boobs...

[spaceleaf]

ha stoners, i was watching the news on channel nine and the story was about men getting boob reduction surgery....Anyway they say its caused by obesity,steroids and ,hows this marijuana use.....what the??? " blokes smokes dope and gets gropped" THe media will say anything to put down our medicine . I'd better duck out and grab a double 'D' cup cause i'm gunna need it after all the pot i smoke.........space

[Pure]

this ones been around for a while , funny yet so so sad to see it resurface i guess they figure if lying to us about damage doesn't work mabey a hit on some ego's will .

 

 

they forgot to mention the two MOST important issues though , which are that if you eat too much chicken breast it happens aswell and that if you eat too much pizza you will turn into a pizza

[Ozzy420]

Shit if smoking pot gives ya man boobs my should be dragin along the grown by now.

 

Some of the shit they come up with ...

[thekilla]

it actually happened to a friend of mine recently.. he is in his retirement and smokes and started to get them.. he had to get it reduced.. he said there are many causes including pharamaceutals but there is no clear link between them, just correlations.. but enough correlations to warrant a link..

 

eg pot may be a .70 correlation

and pharmaceutical may be a .80

and others may be weaker .. but there are correlations..

[jojothepotfiend]

Hahaha, Imagine if it was true and pretty much all male rock stars had bitch tits.

[Luke Skywalker]

You need a .95 correlation to be scientifically valid though.

 

I'd lean more to estrogen like compounds in pesticide products than anything else causing problems. 500,000 novel chemicals invented since the industrial revolution and we don't know very much about most of them or their long term effects.

[thekilla]

yer statistically.. but there is still a relation between the two even if it is not fully understood..

[Al B. Fuct]

Pure's on it- this is another zero-tolerance drug-war myth.

 

Cannabis is also 'implicated' by ZT liars in chromosome damage, sterility and a number of other ridiculous things designed to convince ppl that cannabis is somehow harmful.

[euph0rix]

Lavender and Tea Tree oil give men boobs as well. It increases estrogen somehow. Stay away from that stuff boys. Watch whats in your shampoo. Heard about it on Triple J last year.

 

Tea Tree oil (Melaleuca alternifolia) and Lavender Oil causes Gynecomastia (male breast enlargement) in boys

 

From Science News, issue of 1 July 2006:

 

Two ingredients common in many hair- and skin-care products have been linked to abnormal development of breasts in boys. Lavender oil and tea tree oil contain compounds that act like female sex hormones and interfere with male hormones, researchers have determined.

 

Enlarged male breasts, or gynecomastia, result from an imbalance between the activity of estrogens, which stimulate breast growth, and estrogen-inhibiting androgens. The condition is extremely rare before puberty, says Denver-area pediatric endocrinologist Clifford Bloch.

 

Nevertheless, since the mid-1990s, Bloch has treated gynecomastia in a series of boys age 10 or younger. Most had normal ratios of sex hormones in their blood, indicating that theirs wasn't a problem of hormone production.

 

From the youngsters and their parents, Bloch learned that at least five boys had been using a shampoo, hair gel, soap, or another topical product that listed lavender oil among its ingredients. One of the products also contained tea tree oil. "A couple of patients were putting pure lavender oil on their skin," he says.

 

Bloch recommended that the boys stop using lavender-containing products. When they followed his advice, gynecomastia disappeared within a few months.

 

To verify his hunch that the plant oils were hormonally active, Bloch contacted Derek Henley and Kenneth Korach of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C. In their lab, the two investigators exposed human-breast cells to lavender oil and, separately, to tea tree oil. They found that each oil turned on estrogen-regulated genes and inhibited an androgen-regulated gene.

 

"These oils possess both estrogenic and anti-androgenic properties," Henley reported at the Endocrine Society meeting in Boston this week. He adds that the finding is the first to implicate "essential oils" from plants in gynecomastia.

 

Young boys should avoid the oils, Bloch advises. Many personal-care products contain them. Other plant products act like estrogens in the body.

 

Pediatric endocrinologist Edward Reiter of Tufts University School of Medicine in Springfield, Mass., applauds Bloch for his "impressive, Sherlock Holmes" performance in unearthing what the boys had in common. While similar patients probably trickle in to other endocrinology clinics, he says, the cause of their enlarged breasts could escape diagnosis because doctors don't make the connection to personal-care products.

 

"If I had seen [just] one of those kids, I'm sure I would have missed it," he says.

 

The rapid reversal of gynecomastia that Bloch accomplished is a rare achievement in medicine, comments Ken Ong, a pediatric endocrinologist at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, England. As such, it strongly suggested a link between the products and the boys' problem.

 

The plant essences presumably have similar potential effects in young girls, Reiter says. Studies show a recent rise of early breast development in girls. Prepubertal children have low sex hormone concentrations, so relatively small amounts of hormone-mimicking compounds might upset their physiologic balance at that age, says Reiter.

[grok]

yeah..if marijuana caused boob growth in men..most of us would now be wearing bras!!

 

as for tea tree oil and lavender...thats interesting...some women with small tits might be able to get bigger boobs without the surgery!!...now if you hear of any that causes growth of the penis....tell us all about it!!!!..(not that i need it.. )