[Lara's Lcups]

I hope to reach my mid term goal by the end of 2023, but having T in the upper range is what really concerns me. I think it's all stress related though and I just made one of my biggest decisions for my personal life and career: taking a break from everything. I hope this way my anxiety is more bearable and in the long term, gone for a while. I am taking a 8 month break from work and studies, literally, I am not going to do anything haha.

Yes, DHT is the worst by far! But it also helps with fitness purposes, that is why I don't want to suppress it at 100%. Just lowering all Ts in my case I think it will be enough, and boosting my E and Progesterone levels as well. I have the prolactin a bit elevated (I think 26 out from 24) and again, as you pointed out, it must be the damn stress. So yes I am going to lower Ts, take pueraria during follicular and progesterone cream in luteal phase and let's se if the magic happens hahah.

You said everything : hormones, a good program pumping + consistency. That's the recipe, indeed. And not overdoing. So whoever who would like to pump, should be aware of these three things. It takes a village to raise the boobies, lol  

A few years ago, Ellen, a beloved member of the forum, shared in her thread that studies on negative pressure suggest that it leads to cell division, such as in fat cells and tissues. So, my theory is that with more cells, it becomes more difficult for them to die during the process of losing fat. I had to lose 13 kilograms, and it wasn't until I lost the eighth kilogram that I didn't see any reduction in measurements. After losing 10 kilograms, I only lost 2.5 centimeters. It was quite interesting, to be honest.
Right now I am going to start body recomposition again, it takes a lot of time, at least 12 months but I plan to add Noogleberry to avoid loosing cm in my bust in a couple of months (first I need to see if the herbs are working and according to that, I'll incorporate pumping into the routine).

Lara, do you use the gauge? What pressure of level do you reach with it? I'm really curious about your journey, sorry haha it's quite impressive!

Yes, gaugede pump is absolute must, there's no way around it, this is the key to whole thing as there's no other way to tell where the pressure actually is. I mentioned the optimal pressure earlier in the guide I think? Its about -5 inHg or -0,2 bar, latter on red lettering on Noogle pump gauge. I use a bit lower than that as the optimal works but its a bit too rough, at least for me, my skin is extremely delicate and pumping will cause dome edge marks and discolouration if I'm not careful, so a notch or two below optimal is perfect and yes it does work. These numbers originate from a study done on negative pressure effects and I'm just quoting from memory... This study I wish I had saved somewhere but I don't unfortunately.

And yea, that stuff about what makes it work makes sense. Afaik the cell divison gets most effective near the said optimal pressure. Also my dear friend Melissa did this for a long time never exceeding the optimal pressure and she too got very nice results.

Awww, you should read my personal program thread. I'm trying to update stuff there from time to time. I'm doing some new experiment right now about which I will soon talk about in depth. Interesting that you mention prolactin btw, I have figured out that I have natural sensitivity to it. I get my prolactin levels to skyrcoket really easy with nothing but massage + pumping and some supplementation. (GABA, milk thistle etc.) My levels reached 375 mU/l which is above the low limit of hyperprolactinemia with only my T blocker (Cyproterone acetate) which is known for boosting prolactin. It was surprise to see it alone making it shoot this high, also my estradiol I keep kind of I would say "medium high" at all times as that's the best for my body and mental health and so on. Anyway, this trait with prolactin is peculiar, getting it up is easy, high prolactin without hitting the point of full lactation seems to give me a lot of breast fat and this is something I suspected I might have because my aunt has this trait. (I also start to lactate at quite low prolactin level, almost full on at 1400 mU/l.) She has obvious gigantomastia going on from weight changes and having three children. I was wondering about this if I have the same genetics and it seems like that. I have a lot of rather busty ladies on that side of the family and I don't seem to be an exception.