How Sleeping Affects Growth

Our body needs growth hormone to increase in size, weight, and complexity. This growth  hormone is synthesised naturally by the body and enhances a range of anabolic activities in the body.

When we sleep, our body produces growth hormone and as a result sleeping is highly essential to our body growth. Thus the more deep sleep we get the more we will grow up until the age where our growth plates grow which can be anywhere between the ages of 19-27. Essentially if your growth plates are open and you are getting growth hormone, then you will continue to get taller regardless of other factors. This is why it is so important for growing children and youths to get a lot of sleep in order to make sure they not only keep their bodies in good repair, but that they continue to grow into healthy adults. Of course sleep is still highly important for your emotional and physical well being even after you have finished growing, but if your growth plates are closed then you should be aware that the amount of sleep you get will have unfortunately no bearing on your height as your body will be unable to respond to it. An interesting added note is that if you have ever broken one of your growth plates by breaking a joint in an accident, then this may no longer be able to grow either and can in some rare cases result in limbs being different lengths.

By increasing how deeply you sleep you can also enhance your body to make more growth hormone, and as such anything that tires you out during the day will help, as will consuming sleeping tablets before bed.

Some people will go further and take growth hormone directly. This is an expensive drug and in many states and countries is illegal to take on its own. As this will only help growth with the young then it really is not advisable for this purpose.

As such then the best method to increase growth hormone remains sleep, aided by some exercise and a hot shower. Sleeping is fun, it is good for you in other ways and it is completely natural. However if you are already fully grown and your growth plates have closed over, then you will find that sleep, nor anything else, will increase your height.

Because of our day to day activities, many people finds it difficult to meet up with the daily sleep period requiredby our body, if you are a victim, you might want to read A brief guide on how to sleep better.