Would you like to discover to how to increase height and get taller? Who doesn't wish they were a few inches taller. The good news is you can do something to increase height starting today.

The first thing you can do is exercise. There are specific exercises, stretches and activities that can add inches to your height. The first type of exercise is the hanging stretch. The hanging stretch is where you grasp a horizontal bar overhead at arms length and hang freely without touching the ground. The benefit of hanging is it reverses the effect of gravity compressing your body. Everyday gravity pulls and compresses your bones, joints and especially your spine. You can turn the tables by hanging and allow gravity to pull you and make you taller. Hanging reduces the compression of the intervertebral disks of the spine which can literally and one inch to your height. Hanging will stretch all your joints, lengthening your limbs as well as your spine.

It is important to hang for at least 20 twenty seconds. You can then release and relax your arms. Repeat stretching at least three times.

You can add other movements to increase the effectiveness of hanging. Twisting is where you turn left and right while hanging. This motion will assist gravity and stretch you even further. Another great motion while hanging is knee bends, where you bring your knees up to your chest and lower them back down. You find this works your lower abdominal while your stretch.

The second type of exercise that helps you increase height is resistance training. High intensity exercises like resistance training stimulate the production of exercise induced human growth hormone or HGH. HGH is the signal for your body to grow. When you cause the production of HGH through exercise, you are telling your body to grow taller.

You can combine hanging stretches with resistance training in one complete exercise. That exercise is the pull-up. When you perform pull-ups you get reverse gravity benefits along with resistance training benefits. The pull-up is on of the most effect exercises you can perform to grow taller.

Your body will also produce HGH is response to specific items in your diet. Medical studies have shown that ingesting large amounts of protein increases HGH production. So, consuming high protein foots like meats, fish, eggs, soy beans and milk will increase your level of HGH.

HGH secretion into your bloodstream starts an hour before night time resting. Some athletes consume protein bars or protein shakes after the evening meal to boost their HGH levels.

Since HGH production occurs when you are asleep, eight hours of deep restful sleep is required to get the maximum HGH effect.

You must also drink plenty of water. HGH production has been shown to drop off when your body is dehydrated. This is especially true during or immediately after intense exercise.