Can You Actually Increase Your Height?

You’re not alone if you’ve looked in the mirror and wished you were a little bit taller (and wished you were a baller). But your height is an aspect of your body you don’t have much control over.

Despite any remedies or miracle tips you might have seen online (*ahem* bro science), you can’t actually increase your height once you’re done growing.

Before your height hits its limit, there are a few factors that might help you maximize growth. But after puberty, you can only influence how tall you look, not how tall you are (no promises on the baller part).

Why do you stop growing in your teens?
Scientists believe about 80 percent of your height is determined by your genes (thanks, Mom and Dad!), but they don’t fully understand the exact connection between genetics and height.

Grow Taller is determined by more than 700 gene variants (rather than just one gene), which makes it really tough to predict how tall someone will be. A 2017 study that looked at DNA samples of more than 700,000 people found that there are also less common genes that account for more than 1 centimeter of a person’s height.

Your genetics can also contribute to health conditions that affect your height, like Gigantism or Marfan syndrome.

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