Am I having a late growth spurt or did I stunt my growth?

Question

Hi all, I was hoping you could help me solve this question. I’m 19 years old and recently had another growth spurt 8 months ago in my knees where I grew an inch in a week and have grown 3 more inches since, but during it I was eating a lot of soy bread, and I was wondering if the phytoestrogens in the soy bread might have caused the growth spurt leading to a premature closure of the growth plates in my knees and thus stunting my growth, or if I was just genetically programmed to have a late growth spurt at this age?
I ask this because I read up that estrogen and testosterone convert to estradiol, which is the hormone responsible for the growth plates in our bones closing and I was unsure if the phytoestrogens in the soy bread I was eating could do the same thing which might explain my sudden growth spurt, much in the same way that taking steroids can produce a sudden growth spurt but lead to premature closure of the growth plates due to rapid conversion of testosterone into estradiol

I'm also a guy and my mum's height is 5'4 while my dad's is 6'2 and i'm of mixed northern and southern european descent, if that helps? And in the growth spurt I grew from 5'7 to 5'11 in the 8 months period.

Answer 1

It's actually not uncommon for some people to have a late growth spurt (more common for guys than girls, though). I know a guy who had his last major growth spurt when he was 25, and his brother had his at age 23. They thought they would be short forever, but then, surprise! You may want to look up some age/development stats to compare yourself to the population at large. Growth at age 19, although towards the later end of the scale, is well within the range of ages for growth spurts.

The bread probably had little to do with it. It probably, at most, provided nutrients that ensured the bones developed properly as you went through the growth spurt, but it probably didn't induce the growth.

Answer 2

I suspect you'd have to eat a lot of soy bread for that to take place, if it's even possible at all. I don't know how similar phytoestrogens are to human estrogen but I suspect they aren't. I wouldn't worry about it.

Answer 3

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