There was a post in absoluteunits of a giant basketball player (Hamad Fathy) who is 7’5” and alot of people were commenting about the likely sad state of his knees and back.
My question is if he is fully proportional and athletic with no extra weight damaging his joints, are the forces of gravity enough to do more damage to him just because of his exceptional size?
What else could slowly wear away at someone that large’s body?
In: Biology
The problem is that it’s not possible to be fully proportional. The human body just doesn’t scale and that’s the reason why we stabilised around the 2m mark as the maximum height.
To grow taller we need more bone density and more muscle density, but more bone and muscle density makes us heavier which requires more bone and muscle density , which requires more bone and muscle density, which requires more bone and muscle density ….
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