I’m fortunate to have treated several thousand patients with gyno 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 treated in total and millions educated through my videos and Internet content. The map in my office now has pushpins from patients all over the world. To know […]
This young man previously had his gynecomastia treated 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 […]
I came across this picture and realized the importance of sharing my professional insight on chest contouring to treat the fullness of the lateral chest. Most folks wouldn’t recognize the term “gynecomastia” but mention “man boobs” and people get the picture. Not good. I developed the Austin Gynecomastia Center Zone Classification system after treating hundreds of patients and realizing that they all had fairly consistent patterns of fullness that fell into these subcategories. In the image above, a patient on the operating […]
