What Determines a Person’s Height? The Truth About Growth Hormone
Why are some people tall, and others are not? Can this be influenced? Besides heredity, what determines our growth? The answer to all these questions is the same — growth hormone.
Dr. Julia
Growth hormone, somatotropin, and STH are synonyms for the same substance that affects human growth and development. The maximum amount of growth hormone is produced at 4–6 months of the prenatal period of a child's life. After the birth of a baby, the level of STH in the blood remains high until the onset of sexual development and begins to decline after 20–25 years. It is thanks to somatotropin that children's bones grow in length, and muscles accumulate protein.
Therefore, doctors are strongly against a vegan diet for babies. This is due not only to growth but also to overall physical development. The level of growth hormone increases as the child grows up, and its concentration peaks ===during puberty.
The growth of a child depends not only on the hereditary factor — the growth of t...
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