Are We as Tall as Our Bones Allow?

Our bones are constantly laying down new bone tissue, eating up old bone tissue. A bone like your thigh bone or your femur will basically change itself entirely over about you in about ten years. That constant eating away and also building n will reshape your bones over time. The same phenomenon what allows our bones to grow and change shape also allows them to heal. We can't rearely have a mouse the size of an elephant. Would just collapse under its own weight because its bones aren't stout enough to carry that weight. To get bigger or taller, it would require some structural modification, some changes. If we're malnourished or were under incredible emotional stress for a prolonged

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