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Why plant estrogen and not real estrogen?
May 5 2005 at 3:57 PM Liz (no login)
I saw on a programme once (so it might not be true) that a male transexual was taking estrogen to grow real breasts. If this is the case then does anyone know why women can't do the same, as surely this would be more effective than taking the plant estrogens that are contained in breast enlargement pills? Cheers Liz.




Yvette
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Re: Why plant estrogen and not real estrogen?
May 6 2005, 9:48 AM

It has been tried on women but does not work. Unfortunately I can't remember the reason why. Someone else visiting here will probably post a full explanation eventually. Taking estrogen is dangerous anyway and you would not get it prescribed by a doctor for that purpose. YOur chances of getting a doctor to give you real estrogen are zero, even if it worked.



Anonymous
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Re: Why plant estrogen and not real estrogen?
May 7 2005, 4:54 PM

Cheers for your comments. Liz.



rona
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Re: Why plant estrogen and not real estrogen?
May 20 2005, 10:56 AM

Think it could be because men don’t produce progesterone which can cancel out the oestrogen. I think it is the same for girls going through puberty before progesterone kicks in.

If there are any doctors out there who would like to put us straight on this point it would be good to here from you,

Thanks

Rona



charmaine
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Re: Why plant estrogen and not real estrogen?
May 20 2005, 12:16 PM

I asked my doctor about this a while back and was informed it wasn't possible and I couldn't be prescribed estrogen.

I was told the amount of estrogen I was getting in my birth control pill was the maximum amount of estrogen a doctor could give me.