053 - How to Know if You’re Still Growing

Dr. Brian's Health Show

Click here to download the full transcription as a formatted PDF. Episode Summary Welcome to The No Cap Health Show, a weekly podcast where Dr. Brian Boxer Wachler uses his decades of experience in medicine and ability as an expert researcher to provide a light- hearted approach and share health trends popular on TikTok. In this episode, Dr. Brian is provides his Cap/No Cap analysis on today’s topic: How to Know if You’re Still Growing. What are growth plates? What can people do to help increase growth hormone? How can sleep, nutrition and exercise impact growth? Find out in today’s episode! If you’re enjoying the show, we’d love it if you leave the show a Rating & Review at RateThisPodcast.com/NoCap. Key Takeaways 01:09 – Dr. Brian introduces today’s topic: How to Know if You’re Still Growing 04:31 – What are growth plates and what do they do? 06:26 – Highlighting what people can do to get taller 10:33 – Nutrition, weight lifting, and High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) 13:24 – Dr. Brian teases next week’s topic, and encourages listeners to reach out and Rate and Review this podcast on RateThisPodcast.com/NoCap. Tweetable Quotes “An X-Ray is something that a doctor can order. And, what they typically will do to assess the growth plates is they take an X-Ray of the hand and they see if the finger bones are with growth plates that are opened or closed.” (05:25) (Dr. Brian) “What happens when you sleep - besides those really awesome, sometimes funky dreams - is that your body releases growth hormone. That happens while you’re sleeping. So, teenagers, try to get eight to nine hours of sleep. That’s the recommendation to maximize your growth hormone release.” (07:17) (Dr. Brian) “And so, I get this little rock from the corner of the tent, and I just aim up at the lightbulb and just let her rip. And the lightbulb exploded and I was able to go to bed. That’s how important sleep was to me when I was young.” (09:28) (Dr. Brian) “The key type of food that has been proven to help teenagers grow is cow milk. Cow milk stimulates growth for sure. There’s lots of studies on that. And it has to be cow’s milk unfortunately. If you don’t like milk or you’re lactose-intolerant, you can get Lactaid which is a milk with lactose removed.” (10:58) (Dr. Brian) Resources Mentioned NCHS Links Mentioned NCHS Footer Powered by FullCast