Gynecomastia Surgery and Puffy Nipples
Schwarzeneggger in his Training Heyday
If you follow weight lifting and body building news, you’ll frequently see exceedingly chiseled, buff body builders looking for answers about their puffy nipples.
They wonder if liposuction or gynecomastia surgery will make them look better.
Read the concern about gynecomastia surgery and problems one weight lifter encountered when he found a growth about 75 percent the size of a golf ball under one nipple.
Bottom line: there would be no puffy nipples in body builders if they took no steroids!
Our last post gave one example of terribly misleading information about gynecomastia surgery.
But the trend continues in body building blogs.
“Insiders” often provide bogus, half-truth and downright misleading information to body builders about various hormonal supplements, anabolic steroids and other compounds they should take to grow enormous muscles.
They also provide info about how to deal with side effects like puffy nipples – by self-treating with additional drugs.
When you see one of these guys with huge, chiseled muscles – like the attached picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger in his competing heyday — be assured, it is virtually impossible to get that large without some artificial help. These men also have a very low body fat ratio – a result of severe dietary restrictions that most normal guys cannot adhere to.
Also rest assured manipulation of one’s hormones will create enormous muscles – but at a steep price.
Here’s why: taking extra hormones causes a man’s hormone system to sense that there is plenty of male hormone already on hand. So the guy’s body shuts down its own production of testosterone.
Result? Large muscles grow while the testes can actually shrink away!
Sometimes, the extra testosterone is changed to the female hormone estrogen, causing gynecomastia on a very muscular chest, a condition known in gyms as “bitch tits”.
The cure? Only gynecomastia surgery. And it’s not minor; the surgery for puffy nipples is just as complicated and demanding as any other male breast reduction surgery.
Another bottom line: even the best MD endocrinologists have difficulty regulating patients’ hormones, using all the scientific tools of the trade like frequent blood tests to monitor hormone levels.
The worst possible move: do-it-yourself hormone supplementation without physician supervision and frequent blood tests to check on your hormones. The old saying, “A patient who treats himself has a fool for a doctor” applies.
Believe me, there are worse things that puffy nipples!
Steroid use also causes long term problems. Remember Lyle Alzado? He was a pro football player who ended his life at age 43 due to brain cancer that many doctors believe was induced by bulking with anabolic steroids.
Other organs can be affected as well. Steroid users are almost guaranteed to develop “short fuse” temper flare ups – the so-called “’roid rage.”
Here are before and after pictures of gynecomastia surgery to repair a bodybuilder’s puffy nipples.
