• fraksken@infosec.pub
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    2 days ago

    So … You’re saying I could grow my own breast if I get the right ormone (im)balance? Neat. There should be a guide for how to balance these …

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      Be fat and sedentary and drink alcohol for lifestyle risk factors for gynecomastia. Or take risperdal and that can make you lactate too (but without mammary glands it’s more just that you discharge fluid, obviously not milk). Or if you just want breasts see an endocrinologist for spiro or whatever rather than fucking with bad habits or atypical antipsychotics that have other side effects

    • N0t_5ure@lemmy.world
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      Well, if you’re fat (like I was), adipose tissue aromatizes more testosterone to estrogen and you get gynocomastia (breast tissue growth). Also, because your body uses estrogen receptors to regulate testosterone levels, higher estrogen levels causes LH and FSH levels to drop, so you produce less testosterone.

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        I am very fat. My moobs are absolutely my least favorite part of that (visually anyway). A decade or so ago, I read on Reddit that one can get fluid drained to reduce the size of man boobs, regardless of physical fitness.

        I want to get this done but feel stupid asking to be put under for a purely vanity matter.

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          I’ve lost about 75lbs+ of fat, and have a small amount of gynocomastia. After having kept the weight off for over 3 years most of my loose skin has shrunk back, but I still have a bit. It’s like wearing a skin suit a size too big. My current efforts are focused on adding muscle to fill out the saggy skin. I think I’ll be able to build my pecs enough to use the gynocomastia to just make it look like I have bigger pecs. That’s the hope anyway.

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      2 days ago

      The safest way is probably to just take estrogen, fin and/or spiro. The much less safe way is to abuse anabolic steriods

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        16 hours ago

        Don’t forget progesterone. Evidence supporting its efficacy for breast growth in combination with estrogen has been mostly anecdotal but there is some recent work substantiating it clinically.