Can children grow taller if their parents are not tall?

I believe that in daily life, we often hear parents who are short themselves worry that their children will not grow tall due to genetic factors, which will have a significant impact on their future. Therefore, these parents are quite worried about this and are looking for other ways to break through. So can children grow taller if their parents are not tall? In response to this question, please learn with me in the next period of time.

A person's height is 70% genetic and 30% acquired. If both parents are short or short stature runs in the family, it seems that no amount of nutrition, exercise, and sleep will improve the child's height. Do they have to endure the psychological pain of being shorter than others since childhood? Experts say that even if their parents are not tall, their children can still grow to their ideal height.

Familial short stature often has a cause

Having experienced the pain of being short, Mr. Zhao, who is 1.64 meters tall, really doesn't want his children to suffer the same pain. Finally, he married a wife who was 1.63 meters tall. However, it seems that the more you fear something, the more it will come true. My daughter was smaller than other children when she was born. Now she is 11 years old and is already a head shorter than other children of the same age.

"She is young now and doesn't care much about her height. When she grows up and encounters obstacles and is laughed at because of her height, she will definitely complain that she inherited the genes from my short father." Mr. Zhao said that in order to make up for the genetic defect of height, he and his wife have always paid attention to "acquired efforts": no matter how tired they are after get off work every day, they will accompany their daughter to run, skip rope, and swim; to ensure that she gets enough sleep for 8 hours a day, they even rent a house in front of the school; his wife also enrolled in a nutritionist training course, just to match nutritious three meals a day for their daughter; as soon as he heard that someone's child drank a certain oral liquid or wore a certain pair of shoes with good height-enhancing effects, he would buy them without hesitation.

However, all the results were minimal, and Mr. Zhao was a little desperate: If the parents are not tall, can the children only be short?

"In the past, it was believed that familial short stature was incurable and that people could only maximize their genetic height through nutrition, exercise, sleep and other acquired efforts, but it was still difficult for them to reach a normal average height. Now, research has found that familial short stature mostly has causes, such as growth hormone deficiency and precocious puberty. As long as they receive timely and reasonable treatment, these people can also grow to their ideal height."

I believe that through the above learning, parents and friends have already had their own unique insights and more standard answers to the above questions. Of course, I would like to remind everyone again that although a child’s height is determined by innate genetic factors, acquired nutrition and exercise are also very important. Therefore, in addition to children’s studies, parents should take them to participate in outdoor sports.