How Your Height is Affecting Your Health

Good morning everybody. You are currently listening to a Tall Girls podcast hosted by a tall girl named India. I hope everyone who's tuning in today is doing super fantastic. Before I get into this episode, I do want to say make sure you're following me on my socials at a Tall Girls podcast on Instagram, TikTok, and pinchest, so that you could stay up to date on all of the latest podcast episodes and catch a glimpse of my every day life. Also, feel free to leave me your review and let me know how tall you are. I'm genuinely curious. Everything is going to be linked in the description. Okay, I have a very very important question for you guys, kiss Mary destroy because I don't I don't think we could really say the other K word on here, but kiss Mary destroy pancakes, waffles, French toast. I hope you know that there's only one right answer to this. We kiss pancakes, we marry French toasts, and we get rid of waffles. That's the only correct answer. Okay. So this was like a whole debate over the past week, past week and a half, and I just need to know that there are normal people and good people out there in the world, because who would decide to say that they want to get rid of French toast. Someone literally said that, And what do you have against French toasts? Maybe they had really bad French toasts and that's why they want to get rid of it, and they never tried any good French toast. But French toast is everything. So yes, I'm trying to see French toasts every day. Wake up to French toast every single day. So we're marrying French toast. Add a little syrup and it's elite. Pancakes are cute, Pancakes are every once in a while thing. Pancakes are okay. I feel part of me feels like pancakes are just heavier than French toast, or maybe that's just my experience, but I don't think I would go for pancakes every single day. I would definitely go for French toasts every single day. And then waffles. Waffles is pretty much like a hitter miss It's just number one is shaped weirdly so when you try to eat it, so okay. So the weird thing about me is that sometimes I like to when I have breakfast and I have like these types of foods, I like to make it into a sandwich. So like if I have pancakes, for example, I like to put like ham and a bunch of other stuff in between, like two pancakes and eat that as a sandwich. I don't necessarily do that for French toast, but French toast is great on its own. Pancakes, I feel like you have to add stuff to you know, enhance the flavor, if you know what I mean. And waffles are just annoying. You can't really make it into a sandwich. They're shaped really weirdly. And then on top of that, it's pretty much a hit or miss, Like if you overtoast it, it's just it's extremely crunchy, too crunchy. And then if it's undertoasted or under made or whatever, because most waffles come frozen unless you make it from scratch, that's on you. But if it's undertoasted, it's just very soggy. And on top of that, when you put syrup on waffles, it gets super super soggy, and it just it just doesn't No, No, I'm just not a I'm not a waffles person. So yeah, we get rid of we get rid of waffles, So I'm glad we settled that dispute, all right, So today we're going to be talking about height related health issues. I'm going to give a disclaimer very early on into this episode, So just as a disclaimer, I am not a doctor, I am not a health professional, and in fact, I'm not even studying health. The last science class I took was environmental science in my sophomore year of college. I'm just a college student who happens to talk about being tall. So I am not giving any type of diagnoses. I am not giving any type of medical or health advice or anything in that nature. I am just going to be discussing a topic that I've done some research on and I've heard about in the media, and I've been told by other fellows help people. That's it. I'm just sharing my experiences and what I've heard. So, like I said, no diagnoses, no health advice, or anything of that nature. I'm just here to talk about it and bring awareness to the topic, of course, So don't come for me in any way, shape or form, because I included this disclaimer period. Anyways, I was actually supposed to do this topic with somebody else. That person was also not a health professional, medical professional. We were just going to talk about it, discuss our experiences and what we've found online and research and what we've heard from others. But that kind of fell through, which is okay, you know, life happens. So I just figured, screw it. I'll just do an individual episode on this, and if that person decides to reach out and want to do this topic again as a guest episode, then you know what by all means, I'm here for it. But honestly, I'm willing to talk about it now. So Apparently, your height, like how tall you are, can affect your health, and us tall folks happen to be at a higher risk of certain diseases. Listen to this. According to WebMD, as tall people, we have a higher risk of blood clots, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, stroke, heat exhaustion, shorter lifespan, among other things. Apparently, I'm just telling you what web MD said, But obviously I'm sure there are a lot of other factors that can cause these diseases, like genetics, your lifestyle, the environment you're in. Your mental health is obviously not just height by itself. Honestly, when I was looking through a lot of these things. They said that height was a very very very very extremely extremely small factor or reason or whatever of these diseases. And I'm not going to go too too much into the why or the how, because like I said before, I am not a health professional or medical whoever or doctor or whatever. But I'm just gonna go off of the things that I've heard. There are certain aspects relating to your height that ultimately do affect our health in some way, shape or form. Like an example that I heard a lot about is that because we're taller, our hearts have to beat much harder to be able to pump blood down to our feet. And then another thing that I heard is that gravity low key hates us, because you know, gravity is the reason why when we jump up, we're pulled back down to the earth. So us growing upward, we're and standing upward, we're low key fighting against gravity, although we don't necessarily feel it, but that definitely plays a part in our posture for sure. And then I also read online that because we're taller, we have more cells and we have to Our body has to do a lot of cell replication and that ultimately exhausts it to a certain point, like I said before, this is just what I'm finding in the research that I've done. I'm not going to go too too deeply into that because I can really only speak from my experiences, and I haven't really had too much experience related to many of the health problems that I've listed above. So speaking from my experiences, the only actual health problem that I've experienced as a tall person was related to my posture. Now, as you may or may not know, I have lateral and interior public tilts, so that played a huge role in pain in my knees and my back and in my hips. I personally feel like posture issues posture problems would be the most common issue among tall people, and personally, I feel as though if I didn't exercise regularly and take actual time to stretch my body twice a day. 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 when I wake up because a that helps me actually like wake my brain up and wake my body up. But also when I'm sleeping because of my pelvic tilts, I sleep awkwardly because I'm not awakened conscious to be aware of I guess you could say my sleep posture or my sleep position. So I'm still very much uneven, if that makes any type of sense. So when I wake up, I try my best to stretch so that I can relieve whatever pain intention and kind of reset my body. But then I also have to stretch at the end of the day because you know, I'm walking around, you know, fighting gravity, and I carry around a heavy book bag every well, not every day, almost every single day to school, and that kind of weighs me down. I sleuch a lot. I don't say it properly at school for most of the time. Well I will say I've gotten much better over the years, but there's still a lot of work to do. So stretching also helps me right before I go to sleep. And I feel like if I didn't actively take the time to stretch, which can honestly be time consuming and inconvenient at times, but gotta do what you gotta do, you know what I mean. But if I didn't take the time to stretch and actually, you know, exercise and try to be active, I probably would have developed way worse problems. And I'm pretty sure there are other people out there that have way worse problems. So yeah, posture is definitely one of the most common problems with tall people. And then you have like the extreme stuff. Y'all. Remember that episode I don't remember like one or two, No, not one, like two or three episodes ago when I was talking about that seven foot high schooler who played basketball. That that is some deep rooted stuff like that. He probably experiences a lot more pain and a lot of issues, and that's probably why he disappeared. That sounds actually a little bit scary. Let's hope that nothing bad happened to him. In my opinion, is something that tall people can agree on that they've experienced is pain. The back pain, the neck pain, the knee pain, the hit pain, any type of pain you can really think of. And that has a lot to do with our daily lifestyle habits. Like I'm saying before, I'm not trying to diagnose anything for you. I'm just basically talking about it. Take this all with a grain of salt. I can't speak for your experiences. That can really only speak for mine. But something that I think we can all agree on across the board, it's important to take care of ourselves and take care of our health. We can't control our height, but we can control what we do to combat our health issues. Exercising and consistently stretching is great, and eating well and eating enough low key to tell people need to eat more food because that'll explain why I need to eat like every two hours. So I really just want to reiterate that there's a lot more that goes into your health than just your height. Yes, your high plays a role in that, but it doesn't play a huge, huge, humongous role as your diet, as your environment, as your mental health, as your physical activity and so forth and so on. So yeah, tell people got shopping problem, public transportation problems, furniture problems, and now health problems. Yay, I'm just kidding. It's not that deep. Just take care of yourself, understand your bloodline because your neetics do play a big role in health as well, and you will be fine. So what do you think? Do you think height affects your health? Has your heigh affected your health? Let me know? Hit me up on my socials, a Tall Girls podcast, Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest linked below of course, So you could do that. We could talk about our health issues, We could talk about our postular problems. Is that a word postular? We could talk about our krusty posture, yes, and if you have any questions relating to that stuff, please talk to your doctor. Do not ask me because I'm not a health professional or a medical professional. But if you want to complain about it, we could do that. That's when you can hit me up. Anyways. I hope you enjoy the rest of your day, week, month, year, life, whatever it is for you, and I'll catch you in the next one. Good night and goodbye bye.