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Could masturbation reduce or stunt height growth?

Discussion in 'Porn Addiction' started by TheRevenant, Aug 27, 2016.

  1. zeekland

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    My mom is 5'5" and my dad is 6'0" and I came out 6'3", it's genetics and luck, don't feel like you did damage to yourself.
     
  2. Jones6787

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    What was your frequency bruh?
     
  3. zeekland

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    As often as I could 12-18....I would have sex with my girlfriend at the time as frequently as possible (15-18) and then PMO several times a day, after that I started my 70-80 hour work weeks which kind of ruined relationships, so it was daily pmo once a day, would bang a few co-workers (quickies, no real relationships) along the way over the next 15 years.
     
  4. Jones6787

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    Did you grow at 19 though?like even a bit?
     
  5. james2345

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    Man i have been PMOing since the age of 13.Back then i was extremely weak and fragile. i fapped like 2 times a day.Back then i did not care about my height because i though that i would eventually grow.But now years have passed and im 18 years old and only 4 months is left for my 19th birthday.I have been taking a lot of supplements since october 2018.I wanted to recover the all that i lost..i am taking zinc supplements,calcium and Vitamin D supplements, fish oil,cod liver oil and witheria somnifera.I grew like 1-2 cm at 15-16.But since then my i didnt grow an inch.BTW i am short at 5 feet 5 inches.Do u guys think that i can grow a few inches within 18-20 if i stop masturbation.Is there any of you who experienced a late growth spurt lat like 19-20.And if so how many inches was it?Did you grow when you stopped masturbating?......oh and my parents are short mom-4 feet 11.5 inches and my dad is like 5 feet 5 inches.My arms are really small as well.But i see most of my friends that have short parents like me is at least 3-4 inches taller than their dad and they did not overmasturbate like me too.They did like 2-3times a week.I still masturbate like a few times a week.Do you think if i stop fapping i would gain a few inches????..............man i hate my life.PLS HELP......with your opinion.
     
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  6. You've probably heard this before, but height is determined almost 100% by genetics.
     
  7. TheRevenant

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    Hi. Though I believe genetics plays the most part here but I think this effect of masturbation may have been overlooked or not studied. In my experience I was fapping the most in the critical growth period and I think that based on the height of my relatives I could've grown more but since lots of nutrients like zinc, magnesium, calcium are wasted through the process practicallly ur body is gonna lack materials to reach that full potential of growth. Some people might have so strong genetics that this wouldn't impact them but for others that might not be the case. Still many people may disagree but I just shared my experience and thought that might help me and others understand this better.
    I would definitely say that having a healthy diet and lifestyle, exercising, not wasting too much critical growth related nutrients through masturbation and having good sleep is most probably gonna be worth it if u can make it since that period is short and worth it to give a shot. U never know if any of those had any effect but u can live the rest of ur life being sure that u let ur body have the best conditions it could possibly have and u know that nothing more could have been done.
     
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  8. TheRevenant

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    I don't agree with the absolute 100%. Definitely a bad diet and lifestyle can change the outcome. Though I wouldn't say radically.
     
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  9. I am not a doctor
    But according to me it can't affect your height
     
  10. phwrancesco

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  11. FALSE!!! There’s no way MJ or Jeremy Lin could have grown to their 6 6 and 6 4 heights had they not done everything they could to maximize their heights. MJ parents were 5 8 and 5 5. Jeremy lin’s parents are both 5 6. Your argument is also debunked by the fact that the average height in Japan has shot up by 4 inches in the past few decades due to better nutrition in Japan. Your lifestyle largely regulates the expression of your genes. This is what epigenetics is about.

    If height was determined by genes then don’t bother to sleep 8 or even 5 hours every night and see how tall you grow. Don’t eat or sleep. You will die if you don’t eat or sleep, so it’s not just genetics
     
  12. @james2345 this is good advice and i agree with this guy. Most people would say no it has no effect but let your experience guide you not what others say. I think you know how much excessive PMO can deteriorate your health and body. And even if you can’t know for sure whether too much masturbation stunted your growth, i would obviously stop so that at least you can say you did everything possible to achieve max height and health.
    So to answer your question, YEA you can still grow. Besides many people i have seen online reported they grew 2-5 inches after 19. On top of nofap, do everything else you can like 9 hours of sleep every night. Good luck fam
     
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  13. PathOfReform

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    You'd have to masturbate A LOT of times a day and eat like shit so the amount of nutrients that are wasted via masturbation will be of any significant amount and enough to affect yor physical health.

    It wasn't overlooked or not studied, there was just no correlation found between the two. Also, according to this logic, having sex a lot would stunt your growth, too. Which is also bullshit.
    There's no evidence for it, if anything, there's enough evidence against it. Fuck, I have a 6'2 friend who slept 5-6 hours a night and fucked like crazy since he was a teen(yeah, he's a "player"). He's still a big dude. Another friend has a girlfriend since they were 15 years old and they used to fuck like rabbits and he's still 6 feet tall.
    I barely jerked off once a day during my teen years(even nowadays, never went past 2 times a day and had some days without it)yet I'm a short dude. Why? Slept like shit, didn't eat well enough and genetics-- which have the most influence-- fucked me over.

    We don't live in the 40s. Growth, sex and masturbation are constantly under advanced research and yet no correlation between them has ever been found.

    People reporting shit online are an unreliable source. As far as we know they were never measured after their teen years(A LOT can happen in one year of growth spurt), some are exceptiona cases who grow up until the age of 20-21. But you'll never hear of anyone healthy growing up 2-5 inches after their mid 20s.

    Majority of people fap the most during their puberty, because teens are horny asf as a part of their growth process. Yet, most people are just at their normal heights. There are many people here who've been excessively fapping since the age of fucking 10 and are over 6 feet tall.
     
  14. CH3RRY

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    I don't believe you can really stunt your growth much at all, you will grow up to a specific, determined height. The whole procedure of growing is too strong. If you had bad habits as a child, but still managed to at least live normally, then you also grew normally. Things like sleep and nutrition are important for growth, but I don't think they have a drastic influence as long as you're still living decently. If we are talking about starvation, then obviously your body would barely even have any energy for the growth to happen. And if I had ate absolutely perfectly and slept as much as possible during my growing, I could be a few cm taller. But what difference would that even make?
     
  15. james2345

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    Thanx for the opinion man.......and did you grow a few centimetres after nofap.....you are 19 right? ......I also recently discovered that SSRIs (anti depressants) stunt growth......as well...I took prozac which is an antidepressant for a year from 14 to 15........there are studies that prove that they may stunt growth to extreme levels....do any of you guys have experience with a anti depressant? Pls let me know.....I remember i was like 14 then when i talked to my parents about my overmasturbation habit....which was at that time 5-6 times a day...i suffered every single day from extreme dementia...I couldn't remember my lesson unless I studied them like 7 times......so my dad took me to this doctor who prescribed me prozac.......now I'm seeing there are posts of people talking how it could stunt growth......I took prozac for a year and stopped it......because of it's dangerous allergy like side effects.... bit it has been 4 years since all that...so in my case it could be a combined effect of masturbation and anti depressant.........If you have an experience with antidepressants ..pls let me know
     
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  16. A bad diet and life style will probably only reduce your height by an inch.
     
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  17. Jones6787

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    So bruh u saying that it's just genetics ..not even shitty sleep patterns like 3-4 hours of sleeping a day..During the ages of 14,15,16??? I'm 18 now...i sleep 6 hours...do u think I might grow an inch or two now if i sleep like 9 hours???
     
  18. PathOfReform

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    Genetics have the most influence. Of course, if your sleeping and nutrition habits suck it will hurt your growth. How significantly? I'm not sure. If you are severly malnourished and deprived of sleep it'll probably have significant influence on your growth.
    I don't know if you will grow. Just change your sleep habits regardless. Don't count on it to suddenly help you grow, though.
     
  19. Jones6787

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    Guys can taking HGH(Height Growth Hormone) injections at 18 work?Any of you guys have tried it???.If so PLS talk about your experience ...I'm tired of being 5'6"...pls help......
     
  20. Jones6787

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    Guys I just did x ray of my knee joint and found out that unfortunately my growth plates has closed.So I will always be a manlet for the rest of my life at a height of 5'6".Do an xray of your knee joint..if the growth plates are still open...you might add some good number of inches....but my life is doomed.I feel like killing myself.Life is a waste now.......
     

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