Does Eating Meat Make Your Man Boobs Bigger?

Meat And Man Boobs

Answer: It depends where you get your meat from

The Trouble With Hormone Treated Meat

Did you know that beef from the United States and Canada has been banned in Europe since 1988? The ban continues to this very day (at the time of writing this book), and both the U.S. and Canada are currently appealing against the ban.

Since the 1980s, livestock owners have been treating their animals with hormones, most notably estrogen. Today, an estimated 80% of cows in the U.S. receive an implant in their ear that delivers a hormone, usually a form of estrogen (estradiol) in combination with several other hormones.

The Canadian and United States governments have no qualms about treating our food with hormones, while the European Union has taken a stance toward protecting its citizens. Injecting hormones into animals is banned in Europe.

A hormone-treated animal will on average, grow 15% faster than a non-treated animal. As a result, livestock owners can make from 30-80 USD more per animal. That can lead to an insane boost in profit margins, and can rack up to millions of extra dollars every year for corporate livestock owners, and all of it at the expense of us, the country's poor, unsuspecting citizens.

The five types of hormone most widely used in meat production include three natural hormones, estradiol 17-b, testosterone and progesterone and three synthetic substances that act like hormones, zeranol, trenbolone, and melengestrol.

Since there haven't been any large population trials to directly link the use of hormones in the animals we eat to the rising rates of breast cancer, prostate cancer, and other diseases including idiopathic gynecomastia and pseudogynecomastia (man boobs), both food manufacturers in the U.S. and the FDA claim that it's ok to treat our animals with hormones because enough research has not yet been conducted to prove that it's unsafe.

Personally, I haven't heard anything more stupid in my life.

They haven't proven that it's ok, neither have they proven that it's bad for us, so they just assume that it's ok. Where the European Union decided to deal with this uncertainty by erring on the side of caution (since little things called people's lives are at stake), our beloved government decided to err on the side of profitability.

Usually what tends to happen with these things is around 50 years later, there'll be enough data from population studies to convince the government that scores of people have gotten cancer and died. This is exactly what happened with diethylstilbestrol (DES), a synthetic estrogen drug used from the 1950s to fatten both chicken and cattle. From 1940 to 1970 it was also given to pregnant women with the false claim that it would reduce the risk of pregnancy related complications.

It was withdrawn from use after it was found to increase the risk of cancer in women and cause gynecomastia in men. What's scary is that the use of DES on livestock wasn't completely withdrawn until around 1980, so it took almost 30 years for the government to take action. Imagine all the guys who suffered from gynecomastia during those years, who were told by their doctors it was ‘idiopathic', and worse, all the people who died from estrogen-induced cancers caused by the DES in their food.

Diethylstilbestrol

Diethylstilbestrol, a cancer-causing drug, was routinely given to pregnant women for 30 years before it was banned.

The bottom line here is, if you wait for the government to tell you something is unsafe, chances are you will end up being among the death statistics that makes the government change its mind 30-50 years down the line.

The arguments made by food manufacturers in support of using hormones to treat our animals, are laughable to say the least (they would be in support of it since it's they who stand to profit at the expense of our ill-health. I'll bet the higher paid guys in these organizations all eat and feed their families organic beef). Here are some excuses they are using:

  • Hormone-treated cows are better for the environment, since farmers can get the same amount of milk with fewer cows. (So these guys are sacrificing our health to protect the ozone. Let's go and see how the millions of men and women affected by estrogen-induced cancers feel about that shall we?)
  • Meat from hormone-treated livestock is lean, with a low content in saturated fats and cholesterol. (Truth: animal fats (in their natural form without hormones), including saturated fats and cholesterol are good for you! Artificially elevated hormones are not!)
  • Hormone-treated meat is offered at a lower price than its non-hormone-treated counterparts. (Truth: if hormones, antibiotics and the use of all other artificial chemicals were completely banned, all meat would be organic, and it would cost insanely less than organic meat does today. So they're not really saving us much money at all. Truth: I'd much rather spend a little more to avoid getting man boobs and cancer).

Now since there are no large population studies demonstrating a direct link between the consumption of hormone-treated animals and gynecomastia in men, we have to use our judgement and common sense.

The European Union made the decision to ban the use of hormones in livestock because it believes there is enough indirect evidence to suggest it leads to increased incidences of breast cancer in women and reduced sperm counts in men.

Even the FDA doesn't deny that eating hormone-treated meat raises your blood levels of these hormones. The FDA simply claims that these levels are ‘safe'.

But we know that the slightest increase in estrogen levels can lead to breast cancer in women and gynecomastia in men. Women who have estrogen levels considered ‘normal', but in the upper limit of the normal range, are known to have an increased risk of developing breast cancer. The theory would suggest the same applies to gynecomastia and man boobs.

“So What's The Solution?”

Go organic, choose hormone-free beef at the supermarket.

Organic Meat

Man boob sufferers would benefit from choosing organic meat.

Foods that carry the “USDA-certified organic” label do not come from animals given any artificial hormones.

Note that currently in the U.S., federal regulations allow hormones to be used on cattle and sheep, but not on poultry (chickens, turkeys, ducks) or pigs.

Even if you live in Europe, non-organic animals are still treated heavily with antibiotics. They are also given feed that contains hormone-disrupting toxins including pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers or “bio-solid” fertilizers (recycled human excrement), and drugs to combat the myriad of diseases that come from keeping these poor animals so tightly packed together.

Pesticides for example, contain estrogen-like ‘organochlorines', which are known to build up in animal fat and really get concentrated over the years. As a result, a number of different estrogen-like particles are known to accumulate in animal fat, such as polychlorinated biphenyls and polychlorinated dioxins.

What If You Can't Go Organic?

If you can't go organic because it's too expensive or it isn't available in your area, consider purchasing your meat from a local farm. Many independent farmers and ranchers don’t use artificial hormones on their animals, since it isn't as cost-effective with smaller operations. Just check with the farmer to make sure no hormones are being used. Also check to see what kind of feed the animals are given.

Get Hormone Free Meat from your Local Farmer

If you can't get organic meat, consider getting your meat from your local farmer. Smaller, local operations are less likely to use hormones.

Since the use of hormones in animals can be so insanely profitable, there's also the issue of black-market drugs and hormones on animals. Make sure you get your meat from a reputable source, or do your research when you buy from a local source.

If for whatever reason you aren't able to check for the use of hormones in your meat, or check for the use of chemicals in their feed, you might be better off opting for the leanest cuts of meat with as much of the fat as possible trimmed off. This is because most endocrine disrupting hormones are stored in the fat of an animal.

If you live outside of Canada, the U.S., or Europe, go on your government food regulation authority's website to see if hormones are being used on livestock in your country/area. You can also ask your farmer. Quite a few of my customers contact me from developing countries like India, Brazil and Mexico. I suspect hormone use in these countries is becoming more and more common as they become more available and more affordable over time. Also, in many developing nations, the government sets little or no restrictions on the use of artificial drugs and hormones on food.

A Final Word on Meat and Man Boobs

A lot of my customers assume after reading this section that I'm encouraging them to become vegetarian, but I'm not.

Studies have shown that vegetarians have lower levels of testosterone than meat eaters.

Believe it or not, testosterone is created from cholesterol. I've even found from my own experiments by testing blood testosterone levels in my self and in my clients, that eating fatty cuts of meat significantly boosts testosterone levels in men. Increasing animal fat consumption consistently helps my clients to lose body fat, grow muscle and flatten out their chests. So don't give up on meat, just be careful where you get it from.

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6 thoughts on “Does Eating Meat Make Your Man Boobs Bigger?”

  1. “Usually what tends to happen with these things is around 50 years later, there’ll be enough data from population studies to convince the government that scores of people have gotten cancer and died.”

    ….Or they got gynecomastia, a fate WORSE than death, imho. I recently started eating fast food and meat about a year ago, and lo and behold it appears I’ve started growing “moobs.” I’ve been vegan and organic for years, so there is a strong plausibility man-boobs, aka gynecomastia are related to this corporate sin against nature. I think it’s time for me to stop eating all meat that isn’t organic FOREVER.

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    • It’s organic but if it natural and is what it’s eating natural?

      I don’t know the rules on what’s certified organic but natural and organic aren’t synonymous. I’d go for both and wouldn’t trust the manufacturer to be honest about their claims of organic or natural.

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  2. I find this article to be very misleading. First, it makes the often-mistaken assumption that humans can be affected by consuming animal hormones. Human beings absolutely CANNOT process animal hormones for use by ggeirviwn metabolisms. Wehen consumed, any hormone not made specifically for the human matabolic system is simply broken down into proteins and then flushed out of the system with waste. Hormones are a very species-specific bit of physiology. For the same reasons we can’t produce offspring by other species ( chromosomal differences),means you also couldn’t pump up ol’ Bettsie or Fido on human growth hormones nor give yourself some kind of bovine super strength or huge breasts by chuggung bovine growth hormones or other cattle hormones. The second problem with this article is that it ignores the real reason Europe doesnt like our beef and the real dangers of current meat industry practices.

    First on that list is factory farms and slaughter houses and how they are grossly under-regulated and how they’re about as sanitary and careful with meat and animals as a three year-old eating a pudding pop is not to make a mess. They don’t care because they don’t have to. Most of the chemicals and antibiotics found in meat that actually ARE a danger to human health are there as a stop-gap because of these conditions. Organic farming is hardly a requirement to make these improvements, either. Simply enforcing the laws already on the books and fining and punishing meat industry companies for neglegence would prevent most of it, including making more laws to hold them accountable for sanitation and prevention of cruelty to animals and safer farming and processing methods. Poor mechanical meat sorting and processing methods are one of the highest causes of the spread of diseases from meat, particularly in parts of spinal tissue that end up going into processed meat by mistake due to poor methods of stripping meat from bone that can cause the sieead of things lime mad cow disease and minongitis.

    The leading cause of gynecomastia and obesity these days is largely due to the decreased requirement for physical activities in our daily lives over the last 50 – 100 years and the increase in the amount of food and nutrients available to moat of us who live in stable societies. Young boys aren’t out running in the fields and riding horses or oaining the fence or sweeping the floors, all the while building their muscles and producing more testosterone while staying lean and fit. Now they sit on the couch and guzzle Mountain Dew while playing Call of Duty and keeping up with friends via twitter and Facebook rather than visit with any of them face to face. Remember how when you wanted to cook a steak, at best you had to walk or ride down to your local butcher or meat market, bring it back, chop some wood up for your stove after finishing the evening before-diner chores.and the get the stove going after you prepped your steak and cut up some veggies that you had to either gather that day from your garden or get from the produce market? No? Well your great grandpa probably does and there’s a good chance he wasn’t too overweight nor did he have a bodacious case of man tats. Why? Because we have everything in front of us at the push of a button and gramps was out chopping wood and feeding the horses and making consumables or gathering food so the family didn’t starve or freeze to death. Times have changed and so have we and not neccissarily for the worst but we are going to have to start equating our poor health and obesity with our inactivity and over-consumption of processed foods that are high in fats and carbs rather than blaming every other factor we can think of, from chemicals to genetics.

    I guess what I’m saying can be summed up like this; Why do more men seem to be getting a wicked case of bitch-tits? Because we’re all turning into bitches. Man-up like your great great granddad and do some hard work, even if you don’t have to anymore, even if it’s just in a gym. Your body and your metabolism will thank you for it.

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    • http://www.steroidabuse.com/horse-steroids.html

      Horse hormones have been used on humans in the form of steroids because they work.

      Some of these cow hormones are artificial so who knows how they’d affect us. We’re all made of DNA and very similar at that.

      Also we’re way closer to cows on a DNA level than soybeans and soybeans as well as beer are estrogenic and do affect us when we consume them.

      I’ll not suggesting that we absorb and use all the hormones of things eat, even if we ate a person’s meat, fat and glands I doubt we’d be that affected if at all but a diet of mostly female human might result in hormone caused man boobs.

      Actual man boobs can be on an athletic guy with 2℅ body fat, those are the kind we’re talking about. Fat on someone fat is just fat. If that’s medically referred to as gynecomastia then we need to narrow the definition but either way we’re talking about cancer and hormone caused gynecomastia here.

      I found this site because I went Paleo, almost exclusively steak and am developing a sag at the bottom of my chest thst looks like when a girl first needs a training bra even though I’m lean and athletic. It’s on top of my square pec muscle. I know if I lift weights more I can hide it but if rather get my hormones balanced for health reasons. I don’t care much about the little bit of puffy nipple as its called. Also I’m getting affects on my sex drive, mood and personality, some of it good as testosterone is part of our problems as men. I was wondering if eating all female cows may be affecting it. While a site is not a medical journal, it’s a tool to point me at the right medical journals or in my case, my own testing. I’m going to eat beef that hasn’t been treated and hasn’t eaten things that have been treated. My natural grass fed organic beef will eat organic natural grass. Natural is more important to me than organic.

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  3. Oh Ryan Ryan.. an example: ever heard of winstrol? It is just one example :) And estrogen is much worse because it’s mimic in your body easily gets out of control. . Its sickening to see slaves defending their masters.. or maybe you are one pssss

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