[Dynseli]

1 part protein powder and 4 parts raw sugar is good for physical healing and recovery. You can use 1:1 ratio if you want. 'Refined sugar' in that quantity is bad for long-term health. If doing this, use a lot of water, because otherwise it can tax the liver. This mix would be good for breast health. Insulin is good for tissue synthesis. I think insulin has a relationship to IGF-1 'insulin growth factor-1'. GH influences the hormones that affect growth, but I haven't seen it directly affect breast tissue. Read the links in the first post of this thread along with the statements they support.

Prolactin and recovery hormones levels are high at night.

[Candace]

I would think that fruits, vegetables, and white meat would be better for healing and recovery than protein powder and raw sugar since they have a larger diversity of nutrients. (Red meat would probably be even better, but at the expense of reduced lifespan due to the damage that heme inflicts.) The only advantage of the powders is convenience.

Growth hormone stimulates IGF-1 synthesis. And GH release is inhibited by high blood sugar, so there's a second reason to take the aminos alone if GH release is what you're after. Figures 1 and 2 of your first link in the first post show that growth hormone receptors are involved in breast development, so GH plays a direct role as well.

[Dynseli]

Natural foods are good. GH indirectly results in breast development, and it also accounts for total body growth. Prolactin, IGF-1, estrogens, and progestogens directly result in breast development, since their known respective receptors are on the breast. Perhaps GH raises the other hormones directly responsible. Come to think of it, there are more receptors: one is for calcium during breastfeeding, and there is a receptor type that is in many ligament tissues.

Sugars alone work against recovery, and in fact they tear down protective fats. Taken with protein or healthy fats, however, this increases insulin. Fenugreek also decreases blood sugar.

If taking amino acid supplements, just go with protein powder, because it has more of everything.

[Dynseli]

Here is a review that tells a lot about Estrogen-related receptor alpha (ERRα) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4041375/ , which is located in the breast. ERR-alpha's effects are unknown.

http://mcr.aacrjournals.org/content/1/13/981.long 'Flavone and Isoflavone Phytoestrogens Are Agonists of Estrogen-Related Receptors'

[Dynseli]

'Androgen receptor inactivation resulted acceleration in pubertal mammary gland growth, up-regulation of ERα expression and Wnt/β-catenin signalling in female mice.' https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25076121

Suggests that androgen receptors in breast tissue inhibit normal growth.

[Dynseli]

'Serum IGF1 and insulin levels in girls with normal and precocious puberty' http://eje-online.org/content/166/5/903.long

[solome]

so much information, so little time. i'm amazed and overwhelmed when i learn a little of what the body is doing on a molecular level, the expected cascade of a given metabolic path when initiated by a bio-identical agonist as opposed to the pathway that may at some point meander when excited by a synthetic hormone, the incredible chemistry of messaging, homeostasis, really mind numbing. anyway, of all the breast intel, i can't remember having come across this before and i found it interesting. this was the paragraph from http://www.007b.com/breast_development.php that peaked my interest:

During breast growth, a girl's requirement for iodine, an essential mineral, increases, because healthy breast tissue concentrates iodine (it contains more of it than the surrounding tissues). In fact, breast tissue has the second highest concentration of iodine in the body (the thyroid has the highest). The larger the girl's breasts become, the more iodine she needs.

anyway, i was disappointed there was no further expounding on what might have been a fascinating subject. what earth girl doesn't like a bit of expounding. i did, however, come across two sites i found informative, that is, just like xenoestrogens in the environment that compete for estrogen receptors, there are compounds in our environment that compete for iodine receptors. i didn't even know we had iodine receptors. honestly, the thing that bugs me most is that all of this is probably in another thread somewhere.

http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2011/oct2...ciency.htm

http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natur...d-to-know/

this looks interesting, too http://healyourselfathome.com/HOW/NEWSTA..._body.aspx

[Dynseli]

That's good information about iodine. It says iodine lowers Fibrocystic Breast Disease. And a linked page http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natur...rome-pcos/ says iodine is good against pcos. The links posted also say iodized salt doesn't contain enough iodine.

Minerals need to be balanced proportionally, and there is less room for error with minerals. Vitamins just need to be taken, but don't require a delicate balance. The body can tolerate varying levels of vitamins so long as there isn't a deficiency or an excessive amount (Upper Limit). This is good to keep in mind for vitamin/mineral supplements.

This is leading to something, like which minerals are good for breast health. Vitamins and minerals good for overall body health are relevant: iodine, vitamin D and others more so.

Metallic estrogens are Metalloestrogens. I'm unsure of the complete definition of xenoestrogens. Small amounts of chromium found in foods are necessary for health, but too much and it becomes carcinogenic. And mineral estrogens do compete with each other.

There are a lot of receptors, but they are hard to research. I think many minerals have a receptor on the body. Breasts have calcium (CaSR) receptors for regulating milk expression (dormant until breast feeding). Ligneous tissue has receptors that are in most other body cells. There may be a receptor type that is important, but un-researched since there are receptors that may need to be targeted in triple-negative breast cancer (it is targeting a receptor that is not ER-alpha, PR, or prolactin).

[Dynseli]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3896381/ 'Magnesium Enhances Exercise Performance via Increasing Glucose Availability in the Blood, Muscle, and Brain during Exercise'

"Our data demonstrate that Mg possibly enables the provision of an adequate glucose source by increasing glucose availability and facilitating the clearance of lactate."

[Dynseli]

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PdfExcerptURL&_imagekey=3-s2.0-B9781416049074000103-main.pdf&_piikey=B9781416049074000103&_cdi=278768&_orig=article&_zone=centerpane&_fmt=abst&_eid=3-s2.0-B9781416049074000103&_user=12975512&md5=aee629c0e934d5bf1dca648d2cb99ad4&ie=/excerpt.pdf The Breast (preview)

Spans from the "second to the sixth ribs."
Aside from glandular and adipose tissue it contains connective tissues.
"Breast volume in individuals with androgen insensitivity is typically above average."

"The anti-estrogenic effect of androgen on breast growth is the basis for therapies used to treat fibrocystic disease."

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