siren3

Although I love herbs, and greatly believe in their benefits over many synthetic prescription medications, please know that some of those types of herbs that are meant for promoting breast growth can greatly raise your estrogen levels. That is the whole reason people are taking them, because that's what makes the breasts grow. It is not good to raise your estrogen levels too high. With high enough dosages of these herbs, they can, in fact, raise the estrogen levels the same as birth control pills and sometimes even much HIGHER, this is not my opinion, this is what I know to be true from much research. This can definitely be a problem for people with uterine fibroids, because fibroids feed off of estrogen, it could possibly even cause them to form in the first place if you don't have them already. Estrogen also feeds ovarian cysts, as well as breast cancer cells. So please, I know it is natural, but it is also very powerful, so please think about it carefully before doing it. Even if your breasts don't grow, you could still be affecting your reproductive system, because you are definitely affecting your hormones.

In my opinion, I think your goal should be to BALANCE your hormones instead, or to strive to insure that they stay balanced, and there are many herbs that do that very safely, that do not raise just one hormone over the other, they work to balance them out (for example, if your estrogen is too low, they will raise it, or if your progesterone is too low, it will raise that, or sometimes raise both or lower one or the other, or just put them in their proper balance), this has great benefits to your overall health, your moods, periods, sexual life, and especially to your beauty (most definitely). I am definitely not attacking or judging anybody, I do understand how you feel. But please know that uterine fibroids can make your stomach large if you get them or make existing ones grow, and that is the least of their dangers. They are usually not dangerous, but if grown in certain places can cause bad things to happen. And what's more scary are ovarian cysts and breast cancer, so please always research things before you jump into it, and listen to your inner wisdom about these things. I believe that teenagers, especially, should not be messing with their hormones in this way. If you are young and not developing properly, then your goal should really be to balance your hormones, instead of boosting your estrogen levels (which is what most of the "breast enlargement" herbs do), or instead of decreasing your androgen levels (which is what saw palmetto does). Just please be careful. Larger breasts are not as important as a healthy body, and having children someday is very important to me as well as many other women, and so risking the danger of getting or worsening fibroids or cysts which each may have the chance of contributing to infertility is not a risk that I would take, nor the risk of causing internal problems to my health.

Also, I just want to add, that all of the herbs labeled "breast enlargement herbs" are each some great and beneficial herbs, some really do have some great benefits to them, but it's when you start taking unusually high dosages, and adding them all together and increasing the dosages even farther and continuing them for long periods of time, then that's when they can possibly be destructive to your health. But even if you already have uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, or breast cancer, or a history of breast cancer, then even just ONE of these herbs can sometimes cause the condition to become worse because of their estrogenic effect on the body. They do not contain estrogen, but they can powerfully raise estrogen, just like a birth control pill. And, no, I definitely do NOT think birth control pills are safer.

OK, that's most of what I wanted to say, only because I seriously do care and because I really do think it's important or else I wouldn't say anything. And, because I noticed some teenagers trying this stuff out, I do believe that they, especially, need to know these things; because I do honestly feel that they are being given the impression by adult women that this is entirely safe, and it is not always safe. However, I do know that even the women are being given that impression by other people as well, and so I know they do not mean any harm whatsoever. But I do hope that no one is offended by what I've said. Thanks for reading.

P.S. Moderator, I posted this in a new thread, because the other board is just too long, and probably many wouldn't bother looking at it anyway, so I don't want it to get lost in all those posts. But if ya have to move it there, that's alright, I suppose. Thanks.

P.P.S. Oh I thought I should add one more thing. Sometimes using herbs that work to raise your estrogen levels will trigger your body to get rid of even more estrogen, leaving you with less estrogen than you began with, so that can cause problems all on it's own, worse than you started out with sometimes. Remember, a proper balance of your hormones is one of the things that contribute to the beautifying effects on your skin, hair and body, and so messing up that balance too much can also cause some ugly things to happen sometimes. So, either way, you cannot possibly always know what is happening to your body, and sometimes you may not find out until something goes wrong, so please at least consider what I've said. That's all, thanks.