College students bought 60 thousand yuan of height-increasing drugs for two years, but they didn’t grow a centimeter.
"Three months is 8 cm tall!"
In 2017, a propaganda by Green Cool High official website made Xiao Shen (a pseudonym) who wanted to grow taller move. He spent 920 yuan to buy three boxes.
Xiao Shen, 21 years old, a college student in Chengdu, is 165cm tall. In the two years after he first bought diet pills, he kept buying a variety of health care products, with a total cost of 60 thousand yuan.
"In the past two years, I have been taking medicine on time, doing push-ups every day, not smoking or drinking, not eating peppers or coriander, and doing it in full accordance with the words of the development guidance teacher." Xiao Shen said that after eating for two years, he found that his height did not change at all, and he did not grow taller by 1 cm!
On July 8, a medical expert on growth and development said in an interview with Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News that the epiphyseal line of adults is closed, and nothing can grow taller. In the adult world, there is no medicine to increase height.
Be bent on growing taller.
I took 60,000 yuan of high-altitude medicine for two years.
In 2017, Xiao Shen was 19 years old and just entered the university. He was only 165cm tall and wanted to grow taller. He searched Baidu for "ways to increase height" and found a "green, cool and tall" official website. A slogan on the webpage made him quite tempted.
"It is official certification and can grow to 8 cm in three months." Xiao Shen said that he wanted to grow to 170cm, and he left his contact information in the dialog box.
Soon, the salesperson of Lvkugao added his WeChat, and he spent 920 yuan to buy three boxes of Lvkugao, which lasted for three months, just one course of treatment. In order not to affect the drug effect, the development guidance teacher explained that he should take the medicine within half an hour after meals every day, and do 50 squats and 50 push-ups every day.
"It’s just a matter of taking medicine. You can’t smoke or drink, and you can’t eat Chili or coriander." Xiao Shen said that he came from Jiangxi and fell in love with spicy food when he came to Chengdu, but in order to grow taller, he put up with it and did it one by one. A week later, the salesperson asked him if he had any reaction after taking the medicine, such as fever on the soles of his feet and fever on his knees.
"Yes, there is. There is a cramp in the knee, like stretching, and there is a fever." Xiao Shen said that he was very happy. Under the sales promotion, he spent another 3,200 yuan to buy stem cell activin.
One morning after taking the medicine for a month, he measured his height with a tape measure.
"At that time, it was 0.8 cm long." Xiao Shen said that from then on, he was convinced of the salesperson’s words, although it was later confirmed that this 0.8 cm was just a miscalculation or a normal gap in height in the morning and evening. "Later, I asked them why it didn’t last long. They answered me that because I have toxins in my body, I need to detoxify."
"Detoxification needs to buy drugs, and protein’s cooperation is better", one cover after another. In the next two years, Xiao Shen transferred 60,000 yuan to these so-called "development instructors" and bought more than a dozen health care products by mail. He followed the instructions, took medicine on time, and took at most a dozen pills at a time. In order to avoid being discovered by his classmates, he took them secretly.
Later, the salesmen changed frequently, and everyone made him buy medicine in a different way, but after taking the medicine, his height remained motionless, and he began to have some doubts.
"I asked them why they were not tall. They said that the best medicine was given to you. You are in a special situation and there is really no way to make me look down." Xiao Shen said that the consensus of many instructors made him feel that his physique was really different from ordinary people. He still hopes that these height-increasing drugs are real and can help him grow taller.
Most of the heightening drugs are health care products.
Company: It sells calcium tablets.
In October last year, Xiao Shen consulted a lawyer, and finally he was completely sure that what the salesman said was just a set of words. "I was completely cheated. What is depressing is that I really dare not put parsley in these two years." On July 7, the reporter saw Xiao Shen near a university in Shuangliu District. He was a strong man with handsome features and a spirit.
I was worried that my classmates would find out that he used two backpacks to pack the heightening drugs tightly, and dumped the bag underground, and it fell all over the floor. The reporter counted a total of more than 30 bottles with more than a dozen varieties, some of which were empty, and some were still left.
The reporter looked at the ingredients of "drugs", such as the ingredients of calcium tablets for bones and muscles are edible corn starch, maltodextrin, whole milk powder, etc. The ingredients of small molecular collagen peptide solid beverage are collagen, marine fish oligopeptide powder, etc. Beibei Gaole ingredients are dried tangerine peel, malt, calcium gluconate, vitamins, etc. Most of them belong to health care products, and their function is to enhance immunity. The WeChat transfer record displayed by Xiao Shen shows that on November 24, 2017 alone, he transferred a total of 32,000 yuan to the teacher named "Teacher Bai, the development guidance teacher".
"At that time, she told me not to transfer more at once, but to transfer separately. Every time they said that it was the last payment and there was no need for any fees, and then they repeated these words." Xiao Shen said that in October last year, he stopped buying and taking medicine and began to collect evidence to find a lawyer to sue. But the funny thing is that up to now, Xiao Shen doesn’t know which company the person who sells health care products to him belongs to.
On July 8, according to more than a dozen calls provided by Xiao Shen, the reporter dialed a landline, and confirmed to the reporter that they were Guangzhou Jianchang Biotechnology Development Co., Ltd., and the name of the merchant receiving Xiao Shen WeChat also indicated that it was this company, and the national industrial and commercial information inquiry, this company has been cancelled.
"Xiao Shen’s medicines are all sold to him by us, and his situation is really special." The staff member said. Subsequently, Mr. Qiu, who claimed to be the head of the company’s growth and development, responded to the reporter that at that time, the company did a genetic test for Xiao Shen, which showed that his bone nutrition was not enough and he needed to supplement calcium tablets.
"At that time, we told him that this is the same as calcium tablets. His bones feel sour and need to be supplemented with calcium tablets. What we sell is calcium tablets, and the instructor also said that he has grown three or four centimeters, but he has not grown behind, which has not achieved the expected effect." Mr. Qiu said that if Xiao Shen wants a refund, he can negotiate.
Expert:
It doesn’t matter what height-increasing drugs adults take.
For adults with closed epiphyseal lines, are there any effective height-increasing drugs in the world?
Luo Lei, director and associate professor of the Department of Orthopedics and Trauma of the Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Institute of Physical Education, said that when people become adults, the epiphyseal line is closed, and their height stops growing. The age when girls close the epiphyseal line is 17 to 18 years old, and boys are slightly later, ranging from 18 to 20 years old. He said: "In the world of adults, there is no height-increasing drug."
"Anyone who has studied pharmacology knows that drugs have little effect on height." Luo Lei said that a person’s height is mainly related to congenital inheritance, and the acquired nutritional status and exercise degree can also affect his height. In real life, we can see that some children are much taller than their parents, and some can grow taller at the age of 20. "But this probability is very low."
Xiong Youhua, dean of Chengdu Southwest Children’s Hospital, also said: "The epiphyseal line has been closed and the height no longer grows."
"Adults will not grow up no matter what they eat, and the health care products sold outside are useless." Xiong Youhua said that height is 70% determined by heredity and 30% by acquired factors, including exercise, nutritional status, sleep and so on. "If a child is taller than his parents, acquired factors play a big role."
Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star Journalist Zhong Meilan