"You Can NEVER Run Again" - The Heightmaxxing Surgery Health Experts Are WARNING Men About
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
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Paul Saladino reacts to the growing trend of cosmetic leg lengthening surgery, where doctors deliberately break both legs, insert internal rods and lengthen bone about 1 millimeter per day so patients can gain up to 6 inches in height over several painful months. He points out that in the United States the procedure can cost well over 100,000 dollars, often leaves people unable to run or play impact sports normally again, and may create long term mobility problems in the pursuit of a few extra inches.
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| 0:00.0 | So what are some things that people would want to see happen next? That could be the next big phenomenon. I'm sure you've seen the whole, you know, insecurity with heights, right? With the |
| 0:11.9 | surgery. Yeah, with a leg lengthening surgery. Surgery involves deliberately breaking the bone, then slowly lengthening it to use an internal rod. |
| 0:22.7 | And the bone lengthens one millimeter per day. |
| 0:25.4 | The lengthening phase takes about three to four months. |
| 0:28.5 | And approximately six months later, you could grow six inches in height. |
| 0:32.9 | They're doing it here for $125,000 to $135,000. |
| 0:36.7 | But if you want to go do it in Europe or different places, it can do for $25,000 to $135,000. But if you want to go do it in, you know, Europe |
| 0:39.5 | or different places, it can do for $25,000 to $30,000. And some people that take it may never |
| 0:45.0 | be able to run again. Yeah, here's one guy. Oh, my gosh. Six inches for height. This gets into |
| 0:52.0 | like looks maxing. This gets into looks maxing. But height is another one of those things, right? Yeah, yeah. You know, hey, 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, six feet tall. Do you see this thing getting bigger or you think this is a little bit more limited than the other? This is pretty tough because I think people are not going to do this. |
| 1:11.3 | What was the movie that just came out? |
| 1:14.6 | I think it was called, I'll think of it over the course. |
| 1:17.5 | There was a character in this movie. |
| 1:19.4 | It was Pedro Pascal was in this movie and his character in the movie had the surgery. |
| 1:25.2 | I'll think of the movie. |
| 1:27.4 | Anyway, it's, yeah, it's scary because the materialists. |
| 1:33.6 | So it's a romantic movie. |
| 1:35.2 | I watched it on a plane. |
| 1:36.4 | It's Pedro Pascal, Dakota Johnson. |
| 1:38.6 | And, you know, there's like this love triangle between Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and |
| 1:43.7 | Pedro Pascal, and Pedro Pascal. |
| 1:45.2 | One of them is a rich one. The other one's a waiter. Is this the one? Yeah, I got it. Yeah. |
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