If you want to make your height taller, its best to start when youre young. When your body is still growing, you can enhance the process by maintaining a good diet and exercising regularly. In fact, its very important that you do both of these things, lest your health suffer.

By this I mean that if you eat nothing but junk throughout your teens, you actually risk stunting your growth. When you dont get enough nutrients such as protein, calcium, calories, and amino acids, your body starts to take these nutrients from other sources, including your bones. This can cause weakened bones as well as other health complications.

Exercising to make your height taller does work to some extent, but you must do so when you are still growing. There are many scams on the market today that claim to know exercises that are able to stretch your bones after theyve stopped growing. This doesnt work. Nothing can make your bones grow again once youve hit adulthood.

However, by exercising, you increase muscle mass, which in turn makes your bones stronger as they carry your additional weight. Exercising also increases a height growth hormone when youre younger, which helps in speeding your growth spurts. Exercising when youre young can also prevent bone weakening diseases as well as much of the shrinking that sometimes occurs when you grow older.

If youre an adult and wish to grow taller, there are many methods you can try. Dressing to make yourself look taller is an effective method. Wearing solid colors, pinstripes, and shoes with height enhancing insoles can be very useful. Exercising makes you slimmer, which also increases the illusion.

Some adults resort to limb lengthening surgery to make themselves taller. This should only be considered in an extreme emergency, as doctors who are qualified to perform this surgery are hard to find. It is a very expensive, painful, risky procedure.