Your genetics play the most important role in how tall you are. But there are certain factors you can control that may help increase your height or maintain it with age.

Assayag increased by five inches (12.7cm) the height of his shortest ever male patient, who was five feet one inches (155cm) tall, and his shortest ever female patient saw her height increase from ...

On January 8th, Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai caused some concern when he tweeted that he'd grown about 9 cm (around 3 and a half inches) in his three weeks about the International Space Station.