you take all these breast enlargement ingredients when you're young, say at age 20, say wild yam for progesterone where your body still produces it itself and actually only for women in menopause or same with estrogens... so then you stop taking them if you're satisfied with the results... won't it make your own body system 'lazy' to keep producing the right amount of the hormones for your age?
I know it's a weird question, but that's what makes me worry
Hi Xeny,
Sort of, yes. What happens is you can stall. For most phyto-estrogens, this happens around 3,000 mg of dried herb. The anterior pituitary gland measures the total amount of sex steroids. If it decides there's enough of them, it lowers or stops Luteinizing Hormone (LH). Then the ovaries stop making sex hormones. The system is not becoming lazy, it just works like it's supposed to work.
Now stalling is not so bad when you're, say, 23, and you aren't happy with your development in the first place. You just stop NBE herbs for a month and then try again at a lower dose. But if you're 20, and your body is still busy making you beautiful and fertile at its own pace, why would you want to crash it against a wall?
Nothing develops breasts like pregnancy. So I assume the best time to start doctoring them is when they deflate after a first pregnancy. Unless you have a family history of difficulties with breast feeding, of course.
Now there's quite a bit of NBE ground work you should be doing anyway, at 16 or 20 or 65. Get exercise, but don't run a marathon every week. Check your diet: think less carbs, more protein and dark green, leafy vegetables. Find a good multivitamin:
25 mg iron if you menstruate regularly
> 50 µg vitamin B12
2-10 mg vitamin B6
400 µg folic acid or folates
12-35 mg zinc
Those amounts are for the multivitamin and your diet together. Use the nih.gov fact sheets to add up vitamins and minerals in your diet. Examples are in the first pages of my program thread.
Around 20, there's also a very important turning point in the architecture of your breasts. In your teens, estrogens grow the milk ducts. The milk ducts push your nipples out, which makes your breasts conical and the areolas puffy. At 20, progesterone is becoming more important. It develops the glands and the alveolas, and rounds the breasts out. In the cycle, estrogens are highest between the period and ovulation. Progesterone is highest from ovulation to just before PMT. In pregnancy, prolactin increases tenfold, and starts milk production. That creates the "full" look.
Use the mirror. Once you know what each hormone does to the shape of your breasts, NBE becomes more tweaking, rather than throwing all you've got at it. It will prevent disappointments too.
(11-12-2011, 06:21 AM)Xeny Wrote: [ -> ]you stop taking them if you're satisfied with the results... won't it make your own body system 'lazy' to keep producing the right amount of the hormones for your age?
No, stopping taking phytoestrogens will not deter your body from producing estrogens (if that's what you were asking).
That is why you taper. You should never just stop. Your body has to adjust back.