The Ultimate Heightmaxxxing Tierlist

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:08]Hey guys, and in this video is my height maxing tier list. I'm going to be ranking a ton of methodologies plus compounds that are commonly talked about and even not so commonly talked about, more niche uh for increasing your final height. Um, I'm going to be mostly ranking on evidence, efficacy, and also mechanistic probability because there are some compounds and ideas here that are more mechanistically plausible, but haven't been tested as much in the real world. So, it's a bit hard to balance all of this thoroughly. Uh, but just bear with me and you'll be able to understand my explanations. Uh, one thing I need to get out of the way is that a lot of people see that a compound increases something like, you know, CAM, uh, GH, IGF, osteoblast activity, any sort of bone turnover markers, any cartilage signaling. And a lot of people immediately assume that due to these increasing or being present, that means more height growth, but that's just not how growth works. So to actually grow taller you actually need an organized you know longitudinal bone growth at your growth plates. So your cartilage cells need to peripherate then they need to stack into columns then they need to mature at the correct rate then they need to enlarge mineralize and eventually get replaced by bone. This is the process. It's called endocchondrial oification. Um so the question when you're looking at these compounds is not does this compound increase growth related markers. It's actually does this actually increase growth plate activity in a controlled way and extend the growth window or maybe accelerate the growth and lead to a larger final adult height. That's what's important. So if you're looking at all these random compounds on TikTok and they show these turnover markers or whatever, that does not mean more larger final height. That could mean a ton of things. Actually getting taller, it's a very complex process. Endocchondrial oification is quite a complex process and there's a lot to go through here. So you really have to keep that in mind when you're looking at these compounds or methods or whatever. Uh if for example CMP it's involved in tons of signaling pathways.

[00:02:26]It can interact with your growth hormone signaling your PTHRP signaling tons of other or growth plate activity pathways whatever. But CMP is not just a grow taller switch. So it's just a broad messenger used all over your body that can include your brain, heart, fat cells, immune cells, all kinds of things. So if you raise your CM, that does not automatically mean that it's selectively increasing your growth plates proliferation. Um, so it might not even do anything relevant whatsoever there. It might be on the wrong tissues.

[00:03:01]Um, so you really don't know from looking at it like that. Same thing applies to things like GH spikes. So, a supplement that might slightly increase your growth hormone for a short period of time or even a method like sprinting or something uh does not create the same effect as you know actual recumbent growth hormone at a super physiological dose for a prolonged period of time in someone with open growth plates. A temporary spike is not the same whatsoever as sustained you know meaningful stimulation. So that's another misconception uh that has to be gotten out of the way. Uh and one more thing is that bone growth people confuse overall bone growth with heightened growth. So sometimes especially when you're looking at a lot of these studies on these compounds, you see improvements in bone mineral density, osteoblast activity, mineralization, or any sort of bone turnover markers like I just mentioned. But that actually can have zero effect on how long your femur and tibas are actually going to become. With that being said, I'm going to go into the rankings. We're going to go over mechanistic plausibility, efficacy, plus, you know, the actual evidence surrounding everything. And yeah, let's get into it. The first one I'm going to go over is bone smashing your heel for height. This is F tier. Um, the claim that any sort of trauma like this is going to stimulate bone growth or remodeling is not properly supported.

[00:04:25]This does not follow Wol's law as many people claim. Um, now it's possible you may get some scar tissue formation from this. Uh, but even then the gains you would make from that would be like less like millimeter to less than a millimeter. And I do have a video coming out on B. Sortly, but stay tuned for that while I flush things out. Uh I do have I did have a study done where a bunch of guys did B do S for a few months. What I had them do essentially is they do it for a week then they would stop and then we'd measure their before their immediately after and then after 2 months post last session. So I will reveal everything shortly. So this is obviously F tier. If you want significant growth, like I mentioned, growth plate biology, you know, actually needs long bone lengthening at the aphasial growth plates. That's what you need. This is just going to cause some scarring or deform your tissue at the bottom of your heel. So, it's not really going to do anything. Next up is scale or any sort of supplemental height booster F tier automatically. So uh the ingredient lists on something like scaldev it's like D3 K2 some polyphenols some L-dopa some forcolin and all these other random natural supplements they don't equate they don't prove real height gains especially if your plates are closed obviously if you see any sort of supplement that says oh this will make you taller it's basically a scam um just just for reference the only thing that's really going to make you tmer taller is generally going to come from a pharmacy.

[00:06:10]Um, so none of these like natural supplements or whatever are going to do that appropriately.

[00:06:16]I will go over forcing in a bit here.

[00:06:19]And this supplement company or whatever, there's no credible peer-reviewed high evidence whatsoever on these products.

[00:06:25]Um, it's just ridiculous. So, what I will say is, uh, people like to sell you and market raw natural products like this because they say, "Oh, this compound in here, like the D3 and the zinc and the K2, they're supportive of your natural, they're supportive of your growth." You know, I think Austin Wayne does this with his Chad pills or whatever, but it's so ridiculous, guys. It's so ridiculous. Do not fall for these scams.

[00:06:53]If you're just eating like a normal human being, you're not going to be deficient in this these things, okay?

[00:06:58]There's literally zero point in buying these whatsoever. Decataban, this is also going to be F tier. Th this is a bit more niche, but this goes into like kind of the epigenetic uh side of things. People will speculate that um the growth plate is going to undergo changes due to epigenetic changes. Um, and so they theoretically believe that a DNA hypomethylating agent like this could affect your growth plate aging.

[00:07:26]But this is just a terrible idea uh because this drug is used in cancer contexts like uh myodisplasic syndromes and it affects your DNA methylation broadly and not selectively in your growth plates. So you're going to get very severe systemic risks. um these are DNMT inhibitors used as anti-cancer agents. These are not going to be properly supportive for targeted height enhancement. Um in terms of study quality as well as all mechanistic speculation, it's not proven. Just the risk-to-reward ratio is not worth it whatsoever.

[00:08:05]Next up, limb lengthening S tier automatically. Limb lengthening. It works through distraction osteogenesis.

[00:08:12]Uh this is where the bone is surgically cut and then stabilized with an internal nail and sometimes an external frame and then slowly distracted over a couple of weeks and then the gap is generally going to fill in with some new bone. And this bypasses the growth plates entirely which is why it works even in adults. Uh so yeah, if your growth plates are closed, this is pretty much the only way to severely grow taller. Um it's really the only reliable way when you're an adult. um it can directly add length to the femur and tibia. The biggest downside to this procedure is that it is pretty invasive and is a pretty long rehab. Um there's some risks such as nerve injury, infection, blood clots, uh joint issues. Um, but generally speaking, this uh surgery, in my opinion at least, is a bit overly fear-mongered, especially when it comes to my personal experience with my clients because I've had at least eight clients at this point who've all gotten limb lengthening and have seen amazing results, many of which went to Dr. Paley, if you know him. Um, but really seen amazing results. Um, and haven't seen any complaints from them.

[00:09:24]So, um, that's it's pretty surprising to get, you know, that many people uh one-on-one with me, but it does happen and it's been cool to see. So, this is automatically S tier. This is the best intervention if you want more height as an adult. Uh, and it generally does work. I believe it has a 98% satisfaction rate as well. Next is going to be somatropen is just recombinant growth hormone. So it's just active through the GH to IGF to growth plate proliferation pathway. So at the growth plate when you have GH/IGF signaling, you're going to get more chondracy proliferation, more endocchondrial bone growth. So it's very useful when your plates are open and there are very valid indications of this used in the real world with people who have for example growth hormone deficiency, uh maybe Turner syndrome, um stuff like this. So people who have idiopathic short stature as well, literally just people who are short and shorter to be predicted than um their parents predicted outcomes. Um so this not going to work once your plates are fused, but is probably the best option when they're not. Very good study quality, tons of clinical trials. It's currently in use as well. Mechanism strong and there's actual meaningful final height results. But once again, it's only indicated in growing individuals. So S tier. Next is going to be stretching and inversion and hanging.

[00:10:52]I'm going to put this at D tier. The reason being is the spinal decompression really isn't going to give you much.

[00:11:00]It's really not going to move the needle. Pretty temporary. Uh yes, like there's data to support this. uh you will, you know, lose height throughout the day technically, but in terms of the gains you're going to get from this, it's just not that great. Um, you know, maybe a centimeter or two maybe. Uh, but it just it's really just not worth it in my opinion. You can try I mean, if you want to, you can do this for an extended period of time um and try to keep more of that centimeter or whatever, but is that really doing anything significant?

[00:11:34]Like, let's be honest, probably not. So D tier for this one. Sprinting, jumping, and high impact training. So this I'm going to put at probably D tier. Now, it is true that mechanical loading does stimulate bone remodeling changes, bone density changes, muscle adaptations. So when you're growing, um, loading may interact with your bones modeling. But just because of this does not exactly mean that increases your longitudinal growth. So it's, you know, good for your health and bone strength or whatever, but it's really not effective when it comes to, you know, a final height um outcome. So we do see like from studies that mechanical loading supports effects on bone remodeling and strength, but that just does not mean that you increase your final height gains through endocchondrial growth. So I'm going to put this at D tier. Next is Messiah jumps. This kind of goes along with that or growth plate stimulating exercises.

[00:12:35]This is automatically F tier as a hack.

[00:12:39]Um the claim is essentially that repeated jumping can stimulate your growth plates, but like I said, the mechanical loading is going to improve your strength and remodeling, actual growth plates, longitudinal growth, you know, that's mostly your age, your genetics, the hormones, um nutritional factors, stuff like this. So F tier. Uh the next aromatase inhibitors. This is going to be a bit nuanced. I'm going to put this in B tier actually.

[00:13:11]Um the reason being is well aromatase inhibitors, they just lower the conversion of your androgens into estrogen, right? And estrogen it is the key signal for growth plate maturation and fusion. So lowering your estrogen could slow bone age advancement and delay your plates closure. So this could be useful in people who have high amounts of estrogen. Right? So people who have a higher than normal amount of estrogen. Yes, this could be indicated especially if say you're super overweight or something and still growing then yeah that could make sense, right? But here's the problem. If you're just a normal person with normal physiology, if you crush your estrogen and you're still developing, you can that comes with a ton of negative side effects, including neurological, cardiovascular, all kinds of nasty side effects that you're going to want to stay away from.

[00:14:03]Ideally, you want to keep your estrogen within the normal to maybe even low normal range, but you do not ever want to crush your estrogen and you're going to feel horrible. So, please do not do this. Only use when indicated. And if you are going to do this, get blood work beforehand and make sure you get enough blood work to check your estrogen levels consistently. Um, it just depends on the scenario and that's why I'm going to put it at B tier. The next are PTH analoges.

[00:14:33]Um, this has a interesting mechanism, but in terms of practical use, it's a bit messy. So, it's a bit more interesting than the others. There's something called an Indian hedgehog pathway. No, I'm not joking. IH-PTHRP loop uh essentially regulates your growth plates condraittes. So PTHRP helps make condraerate and then delays um premature differentiation. So in theory, if you manage this, you could prolong the peripherative phase and slow your growth plates uh exhaustive phase.

[00:15:10]So it sounds plausible actually. Um but in in actual use using drugs like paraparatide or alboparatide um these are you know osteoporosis drugs. They're not you you know actually used for pediatric height increases. So in terms of safety there is a bit of concern there especially when it comes to things like uh hypercalcemia.

[00:15:36]Um so there is a lot to monitor with this. Um but PTHrP is a very um primary role in maintaining growth plate uh width promoting early proliferation and inhibiting hypertrophic differentiation.

[00:15:56]Um so in terms of actual you know mechanistic plausibility pretty high.

[00:16:02]just that would need proper managing and the safety profile wouldn't be too amazing, but could in theory work. So, I'm going to put this at probably C tier. So, next is a bit more niche, but this is going to be way 262611/Y19382.

[00:16:22]Probably never even heard of these compounds. uh but these essentially relate to your W NT pathways which are relevant to how your skeleton develops and your growth plates regulation. Now KY is tied to W NT signaling research essentially where blocking certain inhibitory regulators could enhance your WT activities and affect your growth plates in theory. The thing is this is still research only. there's no actual practical human evidence. Uh W&T signaling is pretty broad and it's very powerful as well. So if you were to manipulate this systemically, there could be a lot of risks including abnormal tissue growths or cancer growths uh cancer pathway activation. In terms of the actual study data and quality research on this describes it as a negative regulator of WT signaling and suggests that it could be involved in growth plate sentence and certain short statures. So in terms of actual study quality, it's pretty low at preclinical.

[00:17:31]Bit of risk here as well. It's interesting. Um not particularly usable, at least not yet. Um, so I'm going to put this at probably uh C tier. Now, lactoeron, I've actually made a whole video on lactoeron before.

[00:17:48]I actually went pretty in depth on it there. Um, but lactoeron can affect your bones metabolism, osteoblast activity, and just uh BMD markers. So the people essentially again they think that because we see increasing these turnover markers or whatever that that beans we can get taller and that's just not the case in terms of usefulness maybe it could be useful in certain deficient context but there's no proof that it's actually going to lengthen your long bones or increase your final height. So once again, in terms of the actual study quality, um you'd see changes in bone turnover markers and metabolism, but that's just not the same as growth plate contraite proliferation.

[00:18:33]Um so pretty bad data, pretty bad evidence quality. So I'm going to put this at D tier. Manifestation/ visualization. This is F tier. No, I've I've even had ridiculous comments about this, but mental no amount of mental tom foolery and gesturing is going to lengthen your growth plates. I'm sorry, buddy. Um, you need real growth plate activity or just surgical lengthening visualization and will provide neither unfortunately. So, this is going to F tier. The next hint favorite, milk sugar concoctions. These are going to be F tier. Uh milk is obviously going to provide protein, calcium, vitamin D, some calories. Uh sugar is just going to provide calories. So if someone is underfed, you know, of course more calories could be helpful.

[00:19:31]Um but in term everything else, you know, just eating a regular diet or whatever, you know, that's not the case.

[00:19:38]Um this isn't going to do anything for you unfortunately and it could actually create a negative feedback loop eventually.

[00:19:44]Um, if you want good nutrition for high increases, you want high protein, you want to be properly nourished, you don't want excessive sugar. Okay. Um, so this is just a a bad idea. This could actually be quite harmful in some context. So, this is going to go F tier.

[00:20:07]Postural correction. This is going to be probably C tier. I'd say it kind of depends. If you have something like anterior pelvic tilt or something, then yes, postural corrections could reduce that and reduce your forward head posture, uh reduce your spinal compression, things like this. So, they may increase your measured standing height, but it's not anything crazy, I'd say, for many people. Now, once again, we kind have to play this game of deficiency versus normalization. So, if you are, you know, severely bent over, you know, you look like you're about to croak or something due to insane postural issues, then yeah, this could be useful correcting your posture, of course. Um, it's not going to do anything your growth plates, but yeah, it may be maybe a good idea to fix your posture in the long term anyways for other benefits. So, I'm going to put this in C tier. Now the next is going to be protein and calcium slash vitamin D above actual adequacy.

[00:21:15]This kind of goes in hand with like the supplements that I mentioned earlier but you know protein it is going to be necessary to support you know your IGF production the matrices formed your growth plates um calcium and vitamin D to support your mineralization. Uh but guys, once you've met the requirements, like I've said, once you just have a normal diet, right?

[00:21:40]You know, you don't push things further.

[00:21:42]So once again, it's these are useful if you are deficient, not useful once sufficient. So that's how you should look at this. I'm going put this at D tier since most people aren't who are watching this aren't going to be severely malnourished.

[00:21:57]Uh adequate sleep during growth. This is going to be I would say a tier. Sleep is going to support your normal GH secretion, your recovery, your appetite regulation. It's associated highly, especially deep sleep with major GH pulses. Uh so it is very useful especially if you're chronically sleepd deprived during your growth years. I think this is actually pretty relevant, you know, compared to like the nutritional deficiencies or whatever uh in this day and age because a lot of people are on their phones, a lot of people are on their screens, people are staying up later, people aren't getting enough sleep than uh they should be. So going from something like 5 hours to 9 hours is huge. Um and so I would say that this is a very key factor and you should absolutely be optimizing your sleep quality. Um, it's absolutely supported by your physiology, all the studies on developmental literature.

[00:22:52]Um, so I would say, yeah, I'm going to put this in B tier if your plates are open, of course, but you should get good sleep anyways.

[00:23:03]In terms of nutrition, once again, if you're deficient, it's S tier. If you're not, Btier overall. You know, nutrition is going to support your growth um through all kinds of things. Your protein, your IGF signaling, everyone's favorite word, your thyroid, um your bone matrix formation, all kinds of things. Um so this is huge once again if you are like malnourished or severely deficient. But guys, once you're if you're just eating enough, once again, eating more or having more of these micronutrients or whatever, it's not going to do more, right? So, it really depends on the context. Um, yeah, if you're highly malnourished, you're going to stunt your growth, right? Yes. Uh, if you're not though, and like I said, you're just a normal person eating a normal diet or whatever, you're fine. Okay. So, um, in terms of that, going to put this at B tier overall. Next is FGFR3 inhibition. So, this has been talked about a lot recently. uh this is used in cases of aondroplasia aka people with dwarfism where FGFR3 is overactive and so inhibiting that pathway can increase your growth. Now of course this is in people with dwarfism. This is not in regular people without this issue. But here's where the theoretical side of things gets interesting. So FGFR3 inhibits your growth plate condraite proliferation. So reducing FGR43 signaling could remove that inhibition which potentially means more endocchondrial bone growth when your plates are open of course. Now there is actually a genetic flu here. There's something called capsule syndrome, C A T SH L syndrome, which is linked to FGFR3, which isn't working properly, and this has side effects such as tall stature, but also other issues, things like scoliosis and hearing loss. So, this actually supports the idea that reducing FGFO3 signaling could push your growth upwards, but it could also show that reducing this wouldn't just, you know, purely affect your height. it could come with some other negative side effects.

[00:25:16]Um, so it would have to be properly modulated to gain height increases without these nasty side effects. So could it work in a normal growing person? Theoretically, yes, but it hasn't been, you know, completely proven yet. So I'm going to put this at probably B tier. Next is G& RH analoges for true sensual precocious puberty. So, GN Rh analog suppress premature activation of your HPG axis which essentially delays your bubarital progression. So, that means it slows your sexy exposure. It slows your bone age uh and it prevents any early estrogen driven fusion. So, this is useful for people who actually have real central precocious puberty uh where their puberty essentially begins too early and it actually can shorten their final adult height. The evidence for this is pretty high, but in terms of normal people, it gets a bit more theoretical. So, G&RH analoges like prolide initially are going to stimulate and then downregulate your G&RH receptors chronically. So, this is going to lower your LH, your FSH, which then is going to lower your downstream testosterone and estradile production.

[00:26:35]And what does this mean? It means lower sexid exposure is going to slow your bone age advancement and going to delay your fasial fusion. Essentially you would get slower bone maturation and longer growth plate window. So the mechanism is very real. But in someone with normal puberty it could possibly help maybe if you had uh short stature and the and an endocrinologist wanted to slow your puberty further along with things like GH. uh if you had an advanced bone age um you know if you had rapidly progressing puberty once more could be useful. Yeah, it really depends on the case. Um and so puberty is not only what closes their growth place, it also creates your growth spurts. Sex steroids will increase your IGF activity, your GH activity and drive a lot of your adolescent height spurts. So if you suppress puberty too much, you could actually slow your bone maturation and also reduce your growth velocity. So uh this is why G&H analoges by themselves wouldn't be completely, you know, a magic tool, especially if you were just normal without this issue.

[00:27:50]With that in mind, once again, if you actually had, you know, precocious puberty, going to be a tier. If you don't, again, it kind of depends on this specific case.

[00:28:01]but probably put it in B tier overall.

[00:28:05]Next and lastly is recumbent IGF-1 and this is going to go into A tier. Uh so recumbent IGF-1 bypasses your GH and directly replaces your IGF-1 which is the major downstream uh growth mediator of GH. So it can stimulate yourtites when the issue is actual IGF deficiency.

[00:28:27]Uh so if you have GHS present but your IGF production is inadequate that's where this could be more useful. Um so if it's very useful in cases of severe IGF deficiency which is it kind of depends but there's some rare cases where this can happen but it's not useful for a lot of cases in normal people. Uh so Incrylex uh actually has a study done on this uh where they pulled a bunch of pediatric people who had a severe primary IGF deficiency. Um so the actual pre-treatment height velocity was 2.8 cm a year and that actually increased to 8 cm a year in year 1 uh with a of course 5.2 cm of change per year. It's not exactly a substitute for GH in normal GH deficiency. Uh, and this should only be used when your plates are actually open, of course. So, uh, study quality is pretty high for the indicated people.

[00:29:30]Uh, but in terms of people with normal IGF, um, it's not as great. U, but once again, uh, it really depends on the specific scenario. For that reason, I'm going to put I'm still going to put it into a tier just because of it specific scenario. it could still be useful in other cases. But yeah, A tier overall for recumbent IGF-1 form. And so that is the final ranking you guys. Hopefully you guys enjoy this. Probably a pretty long video, but this is the actual scientific rating for height maxing protocols. So, if you want to learn all things height maxing, all things looks maxing. If you want to learn even more about this uh and go even more in depth, I do have a school community. I will put it in my bio and also in the description of this video uh which you can look into. I have tons of other protocols including targeted fat loss, targeted fat growth, etc. So, if that's of interest to you, highly recommend joining it. Uh and so, I hope you guys enjoyed the video and I'll see you guys later. is.