Is it possible to increase height after 20's for males? - Dr. Anantharaman Ramakrishnan

Growth is a process that completes when ones puberty is completed, so otherwise all of us will continue to grow well into our old age and adult. So the process how the growth gets completed is that when the epiphysis of the growing end of your bones are subjected to the effect of sex hormones, so the same sex hormone to the moustache and beard and the male body habitus and the male voice. So when the testosterone produces all this affects it also closes the growth plate of the bone. So once the growth plate is fused further growth is not possible, the only way you can achieve growth is by actually dividing the bone surgically and holding it apart. So none of the measures or endocrinol measure like hormones nutritional therapy is actually going to be successful in increasing your height once your attained puberty. Very rarely growth can happen in adulthood if there mutations which specifically impair the fusion of the epiphysis, so typically we would not have growth beyond 20 years of age. It is not reasonable to expect any result with any kind of hormone therapy.