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 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

Are you a girl or a boy? Well for a girl a growth spurt of this magnitude & at this age is definitely wrong. But for a boy this could be a second growth spurt. However I will advise you to be careful. There are many factors in the growth e.g. your existing growth, parents stature etc etc. A contd growth & that fast should take you to a doctor to know abnormalities like gigantism. Be careful friend.

Answer 2

i think you'll ought to devour a tremendous type of soy bread for that to ensue, if it truly is even plausible in any respect. i do not understand how similar phytoestrogens are to human estrogen yet i think they don't seem to be. i does no longer difficulty about it.

Answer 3

Your normal don't worry about it.