75 percent of all women have some sort of stretch mark problem in their lifetime – all hate it!
Very simply, stretch marks or Striae, as they are called medically, are simply scars that appear in the dermis rather than on the epidermis as conventional scarring from outside injury. Most people are led to believe that stretch marks are caused by stretching the skin beyond its tensile strength – either from weight gain, pregnancy or extreme muscle building.
While all these things DO play a role, there are hormonal aspects during puberty that can leave stretch marks on a very young girl’s breasts, even if she has no rapid weight gain or loss.
I believe there is an enzymatic power at play here, principally the enzyme collagenase that determines how much collagen fibres are in place to support tissue. If this enzyme is compromised by hormonal flux, it can destroy the very collagen fibres it is supposed to regulate.
The skin then becomes ‘ruptured” or broken down and weakened at that point and appears on the surface as a silvery or reddened “scar”. The stretching of skin plays more of a role in where the marks occur and what direction they run in.
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