Do bee pollen supplements support boob growth? Expert says maybe
The beauty buffs are buzzing.
Adult women on TikTok are claiming that bee pollen supplements have made their breasts grow — but experts are dubious.
Influencer Ivey Cross went viral with more than 1.3 million views on TikTok after she claimed that she noticed her bra getting tighter several weeks after adding the supplement to her diet.
“I think bee pollen made my (cherry emoji) grow,” she captioned the video, showing herself in a black Skims bra while holding a bee pollen drink in one hand and her supplements in the other.
Cross said it took other women touting the additive to notice her own physical changes.
Her video included the hashtags womenshealth, beepollenbenefits and beepollen, the latter of which has over 57.9 million views with most of the top videos showing women in bras or bathing suit tops bragging about going up a cup size.
While these videos seem to be giving first-person reactions to the natural supplement, experts doubt that it can be attributed to growing breasts.
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Bee pollen is collected from the pollen that builds up on the insects’ bodies as they fly from flower to flower and sometimes contains traces of bee saliva. The substance that is gathered contains vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, lipids and protein, explains medical writer Debra Fulghum Bruce, Ph.D., for WebMD.
While the supplement is believed to be safe for most to ingest, Bruce warned that those who are allergic to pollen should steer clear as it may activate reactions.
Dr. Karan Raj, who’s become popular on TikTok for clarifying health news, responded to videos of these bee pollen claims to clear up the truth.
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“Can bee pollen make your nunga nungas bigger?” the doctor asked in a TikTok video, posing the question members of the itty bitty titty committee have been asking.
“Supposedly, bee pollen is rich in phytoestrogens,” Raj said. He explained that this compound is meant to mimic estrogen, a hormone that influences breast size.
Breast tissue is very sensitive to hormones and responds quickly to their fluctuations in the body — hence what some women perceive as bona fide breast growth. Any changes observed in the breasts would revert to their genetically bestowed size as soon as the chemical was no longer flowing throughout the body, Raj concluded.
Bee pollen has been praised as a nutrient-dense dietary supplement for years, as some have claimed that the natural product can cure ailments from eczema to cancer, but no scientific studies have substantiated these bold claims.
It should be noted that dietary supplements such as bee pollen have different and more relaxed Food and Drug Administration regulations than commercial foods, prescription drugs or nutritional vitamins, according to Dr. Kais Rona, who previously warned The Post, “A lot of times we don’t really know what’s in these dietary supplements.”