What Age Do Males Stop Growing In Height?

[Jack Ito]

I know this is completely unrelated to hair loss but what age do males stop growing in terms of height?

 

[Jesse Wilson]

I think I heard around 21 is the latest. I stopped a bit before that - maybe at 20.

 

[Peter Massey]

it is generally considered that growth stops by the age of 25.

 

[DHTpolice]

I stopped at 17-18.

 

[shookwun]

I think at around 21 I stopped.

 

[ElTioLaBota]

Can finasteride stop that process? Im 19 about to start propecia and my father grew a lot from 20 to 21.
Im 5'81 he is 6'1.

 

[Jesse Wilson]

I think the opposite is more likely to happen. When boys were castrated before puberty, they grew taller than average because testosterone helps fuse the growth plates that allows you to continue to grow.

Growth plates fuse with you stop growing. Perhaps you can check with a specialist doctor to see if yours have already fused?

The minor difference here is that you're only lowering the effects of 5-a Reductase with finasteride. In order for this to stunt your growth, testosterone would have to be the thing that helps fuse the plates and the effects of 5-a Reductase what slows it down, but that seems far fetched.

According to this site that helps parents of children who have a 5-a Reductase deficiency, parents should be warned of possibly lowing final adult height with added male hormones.
https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/5-alpha-reductase-deficiency
"If testosterone is used in a prepubertal patient for a prolonged course of therapy, parents should be counseled over the potential to decrease final adult height secondary to androgen associated skeletal advancement"


If I were in your situation, I would take finasteride, but you have to make your own decision so you can't blame anyone.

 

[irondude221]

^explains why I've been 5'5 ever since I was 15, I hit puberty early.

 

[josephsan01]

^explains why I've been 5'5 ever since I was 15, I hit puberty early.

also 5'5 :T bought some air force 1s and put some thick insoles in em and now im big man on campus walking around at 5'7

 

[ElTioLaBota]

I think the opposite is more likely to happen. When boys were castrated before puberty, they grew taller than average because testosterone helps fuse the growth plates that allows you to continue to grow.

Growth plates fuse with you stop growing. Perhaps you can check with a specialist doctor to see if yours have already fused?

The minor difference here is that you're only lowering the effects of 5-a Reductase with finasteride. In order for this to stunt your growth, testosterone would have to be the thing that helps fuse the plates and the effects of 5-a Reductase what slows it down, but that seems far fetched.

According to this site that helps parents of children who have a 5-a Reductase deficiency, parents should be warned of possibly lowing final adult height with added male hormones.
https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/5-alpha-reductase-deficiency
"If testosterone is used in a prepubertal patient for a prolonged course of therapy, parents should be counseled over the potential to decrease final adult height secondary to androgen associated skeletal advancement"


If I were in your situation, I would take finasteride, but you have to make your own decision so you can't blame anyone.

Aaaaamazing, thanks bro!

 

[hollow11]

i can barely maintain a good psychical shape with my height , so i hope ive stopped growing at my current age which is 20

 

[Bklyn_23]

~80+% stop growing by age 18.
~95+% stop growing by 21.
Almost no one grows after 23.

My best friend grew 2.5" between age 21-23, going from 6' to 6'2.5". I attribute it to him drinking a ton of milk.

 

[kj6723]

I think I grew another 1-2 inches after highschool, was probably my full height by 20-21

Even after full height has been reached the male body continues to fill out some in the early 20's