Valuetainment - May 21, 2026


＂You Can NEVER Run Again＂ - The Heightmaxxing Surgery Health Experts Are WARNING Men About

Topics
leg lengthening surgery vitamin K2 and growth plates
Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Paul Saladino Anderson Silva Pedro Pascal Vitamin K2 Rotterdam McGregor
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Length

7 minutes

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200.51

Word count

1,436

Sentence count

81

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Summary

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In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Aaron Horschig joins us to talk about a new medical procedure that could revolutionize the way we think about height. We talk about the benefits and drawbacks of the surgery, the risks and benefits, and how it could be the next big thing in medicine.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 So what are some things that people would want to see happen next that could be the next big phenomenon?
00:00:05.920 I'm sure you've seen the whole, you know, insecurity with heights, right?
00:00:11.820 With the surgery?
00:00:12.660 Yeah, with the leg lengthening surgery.
00:00:14.820 Oh my gosh.
00:00:15.360 Surgery involves deliberately breaking the bone, then slowly lengthening it to use an internal rod.
00:00:22.720 And the bone lengthens one millimeter per day.
00:00:25.300 The lengthening phase takes about three to four months.
00:00:28.600 And approximately six months later, you could grow six inches in height.
00:00:32.800 They're doing it here for $125,000 to $135,000.
00:00:36.800 But if you want to go do it in Europe or different places, you can do it for $25,000 to $30,000.
00:00:42.580 And some people that take it may never be able to run again.
00:00:46.300 Yeah, here's one guy.
00:00:47.260 Oh, my gosh.
00:00:48.040 Six inches for height.
00:00:51.220 This gets into, like, looks-maxing.
00:00:52.940 this gets into looks maxim but height is another one of those things right yeah yeah you know hey
00:00:57.340 i'll make more money if i'm above six feet tall if i'm five six i add six inches i'm five eleven
00:01:03.480 six feet tall do you see this thing getting bigger or you think this is a little bit more
00:01:07.540 limited than the other this is pretty tough because i think people are not going to do this
00:01:10.980 what was the movie that just came out um i think it was called i'll think of it over the course
00:01:17.460 there was a character in this movie it was pedro pascal was in this movie and his character in the
00:01:22.140 movie had the surgery um i'll think of the movie um anyway um it's uh yeah it's it's scary because
00:01:32.420 the materialists so it's a romantic movie i watched it on a plane it's pedro pascal dakota
00:01:37.660 johnson and you know there there's like this love triangle between uh dakota johnson chris evans and
00:01:43.760 pedro pascal and pedro pascal one is them one of them is a rich one the other one's a waiter is
00:01:47.660 Is this the one?
00:01:48.180 Yes, yes.
00:01:48.460 I got it, yeah.
00:01:49.200 And so Pedro Pascal comes from a very successful family.
00:01:51.920 He's in New York.
00:01:52.560 He's an entrepreneur.
00:01:53.180 He does private equity or something, and he's had the surgery.
00:01:56.460 Anyway, it comes up in the movie.
00:01:57.620 It's interesting.
00:01:58.480 To me, I think this is too far.
00:02:01.200 This is a bridge too far for most people.
00:02:02.860 You can't run.
00:02:04.020 What if you fall?
00:02:05.100 You think about this in the UFC, Conor McGregor, Anderson Silva,
00:02:08.840 the guys who break their tibia when they kick someone in the leg,
00:02:13.440 and then they have a plate,
00:02:15.100 and they're sort of hampered for the rest of their life.
00:02:17.240 they can't kick things. I mean, not everybody wants to kick things, but, um, you know, if you
00:02:21.880 want to do intense sports, like what, what if you want to move in your life, you're, you're really
00:02:25.680 limiting what you can do with these surgeries. So I don't know about this. It's pretty crazy
00:02:30.480 that people are actually doing this. I mean, the look smashing stuff goes crazy. People,
00:02:33.620 bone smashing, jaw surgeries, implants. The thing I want to say about height is that there's a,
00:02:40.580 there's, there's compelling evidence that what you feed children during their growing years can
00:02:46.640 affect height. Obviously, the genetics have a factor. You're tall, your wife's height,
00:02:52.640 these kind of things, these will affect your children's height. But we see this across the
00:02:57.780 world. Height in both men and women is correlated with nutrition and correlated with the consumption
00:03:04.420 of animal products and specifically vitamin K2. So vitamin K2 is a form of vitamin K
00:03:10.240 that occurs in animal foods. It's in things like cheeses or full-fat milk, meat, liver we talked
00:03:16.140 about, butter. This is vitamin K2. And there is compelling evidence that giving children enough
00:03:23.220 vitamin K2 when they're growing, which means feeding them liver or liver supplements or butter,
00:03:28.680 things that we're afraid of, feeding them enough meat will allow them to achieve their maximum
00:03:33.820 potential height. K2? Vitamin K2 is linked to height? Yes, because vitamin K2 is involved in 0.99
00:03:40.640 bone turnover. And vitamin K2 deficiency appears to cause calcification of the growth plates.
00:03:47.840 So when you have enough vitamin K2, you manage calcium stores in the body properly and where
00:03:54.060 your body puts calcium. As an adult, adequate vitamin K2 is consistently and significantly
00:03:59.500 associated with lower rates of calcific aortic sclerosis, so calcification of the aortic valve,
00:04:05.280 and atherosclerosis of our arteries.
00:04:08.620 So vitamin K2 is found in animal foods, cheeses.
00:04:11.800 This is a famous observational study
00:04:13.900 called the Rotterdam study.
00:04:15.460 Those who had the highest level of K2 in their diet,
00:04:18.580 the highest tertial of vitamin K2
00:04:21.380 had the lowest all-cause mortality,
00:04:23.520 the lowest atherosclerosis risk
00:04:25.860 and the lowest amounts of calcific aortic sclerosis,
00:04:29.880 calcification.
00:04:30.840 But when you're growing,
00:04:32.300 you don't want the growth plates to calcify.
00:04:34.920 So you make sure your children are getting enough animal foods, eggs, butter, liver, things like this, red meat that we shouldn't be afraid of.
00:04:42.500 That allows the growth plates to not calcify too early and to stunt growth.
00:04:47.040 So, look, you know, I'm 5'9".
00:04:49.300 I always wish I was 5'11 or 6'0", and I'm thinking, I wish my parents had fed me more eggs, you know, or a little better diet.
00:04:54.620 Both my parents were doctors, but I grew up in the low-fat craze.
00:04:58.480 And, you know, we had kind of an average standard American diet.
00:05:02.200 Who knows?
00:05:02.800 I mean, it's worked out.
00:05:03.500 I mean, I'm fine in the end, but I can tell you that as a man who is 5'9",
00:05:08.400 I look at men who are 6'1", man, I wish, you know?
00:05:11.520 Do you still say that?
00:05:12.820 I still think about that, you know?
00:05:14.640 I still think about that.
00:05:15.480 And I even saw this bone surgery.
00:05:16.880 Should I get that?
00:05:17.720 And I thought, no, I couldn't do that.
00:05:19.180 I'm too active.
00:05:19.880 No, you're active.
00:05:20.380 You're running.
00:05:20.860 You're surfing.
00:05:21.520 Well, I'm kicking.
00:05:22.240 I want to do martial arts.
00:05:23.240 You send me videos of stuff you're doing in Costa Rica, surfing,
00:05:27.580 and it's the sickest.
00:05:28.860 Every time you send me the video, I'm in an office.
00:05:31.720 I'm like, this guy is sending me another one of these videos
00:05:34.100 that he's enjoying himself in Costa Rica.
00:05:35.940 Anyway, yeah, I want to be able to do those things.
00:05:37.500 It would be tough to do that if you add those.
00:05:39.640 I would never do that.
00:05:40.980 But before the podcast, we were talking about children.
00:05:43.500 I have an amazing girlfriend.
00:05:45.440 She's now my fiancé.
00:05:47.000 And we want to have kids.
00:05:48.240 And I'm thinking, every time I see this stuff,
00:05:50.200 I think, how do I want to feed these children?
00:05:53.800 And, of course, me.
00:05:54.860 We're talking about Paul Saladino.
00:05:55.920 I'm going to feed my kids animal foods.
00:05:57.260 I'm going to feed my kids meat and liver,
00:05:59.840 either in capsules or in real liver or eggs and because i want my children to have as much of an
00:06:07.520 ability to live their life as healthy as possible end of story so it's interesting stuff yeah no
00:06:12.600 question the vitamin k what was it again k2 vitamin k2 interesting thing uh uh to look at
00:06:19.220 you know it's one of my kids is like hey what am i getting my growth spurt i said buddy i don't know
00:06:24.580 i don't know when you're gonna get it one of them is size 11 and a half feet the other one is size
00:06:28.280 eight is like am i gonna how tall you think i'm gonna sell this when it comes down to heights
00:06:31.720 i don't know how to what to tell you how old is he he's 12 but he he's got time he's got time yeah
00:06:37.700 but his brother is a giant he's becoming he's a big boy he shakes his hands are the same size as
00:06:43.260 my hands at 14 years old okay so he's a he's a big boy he's getting bigger but we'll see what
00:06:48.020 happens some of it uh you just have to wait the other part is when you're saying vitamin k2 we
00:06:52.300 got to look into that hey guys i am paul saladino you can find me on minect if you have any questions
00:06:56.620 about diet, health, recovering from chronic illness or autoimmune disease.
00:07:00.960 I'm excited to connect with you guys all there, and I'll see you in there.
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