Can weight-increasing yoga make you taller?

Recently, a kind of "height-increasing yoga" has been circulated on the Internet, saying that it is "recognized as the most effective method for adults to increase body height." It relies entirely on the spontaneous effect of physical strength, without any risks, and both increases fitness.

Medical experts say that body weight increase is a complex physiological process. Simply put, it requires a combination of sufficient calcium and phosphorus intake, high sleep quality and appropriate stretching exercise to achieve a certain effect. For adults whose bone scale has been completely closed, the effect is negligible, let alone practicing yoga alone.

Height increasing yoga textbooks are selling well online

Recently, careful netizens will find that a professional yoga teaching material is selling on the Internet, including colorful books and CD-ROMs, as well as professional websites for introduction.

The website is marked with eye-catching fonts that height increasing yoga is currently recognized as the most effective method for adults to increase their weight. Adults with short stature will no longer have to endure the pain of broken bones and increasing weight. They only need to take a certain amount of time every day to practice professional weight-increasing yoga to realize their desire to grow.

It also showed that the increase effect was obvious, with an average increase of 3 to 6 centimeters. A large number of success cases are also listed online. At the same time, the reporter noticed that many weight-increasing yoga websites also sell weight-increasing health products, saying that they are only in conjunction with yoga and not alone.

If you use it, it will not affect the effect if you don't use it.

Increase yoga mostly uses distance teaching methods, that is, netizens are allowed to order textbooks. The price of a single set of textbooks ranges from 100 yuan to 300 yuan. Most of them include colorful page action textbooks, CD-ROMs, and some also include free online consulting services.

Since the first appearance of increasing yoga in August, more than a dozen related websites will be searched by typing the word "increasing yoga" in search engines such as Baidu and Google.

The reporter tried to contact the purchase and was told that it was best to remit a few cents more when remitting money, which would make it easier to identify among many orders and facilitate quick delivery.

Perspective on the principle of height-increasing yoga

According to the introduction materials on height increasing yoga, the principle of height increasing is to use the stretching function of yoga to stretch the bone gap, thereby achieving the purpose of height increasing.

Specifically, the height of the human body is determined by a total of 37 bones from the spine and leg bones, and the bone gaps are determined by relevant muscles and ligaments. According to the introduction materials, if the compressed part between each vertebra is stretched by 1 mm, the 36 bone gaps can be lengthened by 3.6 cm, and the human body will increase by nearly 4 cm. Therefore, adults can generally grow 3 to 4 centimeters tall. The stretching movement of yoga itself has this effect. The reason why the effect of other yoga projects is not obvious is that such movements are not centrally and systematically linked together, and professional height-increasing yoga can achieve the effect of growing height.

Regarding this so-called principle, the reporter interviewed relevant experts.

Experts can hardly grow by stretching alone

As we all know, a person's height is restricted by many factors, such as metabolism, growth hormone, inheritance, eating habits and lifestyle.

Professor Lu Liwei of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine pointed out that people want to grow tall also require the combined action of many factors. The effect is difficult to achieve by stretching exercise alone, especially for adults whose bone scale has closed. It is almost impossible. Even if it is stretched out, it will naturally return after a certain period of time.

According to reports, in India, there are as many as 80,000 yoga postures alone. After years of research by professionals, it has only been found that yoga has a targeted promotion effect on weight loss. Combined with orthodox and effective yoga breathing, it has a good effect on body shape and physical fitness.

The purpose of traditional yoga practice is to cultivate self-cultivation, focusing on yoga and meditation and ignoring postures. It may take more than a year to lose weight through traditional yoga, but it has basically no effect on increasing body height.

"Some professional yoga postures are very difficult. Generally speaking, they are only suitable for yoga practitioners who are born with soft ligaments or who have worked hard since childhood. It is recommended that beginners do what they can and not force stretching in order to deliberately pursue a certain effect." Professor Lu emphasized. (Internship Editor: Li Jianhong)