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Can the height grow after the age of 25 with excercise , stretching, yoga and diet? and also will losing weight make spine slightly taller?
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Sorry, no: Only think that can lengthen your spine and keep you as tall as you can be, consider yoga. Yoga has been shown to lengthen the spine. And it has also been said, you are as old as your spine is flexible.
Answered 2/7/2017
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height: Generally speaking, there isn't anything you can do to make yourself taller (unless you have corrective spine surgery). Basically, over time, we gradually get shorter and shorter.
Answered 8/25/2016
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