What is Male Gynecomastia?
Studies show that 30% to 60% of adult men will develop a condition we call male gynecomastia, or excessive growth of breast tissue, over the course of their lives. Although the condition isn’t usually serious, it can be linked to potentially dangerous health problems, so the best advice is to see your doctor. First, your doctor will do a simple physical examination, feeling the area to see if the problem is caused simply by excess fat. If so, he or she may recommend that you get some exercise and lose some weight. But if your doctor detects an abnormal growth of glandular tissue, the next step is to figure out why. Being overweight may still be part of the explanation. Excess fat tends to cause a man’s body to produce more of the female hormone estrogen, which can stimulate breast tissue growth. In about one-fourth of cases, excess breast tissue from puberty doesn’t go away as it normally would. In another fourth of the cases gynecomastia is caused by such medications as hormone supple
