Is it better to have a low weight or be overweight to grow more?

[DaughterSlaughter]

A lot of overweight people in middle school become taller quicker. It could be that being fat makes you grow past your genetic potential but the speed you reach it is really fast (1-2 years) compared to the normal 3-5 years of longitudinal growth in puberty. Many people shared their experiences with overweight people being stunted earlier and this could be due to estrogen. Estrogen is responsible for some igf-1 pathways so it could help with short term growth.

Conversely, skinny people and underweight people seem to grow longer. Anecdotal, but I have a friend who was 6 ft 120 pounds(has beard and is hairy) but recently grew 3 inches at 18 and is now 19 and 6’3. Skinny people probably have lowered test and estrogen and this could allow them to grow for longer. But some suggest this is bad because being skinny may stunt growth. It’s hard to quantify if being skinny throughout puberty or being fat will give you more net height but I think being near 10-13% body fat is probably best to prolong the window for height growth.

 

[Deleted member 1901]

Neither cutting to be skinny or eatmaxxing will optimize growth. it is best for growth to be your natural weight (overweight isn't natural) trying to be too skinny will give you less nutrients and energy to grow. eating more than natural will close your growth plates faster. eating high amounts of protein is optimal for growth.

 

[Growth Plate]

Just have good genes, exercise, eat a high protein diet in a slight caloric surplus, spread out your meals to maximize mTOR activation, stay lean but not too lean to lower aromatase activity but also maximize nutrition, and sleep around 10 hours a day

Natural pubertymax stack

 

[horizontallytall]

Fat people aremost of the time taller ot atleat their dads height, even fat girls i see are above average height for girls