If you are above 40 years old. Do you still have a chance to grow tall?

Answer 1

No because once what is known as the epiphyseal plate, or growth plate in your long bones have closed with solid bone which usually occurs by the early 20's, it is impossible to grow any taller after this point.

Answer 2

Well according to me, there is no way you can still grow tall if you are 40 years old. A person stops growing tall after the age of 18 years.

Answer 3

In the majority of people, their growth plates solidify around age 21 and no exogenous (supplemental) hormones will increase your height. The only way to gain any height after the growth plates have solidified, is to have surgery performed where your long bones (tibia, fibula and femur) are fractured and extended with pins and rods. The bones are then allowed to start growing together again. However, this will only add a few inches,at most, to your height and I'm not sure if this type of surgery is still performed or if a surgeon would perform it on a healthy individual. Unfortunately, as we age we actually tend to get shorter due to curvature of the spine, compression of cartilage within joints, and compression fractures within the spine (if you end up developing osteoporosis).

Answer 4

The possibility exists, but most hormones tend to taper off by 30. Many people still grow while in their 20's but generally stop slowly. Maximum growth of course is obtained during puberty so everything else after that isn't really noticed as much.

Answer 5

No. But you have a chance to become shorter....

As people get older, they generally lose some muscle and fat from their bodies as part of the natural aging process. Gravity takes hold, and the disks, or cushions between the bones in the spine, get compressed over time. The vertebrae end up pressing closer together, which makes a person lose a little height and become shorter.

Answer 6

Not naturally, but I saw on the news a while back that you can spend a couple thousand dollars to inject your body or something like that with some growth horomones or chemicals. It actually works, but it costs quite a bit. According to science currently, you actually shrink a little bit each year after about 30 or so.

Answer 7

Linear skeletal growth is caused by two chemicals that are produced by the pituitary gland in the brain. One is called Soma Tropin Hormone (STH) and Human Growth Hormone (HTH) it is special properties between the two that cause Linear skeletal growth. In normal human development the brain stops the production of these properties between 18 and 21 years of age. However from time to time there are mutants of the two extremes one is called pituitary dwarfism (midgets) and the other is called giant-ism.

Answer 8

In response to an earlier answer, the idea that hormones and chemical compounds and what not will aide your growth AFTER you have reached maturity is a complete hoax. It was used by this guy in Israel who made millions by telling people that the "enzymes" he was giving them (*cough*cough*PLACEBO*cough) made them grow in various places if you catch my drift. Last I heard, he was going to trial for a variety of malpractice suits (even though he didn't even HAVE a medical license in the first place!)

Answer 9

no as humans tend to stop growing taller after the age of 18 or 19

Answer 10

no, you stop growing long before 40