Does Heightmaxxing Actually Work?

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]I think height all depends on how tall you are.

[00:00:03]>> [laughter] [gasps] >> High IQ comment right there.

[00:00:11]All right, next up he tried to grow taller, but is this possible? By our boy Stan Browney. Stan is like low-key carrying fitness YouTube lately on his main channel and his reaction channel. It's great [ __ ] So, uh yeah, let's get it going. Can you actually do something to become taller or is it all determined by your parents and genetics?

[00:00:35]Uh no, you can't. It's genetics.

[00:00:38]Well, excuse me. Maybe if you blasted growth hormone during puberty, you might grow taller.

[00:00:45]But if you did that too soon, stunt your growth. Too late, you just, you know, grow your organs and your muscles and die of a heart attack. So, that's the only way I could see somebody changing their heights uh beyond their genetics.

[00:00:58]>> Is height genetic?

[00:01:00]Basically like go back and pick a better mom and dad.

[00:01:03]Good question. I think it is, right? I'm a descendant of giants with a grandfather, a dad, two uncles, and an aunt all towering over 6-ft tall.

[00:01:14]6 6-ft tall, that's that's it's like bare minimum.

[00:01:20]>> [laughter] >> I mean, if they're like 7-ft tall plus, okay, then you can say giants, but like 6-ft tall, that's I I I'm I'm hoping they're like at least like 6' 7". You know what I'm saying? At 6' 3", I turned out to be the short one in the family.

[00:01:36]>> [music] >> Okay.

[00:01:38]Grandpa 6' 6", uncle 6' 6", 6' 4", 6' 5". They're tall, don't get me wrong.

[00:01:45]Let's Let's Let's chill with the the giant talk, though.

[00:01:48]>> [laughter] >> I mean, Victor Wembanyama, that's a giant. Now that I have a son myself, I'm wondering if he's going to be tall, too.

[00:01:55]Made this whole video just so he can tell us he's 6'3. Yes. He's a very tall man. Is height only written in our genes, or is there something else that determines how tall we get? These days, the average American woman is about 5'4", while the average Ja- Yeah, it's like my uh fiance. She's 5'4". Oh, American male is about 5'9". I am so average that >> You are average.

[00:02:18]>> I am the most average guy ever.

[00:02:20]>> Literally, every body part is average.

[00:02:22]>> [laughter] >> Uh I see what you did there. Dick jokes.

[00:02:26]So, if he's 5'9", he must be 6'0" cuz there there's like a 6-in difference there.

[00:02:37]But, then you account for like the distortion cuz he's way closer to the camera.

[00:02:42]I'm I'm going to say Stan's like 6'0". I should know this cuz I've literally met him, but >> [laughter] >> whatever.

[00:02:49]Human height has had its ups and downs over the centuries. 3 million years ago, our ancestor Australopithecus only stood about 4 ft Look at this [ __ ] dork. tall. They were walking a bit like this, right?

[00:03:03]Yeah. So, they doesn't get like Not sure not sure if it's measured always with >> I think they measured it all the way.

[00:03:08]Probably the skeleton, yeah. 1 and 1/2 million years later, Homo erectus, the first early human to use complex That looks like um Jorge Masvidal.

[00:03:18]Doesn't it?

[00:03:19]Let's get the side by side.

[00:03:22]I I I say that like there's somebody else editing this. I'm literally going to be the one editing this, so [laughter] uh future Brett, add the side by side.

[00:03:28]tools reached up to 5'7", and by the Stone Age, men of the Gravettian hunter-gatherer culture in Europe stood an average of 6 ft.

[00:03:37]>> We got smaller. Okay, so what happened through the years is that we become become taller, and then we were very tall, and now we're less tall.

[00:03:43]>> He was talking about Europeans. I'm not sure it was United States as well, but that's I don't think there were people in the United States back then. What is this, a million years ago or 30,000 years ago? Either way, there was none, cuz Columbus came to America in like 1490 something, I think.

[00:03:59]Um, which was what, 500 years ago, ish. So, yeah, no no [ __ ] chance. This was just a barren wasteland or ice, maybe, something. Who cares? Historical data we have is for male height because reasons.

[00:04:13]Then, agri- Stahli's shaking his head, too. That's [ __ ] [ __ ] woke ass YouTube channel. culture happened. When Europeans switched to a lower protein, higher grain diet, men gradually lost 8 inches in height on average. And they stayed that way for thousands of years.

[00:04:32]>> I didn't know this.

[00:04:33]>> time the 18th century rolled around, the average European man was only 5'5" inches tall. But when those Europeans emigrated to America, Yeah, cuz if you just eat grass, that's pretty [ __ ] catabolic. 5'8" [music] inches tall on average. Their kids grew up to be 5'8" inches tall on average. Their kids? As in like one generation. That 100% then has to do with insufficient amount of food during puberty. During the Industrial Revolution, heights took a dip due to urban crowding and disease.

[00:05:05]>> That has to do with the really bad circumstances and air quality, food quality. Soon after, the human height boom continued and continues today.

[00:05:12]Every decade for Do you guys buy that?

[00:05:16]Like, was it really that bad that a whole country could shrink like 5 inches or whatever? I mean, I guess we have to take their words for it. Like, it feels like there's got to be another explanation, but who am I to say?

[00:05:33]>> For the past couple centuries, Europeans have grown an average about half an inch. Netherlands. Netherlands, we are so tall. [music] I am literally the Netherlands average. The Swedes How tall? 6 foot?

[00:05:44]>> They did. They're [clears throat] like the Vikings. But Vikings are small then.

[00:05:47]Maybe that's why they look so muscular.

[00:05:49]Yeah, I know. Yeah. it's pure muscle belly.

[00:05:51]>> Today, Dutch men are the tallest people in the world with an average height of just over 6 ft. I'm small here.

[00:05:57]Actually, fun fact, I'm 6 ft and I'm considered Yo, I said that.

[00:06:01]I called that [ __ ] I knew it. I knew it.

[00:06:03]That's That's Yeah. Like all those Nordic countries, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, they're all doing like accidental eugenics, basically, cuz you have this concentration of like tall, handsome white guys. And they have like pretty strict borders.

[00:06:19]Right? So, you just get all these tall, slender models mating with these tall, handsome white guys, and then you get just a bunch of bunch of these running around. Consider an average height maybe in the Netherlands. And I'm below average. It sucks. But in the US, your average may be even above average.

[00:06:38]>> Yeah, exactly. These fluctuations of height, sometimes within a single generation, show that our environment determines a big part of how tall we are. But people in different regions and different families show us that height has genetic causes, too. So, which has a bigger role, nature or nurture? The good old question. So, he's talking about nature, your genetics, basically what your parents are giving you, is that how tall you can become, versus your environment, diet, air quality, where you're living. If you want to become taller, you want the answer to be the right one. In the early 19th Yeah, but it's it's nature. It's not nurture.

[00:07:16]19th century scientists first noticed a correlation between people's heights and their wealth. People from poor backgrounds tended to be shorter than people who were more well-off. And that makes Wasn't that or was it the other way around?

[00:07:29]People [snorts] who are shorter tend to be poorer. It makes sense, cuz then the body, of course, doesn't have the right stuff to actually grow. Like, if you're deficient in food or like >> calories, the air quality, everything, more stressed as well, like your body's more stressed, then you have less energy to grow.

[00:07:46]Well, I I disagree. I think it's Like I said, I think it's the opposite way around. I think I think it's kind of more of this what comes first, the chicken or the egg type of thing. And in this case, I think it's the chicken rather than the egg. I think they're poor because they lack stature, they lack status, they lack uh you know, re- positive reinforcement from their environment cuz they're shorter and feebler and less useful, less valuable.

[00:08:11]Now, of course, that's changed drastically in the modern era cuz now, of course, short people can contribute vastly, but back then, where everything was much more physical and much more demanding upon the body and your attributes, yeah, it definitely had its consequences.

[00:08:27]>> Many scholars at the time decided tallness was a physical mark of superior humans. He precisely measured the height of thousands of people as part of a sort of scientific sideshow.

[00:08:38]But Galton's results were confusing.

[00:08:40]Parents' heights often didn't predict the heights of their kids. The heights of siblings, on the other hand, were much closer.

[00:08:47]>> [music] >> This inspired scientists to look at height in twins. We also want twins for our videos. And you have a twin, If you have a twin, message us. You will get to work out at for free, and we will try to get you as fit as possible, both of you, and see who makes the most gains and why. I don't need genetics. I already know that being 5'4" as an adult male means suffering.

[00:09:07]It's not going not going to be easy, bro.

[00:09:09]It's not going to be easy, bro.

[00:09:11]But, to give you some hope, I've said this before, the three most successful people that I know are like around 5'5".

[00:09:20]>> [snorts] >> Alpha M, Greg Doucette, and Graham Stephan.

[00:09:25]They all have They're in in happy relationships, they all have boatloads of money, and live very happy lives, as far as I know. So, just a little Just a little motivation for you.

[00:09:35]>> [sighs] >> Depends. If you're a calisthenics athlete or a then you're in a good place. Super easy for me to say, but you got to accept your height and use it the best you can.

[00:09:45]Use those advantages. Like for us, for me, that would be I could probably be stronger at bodyweight movements, calisthenics, but also If you guys were that short, would you get limb lengthening surgery?

[00:09:58]Like I think I would, man. Like if I was 5 6 or below and I had the opportunity to be 6 ft 6 ft tall for $100,000 or 110 or whatever I think I would. I think I'd have I think I I think I'd have to. I mean I have felt the difference that height makes because when I was in elementary school, like first, second, third grade, even kindergarten, I was like way taller than everybody.

[00:10:29]Then everybody else had a growth spurt, so all my friends were taller than me for a few years. Then I hit another growth spurt and then I grew taller than all of them and I felt the difference in life quality. And I I prefer being tall, bro.

[00:10:42]>> Fraternal twins can be as different genetically as any other pair of siblings with [music] the added advantage of being exactly the same age.

[00:10:50]Identical twins are genetically, well, identical. And twins separated at birth offer a window into what happens when genetically identical individuals grow up in very different environments.

[00:11:01]>> That was actually an illegal secret research in the US. [music] They split up twins or triplets on purpose to answer the question once and for all, nurture or nature.

[00:11:10]>> All were brought up in different homes.

[00:11:12]They all seemed to be kind of the same.

[00:11:14]No way. They never finished the study, of course, and it's it's awful. If someone would have to write a conclusion, it would have been Genetics is the big thing.

[00:11:22]>> Yeah. Yeah, genetics is pretty much everything.

[00:11:26]Well as far as your your structure goes.

[00:11:30]So you can fine-tune different things, your physique, your leanness, your facial feature, your your detailed facial features. For example, like if you compare me versus my brother, we have very similar structures, but yet we look vastly different. And I'm sure it's the same for a lot of you guys. In 2007, scientists compared height and DNA between more than 11,000 pairs of siblings and found that across humans, 86% of height's variation can be explained by genetics. As traits go, this is very high. For comparison, genetics only explains about 26% [music] of left-handedness. I think height all depends on how tall you are.

[00:12:10]>> [laughter] >> High IQ comment right there.

[00:12:18]>> [laughter] >> Mass call.

[00:12:19]>> Great comment, yes. He's not wrong. So, we should be able to predict a person's height from his or her DNA, right? Not so fast. We know genes make a huge difference, just not which genes. So far, scientists have identified about 800 genes that influence height. Listen, this music is crazy, bro. It's like I feel like I'm in [ __ ] Christopher Nolan movie or something. Many of them only make a tiny contribution. Something that I realize now is that it's basically an equation.

[00:12:47]Your genetics tell you a maximum amount of height that you can reach. To get to that maximum height, you can make your environment the best, your nutrition the best, Optimize everything.

[00:12:56]>> everything, but then still there's a roof. Yeah, but like you know, you it it it's like a long-term thing. It's a long-term societal thing, the nurture part, right? Your genetics like set the limit. That's the govern governor. But I don't think living a certain way is actually going to affect how tall you actually become. Because we've all seen these like 450-lb wall-looking big-ass rednecks that are like 6'6" walking around Walmart and you know they weren't like optimizing their lifestyle with organic grass-fed beef and you know cold showers and you know nootropics and all this kind of [ __ ] They literally live off of Pop-Tarts, cheese puffs, and PBRs, right? But yet they still grow to be these [ __ ] Sasquatches.

[00:13:50]determines how tall you can grow. Where environment decides if you can reach your cap.

[00:13:54]>> That's exactly what you were saying.

[00:13:55]It's like sort of the limit. Can you reach the cap?

[00:13:58]>> The 800 high genes we know of can only explain 27% of how height varies between [music] people. There's clearly lots of genetic influence we don't understand.

[00:14:07]Our environment, defined by health and diet, certainly has a hand in shaping [music] our height. South Yeah, but it's going to take generations for that to actually make a difference, I think. I think if each generation eats like [ __ ] doesn't, you know, work out, isn't active, like sits at a desk all day, yeah, maybe the next generation will be half an inch shorter and then maybe in 200 years the overall family orientation is 6 inches shorter. I could believe that, but I don't I don't I don't believe it on like a case-by-case situation. Koreans today are more than an inch taller than North Koreans, despite minimal genetic differences. Clearly make sure to get the right nutrition in. Looking at this video, high protein and probably enough carbs as well. Just enough energy to grow. The perfect 5-minute posture routine to increase your height. We do exercises to make ourselves taller, but anything we do will only reveal our natural height. Luckily, I really like this guy, so I was I thought he was about to claim that we can get taller by exercising, which you know, but he's talking about proper posture, so you can actually reveal the full height. So the majority of videos that you will find online about how to increase height will be about your posture, and otherwise they're lying. If you feel like your posture could use some improvement, then definitely check out videos like this. I do have to say I have an opinion about these posture routines cuz if you sit like 6-7 hours a day, you're not going to undo that by just 5 minutes of exercise. Actually, what the exercises are doing >> [music] >> is making you more aware of having good posture. Imagine there's a string going from your body entire body just up.

[00:15:42]I literally said that in a video.

[00:15:44]I I made that up. This dude watches Brett Maverick videos.

[00:15:48]I'll literally insert it right now.

[00:15:50]>> Basically, you just imagine that there's a string being pulled tight attached from your pelvis to the crown of your skull. All right, blue guy. Appreciate the support.

[00:15:57]>> Better posture. Well, actually there is one secret method that will make you taller. Have you ever had a chiropractic adjustment?

[00:16:03]>> What's that? It's a procedure where a guy who couldn't get into medical school tries to rip your head off.

[00:16:08]>> Let's do it.

[00:16:09]>> Okay, I'll give it a shot.

[00:16:10]>> [laughter] [gasps] >> Where a guy who never would have made it to medical school tries to rip your head [laughter] off.

[00:16:20]Uh, Family Guy is just funny.

[00:16:22]>> But this type of thing is usually done in strip malls next to a Little Caesars.

[00:16:38]Holy crap. So, Do you feel taller? Ooh, I feel something.

[00:16:48]Horny?

[00:16:49]But the conclusion is kind of sad for some maybe. Can you really do something about your height? The science is unsure. And if you're already fully grown, no. No. But what we can see is environment. And diet. Like if you have a very poor diet, not enough protein, not enough nutrients, then you actually get less tall. Also, make sure you check out the original videos in the description below. Subscribe to us and hit the bell, and we'll see you in the next episode.

[00:17:14]>> Okay, let's talk about height. So, your looks are about 33% of your total sexual market value. The other 67% is your status and your money. Now, within that 33% looks piece of the pie, about 1/3 of that is your height. The rest of it is your face and your physique.

[00:17:33]So, are you totally [ __ ] if you were not tall? No, because although your height knob is stuck, luckily a lot of these other knobs are adjustable such as your income, your status, your facial attractiveness, and your physique. So, you just want to make sure you're able to turn up the volume on some of those other features to make up for that one lacking feature. But, what's crazy is if you have one of those that is actually turned up to 100, it can kind of cancel out most of the others. Like, if you have millions and millions of dollars in the bank, then it kind of makes up for all of the other knobs being turned down really low. For example, the billionaire's busted ass son. Or, if you currently have a lot of status or, you know, motion socially, this can make up for pretty much everything. Think, for example, Lacy or Neon.

[00:18:23]>> [laughter] >> You know what I mean? So, the whole idea with looks maxing, which leads to life maxing, is turning up the volume on these features that are the easiest to turn such as, you know, your facial aesthetics, your your physique. Because because in most cases, that is going to be a lot easier than turning up your net worth or your your social status.

[00:18:45]Obviously, you can do those as well, but but something as simple as improving your posture is vastly easier than getting a seven-figure net worth, right?

[00:18:56]And has sort of a similar effect. Or, increasing your tonality, the way that you speak, your charisma can make a massive difference, just as big of a difference as maybe having 100,000 followers on Instagram. Both of these things can get you in similar doors. So, it's just you got to learn what your competitive advantage is and like lock in and turn those up 200. So, hope you guys enjoyed the video. If you did, please subscribe. I'd really appreciate that [ __ ] Hit the like button. I would appreciate that as well. And watch this video next cuz I really like to make this one and I think you're going to enjoy it. All right, I'll see you there.