Does running help you grow taller?

Running for a long time will have many benefits to human health. A lot of energy will be consumed in the process. Therefore, after running, people's appetite will be greatly enhanced and sleep quality will be significantly improved. Running is also an important sport to exercise the body's jumping ability, so it will have certain benefits for growing taller. The following editor will introduce some of the main benefits of running for increasing height.

Exercise is a good way to promote bone growth, and running is one of them. Let’s see whether jogging can promote height growth.

Whether you can grow taller depends on your bone age. Bone age is an indicator of development. If your age is greater than your bone age, it means you have growth retardation; if your age is less than your bone age, it means you have precocious puberty, etc. Therefore, if you want to understand your growth and development, you should go to a regular hospital to take a bone age X-ray. Your doctor will judge your growth potential based on the epiphyseal closure shown on the bone age film.

Simply put, exercises that can increase appetite, promote sleep, and apply a certain degree of longitudinal pressure to the bones are beneficial for growing taller. Specifically, there are jogging, skipping rope, dancing, playing basketball and volleyball, etc. However, many children who play basketball and volleyball are already very tall. If you let children who don't like these sports engage in these sports just to make them taller, you are wrong.

Because emotional stability is also important for height growth, let your children choose the sports they like. However, strenuous exercise that consumes too much physical energy is better left to high school students whose bodies have stopped growing. Bone development comes to a certain extent from longitudinal pressure, but excessive pressure (weightlifting, etc.) makes it difficult for bones to grow longitudinally.

A person's height can be affected by many factors. During the critical period of bone development, in addition to moderate physical exercise, you should also pay attention to nutritional balance, especially eating more nutrients that are very beneficial to bone development. You can also get more sun exposure to enhance the body's synthesis of vitamin D.