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Re: For men's growth?

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Originally Posted by UncleAl
When your epiphyses seal over you are at your maximum height. Administration of growth hormone thereafter may result in acromegaly but you won't get significantly taller. A tactic that will work is breaking your leg bones and using an external bone brace and screws to continuously widen the gaps between the healing ends. That could get you another inch or two. You'd have to want it real bad for the months of pain, risk of deep infection, and given that the bones can stop growing before they reunite.
I know this breaking off bone surgery. It is popular in China.
So, you answer me this: with the nanotechnology help and this surgery, do you think in future humen can undergo this plastic surgery to be as any tall as they want just as women can meed their desired breast sieze?
 
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