Adjust the body shape using light and shadows
Brighten the top and darkening the bottom. Reverse light and shadow.
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Breathe through your nose
Breathing through the nose shapes the correct skull and skeleton, unlike mouth breathing.
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Wear clothes with a herringbone print
Crossing diagonal lines, forming arrows, create an elongated silhouette.
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Expand the living area
Body size may depend on size of room where person spends a lot of time.
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Grow among tall people
The height of a person's body tends to converge towards the average height of people around.
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Stretch the crown of your head upward
Gently push your chin towards the chest and stretch upward to achieve your maximum height during the day.
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Measure your height, considering diurnal variations in stature
Measure yourself consistently with the same device, in the afternoon, at the same time, repeating multiple times.
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Avoid excessive bone compression
Lifting weights over 10-15% of your body weight may curve and compress the spine, potentially stunting growth.
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Adolescent need a different sleep schedule
Adolescent tend to go to bed and wake up late, which leads to sleep deprivation.
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Create situations when the comparison is in your favor
You will look better next to someone shorter and less attractive.
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Collaborative practices are more effective than individual ones
Involve friends in your activities to split up the problems. Be part of communities.
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Lower your voice pitch
Improve the strength of speech production muscles and increase testosterone levels.
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Vertical wide gestures enhance perception of body height
Hand movements up and down add energy and dominance. Accompany your speaking with appropriate gestures.
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Take wide open poses
Wide positioning of arms and legs increases visual space taken by body, leading to perceived increase in height.
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Look into camera from top to bottom
When camera is positioned vertically at angle of 9-12° below eye level, object appears larger.
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Increase size of lower part of face
People with masculine facial features, such as large chins and jaws, are perceived as taller.
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Legs should not be too short or too long in relation to the body
Maintain a leg-to-body ratio of 50/50 by adjusting the waistline.
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Lengthen your legs with height-increasing shoes
Optimal heel lift is 3-5 cm along with sole thickness of 2-3 cm, cushioning, and arch support.
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The head should not appear large in relation to the body
Maintain a head-to-body ratio of 1/8 by using hairstyles and elevator shoes.
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Create a unified vertical silhouette using monochromatic clothing
The observer's view glides smoothly over solid-colored clothing, creating the impression of a taller stature.
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Choose accent colors brighter and main colors darker
Bright colors reflect more light and appear wider. Use brighter colors for accents and darker as the main ones.
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Improve your unique body shapes by the shape of the accessories
Adjacent objects reflect their shapes onto each other, allowing you to shape desired parts.
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Attract attention to the top of your body
Direct the observer's sight to the area of your head and attractive parts of your body.
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Maintain a slim silhouette
Thin people are perceived as taller, while wide individuals are seen as shorter.
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Make a contrast in sizes between neighboring parts
Large objects appear even larger near small ones, while small objects are smaller next to large ones.
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Create T-shaped elements
Vertical lines will be longer as they move away from the horizontal lines.
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Add V-shaped details to your style
Arrow lines appear shorter than lines with tails. Use depending on the goal.
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Darken sides, lighten center.
Enhance the depth of the look by incorporating vertical stripes and fading gradients on the sides.
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Split two contrasting colors vertically
A two-color division of a clothing vertically into 3 parts creates the effect of elongation.
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Choose cropped clothing types
Exposed ankles make us perceive legs as slimmer, while exposed wrists create the illusion of longer arms.
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Horizontal stripes can effectively elongate just like vertical stripes
Wear horizontal stripes on clothing or single vertical stripe.
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Keep estrogen levels at the lower end of the normal range with aromatase inhibitors
Aromatase inhibitors prolong the growth period in male children and adolescents, which increases final height.
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The FGFR3 dwarfism gene can be turned off with injections
So far, there is only one drug for this - Vosoritide.
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Consider the option of using growth hormone injections
A dose of 0.033-0.05 mg/kg/day for 6 years until puberty can add 7 cm to final height.
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Protect growth zones from fractures
During the phase of active growth, bones are prone to fractures, so avoid extreme loads.
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Heat the growth zones
In warmth, bones grow longer due to improved blood circulation.
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Give the bones a load
When the bones are pressed by gravity and muscle tension, it grows better.
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Engage in swimming with additional resistance
Swimming will be more effective if you wear ankle weights and combine your sessions with impact exercises.
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Correct the zinc deficiency
Choose zinc-enriched products and take 10-20 mg of zinc sulfate in supplement form.
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Catch-up growth can close growth zones
If there are sharp growth spurts after a long pause, check the level of sex hormones.
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We achieve more when we are ready for long-term work
A serious attitude to the goal and efforts will increase the chances of success by 4 times.
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Vitamin D helps the absorption of calcium
In the case of calcium, it's not the quantity that matters most, but rather its absorbability.
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Compensate for the lack of substances for growth by drinking milk
Just 1-2 cups a day will give you everything you need for bones.
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Choose animal-based protein
Get 1.5 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day. Mainly from animal products.
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Change the environmental factors to change gene expression
Nutrition, medicine, and the standard of living influence gene activity.
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You need growth plates and hormones to increase height
People grow taller with open growth plates in their bones under the influence of growth hormone.
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