Does excess alcohol give men breasts?

Factual Questions
1

Is this a myth? If not, is it reversible without surgery?

2

God I hope so. I pretty bored and drunk right now, I could use something to play with.

3

Alcohol has a lot of calories, and fat in the chest region is as likely as fat anywhere else.

4

Yes, excess alcohol often gives men breasts. But not their own.

5

Liver failure alters hormone balances and can cause gynecomastia.

6

Ya hear that, ladies?!

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Excessive alcohol consumpton can, in fact, have an estrogenic effect on the male hormonal system. Gynecomastia (man boobs) is a result of too much estrogen in the man’s hormonal system. So…

8

tosses another empty 5th of tequila

Why isn’t it werking!?! hic

9

Are you sure? Go get an UnderArmor shirt; if you got 'em, even little ones, that tight little shirt will have 'em hanging right out. :eek:

There’s a lot of man boobs out there!

10

I certainly don’t have any pectoral mass, but I wouldn’t call them moobs, either. Plus there’s hair… it’s just not worth it. Come to think of it, I’ll play with my wife’s… she’s got the real kind.

brb

11

If your alcohol comes mainly in the form of beer, you get in addition to the calories (which add fat everywhere) also female phytohormones from the hops that help with turning the fat into breasts specifically.

12

This phenomenon also occurs with the ingestion of wine and spirits (especially those with a colour or tint to them like Bourbon or Scotch, but not, supposedly, with clear ones like Vodka). I once read that there was sufficient estrogen in some whiskeys to maintain the estrous cycle in female rats that had had their ovaries removed.

I’ll also use this opportunity to repeat that, in a man, breast enlargement can occur if alcohol consumption has led to cirrhosis of the liver. This is a result of the liver damage causing impaired breakdown and removal of estrogen (female hormone) from the circulation (with all men, cirrhotic or not, having naturally occurring estrogen in their bodies).

13

Is liver damage the only cause of breast enlargement, beyond obesity? There would be other, more obvious signs if you had liver damage, right?

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So, does any amount of alcohol have an estrogen effect on men? Is liver damage the only cause of breast enlargement, in alcohol drinkers, beyond obesity? There would be other, more obvious signs if you had liver damage, right?