hey aesthetic Primal back with another video and today I will be talking about the attributes of the spine you can use to grow taller at any given age this video will be a heavy one packed with lots of information so sit back get yourself a glass of raw milk and enjoy if you have ever looked at a picture of a spine you might have noticed it is composed out of multiple discs which are made out of bone 24 to be exact these are called vertebrae but if you look very very closely you can see that in between every single vertebrae there are discs which are colored in blue blue these discs are called the intervertebral discs and are made out of cartilage scientific professionals have usually laid down the hypothesis that these discs are used to ease the movement of the spine by functioning as a cushion the healthier these intervertebral are the better your spine is able to move and in turn you'll be more flexible and athletic in most people these spinal discs are dried up worn down and the collagen mucal gelatinous reserves and nutrient deposits have been depleted this is because of autophagy which is the process your body resorts to when your nutrition is insufficient or when you are under mental and physical stress on a side note this is also the reason why I am against fasting for height growth because your body is triggered to enter autophagy fasting is mainly promoted for height growth since it boosts HGH but in my opinion that's useless since your levels of igf-1 drops okay back to where we were what if I told you that the cartilage discs AKA vertebral discs account for around 25 to 33% of the total height of your spine and 10 to 16 5% of your full height there are 22 intervertebral discs in your body if you do the math that means that if you gain 1 mm on each separate disc you would have gained 2.2 CM or 1 inch of extra height in your spine gaining 1 mm in every invertebral disc doesn't seem complicated and that's because it isn't this is especially because these discs are made out of cartilage which is much easier to manipulate than bone the intervertebral discs can be viewed as sponges you can easily manipulate their form by squeezing them Etc this is also the reason why you are taller in the morning and astronauts grow 2 in taller from being in space because when you are laying in your bed at night there is no gravity that is squeezing your intervertebral discs flat this way the discs are sort of able to decompress and reach their true size being in space has the exact same effect this is because there is no gravity in space at all so no decompression of the intervertebral except maybe some tight muscles pulling on your spine hence why astronauts gain 2 in or 5 cm when being in space there's only one problem with this when the astronauts return to Earth they lose most of the extra height this is because their cartilage decompressed but they didn't actually grow it in permanent size this is because of multiple reasons which I will explain now one of the reasons is that they didn't Master their amino acid intake mastering your intake of amino acids is one of the tricks that you absolutely need to master for optimal growth of cartilage especially the cartilage in the spine to eventually grow taller to master your amino acid intake you need to know which amino acids boost cartilage growth and which ones hinder it starting off with the cartilage boosting amino acids cartilage is for 60 to 70% made out of collagen which is the most abundant protein in your body and collagen itself is mainly made out of the four amino acids glycine alanine Proline and hydroxyproline it's divided with 33% being glycine 11% alanine and 21% Proline and hydroxyproline all four of these amino acids are very beneficial to height growth because they increase hormones like igf1 troto thyronine testosterone and DHT speed up your metabolism and energy production improve your sleep are anti-inflammatory and antistress and last but not least they simply L are the building blocks of your cartilage and Bones besides that there are a few other huge benefits that may look like they have nothing to do with height growth but indirectly do have a connection glycine for example which is probably the most important amino acid functions as a neurotransmitter in the body and is very similar to Gaba while glycine also increases Gaba itself Gaba and glycine are both inhibitory neurotransmitters that calm your brain down and help you focus this is one of the reasons Gaba and glycine supplements are taken to improve Pro sleep what Gaba and glycine also do is oppose and inhibit estrogen if you have been following me for a while you know why this is good because estrogen is what closes your epiphysial plates which are also called your growth plates this is basically the reason why most people don't grow after puberty anymore unless they have watched my video about the growth plates so to add on top of the benefits list glycine makes you more calm and keeps your growth plates open the effects of consuming more of the main four aminos and cartilage have been studied studied and the results are astonishing the average person consumes around 1 1/2 to 3 G of glycine a day while the daily intake of this Amino should be around 40 to 60 G one study showed that an increase in glycine intake from 1 5 to 3 G to 13 g a day would boost collagen synthesis by around 200% and raise plasma collagen levels 3 to four times this is huge because it means if you would eat 10 G more glycine daily you would see a 200% increase in cartilage growth and this won't just add to the height in your intervertebral discs which are made of cartilage but also your bones in general this is because bone is built in multiple stages and building the framework of the bone which is made of collagen comes first and only then calcium and other minerals are laid down on it meaning that an increase in collagen synthesis is equal to an increase in overall bone growth and eventually height growth animal protein is significantly higher in collagen than plant protein and this is one of the reasons animal protein intake has been positively associated with height and seems to be even more important than genetics unfortunately the intake of amino acids naturally present in collagen has been declining in the west where decades ago you would have traditional recipes enriched with collagen such as chicken feet or fish head soup head cheese or even a big bone broth cooked by Grandma nowadays the collagen is nowhere to be found and is mainly replaced by muscle meat we have already begun to see the long-term effects of this all in the western world so what do you need to consume to ensure proper intake of glycine alanine Proline and hydroxyproline you will need to consume gelatinous foods not muscle meat most people their grandma have a traditional recipe which is very high in gelatin or collagen Let It Be fish head or chicken feed soup bone broth bone marrow organs jellied Meats tendons pork Hawks Etc I personally try to eat lots of these foods and on the side also supplement with gelatin powder made from cows but but now I have told you what amino acids you need to consume you also need to know which ones to avoid to completely master your amino acid intake you need to know about the inflammatory aminos also known as tryptophan cysteine and methionine first of all what are tryptophan cysteine and methionine they are amino acids just like glycine alanine Proline and hydroxyproline which I talked about earlier in the video amino acids that make up protein have a lot of hormonal effects in their free state they act as signals causing reactions in the body now naturally this would act very balanced beneficial to the body when our glucose glycogen stores are depleted the body will break down proteins to obtain enough energy these can be the protein in your muscles but also the collagen in your cartilage your body signals to other parts of your body that your glycogen stores are depleted by releasing tryptophan and cysteine using these aminos as hormones in this case tryptophan and cysteine are kind of like stress hormones in this case so when the circulating tryptophan and and cysteine levels are high it basically tells your body it's low in glycogen and high in stress even if it's not in this stress State the body will start to eat up proteins like collagen since it's needed in more important places in the body than just cartilage or even bone released in huge quantities these aminos also have antimetabolic and thyroid suppressing effects eventually leading to many symptoms which even further worsen your health and even height proof for this can be this study done on two four- wey old Broiler chicks where they would feed a batch deficient levels of tryptophan and another control and they were fed in pairs daily to ensure its accuracy what they found was the chicks who were deficient got an increase in their levels of triot thyronine which is the active thyroid hormone while their thyroxine and reverse triota thyronine went down this is indicative of an increase in metabolism this is because triot thyronine speeds up metabolism while reverse triota thyronine slows down metabolism the decrease and thyroxine is a precursor to triota thyronine and its decrease tells that the conversion of thyroxine into triota thyronine is being more efficient a faster metabolism is very beneficial to height growth since bone remodeling will occur at higher rates as will collagen synthesis besides that triota thyronine has also been shown to increase the levels of igf-1 circulating in your body if you have watched more videos from me you know that igf-1 is very important to height growth then the chicks eating a low tryptophan Diet also found increases in circulating human growth hormone and testosterone whiches are hormones that also have beneficial effects on your igf-1 and last but not least the size of their pituitary gland increased the pituitary gland is also called The Master gland since it is responsible for the production of most hormones Studies have shown that the bigger a person his pituitary gland is the taller this person will likely be so what foods do you need to avoid or minimize when we want to balance our aminos you most mostly got to reduce your intake of muscle meat plant protein and egg whites since these foods will have the most tryptophan if you still decide to keep your intake of muscle meat and plant protein High you then need to increase your gelatin intake dramatically since that's the only thing that will oppose the harmful effects cysteine and methionine are also found in high amounts in the same food groups I just listed so now summarized balancing your aminos is about increasing intake of anti-inflammatory amino acids which are present in gelatin while decreasing intake of inflammatory aminos such as tryptophan cysteine and methionine at the same time but for more cartilage you need more than just a balance in amino acids because there are also vitamins and minerals that are of great importance the most important vitamin when it comes to collagen synthesis is Vitamin C collagen synthesis is pretty much dependent on vitamin C most animals are actually able to synthesize their own vitamin C however some animals including humans monkeys certain bats rodents must acquire it from food one study found that the biochemical Pathways after a muscular skeletal injury suggested that vitamin C May enhance collagen synthesis and soft tissue healing other studies also find vitamin C acts as a powerful antioxidant by neutralizing reactive oxygen species R which are responsible for degeneration of cartilage we must understand how collagen actually forms to know why vitamin C AIDS it so much collagen is the most abundant prote in mammals making up around 50% of all the protein in the human body collagen like all proteins is made up of a lot of amino acids but in collagen's case being the infrastructure of many tissues in the body has the amino acids bound together to form a triple helix of elongated fibral woven around the tissues of the body vitamin C would not just Aid forming collagen but it would maintain it for its ability to eliminate oxidants that fling around inside your body and wreak havoc dismantling stable structures just like collagen it's as if vitamin C was made for collagen for minerals you will need a proper intake of copper and zinc two minerals that are mainly found in shellfish such as oysters or others of course there are more things and foods that boost cartilage and collagen but I can't share everything in this video since it will be too long besides that I also am gatekeeping most of the other information that's because I put a lot of time into obtaining all this information and want to have a return on that investment this is why I put all the information you need to know about height growth in a course it's called the 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