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Does hanging helps for height increase?

wat is the right way of hanging to increase height?

No, it doesn’t.

Or, more precisely, it does affect your height, but only in a temporary, detailed way. Your ‘index’ height won’t be affected by the technique.

The ‘suspension’ discs in your spine contain water, and this makes them plump and springy. But the weight of your body, pressing downwards on the discs, will squeeze water out of them. As they dehydrate, they get harder and thinner. This can make you ‘seem’ shorter (about half an inch, sometimes more, in the evening, than you were when you got up).

The amount that’s squeezed out during the day is usually a bit more than the amount that can ‘soak’ back into the discs while you sleep (lying down takes most of the pressure off them). So as you age, losing a bit of height is ‘normal’.

Any time you hang by your arms or legs, you give the discs a chance to soak up a bit more fluid. If you dangle often enough, this can prevent the discs from being gradually squashed and dehydrated. You can even GAIN a little bit of disc springiness, if you do a lot of dangling, together with ‘wriggling’ exercises that encourage the spinal joints to get ‘juicy’ (they will produce more fluid if they think you’re warming up for some activity).

Rather than noticing any increase in height, you will know that these techniques are working because your spinal flexibility will increase. So if you practise yoga, you’ll notice that the dangling exercises will help you to get into more challenging postures easily.

Your ‘measured’ height won’t increase noticeably, because the weight of your body will still ‘settle’ the soft, springy discs almost as much as it did when they were dryer. But as you age, you may notice that you’re not getting shorter in the way you’d expect to. Well-hydrated discs are less vulnerable to injury, too, so you will tend to suffer less from ‘back trouble’ later in life, especially ‘slipped’ discs.

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