any other female of any animal species with breasts doesn’t really ‘develop’ them unless they’re pregnant so why do human women develop breasts at puberty, just for them to develop even more during pregnancy?
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I may be way off base here but Id like to share my thoughts on this, maybe someone can speak to the validity of what I’ve always believed:
The human body was never intended to feed on milk from other species, i.e. the cow. When a cow gives birth, she is able to produce milk because Hormones in her body tell her to produce it, as well as telling her udders to prepare her to “dispense” it. Hormones in cows milk, mostly resulting in added hormones that cows are given to produce more milk, get passed along to those that drink it and effect the human body in a way that increases certain hormones in a human female’s body to do basically the same thing, preparing the girl’s “udders” for milk delivery, causing growth in the human breast. I believe it happens at puberty because that is the time when the human female is experiencing the physical changes to prepare her body to bear children. (again I have no idea if I’m right about this) I also believe that the female human body goes through more physical changes than most other species. I don’t see it very much these days, but about 10 years ago it seemed like girls were developing in the chest at younger ages regardless of puberty, this was a period of time when the added hormones were being fed to dairy cows, as well as other food sources, was at its peak. People started protesting and speaking out against our food sources being fed growth hormones as well as other GMO’s, the trends slowed down quite a bit and it seems as though the younger development of breasts has also trended away. To sum up my theory, I believe it has a lot to do with the combination of drinking cows milk, combined with the changes a girl’s body is going through during puberty.
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