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Hoping you can tell me, is healthy lifestyle a possible way to improve your height?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

It is a way to help: You achieve your potential maximum height.

Dr Pappas and another doctor agreed

Answered 9/24/2013

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