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Gynecomastia, or gynaecomastia, is the development of abnormally large mammary glands in men that results in breast enlargement. It can occur at almost any age but many cases are with adolescent teenage males. Often a source of distress, it isn’t always related to obesity. In many cases of gynecomastia in teenagers, it’s may occur because of a hormonal imbalance that clears up or shrinks within a couple of years. Although individual cases many vary and root cause is hard to determine.
Steps
- Burn Body Fat. If you have a high percentage of body fat, then your absolute best option is to burn off fat period. There’s no spot reduction but men can easily store adipose tissue in the breast area. Once you start to lean up, you’ll burn off fat overall, which will include the chest area. This may be a problem area for you but over time, a good nutrition and training program to get you leaner should do the trick.
- Decrease Overall Body Fat. Body fat reduction is caused by a reduction in calories and an increase in activity. That will help you burn off the fat.
- Forget Spot Reduction. Forget spot reduction and trying to do a bunch of chest exercises (although it’s part of a good training program to work all muscle groups). Bench presses, push ups, etc will NOT “spot reduce” chest fat. Remember, that chest fat will only decrease with the caloric deficit.
- Engage in Resistance Training. Focus on building muscle. The more muscle you have, the leaner you will become and the more body fat you will burn. Lower body fat will help reduce the appearance of man boobs or gynecomastia.
Tips
- Limit your intake of alcohol. Alcohol can lower testosterone and increase estrogen. This can indirectly help to maintain or increase the appearance of gynecomastia and male breast tissue.
- Your best option at this point is to lean up, lose the fat, and get a good body fat measurement. Once you start to lean up, you should see some positive results. If not, then you know that it may not just clear up on its own and you should seek the advice of a medical doctor for further options.
- Body fat reduction is caused by a reduction in calories and an increase in activity.
Warnings
- If you are really concerned, you should see a medical doctor that can diagnose gynecomastia with a physical examination. Sometimes x-rays or ultrasound are needed to confirm any diagnoses. Blood work may be required if there’s underlying issues that might be causing gynecomastia.
- If it’s not because you are just at a higher body fat right now, then you’ll need to get it properly diagnosed by a medical professional that can give you better options.
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