In my dozens of years as a surgeon, I’ve performed surgery for gynecomastia on patients from around the world, yet the medical community still cannot quantify the prevalence of gynecomastia. Yet for whatever reason, I have a huge following of patients suffering from gynecomastia in India. It may relate to the availability of my educational materials on the web to patients in India, while patients suffering in other countries with poor web access or strict Internet censorship may not be as […]
I’m fortunate to have treated several thousand patients with gynecomastia surgery at the Austin Gynecomastia Center. Beyond the physical symptoms of gynecomastia, there simply isn’t much scientific research addressing the true cause of this condition, other than the basic observation that almost all patients have an imbalance of the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone. One of the most common questions I get asked deals with the relationship between gynecomastia and fat. Often, the confusing term pseudogynecomastia comes up. What is the incidence of […]
The Austin Gynecomastia Center represents all the good that can come from the new digital world that we live in. I couldn’t imagine reaching those in need without the ability to spread the word through the Internet and Social Media. In sheer numbers, that equates to two hundred cases a year, thousands received treatment for gynecomastia with surgery in total and millions educated through my videos and Internet content. The map in my office now has pushpins from patients all […]
This young man previously had his gynecomastia surgery elsewhere. He reached out to me, complaining of continued fullness and what he thought were unusual scars located on both sides of his chest. I Skyped with him on several occasions to discuss my findings and to make a recommendation for his full recovery from gynecomastia. To his disappointment, I confirmed that the surgical approach was indeed unusual and that I could see the persistent fullness. Due to his previous experience with […]
Is it gynecomastia or fat? I must get this question at least 20 times a day from all over the world. There are folks everywhere who are familiar with the Austin Gynecomastia Center and our reputation of always telling the truth without sugarcoating anything. For the longest time, I have been an advocate eliminating the term “pseudogynecomastia” because it implies that there can be “false gynecomastia” — the appearance of a female like breast in a man that is from […]
There was a small study conducted years ago that found a correlation between gynecomastia and obesity: obesity occurred more frequently in patients with gynecomastia than in the general population. But we cannot draw a conclusion from these results because the scale of the study was not large enough. The true answer to the connection between gynecomastia and obesity is further complicated by the fact that the United States is in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Based on body mass […]
