Can playing basketball help you grow taller?

Many friends who want to grow taller have thought about whether playing basketball can help them grow taller. Basketball itself is a very good sport. Playing basketball can not only keep your body healthier, but also exercise your muscles well. So playing basketball is more or less related to growing taller, but let's take a closer look at whether playing basketball can help you grow taller.

The height issue depends on the genetic genes of the parents. You can't make yourself taller by playing basketball alone, but if you actively participate in physical exercise from a young age and play basketball more often, it can promote bone development to a certain extent and help your body become taller. If you are older, the probability of this happening will be very small, but playing basketball can make people strong and upright, so they don't look particularly short.

Can playing basketball help you grow taller? It depends on different situations:

If teenagers regularly participate in basketball, the muscles in all parts of the body can be activated and exercised, which can enhance the body's metabolism, ensure adequate blood and nutrient supply to the long bone tissue, facilitate the synthesis of osteogenic substances, promote healthy bone growth, and contribute to height growth. "But under normal circumstances, the increase in height is not large. The genetics of the parents play a decisive role of 70%-75%. If both parents are short, in order for the child to have an ideal height, in addition to actively participating in physical exercise, they should also pay attention to nutrition and ensure adequate sleep. If the acquired factors cannot make the child reach the ideal height, it is the wisest choice to take certain medical measures before the epiphyseal line closes to help the child reach the ideal height. Because the best period for treatment is before the epiphyseal line closes, the effect achieved is the most ideal.

Although playing basketball can help you grow taller, it only works when the epiphyseal line has not closed. If the epiphyseal line has closed, no matter how much exercise you do, it is impossible to grow taller. At this time, if you want to achieve your ideal height, you must adopt certain treatment plans to achieve the ideal results.

Human height mainly depends on long bones (arms, thighs, calves and other limbs are long bones, fingers and toes are short bones). The longer the long bones, the taller the height will be. There are epiphyses at both ends of each bone. There are abundant chondrocytes in the epiphyses, and growth hormone stimulates these chondrocytes to divide continuously, producing new chondrocytes, and then the old chondrocytes will gradually calcify into bones. After long-term research, scientists have discovered that micropeptides can promote the regeneration and calcification of chondrocytes, help the pituitary gland secrete more growth hormone, re-improve, regulate, and activate the original growth hormone function, and further enable the nutrients needed by the bones to form collagen, which is deposited in the softest part of the bones, accelerating the calcification and hardening of the bones, and forming bones. With repeated cell division and continuous calcification, the length of long bones will become longer and longer, and the height will become taller and taller, until the epiphyseal line heals and the bones stop growing, and the person's height is thus fixed.

According to the detailed introduction above, everyone also knows that playing basketball does have a certain effect on increasing height. However, I hope everyone understands that growing taller is closely related to one's own genes. Similarly, playing basketball also requires long-term persistence. Whether it is playing basketball or running, it requires long-term persistence. It can not only increase height but also better maintain physical health.