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Can stress lead to poor growth in height?
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Stress and growth: Growth hormone is responsible for growth and repair. The hormones produced by stress are catabolic. So the first builds you up and the other breaks you down. During stressful periods, the sleep cycles are also interrupted and unfortunately growth hormone is mainly produced in stage 4 sleep, thus compounding the problem. So stress does effect growth and repair of the body.
Answered 7/21/2020
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Stress: If stress affects your nutrition, theoretically, it can indirectly affect height negatively. Poor weight gain during active growth years can affect linear growth. Also poor sleeping can decrease griowth hormone release in your body.
Answered 5/24/2018
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