Can papaya increase breast size?
April 4, 2023
These days even netizens posting know that "a ditch will be hot". The reality is that having a pair of naturally perky breasts is the dream of many women. Many female celebrities have been found to have increased "size" after they swear by papaya as their secret sauce. As for the principle, some say it is ancient records, some say it is papaya enzymes and vitamin A in action. Can papaya really enlarge the breast?
Can papaya increase breast size?
Truth: The ancient records?
Papaya and breasts in the ancient books of the most famous "melon", when An Lushan with papaya hurting Yang Guifei's breasts, but the world knows that Yang Yuhuan's rich body and this aromatic anecdote has nothing to do. I am afraid that the origin of the papaya can enlarge the chest of this statement or due to the plump, seedy shape of the papaya, giving people the "shape to complement the shape" of the imagination, to know that in ancient times there are many, many statements based on similar reasons, such as the male Yang deficiency should eat sea cucumber, female Yin deficiency should eat abalone, etc.
Many people think that the "papaya breast enhancement" claim comes from traditional Chinese medicine. On this issue, the first thing to clarify is: Chinese traditional medicine refers to the "Xuan papaya" (Chaenomeles, Rosaceae papaya genus), while the species we see on the fruit stalls now is the papaya (Carica papaya, papaya family papaya genus). For Xuan papaya, neither the traditional medical literature nor the modern pharmacopoeia mentions breast enlargement in its efficacy. In the discussion about breast enlargement, it is more often referred to papaya.
Can papaya increase breast size? Let's proceed slowly to analyze.
Miracle ingredient?
Among the rumors that papaya can enlarge breast, some of them explain its "principle" like this: papaya enzymes and vitamin A can stimulate female hormone secretion, which helps to enlarge breast, and papaya enzymes can also break down protein and promote the body's absorption of protein.
Papaya enzyme: decompose protein, not breast enlargement
In fact, the word "enzyme" comes from Japanese, which is translated into Chinese as "enzyme", papaya enzyme and papaya enzyme are the same thing. Papaya enzyme in a broad sense refers to a complex enzyme consisting of papain, Chymopapain, Amylase and so on.
The so-called "protease", its function is to break down proteins. It is able to break up large protein molecules into smaller fragments. The main ingredient in the famous meat tenderizer (read: Science Squirrel Club: "meat tenderizer" and papain, the "old" and "natural" problem) is papain. It breaks down the proteins in meat and makes it less mechanically strong, thus making it softer and more tender. Not only is meat tenderizing powder used in the food industry, but foreign folk also use papaya juice dripping on beef to make it tastier to cook.
However, protease has to be in direct contact with the protein in order to have an effect. We eat papaya into our mouths, papain slides down the esophagus to the stomach, where it is broken down by pepsin (papain itself is also a protein), and there will be no intact, active papain to play a role in breast enlargement. What's more, the above consideration is still the case of eating raw papaya. If it is boiled papaya soup, papaya enzyme would have lost its activity by the heat. In short, it is pure nonsense to use this idea to prove that eating papaya can increase breast size.
Vitamin A: the body needs, not breast enlargement.
Papaya is rich in carotenoids, which can be converted into vitamin A. The conversion rate of this process is not high. If carotenoids are consumed in excess in a short period of time, the conversion rate will also be greatly reduced. On some level, this does not make it easy to oversupply vitamin A. Therefore, eating papaya is a safer way to supplement vitamin A.
But the point is that vitamin A does not have the effect of stimulating estrogen production, so it does not have any effect on breast enlargement.
How to make your breasts bigger
This starts with the structure of the breasts. Leaving aside the skin, nipple and areola parts, the breasts are actually made up of mammary glands, fatty tissue and connective tissue, in addition to the pectoralis major muscle, which also affects the appearance of the breasts due to its supporting role.
Growing mammary glands? Unless it's hormones
Breast development during puberty is stimulated by the secretion of estrogen from the ovaries, and all kinds of breast enlargement tips actually revolve around estrogen.
In order to make breast tissue bigger, some breast enlargement methods recommend taking health foods (or even drugs) containing estrogen or estrogen boosters, but the results are likely to be more risky than rewarding, such as breast lumps, precocious puberty in children, or even gigantomastia.
It is often seen that some breast enlargement recipes suggest seizing the week after menstruation for "dietary supplements", but this is actually an illusion caused by the natural laws of the human body: during a menstrual cycle, as ovulation approaches, the breasts gradually increase in size under the influence of estrogen. Some girls may even experience swelling and pain during ovulation. If you happen to be observing the process during these days, it is natural to think that the dietary supplements have produced a "miraculous effect".
Many people think that drinking soy milk can also increase breast size because they think that soy isoflavones have a weak estrogenic effect due to their molecular structure being similar to the human endocrine estrogen estradiol. In fact, the estrogen-like effect of soy isoflavones is mainly effective for people with insufficient estrogen secretion after menopause, if your own estrogen level is high, soy isoflavones will be competitively inhibited with estrogen, showing anti-estrogenic effects.
Growing connective tissue? Unlikely
Connective tissue is mainly used to suspend the breasts, which simply means that it prevents them from sagging. Apart from over-stretching that causes the tissue to break, external factors generally do not affect it much. What's more, it's no more effective than wearing a proper bra.
Growing fat? Aren't you trying to lose weight?
After all, the decision of breast size is still in the hands of fat tissue, which is the main component of the breast, accounting for nearly 2/3 of the volume. Some girls go on crazy diets for their waistlines, and as a result, they start screaming when they see their upper body in the shower and look in the mirror ...... The proportion of breast fat in the three circumferences is the largest, and of course the "shrinkage" is also the most obvious. As for what peanuts and pig's feet soup, yam stewed mutton, as long as you fat up breast will naturally become larger. So keep the bust or have a balanced diet, not blindly lose weight.
Muscle training? Beware of the opposite!
Breasts rely on connective tissue hanging on the pectoral muscles, through exercise, the support of the pectoral muscles can make the breasts look more "upright" ...... This is also the main principle of various breast enlargement aerobics. However, the exercise will also make the fat less, the most extreme effect to see the size of the female bodybuilder's breasts will understand.
Conclusion
Rumor-busting. The effect of papaya on breast enlargement is just a legend, there is no scientific basis. With a normal heart to do a balanced diet, appropriate exercise, wearing the right bra is good, and puberty and pregnancy breast also have the opportunity to become larger. If papaya breast enlargement is really effective, the Spring Festival night sister of Chi Ling will not be revealed.