AboutDr. Ravindra Bhaskar Ghooi Expertise I can provide information on drugs and medicines, their actions, uses, interactions and adverse effects. To avoid confusion, generic names of
medicines may please be provided. I am a pharmacologist, having worked
on animal and human pharmacology, and presently I am the Dean of Bilcare Research Academy, where we teach courses on clinical research. We dont work on saturdays and sundays, hence questions reachng me on these days will be replied on Monday, please bear with me.
Question Hi I'm male age 22years Sri Lankan (Asian) , I got severe diarhoea when i was 5years and i stand at 160cm tall, My mother and my sister are shorter than me at around 158 and 159, but my father and younger brother(19years) are taller than i am at father(170) youger brother(175).What possibly can i do to gain some hieght.I so need your help as i feel badly ignored.Please
Answer Hi Shehan,
Height increase takes place because of the growth of long bones of the body. By th age of 18 the bone ossify and then no furthr growth is possible.
Very honestly there is nothing you can do about it at this stage. If yo would have asked me 6 years ago that would have been ideal, but today nothing is possble.
What we cannot change, we must learn to accept. There are people of your height who have lived a long happy and fruitful life so there is nothing to worry about.
Keep faith in yourself and live life king size. Remember Churchill, Hitler and Napoleon were only as tall as you, but they rose above the average men of their times.
Ravi Ghooi
