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  • October 2025
  • By Burnt Store Lakes

YOU’RE TALLER IN THE MORNING THAN AT NIGHT

Here’s a weird fact about the human body: When you wake up in the morning, you’re about one centimeter taller. That’s because at night when you’re lying down, the spine stretches and decompresses. But throughout the day, the soft cartilage between your bones gets squashed and compressed, explain British physicians (and twin brothers!) Chris and Xand van Tulleken, co-authors of Operation Ouch!: The HuManual.