Your Height - Taller in the morning, shorter in the evening????
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Your Height - Taller in the morning, shorter in the evening????
I marked how tall my kids were, then myself one day. I am 5' 11". Well, one evening I looked and I had shrunk about 1/2". So i started measuring more often, and for some reason I am 5'11" (or slighly above) in the mornings, but by night i am about 5' 10" or so.???
Anyone know why this is........
Anyone know why this is........
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This is quite an explainable phenomena. When you wake up and get out of bed, what is the first thing most people do? Stretch. Your body relaxes at night, allowing the muscles around your bones to relax and let your bones settle a little, when you wake up and get out of bed, your body is still in the extended state, which the strech helps keep as it tightens the muscles in their extended state. Over the period of the day, the muscles return to their fully retracted state, pulling you down the half inch or so you gained.
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I love remembering things from human anatomy and biophysics class
heheh I dropped the class, if ya wanna know, before it was even a quarter done
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Originally posted by Scot
so if you were to go out on a date (chicks like taller guys eh) you should take a nap before.?
so if you were to go out on a date (chicks like taller guys eh) you should take a nap before.?
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Originally posted by LordVagabond
This is quite an explainable phenomena. When you wake up and get out of bed, what is the first thing most people do? Stretch. Your body relaxes at night, allowing the muscles around your bones to relax and let your bones settle a little, when you wake up and get out of bed, your body is still in the extended state, which the strech helps keep as it tightens the muscles in their extended state. Over the period of the day, the muscles return to their fully retracted state, pulling you down the half inch or so you gained.
This is quite an explainable phenomena. When you wake up and get out of bed, what is the first thing most people do? Stretch. Your body relaxes at night, allowing the muscles around your bones to relax and let your bones settle a little, when you wake up and get out of bed, your body is still in the extended state, which the strech helps keep as it tightens the muscles in their extended state. Over the period of the day, the muscles return to their fully retracted state, pulling you down the half inch or so you gained.
Additionally, as you stand or sit upright your upper body weight compresses the disks in your spine. When you lie down, and the weight is off those disks, they will expand to their full thickness.
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hopefully you will shrink another foot or so...then you'll be the perfect heighth.......
[QUOTE]Originally posted by CG
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Hell, I need to get up on my tiptoes or on a step stool anytime I want to kiss my wife. Doesn't matter what time of day it is.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by CG
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Hell, I need to get up on my tiptoes or on a step stool anytime I want to kiss my wife. Doesn't matter what time of day it is.
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