Gynecomastia Drugs

Unfortunately, drugs that people usually have to take to treat certain medical or health conditions also cause gynecomastia. It is known that patients with tumors or prostate cancer sometimes develop gynecomastia as side effect of taking certain medicine. These drugs are covered in a different section.

It has said that over 40 percent of men have gynecomastia. In this section of Man Boobs Guide, gynecomastia drugs will be the topic of discussion. Gynecomastia drugs for the purposes of this site will refer to drugs that can potentially be used to get rid of man boobs. Gynecomastia can either be due to a testosterone and estrogen hormone imbalance or simply due to the man being overweight.The drugs that we are interested in will limit the estrogen production in the body so that it has an inhibitory effect on glandular tissue production which leads to enlarged breasts.

Body builders that are not interested in surgery sometimes take aromatase inhibitors to reduce their gynecomastia. It should be noted that only body builders who take androgen hormones or steroids end up with gynecomastia. The aromatase inhibitor such as tamoxifen prevents the conversion of the steroids into estrogen. It does this by altering the aromatose and sulfatase pathway in the body. The drugs have been successfully used to treat breast cancer in post-menopausal women. The drug does this by lowering the level of estrogens in women. The doctor will control the concentration of tamoxifen or similar drugs for the treatment of gynecomastia. Only a doctor can recommend therapy for male breast enlargement using these drugs. Most of the time, they will recommend surgery.

In the articles below, more information will be provided about drugs that are known to help gynecomastia.