You never might have imagined that lavender and tea tree oils could be the reason for prepubertal gynecomastia. But the researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) do believe it to be very likely.
The study found these essential oils to be similar to the female hormone estrogen, countering the effects of male androgens. In a way, this study simply compounds the observations of medical experts who hold the hormonal imbalance that boys undergo during puberty to be responsible for gynecomastia.
Such imbalances cause the breast tissue to grow under the nipples in the male body. Some cases of prepubertal gynecomastia naturally lose the breast tissue while some are affected well into adulthood.
About 50 percent of gynecomastia cases in grown males are found to be the result of perpubertal gynecomastia. Medical reasons are counted in this margin as well with the side-effects of certain medicines held to be triggering factors.
Drugs and anabolic steroids are other reasons for occurrences of gynecomastia among adult males. Tumors, hyperthyroidism and chronic kidney diseases form the other reasons.
If you have excess male tissue as a result of any of the above reasons, you are not alone. Every year 14,000 men face the plastic surgeon for getting rid of excess male breast tissue. Visit the Plastic Surgery Institute of California for more information on dealing with gynecomastia.
No comments:
Post a Comment