07-09-2011, 15:34
My understanding, and it is a laymans view, is that you are just about right in your thinking.
Progesterone/prolactin is responsible for filling out the milk production system once the underlying glandular breast development is more or less complete, and again at the onset of pregnancy to prepare for lactation.
That's why it can appear to work on its own, because it is rounding out what is already there. The downside of that is that if there isn't anything there it can't be rounded out, so in that case it doesn't do anything.
Also, and I'm less certain about this, technically, but in principle once the rounding out starts, the body then assumes it has enough breast tissue because by definition since it now has prolactins, it must already have enough tissue because the prolactins come at the end of the development, so it stops building breast tissue. Which is why it kills NBE.
Somebody will probably be able to express all that better than me, but that's the nuts and bolts of it, I think.
Pansy Mae
Progesterone/prolactin is responsible for filling out the milk production system once the underlying glandular breast development is more or less complete, and again at the onset of pregnancy to prepare for lactation.
That's why it can appear to work on its own, because it is rounding out what is already there. The downside of that is that if there isn't anything there it can't be rounded out, so in that case it doesn't do anything.
Also, and I'm less certain about this, technically, but in principle once the rounding out starts, the body then assumes it has enough breast tissue because by definition since it now has prolactins, it must already have enough tissue because the prolactins come at the end of the development, so it stops building breast tissue. Which is why it kills NBE.
Somebody will probably be able to express all that better than me, but that's the nuts and bolts of it, I think.
Pansy Mae