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how to gain instant height and what signs indicate that a person has stopped growing?

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Height of a person is totally controlled by the genes. The height, whether tall or short is always transferred from one progeny to another. Height also increases due to secretions of growth hormones but after a certain age cells divide only to replace worn out and lost cells.

The boys or girls stop growth after they have reached end of their natural growth. Few signs that indicate the growth has stopped include:

Growth of fair amount of pubic hair and the penis and testes have enlarged to almost their full size.

After the end of the puberty, the growth rate slows down and stops usually at 17-18 years of age in boys and 9-15 years in girls.


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