If a man who has DNA that would make him tall stops his growth by Lifting weights at a young age, would his..

Question

make his children short (assuming he doesn't mate with a giant woman)? If so, how does doing something like stopping your growth by lifting weights change your DNA to allow this to happen??

Answer 1

It is just misconception that lifting weights makes you short. If it did make you short it wouldn't change your DNA so the offspring wouldn't be short unless the specific alleles for shortness are present within both parent's DNA.

Answer 2

no.

lifting weights doesn't alter your DNA, neither can DNA affects lifting weight.

the height is dictated by the DNA, although it can also affected by surroundings.  DNA needs to be expressed, constant exercise would help you grow, actually, rather than makes you become short.  Although, you cannot be as tall as you like as there is a genetic limitation.

Answer 3

Lifting weights will not change your DNA, so like the first guy who answered said, his children will not be short, at least, not by a genetic factor inherited from him.

What lifting weights actually does, is that, as an anaerobic excercise, it changes the priorities of your body, so that it takes the energy of the body, and it ends up bulding muscles, instead of have it directed to make you grow taller

Answer 4

NO

Lifting weights will not make you shorter, your diet will and as mankind has eaten better we have grown taller.  This is part of our genes.  The biggest factor that determines your height, when you are young, is how much human growth hormone you get from your brain.

According to Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_trai...

"Weight training can be one of the safest forms of exercise, especially when the movements are slow, controlled, and carefully defined. However, as with any form of exercise, improper execution can result in injury. When the exercise becomes difficult towards the end of a set, there is a temptation to cheat, i.e. to use poor form to recruit other muscle groups to assist the effort. This may shift the effort to weaker muscles that cannot handle the weight. For example, the squat and the deadlift are used to exercise the largest muscles in the body—the leg and buttock muscles—so they require substantial weight. Beginners are tempted to round their back while performing these exercises. This causes the weaker lower back muscles to support much of the weight, which can result in serious lower back injuries. To avoid such problems, weight training exercises must be performed correctly. Hence the saying: "train, don't strain"."

The idea that weightlifting can make you short came from those who damaged their lower backs by not exercising properly and became hunched over.

According to Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_growt...  

"Growth hormone has a variety of functions in the body, the most noticeable of which is the increase of height throughout childhood, and there are several diseases which can be treated through the therapeutic use of GH."

If you have genes for something then they will be passed on in some respect to your offspring.  The European Royal families used to intermarry; so the Queen of England would be related to the Queen of the Netherlands (Holland).  A problem came up because of this; hemophilia.  It is a genetic condition caused by inbreeding.

To stop this the English passed a law saying that members of the Royal family had to marry commoners, not royalty.  Diana, Princess of Wales was a commoner.  This law has prevented the condition re-appearing since it is tied to a recessive gene and both parents must have the gene for a child to develop hemophilia.  Even after many years the Royal Family still has that risk so they have to be careful and cannot marry anyone who has had hemophilia in their family.

According to Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemophilia

"Haemophilia (also spelled as hemophilia, from the Greek haima "blood" and philia "to love") is a group of hereditary genetic disorders that impair the body's ability to control blood clotting or coagulation. In its most common form, Hemophilia A, clotting factor VIII is absent. In Haemophilia B, factor IX is deficient. Hemophilia A occurs in about 1 in 5,000–10,000 male births, while Hemophilia B occurs at about 1 in about 20,000–34,000....

The effects of this s*x-linked, X chromosome disorder are manifested almost entirely in males, although the gene for the disorder is inherited from the mother.

Haemophilia in European royalty featured prominently and thus is sometimes known as "the royal disease". Queen Victoria passed the mutation to her son Leopold and, through several of her daughters, to various royals across the continent, including the royal families of Spain, Germany, and Russia. Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, son of Nicholas II, was a descendant of Queen Victoria and suffered from hemophilia. It was claimed that Rasputin was successful at treating the Tsarevich Alexei of Russia's hemophilia. At the time, a common treatment administered by professional doctors was to use aspirin, which worsened rather than lessen the problem. It is believed that, by simply advising against the medical treatment, Rasputin could bring visible and significant improvement to the condition of Alexei....

Though there is no cure for hemophilia, it can be controlled with regular infusions of the deficient clotting factor, i.e. factor VIII in haemophilia A or factor IX in hemophilia B."

This requires regular treatments and even a minor cut is still dangerous.

According to Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Di...

"Diana was born into the Spencer family. On her mother's side, Diana had Irish, Scottish, English, American and remote Armenian ancestry. One of her great-grandmothers on her mother's side was the New York heiress Frances Work. On her father's side, she was a descendant of King Charles II of England through two sons:

    * Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Grafton, son by Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland

    * Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lennox, son by Louise de Kérouaille

She was also a descendant of King James II of England through a daughter, Henrietta FitzJames. Henrietta's mother was Arabella Churchill, the sister of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, therefore she was related to all eleven Dukes of Marlborough. She was also related to Sir Winston Churchill.Other notable ancestors included Robert the Bruce; Mary Boleyn; Lady Catherine Grey; Maria de Salinas; John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater; and James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.

Diana was also a descendant of the Plantagenet line from Henry III King of England via Mary Boleyn. Diana is also descendant of the Tudor line from Henry VII King of England via Lady Catherine Grey. Her ancestry is thus as linked to Plantagenet, Tudor and Stuart royal lines as much as her royal inlaws (the Windsors)."

Her family connections occurred before the cases of hemophilia appeared.  She was a distant relative to the royal family, but her mother was a commoner so she did not have the gene for hemophilia (it is passed on by females).  The Royal Family of Windsor starting with Queen Victoria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wi... is a classic example of genetics.