Bian Xiao still has a say in this issue. The research direction of graduate students in Bian Xiao is nutritional genomics. Do genes have anything to do with nutrition? Is there a relationship between genes and height? Of course it matters! It can be said that genes affect appearance, height, health and our birth, illness and death.
For children's height development, there are three main problems:
1. Children's nutritional absorption, here are mainly nutritional factors related to height: for example, we talk about calcium, but there are also vitamin D3, zinc, dietary calories and so on that you don't understand.
If the child's absorption and metabolism of vitamin D3 is not good, then it is no use how you supplement calcium, iron, zinc and selenium. Failure to fill the short board will affect the development of children's height. Then I went into battle with all kinds of nutrition. If I don't know what I missed, I will make up for everything! If you take this method, it is even more wrong.
Overnutrition is even more terrible. Among them, too much heat and energy will accelerate the differentiation of fat cells, leading to the possibility of obesity. Once a child is obese, it will not only affect the height development, but also compress the growth period, shortening the precious growth period of the child, resulting in horizontal development, not vertical growth, no matter how much nutrition is supplemented.
Secondly, too much competition for nutrients should be absorbed by the body, and the absorbed nutrients will absorb more, but it will inhibit the nutrients that were not well absorbed, leading to richer and more lacking!
Therefore, the most correct and scientific method is to make up what is missing! Then how do I know what the child is missing? Genes tell you. Here are a few examples. FTO gene, ZNF5 10 gene and VDR gene are all related to the growth of nutritional factors. Genetic information will tell you whether your child is absorbing zinc or calcium.
2. Epiphyseal closure and bone growth in children:
What is the epiphyseal line? I can tell you clearly that this is a "dead line" on the tall. Once the epiphysis is closed, it means that the height is basically fixed and there is little chance of growing taller in the future. The child's epiphyseal line is not closed before adulthood, so grasping these times will make the child grow taller.
Affected by genes, some children's epiphyseal lines will be delayed, which means that your children will grow taller than other children; Of course, there are also children whose epiphyseal lines are closed in advance. If you don't know, you are likely to miss the golden age of growing tall and have a sad height.
Whether epiphyseal closure is early or late, the situation of bone development, FLNB gene and SHOX gene will tell you the answer. If you don't want children to miss the chance to grow taller, why not make modern scientific and technological means as beneficial as possible? Isn't the development of science and technology just to serve us and society?
3. There are also important growth hormone secretion problems:
Growth hormone is an important hormone to promote the growth of bones, viscera and whole body. GH 1 gene affects the secretion of growth hormone, but generally speaking, growth hormone is secreted at night. The ABCC9 gene affects the body and brain's need for sleep.
The problem of "gene-growth hormone-sleep" is closely linked. Insufficient growth hormone secretion and insufficient sleep time will affect the height, while excessive sleep will affect the development of bones and muscles, affect the mental state of children and so on.
Therefore, plans and guidance suitable for children's growth are "tailor-made" according to children's genes. What is suitable for others may not be suitable for their own children. If you are still confused and puzzled about your child's growth, you might as well do a genetic test to help your child grow taller from a scientific point of view!