How I Overcame My 50-Year Struggle With Gynecomastia

Before we get started, here's a little story from one of my clients, Sammie Fields.
Hey there I’m Sammie.

I’m in my 70s now and I’m finally enjoying my life as a masculine-looking guy. I struggled with gynecomastia ever since puberty. Back in the day it was totally unheard of for a man to have breasts.

Man boobs were quite a rare thing. If you think having man boobs is bad now, try having them in the 60s. I spent my entire life in fear that someone would notice my breasts. I stayed away from women - I was horrified of the bedroom. I also stayed away from the beach and only got out wearing the thickest of clothing to try and conceal myself.

Back then there was no internet, and no information out there to help me. I tried everything I could to try and get rid of my man boobs. I lost weight and tried different diets but all to no avail.

One day however, just a few years ago I came across a newspaper article.

This article complained of how male fish in our waters were becoming feminized. Scientists had studied these male fish and found how they had developed feminine characteristics, even to the point of producing eggs! Apparently this was due to the prevalence of the female hormone estrogen in our water supply.

Apparently, due to most government water filtration systems (including the US), estrogen passes unfiltered right into our taps, and straight into your belly when you drink that glass of water.

The estrogen is being absorbed by us and is resulting in modern man having low sperm counts, fertility problems and gynecomastia. Heck it might even be responsible for the boom in the male cosmetics industry (joke).

So I went out there, did some research and found some other shocking sources of estrogen that exist especially in the modern environment, but were also there in the past albeit in much lower quantities and not as widespread back in the day.

Why am I telling you all this?

Well I lost my man boobs in my mid-sixties. The only way I managed to succeed was after I armed myself with the facts, and all the information I needed to know about the very root cause of my gynecomastia.

If I could get rid of my gynecomastia in my sixties, then I know for a fact that anyone else can do it too. So if you're about to give up or you have given up and are ready to face the world as a pseudo-man, then I'm here to tell you to wake up! Get out of that trance, shake yourself up and inform yourself of real working tactics that have been proven time and time again to help many thousands of guys lose their man boobs permanently using all-natural methods.

And I can't think of a better person to help you than my good friend Robert Hull. I leave you to his very capable hands and I'm sure that you will learn much on his new blog.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Low Vitamin D Linked to Aggressive Breast Cancer

Study Shows Increased Risk for Aggressive Breast Cancer in Women With Low Vitamin D Levels

By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News

Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

April 29, 2011 -- Women with low vitamin D levels may have an increased risk for the most aggressive breast cancers, new research suggests.

Several earlier studies have suggested a link between low vitamin D levels and breast cancer risk. But the new study is among the first to examine vitamin D insufficiency and poor prognosis.

Researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center examined vitamin D levels in 155 breast cancer patients in the months before or after they had surgery to treat their disease.

They found suboptimal vitamin D levels to be highly predictive of the presence of biological markers associated with more aggressive tumors.

Triple Negative Tumors

Women in the study with triple-negative tumors, which do not respond to hormone treatments, were almost three times more likely to have suboptimal vitamin D levels as women with other breast cancers.

Triple-negative tumors are difficult to treat and they tend to have a worse prognosis than other breast cancers.

"We consistently saw lower vitamin D levels in breast cancer patients with poor prognostic markers," study researcher Luke Peppone, PhD, tells WebMD.

The study participants had surgery for breast cancer between January 2009 and September 2010. Based on testing conducted within a year before or after surgery, the patients were considered to have either optimal (32 ng/mL or greater) or suboptimal (less than 32 ng/mL) vitamin D levels.

All patients also had a relatively new test designed to predict their risk of recurrence based on the presence of genes that have been identified with breast cancer.

The researchers reported a strong correlation between decreasing vitamin D levels and increasing scores on the predictive test.

African-American women and premenopausal women were more likely to have suboptimal vitamin D levels than older, white women.

The study is published online in the Annals of Surgical Oncology.

Second Opinion

While the research does not prove that low vitamin D levels influence outcomes in women who develop breast cancers, Peppone says more study is certainly warranted.

American Cancer Society Deputy Chief Medical Officer Len Lichtenfeld, MD, agrees.

"The vitamin D research as a whole is certainly intriguing, but we have learned many times before that what appears intriguing doesn't always hold up when properly studied," he tells WebMD.

The independent health policy group Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently weighed in on vitamin D and cancer, calling the evidence that vitamin D prevents breast and other cancers "inconsistent and inconclusive."

Vitamin D is produced by the body from the sun's rays. It is found in salmon, tuna, and other oily fish and is added to dairy products. But experts agree that it would be very difficult to get enough vitamin D from food sources alone.

The panel recommended a daily intake of 600 international units (IU) from age 1 to 70 and 800 IU over age 70.

"The [IOM] experts did not dismiss the idea that vitamin D may have a role in preventing cancer or affecting its course once it develops," Lichtenfeld says. "They recognized that the research is trending in this direction, but did not feel that it met the threshold for concluding that a cause-and-effect relationship exists."

Breast cancer specialist Sharon M. Rosenbaum Smith, MD, of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Medical Center in New York, agrees that the new study deserves follow-up.

"We are seeing study after study suggesting a link between vitamin D and breast cancer," she says. "But what that exact link is has yet to be determined."

SOURCES: Peppone, L.J. Annals of Surgical Oncology, online, April 29, 2011.Luke Peppone, PhD, research assistant professor of radiation oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center, N.Y.Sharon M. Rosenbaum Smith, MD, Comprehensive Breast Center, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Medical Center, New York.Len Lichtenfeld, MD, deputy chief medical officer, American Cancer Society.

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