Bodybuilding Stunts Growth?

The reaction of almost everybody that is uninvolved in fitness and gets told that i do fitness is:Oh you won't grow anymore, you will stay short for the rest of your life etc.

Well I'm proof that bodybuilding does not stunt vertical growth at all.I grew more than an inch in the last couple of months and i am still growing(I'm 15 177cm+) While i am training really hard in the gym and constantly improving my performance.

Bodybuilding/doing fitness by itself will not stunt your growth, in fact it may even boost it.It has been proven that weight training increases your naturally occurring testosterone levels and if you are not destroying body in the gym like some idiots i see doing weights that exceed their capabilities and visit snap city every time they visit the gym you WON'T STUNT your growth.

There are things how ever that can stun your growth.Those are steroids, malnutrition  and some supplements.

I'll start with the steroids.

So your bones are connected by cartilage which holds them together and over time some of the cartilage turns into bone, but that doesn't continue forever.At one point in puberty when your body is pumping out hormones like crazy your cartilage sees the huge amount of hormones and it decides that it is time to stop growing cause in order to have so many hormones you are an adult.Well when you take steroids they turn into hormones, huge amounts of hormones and your body can't tell from where exactly they are coming from so it thinks you have become an adult and boom it stops your growth.And if you get off the steroids there is NO guarantee that you will continue growing.My opinion is that there is very little to no chance for the growth to come back.

Now lets talk about the nutrition.

It's been proven that bad nutrition will stunt your growth.You can't know by how much but it will, it may be an inch or even a millimeter but why take the chance?Try to lay off the french fries, chips etc. It won't only make you fat but it may also stunt your growth.A very important substance for bone growth is calcium everybody that is 9-18y old should try to get 1300mg of calcium every day

And about the supplements

If you are young, you should not be using any other supplements than a multivitamin and a good quality protein.Many of the supplements on the market contain substances that can stunt your growth so why take the chance?Good nutrition is all you need to build muscle, supplements may help you build muscle, but most of the time they are just bullshit spreaded by fitness magazines and companies to make you waste money on useless supplements.