Is there treatment for gynecomastia other than surgery?
Right I’ll try and give you a sensible answer… First off, it’s not caused by bad diet or anything – it’s caused by the levels of eostrogen (the female growth hormone) in your body. All men have a little of this hormone in them, just like all females have a little testosterone. Eostrogen levels in males can increase for a variety of reasons including simply going through puberty. Another reason would be the aromatization of testosterone into eostrogen (happens when free Testosterone binds to an extra carbon atom). The latter is usually a problem for body builders who take large doses of anabolic steroids. So – what can be done about it… This really depends on how advanced the problem is. Usually anti-eostrogen drugs work well if the condition is fairly new. The likes of Tamoxifen (also used for women with breast cancer) block the eostrogen receptors in your body and will reduce gyno. A more aggressive anti-eostrogen drug is letrozole which may help if some hardening of the breast ti
