cold and sharp touched the back of Vlad and Afsoon’s neck. “Come quietly, and you have a larger chance of survival.” The voice was deep and husky.
Vlad mouthed, “One, two, and three!!!” Afsoon grabbed Vlad’s arm and they appeared behind the hooded figure who was about to decapitate them. He was a tall bloke, he was. Flintlock took steroids and supplements to take care of his body. Vlad now, after growing, stood taller than flintlock. He knocked the sword out of his hand. “Nice try.” Vlad picked Flintlock up with a hand and chucked Flintlock ten, twenty inches deep into the marble wall of the airport. “ God, I love the Veil.” He muttered. The Veil was a magical force that covered normal humans’ eyes of any magical activities.
Flintlock got out of the wall. Unscathed. “Shit, run!” Vlad kept kicking big chunks of marble at Flintlock, but Flintlock just walked through them, leaving them in two pieces.
“I hate the Achilles Clan. And their green faces.”Afsoon stated after they had teleported to Dublin. That was a risk as Dublin, like few other places in the world, Islamabad, Rio de Janeiro, Toronto, Moscow, and a couple of others, did not have the veil. Vlad returned to normal. As for the Achilles Clan, they were a clan of people who were invincible but for one part of their body, an Achilles heel if you will. It was named so.
“He is the past now. Do you know the location of the hotel?” Vlad said. After they had had arrived Vlad shrunk, to the size of an ant his time, and did a little scouting. “All clear. Apart from police tape all across the employees entrance. Apparently an old waiter was murdered about 15 minutes ago. Twisted neck. And witnesses- two 9 yea
and the **** is s-h-i-t

My child has many food allergies and is on Neocate formula for food. (He can only eat a few things like grapes, raisins, peppers, wheat, milk and most meats but not beef.) He has not grown in 2 years at all so they finally started tests on him this week. They discovered his platelets were high and that his zinc was very low. We started him on a zinc supplement yesterday and he was able to eat a bit last night and a tiny bit this morning. If he does not gain weight before March 20th, they are going to put him on a feeding tube.

I just don’t understand the platelet thing, can you tell me what it means and why it would be high? He is a 45 pound, 47 inch tall 8 year old boy that takes Singulair, Zyrtec, Allegra, Flovent, Xopenex, Rhinocort and Gastrocrom for his allergies and asthma.

Thank you for your help!

my little sister (who is tall and under weight for her age)has decided to go vegetarian, and as eco-friendly as that is I think it is also very bad on her health especially considering the fact that she is going in to her preteen and teenage years which mean she will be doing a whole lot of growing and changing, I think she is going to need protein and all of the other nutrients in meat to keep her healthy during this time of rapid growth and enormous change, but I’m not sure if that’s right or not, do little kids need all of the nutrients that they get from meat (and there is now way she will be able -or will want to- take a protein supplement pill and she hates peanut butter and beans which have A lot of protein in them and does not like many types of fruits or vegetables except the occasional apple and banana) is not eating meat going to eventually going to damage her health and maybe her everyday life (like her energy levels, her mood, her attitude towards others. her skin color, her grades and other things) I honestly am not sure it is a great idea especially with her young age and at this very important point of growth and change in her life but I might be wrong!

Well, I brought home a female guppy the other day, hoping for some little fry in the future. The thing is, I don’t want a ton, really I’m fine with nature taking it’s course and just leaving a couple, but I want to know how likely that is given:

1) The other fish in the tank are:
-A cardinal tetra who has never shown aggression
-Two neon tetras who have shown mild aggression to the cardinal tetra
-Two male guppies, only one of which has ever shown aggression and then only to the other, newer male
-An angel fish who has never shown aggression
-A female beta who only shows aggression if another fish is aggressive towards her
-A cory catfish who has not show aggression, but came with the guppy and is very new
-A zebra danio who has shown aggression to any fish smaller than it (all but beta and angel fish)

2) The water conditions are as such:
Temp: 80 degrees
Hardness: Mildly hard
Nitrite level: very low (less than 20 ppm)
Nitrite: About 1ppm (currently treating, tank is in midst of bacterial bloom)
Chlorine: none
Alkalinity: Slightly high (230-250, maybe? Test isn’t very exact)
pH: Neutral

Aquarium salt, bacterial supplement, and algae reducer added regularly as needed. (some algae is currently growing on plants and walls)

There is a barrel with holes in the sides, as well as a few plants for them to hide in.

In-tank filter has 7 narrow (~1/16 inch) slits about an inch and a quarter tall.

Do you think a few might eventually survive if I just leave things be? (I don’t even need them to be from the first batch, just by like, the 3rd or 4th) Or should I take some extra steps and if so, what?
This info is really helping, I’m fairly novice at this as the last big tank I had we got rid of when I was like, 9… and since then I’ve only had one in a class at school for 18 weeks.
But I was thinking I was going to return the danio and replace the two neon tetras with cardinals. Would this help?
And I’m not overly worried about the angelfish as far as the adults go, he seems pretty placid.

Okay I am going to try and explain the best I can everything I can.

I have a 13 month old boy, who is 20 pounds and tall for his age. He is in 50th percentile for height and just over 5th for weight..right now we are still struggling with his eating as he is extremely picky, so he has dropped from 25th percentile for weight (which was at 9 months – it seems that he has become quite active and as yet is not gaining enough calories to gain good weight – the docs told me he is not in any danger or anything, just on the thin side, and that some babies are just like that. I personally would like to see him a little bigger and we are working on the calories and have started pediasure just as a supplement twice a day) to the 5th percentile, or just above that.

Anyways, he is still growing in height, im not sure exactly how much but everyone says he is tall. He is hitting milestones – he started walking last month. He can almost run now – although its clumsily(very cute too).

Now, the thing I am concerned about – and i do plan to ask the health nurse at our appointment but wanted input from you guys – is that he doesn’t really even have one word yet. He does babble tons, and says what SOUNDS like ma-ma-ma-ma-ma and na-na-na-na-na(nana, I think?) Do these qualify as words, or is he just babbling? He has yet to say a concrete word though, and that worries me.

However, I am a very quiet person – I try to remember to talk as much as I can around him, but it really is not in my nature to talk alot and sometimes i find myself having been quiet for a good peice of time. As well, he has been a fairly quiet baby from even before he was born. This both worries me and reassures me…
Before he was born he was what they called "non responsive" a few times on ultrasound – he just didn’t want to respond to being poked alot i think lol. He moved plenty, just not when YOU wanted him to… When he was born too he did cry, but not often. Even the nurses said what a good baby he was…Im not sure if that is because I am a very responsive mother(in that i respond to his needs as soon as they become apparent) and we are well bonded from the start(he nursed as soon as he was born!) or if thats indicative of an issue too. As he grew older, he still was not much of a crier or a cranky baby. He has been babbling since he learned it from my best friends little girl at age 4months. This is part of what concerns me, because you would think that if he babbled since then, he would be speaking by now.

As far as other milestones go, he hit everything physical and social early. He rolled over early, smiled early, laughed early,sat early and crawled early. So everything seems to be good on that end.

I just am concerned, because Im afraid that this not eating good plus the not talking thing(and actually, not waving yet or really giving kisses or throwing things etc) may be indicative of some type of Failure to thrive issues.. i cringe just saying that because it has such a bad stigma for parents whose children have it.. but i mean I cant force him to eat – he just spits it out..its very frustrating.

I do make sure to spend a while each day going over words with him – saying them slowly, repeating them etc.. he loves it, he laughs his head off.. but will not repeat. Maybe I should try cursing, LOL. Kids like to do things adults do maybe that will work – JUST KIDDING!!

We read books, usually 3-5 a day, sometimes more if hes having a cuddly day. We play together, although he doesnt often care to play WITH me – he will wander off and play with his toys by himself, coming back to me every so often for a cuddle, hug or sippy of milk.

Do you think im over analyzing? Or could there be a problem developing here. I will say i’ve seemingly been a worry wart before – I think I called the doctor everytime he looked at me crooked for the first six months LOL.
Edit: I realize this is really really long, and you do not have to read it all..just skim if you want. I just wanted to provide as much information as I could in case anyone had questions about anything

Hello, I’m 18 years old, 5’8" tall and weigh around 115-117. I am underweight for my height and have always been smaller than my friends.

My family is very unlucky when it comes to growing genes and I got the short end of the stick. All males in the family are extremely skinny although my dad is a solid weight for his height. I have also been taking a prescription drug called Adderal since I was in the sixth grade. This drug helps ADD but removes your appetite. Six years of barely eating anything and going days without food has really taken a toll on my body.

I am a food expediter at a 4 star restaurant and have to carry heavy trays that would cost my company hundreds of dollars if dropped. All my life I have been told that i’m screwed and my family genes/metabolism will not allow me to gain weight.

I have also tried taking BSN products such as TruMass weight gaining supplements. I didn’t seem to gain ANY weight after a solid month of 3 1k calorie shakes per day. Due to the fast pace of my job i would consider myself in good condition for how skinny i am.

I would really like to know if it is possible for me to go from 115 to 130/145. I’m tired of being small and am ready to make the change. I understand working out and eating/sleeping right is hard work but i’m ready for the challenge.

I have stopped taking prescription drugs and would really like to gain some weight before going to college for the military.

Please send me some tips for rapid weight gain or working out. I’m also clueless as to what to eat. I have a Bowflex V2 that never gets used and would love to learn some new stuff. Thanks in advance!

I’ve always been more prone to hyper-responding to stressful situations. I was an anxious child growing up and there was a lot of verbal and emotional abuse in my home, so I suppose my "fight or flight" mechanism had an easy trigger. Anyway, years later I find that I unconsciously place myself in high stress situations (demanding job, dramatic friendships, over-scheduling myself) because I think i must be drawn to the adrenaline burst that feels so normal to me. Most recently my husband was hospitalized for a serious illness from which he recovered, but while he was ill I did not sleep for 3 days and i continued working and taking care of our 2 young children. Very stupid of me, I know. I put off taking care of myself too much and now I am paying for it. The problem now is that my body is no longer recovering from those intesnse situations and I have been suffering from insomnia for the past few months, have had two flu-like viruses in the past 4 months from which I feel I never fully recovered, and my hair is beginning to fall out more than the usual 100 strands or whatever is the norm. I feel beyond tired, shakey, swollen glands, headaches, muscle tension, etc., etc. I read about adrenal fatigue (my mother has just been diagnosed with hypothyroid, which is what led me the adrenal fatigue info when I was researching hypothyroidism). I have always been petite, but in the last 3 months I have dropped from 112 lbs to 95 lbs. ( I am 5 feet tall, so 95 is still in the healthy weight range, but the low end of it). I am trying to put the weight back on but i am struggling to gain it. I have started supplements to help with adrenal fatigue and I have been making sure I get in to bed early and sleep as late as I can, occassionally taking melatonin to help me sleep a little better. My question is: does anyone have experience with this who could give me some advice on what to eat, how to schedule my activities, ways to manage the stress, etc. so i can repair whatever damage i have done and keep from relapsing? All suggestions are very much appreciated. Sorry for the novella, I didn’t mean to give my whole life story, I just wanted to give a thorough description of my problem. thanks again!

I bought these 2 energy supplements called Enervon, which is commercialized to give energy, and 1-6-12, which is commercialized to help you grow taller. Thing is, they have similar vitamins.
Enervon gives B1 B6 B12 Ascorbic Acid…
1-6-12 give B1 B6 and B12.

So does this mean that taking Enervon will basically help me grow taller as well as giving me more energy? Or do the Bvitamins of 1-6-12 have a difference? I don’t get all this crap, I might as well take Centrum(which gives every single vitamin) to help me grow taller, give me energy and a lot more.
I’m a guy btw, I’m trying to get taller and have more energy for the gym so I like what I see when I take my shirt off.

About her: "Molly" is a two year old morgan filly. She is 763 pounds and 14 hands tall. She gets worked for about 30 minutes in the round pen 3 times a week.

Her diet:

AM:

10 pounds of alfalfa
2 quarts of Equine Junior grain
1 scoop SLT hoof and coat supplement

PM:
10 pounds alfalfa hay (2 leafs)
2 quarts Equine Junior grain

I want her to be getting enough of what she needs to grow. She is a late maturing horse, just like her mom. Her mom is 15.2 hands and her dad is 15.1 hands. So she has a lot of growing to do, she will be big because her legs are long and her knees are knobby. Do you have any suggestions or advice about what else I can feed her to make sure she is getting what she needs?
Amber C, sorry I forgot to mention that she is a hyper horse, she runs in the pasture a lot and people have told me that she needs to gain a little weight in order to grow…

OK so i am 15 year old boy 5’9 tall and i want to be 6’2+ when i grow up and also my wrist bone is not very big and i take 1300mg calcium supplements per day my father is 5’11 and mother is 5’3 i have some facial hairs below my nose but very little.my weight is 48 kg/106 lbs so is it possible for me to be taller and also i tried many different exercises to be tall last month and i think i grew 1 inch in a month!

and suggest some supplement or exercises to be tall thanks.

Hello. i recently turned 17, am around 140lb and 5’11 feet tall.

I do have a fair bit of knowledge on this subject area, but obviously i’m not a master, so i just want to ask a few questions to fil in the gaps so i can make the most of my work outs and get bigger (which is obviously my gain :3)

1.I drank 2 scoups of maximuscle progain for 6 weeks and gained 4 kilos, but it was all around my stomach. REAALLLY flabby stuff there haha. presumeably the carbs had done that. I was working out 3 times a week while taking the supplement. I want to know that if i were to take maximuscle proMAX instead..which has barely any carbs and is mostly protein…would i still gain weight but not around my tummy?

2.I’v been at a great gym for nearly 4 months and do see some progress. My muscles appear more defined, but i swear i’m not ‘bigger’. It makes no sense. i lift the heaviest weight i can and do chest and arms one day – back and shoulders the second – and legs on third. so its all even ish. why arent i getting bigger? (i eat a lot, not as though i’m purposely trying to force feed myself though)

3.my bones are naturally thin. so looking at my arms for example, yes you can see a clear defined bicep etc, but the arm itself is relatively small. will keeping to a hard routine sort of make my bones grow. maybe not grow..but my arms appear bigger? (sorry to make it awkward)

if anyone could help me on ANY of the issues i’d be grateful!
many thanks,
andy

I’m 23 years old and 350 pounds at 6 feet tall. I know that’s not good at all which is why I’m here to do something about it. I know working out and eating healthy is how it works, please don’t post that just to get a point!

I’ve been overweight my whole life and haven’t ever done well with diets. I played 4 sports a year in high school and was very active but the weight continued to pile on. About a year ago I had back surgery for a pinched nerve so some activities might be off limits for me still.

I understand this won’t be fast and am looking for lifestyle suggestions not just diets. I know the basics of course, less junk food more time in the gym, what I’m looking for is specifics.

Information like how many calories should I be taking in each day for healthy weight loss and what kinds of activities should I be supplementing my eating habits with? Suggestions for how to balance meals better and what types of things I should be getting in my diet as well as supplements I can take for even better results (I’ve heard fish oil tablets are very healthy). I grew up in a junk food family so food health has never been a subject I’ve been good at.

I have a goal of losing 100 pounds in one year, is that thinking too big? What would be more realistic and what kind of eating/exercise routine should I adopt to achieve it?

Me-5 feet 6inches, 16year old male, shoe size either 12 or 13 usa,havent grown for 2 yrs, i am indian and my feet and hands r bigger than my dads.

Dad-5 feet 10.5 inches

mom- 5feet 4inches

y havent i grown for 2 yrs, does my shoe size and hand size matter, yes i have an awsome diet, sleep, i exercise alot, have a good body, i take supplements get ever nutrition possible everyday so according to this info how tall will i be, no i dont knwo what was my height when i was 2yrs old, yes i play basketball and jump alot,