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I am 18 years old and my height is 5.6 feet. will exercising and doing yoga increase my height?
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Unlikely: Given your age, your height growth has likely finished already.
Answered 7/23/2015
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No: Height is determined by genetics.
Answered 11/7/2015
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No: Most people reach their maximum height in their late teens. Without nutritional problems or chronic childhood illnesses, height is largely based on genetics and parental heights. Aside from eating right, exercising, sleeping well, and being happy (throughout the growth years), there's not much a person nor his doctor can do to increase height. By age 18 however, even those things won't help.
Answered 12/9/2013
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