Why do people get shorter? Why does height change from tall to short?

As we all know, in the process of growing from a teenager to a young adult, the height and weight are increasing, and it is difficult for us to see a person who will grow up in a state of reverse growth from childhood to adulthood, except for some strange diseases, of course. However, sometimes we also find that all of a sudden it feels like our parents are getting shorter, or that our father is not as tall as before, and that our mother is getting smaller and smaller.

Actually, for this situation, we should divide it into two answers to explain.

The first answer: because you yourself are gradually getting taller and fatter throughout your youth, according to the theory of relativity, at the same time as your body size grows, you will feel that the shape of comparable things around you will become smaller to varying degrees, which is essentially because your own vision and relative view of things have changed, not because your parents or other people have become shorter and shorter.

The second answer, which is also the one we focus on this time, is that as we grow older, coupled with the work of our parents day and night, the years have bent my father's back, and time has stolen my mother's youth, destroying the beauty of the world step by step. Therefore, as their parents continue to grow older, they will become shorter, because their backs have already been squeezed and deformed by the pressure of life.

My father was a great man, and in my heart he was my hero. My father never bowed to any evil force, nor did he act recklessly because of the slightest power in his hands. He only insisted on serving the people for thirty years, because he always believed:

The survival of the state and the Communist Party is absolutely inseparable from the support of the masses of the people.

When he was in an important position, how many people gave him gifts to show his goodwill, but his father never knew the law and broke the law for personal gain. And in the face of the masses in difficulty, my father will stand up and be a public servant of the people in the true sense of the word.

Later, my father felt that the officialdom was too sinister, so he resigned and returned to the field and hid in the city.

But life brought a lot of pressure to my father, who had to bow to life, go out and show his face, and sometimes even went to a small hotel to work as a handyman.

Time slipped away slowly, and it took away his father's youth and vitality, leaving him with a full head of gray hair. In the past two years, I have also seen my father "become shorter", his body is not as hard as before, his eyes are also spent, and he will suffer from toothache from time to time. Every time I see my father can't sleep at night with a toothache, I will secretly wipe my tears, time is really too cruel, I actually let me watch it take away my father's health.

Therefore, when you see your parents getting shorter, you should understand one thing: you should work hard to repay them, don't let your parents worry about their own affairs, they have been their hearts all their lives, and let them enjoy the joy of family!

There are many reasons for getting shorter, some are natural and some are pathological.

It is well known that humans become shorter as they grow older.

This is due to the deterioration of bones in the elderly, and many bone diseases such as osteoporosis come from the elbow. Osteoporosis compresses the spine of older people, each of which becomes more or less shorter.

If you think about it, a normal human has more than 20 vertebrae, each a few millimeters shorter, and it is obvious that the final appearance is the whole.

Not only that, but after entering old age, it is normal for a hunchback and rickets to be short, so it looks like you are getting shorter.

The above are normal phenomena when people enter old age, but there are many strong young people who also become shorter.

First of all, science shows that people are taller in the morning than the same person in the evening, and everyone should feel the same.

The morning is the most energetic time of the day, full of vigor and fighting spirit, the bones have been fully developed, and the height at this time is the most normal.

But in the evening, when most people are tired after a hard day's work, their height will definitely change in the morning, and they will become shorter.

I think staying up late can make you shorter, and that's what happened to my classmates. I used to be a tall person, but I stayed up all day after being obsessed with the Internet, and now I always feel that he has "shrunk" after seeing him.

Then there is the poor sitting and standing posture, what high and low legs, round shoulders, hunchback, this is caused by incorrect posture, and it is also an important reason for getting shorter.

Also, few people know that many drugs can make adults shorter.

Many Western medicines are very serious, including osteoporosis, which should be a strong age but have the disease of the elderly. The weight-bearing capacity of the bones deteriorates, and the spine is compressed, resulting in a shorter stature.

After you became a mother, did you slowly become shorter?

Is there a membrane between the bones and the bones, the bone marrow membrane? This is what we commonly call the cartilage junction. When it comes to you, this part is very tough.

It is fully stretched, and plays a role in lubricating the bones and bone connections, and at a certain age, with the decrease of elasticity and toughness. There will be a phenomenon of retraction, so the height of the person will become a little shorter.

After you became a mother, did you slowly become shorter?

There are 3 possibilities.

1.Simple osteoporosis.

2.Bone loss caused by hyperparathyroidism, also known as osteoporosis.

3.It's just a matter of standing posture, such as hunchback, etc.

It is recommended to do a bone density test Normal bone density values are -1 to 1, if the bone density is less than that, it is osteoporosis.

In the case of osteoporosis, patients often have a certain compression fracture of the lumbar vertebrae, which will cause a noticeable shortening of height.

To find the cause of osteoporosis first, it is necessary to determine whether the osteoporosis is primary or secondary.

Category I: Primary osteoporosis.

It is a physiological degenerative lesion that inevitably occurs with age.

Primary osteoporosis can be further divided into:

Postmenopausal osteoporosis.

Senile osteoporosis.

PS: According to your gender and age characteristics, they all do not match this situation, so rule it out.

All that remains is secondary osteoporosis.

Type II: Secondary osteoporosis.

It is a type of osteoporosis that is triggered by other diseases or medications.

Then secondary osteoporosis is often caused by diabetes, hormonal drugs, hyperthyroidism, etc.

PS: If you are really not at ease, you can do a blood calcium test.

If it is confirmed that it is hyperparathyroidism, the only way to remove the tumor is to go to a regular hospital for surgery, and calcium supplementation alone is not enough.

It means that you are hunchbacked. Or there is a problem with the cervical spine.