Can running really make you taller?

Can jogging help you grow taller? Many people think that height growth depends on actual age. In fact, whether you can grow taller depends on the age of your bones. So, it is not necessarily the case that you cannot grow taller after the age of 30. However, it cannot be denied that exercise is a good way to promote bone growth, and running is one of them. Next, follow the editor to 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 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.

What are the benefits of jogging?

Studies have shown that brisk jogging can enhance respiratory function, increase lung capacity, and improve the body's ventilation and gas exchange capabilities. The oxygen supplied during jogging can be 8 to 12 times more than when sitting still. Oxygen is essential for maintaining human life activities, and the ability to absorb oxygen directly affects cardiopulmonary function.

Generally speaking, the oxygen absorption capacity of the elderly is lower, and exercise can improve their oxygen absorption capacity. The maximum oxygen uptake of elderly people who jog is not only significantly higher than that of their peers who do not exercise, but also higher than that of elderly people who participate in general exercise.

Jogging can strengthen and thicken the myocardium, and has the effect of exercising and protecting the heart. The heart size and function of an elderly person who has been jogging for many years is no different from that of a 20-year-old young person who does not exercise. This is because long-term exercise improves myocardial nutrition, makes the myocardium developed, and improves its function.

Jogging can increase blood flow, enhance blood vessel elasticity, and has the effect of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and improving blood circulation. When jogging, the coronary blood flow can increase 10 times compared to when you are at rest, that is, the blood flow can reach 1200-1400 ml per minute.

For people who jog regularly, their heart rate can drop to about 50 to 60 beats per minute, which allows the myocardium to rest for a longer period of time.

Jogging can promote whole body metabolism, improve lipid metabolism, and prevent excessive lipids in the blood. Coronary heart disease, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and other senile diseases are mostly related to lipid metabolism in the body. Jogging can improve the normal metabolism of lipids in the body, reduce the content of cholesterol and triglycerides, prevent and reduce the deposition of lipids such as cholesterol on the blood vessel walls, thereby playing a role in preventing and treating coronary heart disease, hypertension and other senile diseases.

Jogging can control weight, prevent arteriosclerosis, adjust the excitation and inhibition process of the cerebral cortex, and eliminate brain fatigue.

Jogging can also produce a low-frequency vibration in the human body, which can exercise the vascular smooth muscle, thereby increasing the tension of the blood vessels. It can remove deposits on the blood vessel walls through vibration, and at the same time prevent the accumulation of blood lipids on the blood vessel walls. This is of great significance in preventing and treating arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

A person's height is related to the genes of his parents, but it is not absolute. During adolescence, a person's height can be increased through special height growth training. For growing children, although exercise is a means to promote development, excessive exercise will make children physically and mentally exhausted, affect their appetite, and is not conducive to their health and growth.