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99-year-old man discovers his real height after shrinking for years
Flaunt your height all you can while you have it. A 99-year-old man couldn’t believe his height after realizing he had shrunk for years and the video capturing the precious moment is viral.
Shrinking is a natural process that occurs with age. There is nothing can do about it, except accept it with grace and move on. But a grandfather and veteran wasn’t happy to learn he had lost several inches of his frame.
99-year-old realizes he’s shrunk
Undeniably, the video depicting a 99-year-old man’s reaction to his family member mentioning his real height is adorable and hilarious.
The man in the video is presumably Mario, recorded by his granddaughter who runs the TikTok account. In the viral video, Mario is asked his height when the lady beside him says he’s 5 ft 3 in.
The old man is in disbelief at the lady’s response and refuses to believe that he’s a little taller than 5 feet. “I am not 5’3,” he says. The lady standing next to him says she used to be 5’4 and has shrunk by an inch or so. Since she and Mario are the same height, he isn’t as tall as he’d imagined.
His granddaughter, behind the camera, asks him: “How tall do you think you are?”, to which he responds: “I don’t know. I was 5 ft 9 in in the Army.”
People shrink with age
Harvard Health Publishing notes that people’s height starts to decline after 40. The rate at which the height reduces increases in the later decades.
Numerous conditions can contribute to a reduction in height as you age, including wearing out of cartilage between the joints and osteoporosis, which causes the spinal column to become shorter.”
Some people can lose more inches in a short time, such as within a year, due to underlying health conditions or from an injury to the spinal cord or hip.
While you can’t control your height, maintaining a healthy lifestyle and diet can help you prevent losing inches and make you look taller with a better posture.
