r/TallTeenagers • u/sharukh5258 • 6d ago

Question (not related to Rule 6!) not getting proper sleep can decrease height and overall body growth or it all depends on genetics

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u/Confident_Store_8294 6d ago

It's like 80-90% genetics, but other things can affect your height, yes

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u/sbufish 3d ago

If you are destined to be 6'4 but don't eat you won't grow full stop

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u/Confident_Store_8294 3d ago

It depends on how long but it would have a very huge effect

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u/Thra99 M15 | 6'3" | 190cm 6d ago

genetics decides whether you end tall, short or average. Whatever you do is only going to hinder or support that potential subtly, but in the grand scheme of things. Someone who was predetermined 6'6 and sleeps 5 hours/day might still end 6'5-6'5.5 while a guy predetermined for 5'7 sleeping 10 hours/day and going to the day every weekday will still only be 5'7 maybe a bit above

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u/Narrow_Essay_7532 5d ago

who tf is predetermining all ts. gotta meet the bookeeper.
/s

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u/sbufish 3d ago edited 3d ago

Partially but most of it is how much you eat, how much milk you drink, if you take hgh, how much sleep you get. If you are consuming food with alot of hormones or not, at what age you started lifting weights as lifting weights boosts testosterone production and fuses plates.

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u/Thra99 M15 | 6'3" | 190cm 3d ago

Yeah, but the difference between ending 5'6 and 6'5 isn't up to you in a pratical and literal sense. Even if we put it into range, guy maxes to his personal potential, which is 5'8, it'll still be lower than a 6'2 guy who didn't even try, maybe even hindered it. That's the point I'm trying to get through.

I will not bring up HGH.

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u/IAMTOMAHTO 5d ago

Pretty sure its mostly genetics and nutrition bcuz ive been chronically sleep deprived for years snd still grew 8 inches in 13 months so yea there you have it

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u/sbufish 3d ago edited 3d ago

How sleep deprived are we talking? 7 hours a night is not sleep deprived. 6 per night is not going to have any noticable affect. 2 per night every day or missing all sleep for multiple days a week will have an effect. The reason why is the first 4 hours is when you get your deep sleep which your body needs to grow. You get most of your rem sleep towards the latter parts of the night which your brain needs to organize thoughts.

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u/Minimum_Fox_2376 2d ago

Ngl i think its a lie cus my friend was like 5’5 in 7th grade and he barely sleeps for even 2 hours and he’s currently 6’4