Why You're Slightly Taller in the Morning. #shorts

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]You are taller right now than you'll be tonight. Most people don't notice, but your body shrinks every day you stand up. Between every two bones in your spine, there's a soft disc filled with fluid.

[00:00:13]This is what they actually look like on a real spinal MRI.

[00:00:17]But here's what nobody tells you.

[00:00:19]Standing all day squeezes water out of those [music] discs.

[00:00:23]At night, you lie down. The pressure stops, the discs slowly fill back up. By morning, you've grown back almost 2 cm.

[00:00:31][music] Then, the cycle starts again.

[00:00:34]That's just from one day on Earth. Now, imagine no gravity at all.

[00:00:40]Astronauts on the space station [music] grow up to 5 cm taller because nothing is pushing their spines down anymore.

[00:00:48]Honestly, I never thought my body was constantly being squeezed by gravity.

[00:00:53]And that's another one from Avian Paradox.