25-06-2010, 10:03
Hm, ok I gotcha.
Well, I'm not a man, and the jury is still out on whether my glands have (or will) grown from PM... but I can tell you I've seen one poster here who grew breasts from a totally flat male chest using bovine ovary and since she (she has now transitioned) has fabulous breasts that do not appear to be simply fat, because they have the structure and form of very large (DD), very natural female breasts.
I think that if it were only fat, they could not hold such a shape.
Men have all the same glands women do, just the glands do not develop because what small amounts of estrogen are produced in the male body are blocked by much higher testosterone levels.
However, there is a time in puberty when some boy bodies are producing very low levels of estrogen... but not yet producing sufficient testosterone to block it, and the result is gynecomastia! This is not just a fatty chest, like you might see on an obese person - it's actually glandular.
It's not all that uncommon for boys to have little boy-boobs for a brief period before their testes drop and hormones balance... causing the breast glands to atrophy again.
So it stands to reason that men CAN grow glandular tissue given exposure to estrogen (or estrogen-like substances) - I've even heard of men breast-feeding under strange circumstances (tho I can't cite a source for that one).
I'm not sure I really got at the heart of your question, or told you anything you weren't already familiar with... but hope it helps.
I'm actually more sceptical of the concept of "fat relocation" - do you have any reading you could recommend?
Well, I'm not a man, and the jury is still out on whether my glands have (or will) grown from PM... but I can tell you I've seen one poster here who grew breasts from a totally flat male chest using bovine ovary and since she (she has now transitioned) has fabulous breasts that do not appear to be simply fat, because they have the structure and form of very large (DD), very natural female breasts.
I think that if it were only fat, they could not hold such a shape.
Men have all the same glands women do, just the glands do not develop because what small amounts of estrogen are produced in the male body are blocked by much higher testosterone levels.
However, there is a time in puberty when some boy bodies are producing very low levels of estrogen... but not yet producing sufficient testosterone to block it, and the result is gynecomastia! This is not just a fatty chest, like you might see on an obese person - it's actually glandular.
It's not all that uncommon for boys to have little boy-boobs for a brief period before their testes drop and hormones balance... causing the breast glands to atrophy again.
So it stands to reason that men CAN grow glandular tissue given exposure to estrogen (or estrogen-like substances) - I've even heard of men breast-feeding under strange circumstances (tho I can't cite a source for that one).
I'm not sure I really got at the heart of your question, or told you anything you weren't already familiar with... but hope it helps.
I'm actually more sceptical of the concept of "fat relocation" - do you have any reading you could recommend?