Could Turmeric Be Nature’s Solution For Getting Rid Of Man Boobs?

Turmeric For Losing Man Boobs

“I got some standard turmeric capsules of the actual turmeric powder, went through 2 containers of about 120 capsules each, and after around 8 weeks my nipples aren't puffy anymore! I can wear t-shirts and my chest looks normal.”

…James – Los Angeles, USA

“I've been using turmeric for about 4 months now and even during the first week, I experienced amazing results. I simply fill a glass with water, pour two tablespoons of turmeric into it and heat it up for two minutes. Turn off the heat, stir it, let it cool so it doesn't burn you, and drink while still warm. Tastes disgusting, but done 2-3 times a day, ESPECIALLY before bed and you won't believe your results in the morning.”

…Paul – Montreal, Canada

We're living in scary times.

Female hormones like estrogen are on the rise, and we men are becoming feminized.

Fertility rates are dropping, testosterone levels are plummeting, and we men are losing our masculinity and morphing into pseudo-men with man boobs.

So turmeric, which is possibly nature's ultimate estrogen blocker, is more important in a man's diet today, than ever before.

The Rare Estrogen-Blocking Effect Of Turmeric

A lot of guys with man boobs get tested by their doctor, only to find that their estrogen and testosterone levels are normal.

It’s easy when you find that your estrogen levels are high or your testosterone levels low. All you have to do is correct your hormone imbalance and your man boobs are likely to vanish. But what do you do when your hormone levels are normal?

Well it just so happens that man boobs can also be caused by a heightened sensitivity of your breast cells to estrogen, or a reduced sensitivity of your cells to testosterone. Unfortunately, there’s no way for your doctor to test for your breast tissue’s sensitivity to sex hormones.

Turmeric is one of those few natural substances that work by directly blocking estrogen receptors on the cellular level, hence having the effect of reducing the sensitivity of your breast tissue to estrogen.

Turmeric is so powerful, that studies have suggested the effects of this herb may be equally or more effective than the pharmaceutical estrogen-lowering drug tamoxifen.

The difference is that turmeric, being a natural whole food, does not have any side-effects, so you can take it in much larger doses, depending on what your body responds to.

You also don’t need a prescription for turmeric from your doctor, and it doesn’t cost much at all to buy.

Turmeric Also Helps Get Rid Of Man Boobs Via Multiple Other Different Mechanisms

As well as block estrogen at the cellular level, turmeric also does the following to help get rid of your man boobs:

1. Reduces inflammation in your body. Studies show that turmeric can be just as powerful as medical anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen, but without the same nasty side-effects. Chronic inflammation suppresses testosterone production by the Leydig cells in your testes. By reducing inflammation, turmeric may help boost your testosterone levels.

2. Improves insulin sensitivity. With poor insulin sensitivity, your body becomes insulin resistant. Insulin resistance has been associated with reduced testosterone production in men. Improving insulin sensitivity with turmeric means less insulin resistance, which means more testosterone.

3. Improves liver function. Your liver is responsible for deactivating more than 50% of your body’s estrogen by a process called conjugation. Liver disease is a common cause of gynecomastia. Improving liver function with turmeric will help to increase the rate of deactivation of estrogens in your body.

These effects alone, are enough for turmeric to help get rid of your man boobs. But turmeric does so much more…

Turmeric Helps You Lose Weight (Also Via Multiple Mechanisms)

Improved insulin sensitivity and reduced inflammation are both powerful triggers for weight loss. Additionally, turmeric increases thermogenesis in your body. This increases your basal metabolic rate, so you burn more calories at rest.

More directly, a 2009 study in the Journal of Nutrition found that turmeric prevents fat cell differentiation, causes fat cell apoptosis (cell destruction), and further reduces the formation of fat cells by preventing angiogenesis (the growth of blood vessels needed to support new fatty tissues in your body).

To confirm their findings, the researchers of the same study took 18 mice and split them into different groups. One group was fed a high calorie diet (HC), and another group fed a high calorie diet supplemented with turmeric (HC+T). After 12 weeks on the same diet, the HC group had almost twice the amount of body fat (20.9g) as the HC+T group (11.8g). Turmeric managed to prevent weight gain on a high calorie diet without changing the subject’s appetite.

Turmeric Changes Your Genes, And The Physical Structure Of Your Body

Man boobs are caused by a combination of both genetic and environmental factors. Turmeric not only tackles the environmental cause of man boobs by blocking the effects of estrogen on a cellular level, and helping to boost testosterone, but it also has a big impact on your genes. Studies have found that turmeric influences more than 700 genes in your body.

A 2009 study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society found that even in low concentrations, curcumin, the active component of turmeric, inserts itself deep into your cells’ membranes, and actually changes the physical properties of the membrane. It does this in such a way, that the curcumin plays a big part in controlling what goes in and out of the cell. What this means is that turmeric actually changes the very construction of your body on a cellular level!

You know how in those sci-fi movies, there’s some old guy dying of cancer, and then some advanced race comes along and cures him by injecting him with nanites? These futuristic nanites are microscopic robots that destroy cancerous tissue, repair damaged cells, and re-enforce existing cells, so the guy becomes impervious to disease and becomes stronger, fitter and healthier than ever.

Well you may be surprised to learn that turmeric isn’t far off from these futuristic, near-miraculous nanites…

The Near-Miraculous Health Benefits Of Turmeric

Among all nutrients, curcumin in turmeric has by far the most evidence-based literature supporting its role against cancer.

Turmeric is widely used in India, and it’s no coincidence that the prevalence of common cancers like breast, lung, prostate and colon cancer, is around 10 times lower in India than it is in the West. Taking prostate cancer as an example, out of every 100,000 people, 104.3 people will get prostate cancer if they live in the U.S., compared to just 4.6 people if they live in India.

Interestingly enough, all four of the above cancers are known estrogen-dependent cancers. This highlights just how effective turmeric is at blocking estrogen in your body.

Turmeric is also known to be a powerful anti-oxidant (5-8 times stronger than vitamin E, and stronger than vitamin C), and is known for its antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal properties.

There seems to be no system in your body left untouched by this powerful, seemingly all-encompassing natural remedy. It delays aging, helps improve digestion, improves joint function, strengthens your immune system, promotes healthy blood and liver function, helps control cholesterol levels, and even strengthens your bones.

Turmeric has been used traditionally in India for thousands of years as a remedy for an endless list of ailments, including aches, pains, sprains, wounds, and disorders of the liver, lung, digestive system and skin. We know today that it helps treat or relieve symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis, asthma, eczema, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, and so much more.

It’s no wonder then that turmeric is revered in India as “holy powder,” and is almost worshipped in its extensive use in ceremonies, weddings and religious festivals.

If turmeric on its own doesn’t directly shrink your man boobs, the least it will do is energize you and prime your body to handle more rigorous exercise. It will sharpen your mind, improve your memory, and help you cope better with life’s stresses, so you can get a better handle on your diet. It will help maximize the benefit of the good food you eat, and dampen the damage done by any bad food in your diet.

By blocking estrogen, improving liver function, decreasing inflammation and improving insulin sensitivity, turmeric will also enhance all your other efforts at losing man boobs. Just having turmeric in your diet, will make your exercise, other dietary changes, and lifestyle changes more effective at flattening out your chest and shrinking those puffy nipples.

What's The Best Way To Take Turmeric?

The best way to increase your intake of any micronutrient, is via whole foods. If you want more vitamin C in your system, then eat more oranges and tomatoes. If you want more carotene, eat more carrots and sweet potatoes. If you want more curcumin, then eat more turmeric.

But unless you know how to cook with turmeric, this stuff is pretty disgusting. I tried for a while to drink turmeric down with a glass of water twice a day, but boiling the water and turmeric, waiting for it to cool, then chugging down a glass of the most horrible drink you can think of, isn't something I could keep up for very long.

So now I recommend taking turmeric supplements, and they've worked well for me.

It's so much more convenient to simply pop a pill, than to worry about various different turmeric recipes, or heating a boiling mixture for 10 minutes. And thankfully, turmeric supplements are one of very few legal supplements that can actually make a noticeable change in your body, especially in your chest if you have man boobs.

What's The Best Turmeric Supplement?

Some turmeric supplements are clearly better than others.

Firstly, you want to avoid supplements that contain toxic artificial additives, the likes of magnesium stearate and microcrystalline cellulose. Magnesium stearate for example, forms a biofilm in your gut, preventing the proper absorption of vitamins and minerals from your food.

It's also important for your turmeric supplement to contain a bioavailability enhancer like piperine (from black pepper). Studies have shown that piperine can increase the absorption of curcumin by 2,000%!

Here's a good supplement I discovered that comes with piperine (in the form of “Bioperine”), and contains no artificial additives:

Click here to check out the turmeric supplement I'm currently taking

Over the years I've tried one turmeric supplement after another, and I've finally settled on this Hewis & Selby brand as my current favorite. This particular turmeric supplement just seems to work really well for me, and many of my clients have told me that they have had the same experience (check out Brad in China's experience in this quick post).

If you can't get a hold of this supplement, or you want to try something different, you can always check out my article on the 5 Must-Have Criteria For A GREAT Turmeric Supplement to help you pick out another good turmeric supplement.

Feel free to try out some other brands and let me know how you get on. I've tried over a dozen, but I haven't tried them all. If there's something better out there, I want to try it!

Other Ways Of Taking Turmeric

Supplements may be the most convenient way to take turmeric, but it's also a good idea to add turmeric to your cooking.

Firstly, you want to get yourself some high quality, organic turmeric powder. The stuff in your local grocery store might be dirt cheap, but it also comes with its fare share of contaminants – byproducts of modern, non-organic farming that uses pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers etc. People generally report quicker, more noticeable results from using a high quality organic turmeric.

Curcumin from turmeric is very poorly absorbed by the body when taken on its own. The latest studies however, suggest that the Indians with their ancient, 5,000 year old practice of Ayurvedic medicine, have known the best way to take turmeric all along. Curcumin is best absorbed when combined with fats and other herbs and spices, namely black pepper, all of which are abundant in Indian curries.

Curcumin itself being a fatty compound, is better absorbed by the body when taken with a meal that contains fats.

With the above in mind, here’s how to prepare and take your turmeric…

Preparing Your Turmeric/Black Pepper Concoction

First, get a large glass container and fill it with 8 parts organic turmeric, and 1 part finely ground organic ground black pepper, and mix it up by closing the lid on the container and giving it a good shake.

Adding Turmeric To Your Food

You can then add this mixture to your food, especially when you are eating something that contains a good dose of healthy natural fats. The possibilities are endless, and you can find hundreds of different examples of how different people like to take their daily dose of turmeric, to benefit from its life-changing effects.

For example, you can use a turmeric-butter mixture to marinade a chicken before roasting it (use grass-fed butter for maximum health benefit and help losing man boobs). You can also mix turmeric with ghee (preferably grass-fed ghee), a commonly used ancient Ayurvedic practice, and use it in your cooking.

Mixing Turmeric With Oils

If you don’t like the taste of turmeric, and prefer not to add it to your food, you can treat it like medicine and take it two to three times a day. For this method, you can make a turmeric emulsion by combining a teaspoon’s worth of your turmeric-black pepper mixture with a tablespoon of extra-virgin olive oil or coconut oil. Since coconut oil is solid at room temperature, you can heat it up in a pan – only warm it enough for the turmeric to dissolve and mix in with the oil.

Adding To Water & Applying Heat

The trouble with a lot of micronutrients is that they break down and are rendered useless when they are heated. Studies however, have shown that heat treatment of curcumin, neither destroys the curcumin, nor breaks down its biological activity. In fact, heat treatment has been shown to increase the absorption of curcumin in your gut, by increasing its solubility in water. The more soluble curcumin is in water, the easier it is absorbed by your gut. So there’s yet another reason why turmeric works so well with curries.

A 2009 study by the American Association of Cancer Research, found that the solubility of curcumin is increased 12-fold by heating it in boiling water for 10 minutes. So if you can’t be bothered with the oils, you could always add a teaspoon’s worth of your turmeric-black pepper mixture to a cup of water, bring it to a boil and heat it for 10 minutes, then let it cool for a while, before guzzling it down.

An Even Better Turmeric Concoction For Losing Man Boobs

In my program, called How To Lose Man Boobs Naturally, I reveal another spice that enhances the bioavailability of turmeric.

This spice isn't talked about as much as black pepper, but the latest studies are showing that it's more effective than black pepper at enhancing the absorption of turmeric.

What's really cool, is when you combine turmeric and black pepper with this little-known spice, you get even better turmeric absorption, with a near-unstoppable formula for shrinking your man boobs.

You can learn more about my program, How To Lose Man Boobs Naturally, via the link at the end of this article.

Can Turmeric Help Get Rid Of Man Boobs All By Itself?

Turmeric is powerful stuff.

It blocks estrogen, helps boost the male hormone testosterone, reduces inflammation, improves insulin sensitivity, and improves liver function, all of which helps to shrink your man boobs.

Turmeric is so powerful, that it’s one of those few supplements that can help you get rid of your man boobs if you do nothing else.

However, this approach only works for some people.

For most people, turmeric on its own will do very little for your man boobs if everything else you are doing is giving your body the wrong instructions.

If you are not eating right, not exercising right, and not correctly managing other important lifestyle changes that could be instructing your body to hold onto your man boobs, then just using turmeric will be like adding a cup of water to the Arabian desert.

If you're serious about losing your man boobs, then you really should start taking a good turmeric supplement and sort out these other aspects of your life, like diet, exercise, and little-known lifestyle changes that help block estrogen, boost testosterone, and pave the way for your body to start shrinking those man boobs.

To get started on losing your man boobs today, click the link below to check out my program called How To Lose Man Boobs Naturally:

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59 thoughts on “Could Turmeric Be Nature’s Solution For Getting Rid Of Man Boobs?”

  1. I really hope your picture of a man with a well developed chest isnt referring to man boobs? My description of man boobs is fatty tissue (not muscle) in the nipple area, especially evident when the arms are lifted over head.

    • No, not at all. The picture shows the end result of what you get when you lose your man boobs. I know som epeople refer to muscular “pecs” as man boobs, but this is definitely not what I mean when I talk about man boobs.

  2. I wonder if this would help if there is fibrous tissue under the nipples. I mean it’s not only fat, but real gynecomastia. I’ve read if the gyno stays for more than 2 years, then no suplements or meds would help.

    • Hi Simon.

      Studies have actually found that patients persistent pubertal gynecomastia, with fibrosed breast glands, do respond very well to medical treatment using drugs like tamoxifen and raloxifene.

      If it responds to medical therapy, then it will respond to the natural approach as well.

      Admittedly, fibrosed breast glands are more difficult to get rid of than just excess chest fat, but I’ve had a lot of success in helping guys with long-term breast glands, to significantly improve the appearance of their chest using natural methods of male breast reduction.

      • Thank you. I needed some hope, cause it’s quite hard to stay motivated and positive with this thing on my body.

        • Don’t give up Simon, there’s always hope. Don’t stop at turmeric, there’s plenty more you can do to help get rid of man boobs. One method along is rarely enough, you need to combine as many methods as you can. In today’s environment, we are bombarded with environmental chemicals that destroy our testosterone levels and the effect testosterone has on our body, thereby destroying our masculinity.

          When you have multiple points of attack from your foes, the only way for you to win is for you to have multiple points of defense, and multiple points of your own attacks.

          Eat well, avoid estrogenic and anti-androgenic foods, avoid estrogenic and anti-androgenic chemicals, exercise right, and make testosterone-boosting lifestyle changes. Do all these things right and you WILL see changes.

  3. Hi Team,

    I read your article on adding turmeric in warm water and take it before you go to bed, actually i was normal till my B.tech last year , but suddenly after that my chest area starts increasing and for that i preferred to go Gym to convert the fat around the chest into muscles, however nothing went good for me, instead they have become bigger but tight. :( i felt so embarrassed.. so after that i left going gym and start doing swimming.. this has even become worse for me ..the tightness which i got from gym goes away and now they have become loose .. like a women :( then i left everything and for time being drinking green tea and lemon water in the morning to see some results.. but still the situation is same. Can you help me what should i do.. I would really appreciate your assistance on this. as i want to get married soon.. :(
    Thank you !

    • Hi Anby, thanks for reaching out to me.

      Unfortunately you can’t convert fat into muscle, but growing muscle mass does help in boosting your testosterone levels and revving up your metabolism, so your body gets better at burning fat. Swimming can be helpful, but only if you use it as part of a high intensity interval training regimen. Most people who swim end up doing endurance training, which is not very effective for losing man boobs.

      Green tea and lemon water are excellent for helping with generalized body fat reduction, so do continue with that.

      In terms of general advice on losing man boobs, I’ve sent you some personalized info via email.

  4. Nice article. I’m so thankful that here in my country, we also have an abundant supply of turmeric in local markets at its most raw form (the crop that looks like a ginger but red-orange on the inside) and not powdered. Aside from black pepper, I’ve also read in other articles that ginger can increase absorption of curcumin as well. What I do is I boil turmeric together with some ginger and sprinkle a little ground black pepper then drink it like a tea. That way I’m getting a surefire way to absorb its micro-nutrients! Thanks for writing this informative article, now I can enjoy more drinking turmeric tea.

    • Hey Ryse, thanks for your input. You’re totally right, ginger most certainly does increase the absorption of turmeric.

  5. Moreover, there’s also this article that says turmeric is one of the best aromatase-inhibiting foods and herbs. It says that “Aromatase is an enzyme that is found in estrogen-producing cells located in the adrenal glands, ovaries, placenta, testicles, brain and fat tissue. Higher levels of aromatase in the body convert more testosterone and progesterone into estrogen”.

  6. Been taking turmeric for the past week, and I have some gynecomastia, mostly just puffy nipples, after two days of using it, most of my symptoms have gone away… It’s incredible.

    • Hi Jason, good to hear that you got rid of puffy nipples. I want to know how you take turmeric as i have it in powder form can you help me, i have puffy nipples from the age of 13, I would appreciate your help.

  7. Just wanted to add that it is much better to supplement with circumin (the active ingredient in turmeric with all the health benefits) as opposed to just using regular turmeric. Only 2% of turmeric is circumin so you'd have to ingest a very high amount of it to get the same amount of circumin you could get in a supplement. Also, turmeric is very high in oxalates and greatly increases the risk of getting kidney stones. Circumin supplements on the other have had most of the oxalate removed.

  8. Hi,
    As you told that it will benefit more if I take it with fat. But I don’t want to take this with fat as I am already obese. Can only taking turmeric and pepper powder with water work?

    • Hi Manohar, yes, you don’t have to take it with fat. Fat increases the absorption, but there will still be some absorption without it.

  9. Hi Garry and all,
    I have been suffering from this problem since the age of 16 now I’m 33. since then i havent worn my favorite t-shirts. Anyway we all know what it is as we are all suffering from the same problem. I read your article and since then i started taking turmeric. I take 2 tsp x2 .this is my second day and I’m hoping to see a good result after maybe 15 days. what other advises can you give me..all of us :)
    thank you in advance

  10. Dear Garry,

    Thanks for this article, this article gave me some hope of reducing man boobs which is with me since childhood and very embarrassing to remove shirt in front of any.

    I will take 2 teaspoon with water every… what do u suggest please advice..
    Night
    Best regards

  11. hello Garry

    My testosterone level is just high above the normal level.But still i have big puffy nipples.Doctors have told me that it is only extra fat in my nipples and there is no medicine for it except surgery.
    Now i am so confuse that what to do as i am selected for Indian army and i cannot go through surgery.

    Please please help me.

  12. Very good information and wonderfully informative! I will pass this on to members of my family. Like shivam above, I am very healthy and also exercise regularly, but I am plagued by puffy nipples and man boobs (probably from all the soy I consumed growing up..). In addition to a good diet, should I load up on turmeric? Any other recommendations?

    -Thank you

  13. Pls sumbody help I’m doing regular exercise but I can’t get rid of this ..I suffered a lot pls help me to get rid of this…

  14. Garry…I want to try out turmeric capsules do you recommend a specific brand? I picked up a jar from whole foods that are organic from a company called Gaia the capsule also have black pepper in them to aid in absorption. Just started taking them today but wanted to get your thoughts. Please let me know what you think or if you think a powder is better.

  15. Hi Garry,
    I am suffering from Gyno since grade 6 now I am 25. There is both small gland and puffy nipples on both sides. I really wish I can somehow get rid of puffy nipples, I can live with that gland to be honest. I dont have any money for surgery neither i want to go that path. I want to try turmeric supplement along with exercise. Article doesnt tell how may supplement pills to take and what time. Please clarify. Also what other steps can I take to get maximum results.

  16. My 12 year old son has had boobs now since 1st grade, he is stocky built just like his dad. His dad says he was the same way but his are hard now not puffy and he is naturally very muscular (doesn’t work out but works hard). What can my son do to eliminate his man boobs? Is he too young for the turmeric? Ps. He does have some extra weight being he is built stocky but is not obese.

  17. Hi garry
    I am doing hard exersize but I can not ride my man boobs
    I am not going to beach because of this problem and not wearing teashirts
    So please help me

    • Hi Kartik.

      I’ve emailed you some advice on how to get rid of man boobs.

      Regarding your training, some hard training is necessary, and it’s important to watch what you eat. But if you do the wrong TYPE of training, no matter how hard you train, your man boobs will not go away. It’s the same with diet. If you eat the wrong TYPE of food, no matter how much you restrict your calories, your man boobs will not go away.

      The key is training hard (but not TOO hard) with the right type of exercise, and eating the right type of food. I mention more in this article, and go into a lot more detail in my program, How To Lose Man Boobs Naturally.

  18. Hi Garry
    I have man boob problem since my 8the grade. Now I’m 26age . Can I use turmeric. Does it cause any side effect

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