How to get rid of man breasts for teenagers?

Teenagers are often concern on breast enlargement as this affects their body image and sense of insecurity but this phenomenon is common among boys (about 30%) during puberty period. They will feel tender or pain with their nipples. However, the good news is majority of them will disappear on their own, average 6 till 12 months.

Can these kids live and adapt with these man breasts during their puberty period?
Kids with man breasts are prone to emotional and psychological issues especially when they try to mix with other normal boys. They will try avoiding public swimming or beaches as they afraid to take off their shirts.

Let us look into a research done in this. The researchers had categorized teenagers with man breasts into 4 groups.

Group         Group Category
A                    Have some symptoms of breasts but not obvious and not overweight
B                     Breasts continue to enlarge and are obvious
C                     With breast and overweight
D                     With breast like and muscles

In group A, doctors will advise them to wait and provide no treatment. Only about a quarter of them are worries on carrying these boobs but do not change their daily activities. Since their busts are not obvious, no pressure from their peers.

Group B received a lot of pressure from the society on their body image. When you hear such jeering, “Go to the girl’s gym”, “Don’t you want to wear bra?”, you will know how intense is the pressure. This caused them to withdraw from the society, including their parents and closed family members. Some may even thought of committing suicide.

Kids in group C were briefed on their obesity, thus required them to reduce weigh. They were quite relaxed and obeyed to change of lifestyle in order to reduce their weigh.

Similarly, teenagers in group D had no anxiety since they were looked more masculine with plenty of muscle. After been advised the cause of breasts were due to excessive exercise, they abide to reduce workouts activities.

What are the causes of man boobs?
1) Imbalance of sex hormones
In early stages of puberty, the ratio of estrogen hormone to androgen hormone is fairly high which caused temporary swelling of tissue around nipples or man boobs. They disappear on their own in a few years at most once hormones stabilize into adulthood. However, if the hormonal imbalance continues, it will create glandular tissue on your chest. There is no solution for glandular tissue, except surgery.

2) Klinefelter’s syndrome
If the breast enlargement does not go away after some time, it could be due to this genetic disorder called Klinefelter’s syndrome. These kids with Klinefelter’s syndrome have an extra sex chromosome, XXY instead of the usual kids’ arrangement, XY. The probably of getting this syndrome is 1 in 1,000 male births. Click Klinefelter’s syndrome for more info.

3) Overweight
If you are overweight, male breasts could be resulted from fat deposit or pseudogynecomastia. Click here to learn more on how to detect pseudogynecomastia.  Concentrate on losing weight by practicing regular exercise and low fat diet can eventually lose you man boobs.

4)Liver
Liver problem or cirrhosis can cause man boobs as it cannot help the body to metabolize estrogen effectively. This will cause high level of estrogen hormone in blood stream.

5) Steriod
These days, you can see a lot of teenagers involve in muscle building or bodybuilding. Some of them want to get faster result, have resorted for steroid. It leaves side-effect of gynecomastia.

6)Drugs
Certain medication like anti-depressants can cause man boobs. Abusive use of drugs like heroin, marijuana can also leads to man breasts.

7) Tumors
Testicular tumors can lead to increased blood estrogen levels. This excess of hormone estrogen will cause of imbalance of hormone which eventually leads to man breasts.

How to get rid of man breasts for teenagers?

Before you can start work on these get rid of man boobs remedies, you need to ensure that your man breasts are not caused by any underlying medical conditions. Thus, you need to check with your doctor first to know the root cause of your problem.

1. Exercises or workouts
Exercise is always the best and natural approach. It also can help to improve your hormonal balance. You need combination of both cardio (track) and weight (strength training) in order to get optimum result. Get your heart rate up for 30 minutes every day.

Below are some of the best exercises (particularly upper chest exercises) that will help to get rid of them.

a)Chest flys
Firstly, select a dumbbell comfortable weight. Then, lie down on a bench with a dumbbell in each hand; slowly move the dumbbells together till they touch each other. You have to do this in 3 sets of 8.

b)Push-ups with dumbbells
Continuation from part a) do your push-ups. This exercise will be isolating the chest muscles and can be done in 3 sets of 8.

c)Incline bench press

d)military press

e)bicept curls

f)Cardio
Some of these cardio workouts like jogging, bicycling, brisk walk, swimming can help to lose man boobs. If you want more serious training, go for 20 minutes of high intensity interval training (sprint one minute, walk or jog three minutes, repeat). Do this routine 2-3 times per week only.

2) Change your diet
You should stop eating fatty foods. Eat more vegetables and lean protein like egg whites, chicken, salmon. Cut out carbs and desserts and all that crap. Consider taking fish oil for super healthy fats. Also reduce intake of foods which contain high phytoestrogen. Below is a list of food with high phytoestrogen contents.

3) Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT)
If the teenager’s man breast is caused by genetic disorder such as Klinefelter syndrome, then he may be subjected to testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) by his doctor. This kind treatment could be in injections, gels and scrotal cream form. The doctor will monitor his gonadotropin hormone levels during the treatment period. (Klinefelter syndrome causes pituitary glands to produce too much of the gonadotropin)

4)Breast binder
Using breast binder or vest to flatten the kid’s breast is good idea while waiting for the body to response to any treatment. This can help to reduce any emotional and psychological problem faced by the kid.

5)Surgery
Surgery should be the last resort if the body does not response to any of the above mentioned remedies or treatment. Usually, doctor will not consider teenager for surgery (mastectomy) until he has finished puberty. This is the reason.

“The AMA discourages the promotion of cosmetic surgery, being particularly mindful that advertising and other promotions which appeal to youth encourages people to consider cosmetic surgery as an easy solution to personal issues including body image dissatisfaction.” – Australian  Medical Association, Body Image and Health, 2002.

The objective of the surgery is to remove off the glandular tissue from the breast. If there is excessive fat, liposuction method will be used. You may have to undergo skin removal if the breast is too large.

In addition to the above mentioned remedies or treatments, these teenagers must be supplement psychotherapy and group counseling to boost up their self-esteem level. As a parent, it is normal to worry and should consistently find ways on how to get rid of man breasts for teenagers. Click here man boobs help.

Gynecomastia can be caused by HIV treatment therapy. Adult HIV patients are commonly been treated with Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), a therapy which can dramatically extended survival in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seropositive patients. However, HAART treatment is associated with various side effects ie. gynecomastia with glandular tissue. Some of them developed into pseudogynecomastia due to fat accumulation at chest area.

Statistic showed gynecomastia in male HIV patients treated with HAART was 0.8/100 patients/year, with a prevalence of 2.8% in those treated longer than two years (9).

Gynecomastia may also be related to a higher frequency of exposure of the HIV population to other agents that may cause gynecomastia, including antifungals, antituberculous drugs, and tricyclic antidepressants (15) in addition to drugs used for treatment of liver and renal diseases.

Research has shown some success of reversing patients with gynecomastia due to HAART treatment. These patients had been applied with local application of DHT gel on their breast. Dihydrotestosterone (DHT; Andractim [Besins-Iscovesco]) is a natural metabolite of testosterone that has antiestrogen activity and cannot be converted into estradiol at the tissue level. Most cases reported the gynecomastia after the DHT treatment or slightly regressed. The study was based on local application of DHT gel, 5 g/day given once daily for 1–3
months.

Click here for the Successful DHT treatment for HAART-induced gynecomastia patients report.

For more information on Andractim

Andractim Gynecomastia

Conclusion, the long-lasting use of antiretroviral drugs for HIV treatment is implicated as the precipitating cause for the development of gynecomastia.

<em>We all know that one of the causes of man boobs is hormone imbalance, ie. hormone testosterone level is lower than hormone estrogen level. Moreover, low testosterone level can cause build up of fat in your body. Research from the University of Washington has shown a relationship between low testosterone levels and abdominal fat (1). Therefore, we must work on how we can boost up the hormone testosterone in our body. Below are some tips to help you to achieve your goal in reduce your man boobs naturally.

1.    Eat more almonds as it has monounsaturated fat which is good for our body
2.    Perform more weight trainings as these help to increase your testosterone level
3.    Reduce your stress level. Stress will cause your body release of hormone cortisol to your blood stream which will suppress your testosterone level. Cortisol is catabolic or muscle wasting hormone, while testosterone is anabolic or muscle building hormone.
4.    Include garlic in your diet or take garlic in capsule form. Garlic has alicin, one of the organic compound which is useful for boost up the testosterone and reduce body fat.
5.    Stop taking alcohol as it can reduce your testosterone level. Alcohol will raise levels of the muscle-wasting hormone cortisol and increases the breakdown of testosterone.
6.    Reduce your body fat if you are overweight as an overweight person can have lower testosterone level compare with normal weight person. However, interestingly, research has shown extreme low body fat can also reduce your testosterone level (2). Therefore, when you want to reduce your body fat, keep it at an optimum level, ie. 10 – 15%.
7.    Eat sensibly and with sufficient calorie for your need or lifestyle. This information is particularly important for those who are trying to lose weight by reducing their calorie intake as too low of calories can cause low testosterone level according to a research done (3).
8.    Eat food which contains moderate-fat (one-third of your diet) with majority of the fat coming from monounsaturated fat. Your body uses fat from your diet to build hormone testosterone.
9.    Avoid protein powders and meal replacement supplements which contain soy protein as some researches shown it will reduce your testosterone level
10.    Choose types of exercise and workout moderately but not overdo it. Research shown endurance-trained men have lower testosterone levels than men who never exercise (4).

References
1.    Tsai, E.C., Boyko, E.J., Leonetti, D.L., & Fujimoto, W.Y. (2000). Low serum testosterone level as a predictor of increased visceral fat in Japanese-American men. International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders, 24, 485-491
2.    Strauss, R.H., Lanese, R.R., & Malarkey, W.B. (1985). Weight loss in amateur wrestlers and its effect on serum testosterone levels. Journal of the American Medical Association, 254, 3337-3338
3.    Friedl, K.E., Moore, R.J., Hoyt, R.W., Marchitelli, L.J., Martinez-Lopez, L.E., & Askew, E.W. (2000). Endocrine markers of semistarvation in healthy lean men in a multistressor environment. Journal of Applied Physiology, 88, 1820-1830
4.    Hackney, A.C., Szczepanowska, E., & Viru, A.M. (2003). Basal testicular testosterone production in endurance-trained men is suppressed. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 89, 198-201

<<em>strong>How Zinc Can Help In Man Breast Reduction?

You don’t know it yet but, at the end of this page, you will have learned how zinc mineral can help you in reducing man breast or man boobs.

Zinc is compulsory to maintain balance of hormone testosterone in our body. It is required by pituitary gland to releasing luteinizing and follicle stimulating hormones, which stimulate production of testosterone and it also inhibits the aromatase enzyme from converting  testosterone into estrogen. Any imbalance of hormone, ie. more estrogen will cause more fat cells, which eventually caused man boobs!

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This is supported by the research done by Ae-Son Om and Kyung-Won Chung, Department of Anatomical Sciences in the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, published in the April 1996 Journal of Nutrition, 126[4]: 842-848, article entitled “Dietary Zinc Deficiency Alters 5 Alpha-Reduction and Aromatization of Testosterone and Androgen and Estrogen in Rat Liver.”.

They used three group of rats, ie. a group fed a zinc-deficient diet, a group fed a controlled but adequate diet of zinc, and a freely fed group. After keeping them on these diets for a long enough time to alter their plasma zinc levels, the scientists measured their testosterone and estrogen levels and measured and counted their androgen and estrogen receptor sites. Within the zinc deficient rats, the number of androgen receptor sites had been reduced in number by 40%. but the estrogen receptor sites had been increased by 60%. The liver’s conversion of testosterone to estrogen was significantly greater in the rats on the zinc deficient diet. The same rats that had the decrease in androgen receptor sites showed significantly reduced amounts of lutinizing hormone and testosterone concentrations.

Conclusion, zinc-deficient diet will increase the aromatization of testosterone and the formation of estradiol, the primary estrogen hormone. Also, if some of the testosterone has nowhere to bind, it will continue to circulate in the blood, lastly being aromatized in the liver and producing estrogen. Eventually, it will develop man boobs or gynecomastia if we do not control the production of estrogen fast enough !

Another bonus to you, you also can test yourself your zinc level using Lancet test developed in 1980. Create a test solution, dissolve 0.1 percent zinc sulfate (supplement from pharmacy) in a base of distilled water. You should refrain from eating, drinking or smoking for at least an hour before the test, then place about a teaspoon of the solution in your mouth and swish it around for 10 seconds. If it tastes unpleasant or metallic, your level of zinc is probably adequate. However, if the solution tastes like water, you may be receiving less zinc than you need.

Therefore, if your have zinc dificiency due to your diet or your lifestyle which cause of reduction of zinc, ie. intake of steriod, alcohol, other medicine, you need to think of taking zinc supplement.
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<<em>strong>You may have Man Boobs gene!

Do you know that your gene may cause your man boobs problem? This problem was discovered by researchers in 1950s, that male who has an extra sex chromosome X normally will developed man boobs. If you interested to know more how this extra chromosome X causes man boobs, then just keep reading on the following paragraphs

Normal male has chromosome XY but for this special case (also known as Klinefelter syndrome) has chromosome XXY. No one knows exactly the cause of this problem. Statistic shows higher chances of getting XXY chromosome if the parents are in advanced age and fifty percent of chances the extra chromosome comes from the father. The frequency of getting XXY chromosome for all newborn male babies is 1 in 1000.

The symptoms
Not all who has XXY chromosome develop these symptoms but below are the list

Child
-delayed in learning to talk
-difficulty in reading and writing
-shy
-passive
-may suffer ear infection

Adult/Adolescence
-frontal head baldness
-poor beard growth
-tendency to grow fewer chest hair
-narrow shoulders
-breast development. One third of males with XXY chromosome will start to have enlarged breast (man boobs) during their puberty.
-female-type pubic hair pattern
-wide hips
-smaller testicular which caused low of testosterone hormone.
-prone to osteoporosis in later life

Diagnosis
For adult or adolescent, doctor will normally perform fertility test i.e. measure increase of hormone gonadotropins. For pregnant mother who want prenatal diagnosis on XXY chromosome, your can get doctor to conduct amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling (CVS). It is always better to detect it early, as we can plan for the child to go through normal life with treatment from doctor and also to avoid develop into gynecomastia.

Treatment
It is advisable to seek help from endocrinologist, doctor who is specialize in hormone interaction. The doctor most likely will advise to provide testosterone treatment during their puberty which can help to build more muscle and strength. Of course, it will indirectly reduce the effect of man boobs due to lack of testosterone hormone in his body. This treatment is also important to prevent breast cancer as enlarged male breast has the same possibility of getting cancer as female breast. It is also important in developing his sexuality to the normal man level and avoids gynecomastia

Now that you’re at the end of this article and you have learned on one possible cause of man boobs. If you are low in testosterone hormone, you can find out on ways to boost up your testosterone level by click the following link.

“Can Cardio Workout Get Rid Of Man Boobs or Gynecomastia?”

A lot of people once they have discovered they have man boobs, start to do workout hoping that they can be reduced if not eliminated. However, there are a few types of man boobs that one must know. Gynecomastia or man boobs due to excessive of glandular tissue can never be reduced by any exercises. At this moment, the only way to get rid of man boobs is through surgery. However, if your man boobs are due to excessive of fat (also known as pseudo-gynecomastia), then workout may be one of the solutions. Get your doctor to check the type of your man boobs or else you can self-examine by using the method illustrated in this blog.

If you are thinking of any exercises that can just get rid of chest fat alone, you are wrong as you cannot perform spot fat reducing. When you perform fat loss workout, it is meant for the whole body. In order for the body to start burn off your fat, your body metabolism need to burn off all the carbohydrate stored in your body (glycogen) first. Once it is exhausted, then your body metabolism will start to look for fat stored in your body for burning.

So which types of cardio should you do? It is depends on individual physical, health and fitness levels. If you are sedentary type, new in fitness or extremely overweight, you might want to start with moderately-paced walking from 30 minutes till an hour. As you progress, you want to increase to your pace and speed so that you can increase your body metabolism level. If you want to exercise indoor, you can try walking on treadmill machine. However, you have to take note, walking burns little calorie or fat unless you walk with extremely fast paces. Therefore, you need to progress to more intensity cardio training like running, sprinting and interval training if you seriously want to burn off your fat.

Cardio training is best to be performed in the morning (before your breakfast of course) because in the morning your carbohydrate (ie. glucose) level is low after hours of fasting. It is faster for your body metabolism to burn off all your carbohydrate and move on to burn your fat layer. You will feel more energetic throughout the day as the high metabolism stays elevated during a period of time.

“Aerobic exercise such as walking, jogging or cycling is the only type of physical
activity that directly burns body fat. For fat to be burned, oxygen must be present and
this occurs only through aerobic exercise.”
- Cliff Sheets, Certified Clinical Nutritionist and author of “Lean Bodies”

Interval training is an advanced level of cardio training which has higher level of fat burning potential. It alternates between low pace of exercise and high pace of exercise and is repeated over a period of time. You can use it for your walking, running, cycling or any other type of cardio exercises.

High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) takes one more level higher such as you will perform high intensity exercise until you feel you lose your breath during your high pace exercise, then you will lower to your low pace exercise just to catch up your breath. Research showed high intensity exercise increases usage of free-fatty acids after exercise to re-synthesize glycogen. This explain why HIIT is so powerful in burning fat and it is by far the second most powerful fat burning exercise program. Download this free report Interval Training

In order to get rid of your chest fat, you need to combine cardio training with weight training. As Chris Aceto, author of “Everything You Need to Know About Fat Loss” said the fastest way to lose fat is with hard, heavy, to-failure weight training with 6 to 12
reps and don’t rely on aerobics exclusively. We shall cover this in the next post.

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Disclaimer: See your physician before starting any exercise. You must have a complete physical examination if you are sedentary, if you have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or diabetes, if you are overweight, or if you are over 30 years old.

<<em>strong>”How to Detect Gynecomastia or Man Boobs?”

If you feel that you have enlarged breasts and worry of them, you may want to perform this simple test.

A genuine gynecomastia has the rubbery tissue extends out symmetrically from the nipple, provided the tissue is larger than 0.5mm in diameter. However, pseudogynecomastia consists of fat tissue which can be tested with thumb and forefinger without any resistance. If there is a mass located further from the nipple and have other symptoms like skin dimpling, nipple retraction or discharge, then it may be a sign of breast cancer.

Doctor will perform more thorough examinations, ie.
• Sign of liver, thyriod or kidney diseases
• Sign of hypogonadism (underdeveloped sex organs)
• Sign of feminization
• Size of testicles and any presence of nodules
• Blood test on various hormone level, ie testosterone, estrogen; serum
• Mammogram

The doctor will also query you on the following items
• Family history of gynecomastia
• Age and duration of gynecomastia
• Abusive use of drug or alcohol or steriod
• Side-effects from current prescription medications, over-the-counter medications

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<<em>strong>”Can soy product cause your gynecomastia or man boobs?”

There was a special case of gynecomastia or man boobs problem reported in one of the clinical courses. A man was consulted by a doctor in the endocrinology clinic in the assessment of the bilateral gynecomastia of 6 months. He also complained on the erectile dysfunction and the decline of libido. Based on initial test reported no change in the size of the testicles, not criminal trauma of the testicles, sexually transmitted diseases, no headaches, blurred vision, and no change in muscle mass or strength. Laboratory of the initial evaluation showed estrogen and estradiol concentration must be 4 times more than the upper limit of the range of reference. According to the results of the testicles ultrasound, computed tomography of the chest, abdomen and pelvis imaging and positron emission tomography were normal. As a result of the normal outcome of the review of imaging, the patient was again questioned, and he described a daily dose of 3 quarts of soya milk. Following the decision of drinking soy milk, and his boobs tenderness resolved and his estradiol concentration slowly returned to normal.

An unusual case of gynecomastia associated with soy product consumption.

However, this was a very special case as there is no other research so far able to prove that dietary soy can cause gynecomastia. Below is a research done on the effect of isoflavonoids derived from soy protein on adult male macaques and there was no sign of gynecomastia.

Dietary soy protein containing isoflavonoids does not adversely affect the reproductive tract

Even soy protein formula (SPF) is considered safe for children from any gynecomastia effect, no doubt there is phyto-estrogen in it.

Soy protein formulas in children: no hormonal effects in long-term feeding.

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<<em>strong>”Big Warning for using Flaxseed for Gynecomastia treatment”

There are some people claims that taking flaxseed can help to reduce gynecomastia or man boobs. However, research shows there are some mixed result on the effectiveness of using flaxseed.
Flaxseeds contain high levels of lignans and omega-3 fatty acids. Although a lot of claims that flaxseed can help to treat breast cancer but in actual fact, it may not as it has the estrogen receptor antagonist properties. As for why it is not suitable for gynecomastia, it is because lignans has phytoestrogen (plant estrogen) and may process estrogen mimicker properties. Therefore, instead of reduce the occurrence of gynecomastia, it may increase the size of them.

In addition, there are other side effects and warnings of using flaxseed.
1. Allergies for some people who are allergic to flaxseed
2. May increase the risk of prostate cancer
3. Reduce the absorption of other medicines, vitamins or supplements taken by mouth
4. Raw flaxseed contains cyanide
5. May cause mania or hypomania in people with bipolar disorder
6. May obstruct the intestines for people with history of narrowing intestines or esophagus
7. Increase blood sugar level for diabetes patients
8. Increase risk of bleeding

You can refer to these reliable links for more details of the risks
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/patient-flaxseed.html
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/flaxseed/

However, one good news is flaxseed oil does not contain lignans, which means no estrogen mimicker properties. It contains alpha-linolenic acid component which claim to lower lipid or cholesterol level. Therefore, it may be helpful for pseudo gynecomastia patient but it is best to check with your doctor before trying it.

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<<em>strong>”Gynecomastia is due to estrogen in our food and water?”

Is it true one of the causes of gynecomastia was due to present of estrogen (female hormone) in our food chain and water supply?

Let us talk about our drinking water supply causing gynecomastia first. It is quite common that we recycle our waste water from our home, particularly in the areas where the water is scare. Generally, the water from the treatment plant is safe for consumption but there are some chemical compounds that they do not treat such as estrogen or estrogen mimickers. This estrogen hormone comes from female who take contraceptive pill while estrogen mimickers could be nonylphenols, come from paints, rubber, cosmetics and plastics. Research shows 80 percent of the rivers in US in 30 states contain these hormones. This hormone estrogen is then been picked up by fish in the sea or river which causes fish to change its sex as reported by researchers in Colorado.  Read this interesting article and watch the video too.
Make fish become female?

In another scenario, for three years, Canadian scientists have put birth-control pills into a remote Ontario lake to measure this impact. The results: All male fish in the lake – from tiny tadpoles to large trout – were “feminized,” meaning they had egg proteins growing abnormally in their bodies.
http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/press/2003/2003-0627-KR-estrogenizedfish.htm

Men who consume the water may develop man boobs or gynecomastia later. As Alan Kingdon, M.D., a cosmetic surgeon and medical director of the Cosmetic Surgery Clinic in London said “I’m sure that estrogen in the food cycle must be a factor.”

As for food, quite common we hear about the usage of hormone to boost the production of cattle. This hormone is then passed to humans when they consume the meat and may cause man boobs.

In a January 31, 2008 article, “Toward A Cleaner, More Effective Method For Destroying Hormone-like Pollutants In Wastewater” from the American Chemical Society, researchers have tested a new catalyst called Fe-TAML or Fe-B*. In the presence of hydrogen peroxide, the catalyst quickly and effectively destroyed various forms of estrogens typically found in post-treatment wastewater, removing 95 percent of the chemicals—including Ethinylestradiol—in 15 minutes. Hopefully, this method can be implemented and help to reduce the occurrence of gynecomastia

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