How Your Height is Affecting Your Health

[00:00:00] Good morning everybody, you are currently listening to A Tall Girls Podcast hosted by a tall

[00:00:06] girl named India. I hope everyone who's tuning in today is doing super fantastic before

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[00:00:27] Everything is going to be linked in the description. Okay, I have a very very important question

[00:00:31] for you guys. Kiss Mary Destroy because I don't I don't think we could really say the other

[00:00:35] K word on here but kiss Mary Destroy pancakes waffles french toast. I hope you know that there's

[00:00:43] only one right answer to this. We kiss pancakes, we marry french toast and we get rid of waffles.

[00:00:50] That's the only correct answer. Okay so this was like a whole debate over the past week

[00:00:55] past week and a half and I just need to know that there are normal people and good people out

[00:01:01] there in the world because who would decide to say that they want to get rid of french toast?

[00:01:07] Someone literally said that and what do you have against french toast? Maybe they had really bad

[00:01:14] french toast and that's why they want to get rid of it and they never tried any good french toast

[00:01:19] but french toast is everything so yes I'm trying to see french toast every day. Wake up to french

[00:01:24] toast every single day so we're marrying french toast. I had a little syrup and it's elite.

[00:01:30] Pancakes are cute, pancakes are every once in a while thing, pancakes are okay. I feel part of me

[00:01:36] feels like pancakes are just heavier than french toast or maybe that's just my experience but I don't

[00:01:44] think I would go for pancakes every single day. I would definitely go for french toast every single day

[00:01:51] and then waffles. Waffles is pretty much like a hit or miss. It's just number one is shaped weirdly

[00:01:59] so when you try to eat it so okay so the weird thing about me is that sometimes I like to when

[00:02:04] I have breakfast and I have like these types of foods, I like to make it into a sandwich so like if

[00:02:09] I have pancakes for example I like to put like ham and a bunch of other stuff in between like two

[00:02:17] pancakes and eat that as a sandwich. I don't necessarily do that for french toast but french toast is

[00:02:23] great on its own. Pancakes I feel like you have to add stuff to you know enhance the flavor if you

[00:02:28] know what I mean and waffles are just annoying. You can't really make it into a sandwich.

[00:02:34] They're shaped really weirdly and then on top of that it's pretty much a hit or miss like

[00:02:39] if you over toast it it's just it's extremely crunchy too crunchy and then if it's under-toasted

[00:02:46] or under-made or whatever because most waffles come frozen unless you make it from scratch that's

[00:02:52] on you but if it's under-toasted it's just very soggy and on top of that when you put syrup on

[00:03:00] waffles it gets super super soggy and it just doesn't it no no I'm just not a waffle person.

[00:03:09] So yeah we get rid of we get rid of waffles. So I'm glad we settled at dispute. Alright so today

[00:03:14] we're going to be talking about height-related health issues. I'm going to give a disclaimer

[00:03:20] very early on into this episode so just as a disclaimer I am not a doctor I am not a health

[00:03:28] professional and in fact I'm not even studying health the last science class I took was environmental

[00:03:34] science in my sophomore year of college. I am just a college student who happens to talk about being

[00:03:41] tall so I am not giving any type of diagnoses I am not giving any type of medical or health advice

[00:03:48] or anything in that nature. I am just going to be discussing a topic that I've done some research

[00:03:55] on and I've heard about in the media and I've been told by other fellow tall people that's it

[00:04:02] I'm just sharing my experiences and what I've heard so like I said no diagnoses no health

[00:04:08] advice or anything of that nature. I'm just here to talk about it and bring awareness to the topic

[00:04:14] of course so don't come for me in any way shape or form because I included this disclaimer

[00:04:21] period anyways I was actually supposed to do this topic with somebody else that person was also

[00:04:26] not a health professional medical professional we were just going to talk about discuss our

[00:04:32] experiences and what we've found online and research and what we've heard from others but that

[00:04:39] that kind of fell through which is okay you know life happens so I just figured screw it I'll just

[00:04:45] do an individual episode on this and if that person decides to reach out and want to do

[00:04:49] this topic again as a guest episode then you know what by all means I'm here for it but honestly

[00:04:55] I'm willing to talk about it now so apparently your height like how tall you are can affect your

[00:05:01] health and us tall folks happen to be at a higher risk of certain diseases listen to this according

[00:05:09] to web MD as tall people we have a higher risk of blood clots heart disease diabetes cancer stroke

[00:05:18] heat exhaustion shorter lifespan among other things apparently I'm just telling you what web MD said

[00:05:24] but obviously I'm sure there are a lot of other factors that can cause these diseases like genetics

[00:05:30] your lifestyle the environment you're in your mental health is obviously not just height by itself

[00:05:37] honestly when I was looking through a lot of these things they said that height was a very very very

[00:05:44] very like extremely extremely small factor or reason or whatever of these diseases and I'm not

[00:05:53] gonna go too too much into the why or the how because like I said before I am not a health professional

[00:06:01] or medical whoever or doctor whatever but I'm just gonna go off of the things that I've heard

[00:06:08] there are certain aspects relating to your height that ultimately do affect our health in some way

[00:06:13] shape or form like an example that I heard a lot about is that because we're taller our hearts have

[00:06:20] to beat much harder to be able to pump blood down to our feet and then another thing that I heard

[00:06:27] is that gravity low key hates us because you know gravity is the reason why when we jump up or pull

[00:06:34] back down to the earth so us growing upward we're and standing upward we're low key fighting against

[00:06:40] gravity although we don't necessarily feel it but that definitely plays a part in our posture for

[00:06:49] and then I also read online that because we're taller we have more cells and we have to our body

[00:06:55] has to do a lot of cell replication and that ultimately exhausts it after a certain point like

[00:07:00] I said before this is just what I'm finding in the research that I've done I'm not gonna go too too

[00:07:06] deeply into that because I can really only speak from my experiences and I haven't really had

[00:07:11] too much experience related to many of the health problems that I've listed above so speaking

[00:07:16] from my experiences the only actual health problem that I've experienced as a tall person was

[00:07:21] related to my posture now as you may or may not know I have lateral and interior pelvic tilts

[00:07:26] so that played a huge role in pain in my knees and my back and in my hips I personally feel like

[00:07:32] posture issues posture problems would be the most common issue among tall people and personally

[00:07:40] I feel as though if I didn't exercise regularly and take actual time to stretch my body twice a day

[00:07:47] yes I literally do it twice a day when I wake up and right before I go to sleep I do it I do it

[00:07:53] when I wake up because A that helps me actually like wake my brain up and wake my body up but also

[00:07:59] when I'm sleeping because of my pelvic tilts I sleep awkwardly because I'm not awake and conscious

[00:08:06] to be aware of I guess you can say my sleep posture or my sleep position so I'm still very much

[00:08:14] uneven if that makes any type of a sentence so when I wake up I try my best to stretch so that

[00:08:21] I can really whatever pain intention and kind of reset my body but then I also have to stretch

[00:08:26] at the end of the day because you know I'm walking around you know fighting gravity and I carry

[00:08:31] around a heavy book bag every well not every day almost every single day this school and that

[00:08:37] kind of weighs me down I slouch a lot I don't say properly at school for most of the time well

[00:08:42] I will say I've gotten much better over the years but there's still a lot of work to do so stretching

[00:08:48] also helps me right before I go to sleep and I feel like if I didn't take actively take the time

[00:08:54] to stretch which can honestly be time consuming and inconvenient at times but gotta do what you

[00:08:59] gotta do you know what I mean but if I didn't take the time to stretch and actually you know exercise

[00:09:03] and try to be active I probably would have developed way worse problems and I'm pretty sure there

[00:09:09] are other people out there that have way worse problems so yeah a posture is definitely one of the

[00:09:16] most common problems with tall people and then you have like the extreme stuff y'all remember that

[00:09:22] episode I don't remember like one or two no not one like two or three episodes ago when I was

[00:09:26] talking about that seven foot high schooler who played basketball that's that is some deep rooted

[00:09:35] stuff like that he probably experiences a lot more pain and a lot of issues and that's probably

[00:09:42] why he disappeared that sounds actually a little bit scary let's hope that nothing bad happened to him

[00:09:47] in my opinion something that tall people can agree on that they've experienced is pain back pain

[00:09:53] the neck pain the knee pain the hip pain any type of pain you can really think of and that has a

[00:09:59] lot to do with our daily life still habits like I'm saying before I'm not trying to diagnose anything

[00:10:05] for you I'm just basically talking about it take this all with a grain of salt I can't speak for

[00:10:12] your experiences I can really only speak for mine but something that I think we can all agree on

[00:10:17] across the board is important to take care of ourselves and take care of our health we can't control

[00:10:22] our height but we can control what we do to combat our health issues exercising and consistently

[00:10:28] stretching is great and eating well and eating enough low-key do tall people need to eat more food

[00:10:36] because that'll explain why I need to eat like every two hours so I really just want to reiterate

[00:10:41] that there's a lot more that goes into your health than just your height yes your height plays a

[00:10:46] role in that but it doesn't play a huge huge humongous role as your diet as your environment as

[00:10:53] your mental health as your physical activity and so forth and so on so yeah tall people got

[00:10:59] shopping problems public transportation problems furniture problems and now health problems yay

[00:11:07] I'm just kidding it's not that deep just take care of yourself understand your bloodline

[00:11:12] because genetics do play a big role in health as well and you will be fine so what do you think

[00:11:18] do you think height affects your health has your height affected your health let me know

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[00:11:28] so you could do that we could talk about our health issues we could talk about our

[00:11:31] post-trailer problems is that a word? Cost-trailer we could talk about our crusty posture

[00:11:37] yes and if you have any questions relating to that stuff please talk to your doctor do not ask me

[00:11:43] because I am not a health professional or a medical professional but if you want to complain about

[00:11:47] it we could do that that's when you can hit me up anyways I hope you enjoyed the rest of your day

[00:11:53] week month year life whatever it is for you and I'll catch you in the next one good night and goodbye