Breasts Growth & Breast Enhancement

There's a certain amount of information that one needs in order to understand how natural breast enhancement or breast enlargement products work. You need to have a limited amount of knowledge of how breasts are developed within the body and what causes the female breasts to growth in the first place.

Scientists now know that breast tissues growth occurs as a result of the effects of human growth hormones, estrogen, progesterone, prolacin, and prostaglandins. It is most important that each and everyone of these hormones be present in the body in proper balance in order to have a normal breast tissue development.

During childhood, estrogens are secreted in small quantities.

During puberty however, the quantity of estrogens secreted under the influence of the pituitary hormones (FHS, LH) increases some 20 fold or more. It is during this period that sexual organs change from those of a child to that of an adult. The external genitalia enlarge. Estrogens effect on the breast causes fat deposition, development of the stromal tissues of the breast and growth of an extensive ductile system.

Along with estrogen, progesterone and prolactin are secreted in higher quantities from the ovaries after puberty. These two hormones are responsible for growth of the lobules and alveoli of the breast determining growth and function of these structures

Progesterone promotes development of the lobules and alveoli of the breasts causing the alveolar cells to proliferate to enlarge and to become secretory in nature. However, progesterone does not cause the alveoli to secrete milk unless stimulated by prolactin from the pituitary. Progesterone cause the breasts to swell partially due to changes in the lobules and alveoli, but also partly from increased fluid retention in sub-cutaneous tissues.

Scientists have proven that stimulating the estrogen receptors in the breast with estrogen or estrogen like substance (phytoestrogens), like those found in Breast Success, or NewCurves can actually increase the size of the female breast as much as 150%.

Breasts growth summary

Note: It is important to differentiate hormone therapy and phyto-hormone therapy which is the base of natural breast enhancement products.

Estrogen initiate growth of the breast which is responsible for the characteristic external appearance of the mature female breasts

Under developed breasts may occur in females where the ovaries don't produce sufficient amounts of estrogen and progesterone. As females age, the ovaries slowly begin to produce less hormones, resulting in sagging smaller breasts. Scientific evidence shows that additional estrogen and progesterone may enhance breast growth.

Hormone therapy (use of ethinyl estradiol or conjugated estrogen) is used for the transexuals (male to female conversion) but it is risky for women for it's role in the etiology of breast cancer.

Phytohormones are estrogen like compound. Phyto-oestrogens can share some of the same biological activities with oestrogens produced in the body. Although Phyto-oestrogens are much weaker than the body’s own naturally occurring (or endogenous) oestrogens, oestrogen-like effects are apparent after the consumption of Phyto-oestrogens in many, if not all, of the oestrogen-receptive tissues in the body.