Regain Breast Tissue After Menopause
Many women become self-conscious about the size of their breasts after menopause. As estrogen decreases, the amount of breast tissue decreases as well. Many women accept decreased breast tissue as a reality of life after menopause. However, for some women, having a decreased amount of breast tissue is unsettling. For women who are especially concerned with the amount of breast tissue they have, a variety of treatments and therapies are available to increase the amount of breast tissue after menopause.
Instructions
1. Speak with your physician about hormone replacement therapy (HRT). With HRT, synthetic hormones are administered to replace some of the hormones that your body no longer manufactures because of having undergone menopause. HRT can restore hormonal levels closer to what they were prior to menopause, thereby increasing breast tissue.
2. Strengthen your pectoral muscles. Strengthening your pectoral muscles will increase their size. Though this will not lead to increased breast tissue, it will lead to the simulation of increased breast tissue because the muscle under the breast tissue will have grown. Push-ups, dips, and bench press exercises are some examples of exercises that work the pectoral muscles.
3. Gain weight if you are underweight. Breast tissue is mostly fatty tissue, so being underweight after menopause will exacerbate the loss of breast tissue. If you are underweight, gain weight by eating more calories than you burn. You can calculate the number of calories that you burn in a day by adding the amount of calories that you burn through exercise to your basal metabolic rate (BMR). You can manually calculate for BMR or use a calculator. (See Resources.) Ensure that any extra food you do eat consists of extra portions of healthful, nutritious food, as opposed to empty calories.
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