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    7 hours ago

    I edited my previous post.

    The three times a day is actually for pregnant women to induce it early. There are drugs who can directly increase prolactin. But it sounds like increasing estrogen and progesterone for some time is the most used way, since that can be done with birth control pills.

    Prolactin has side effects:

    Elevated levels of prolactin decrease the levels of sex hormones—estrogen in women and testosterone in men.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolactin#In_humans

    Prolactin is also part of the mix that results in the male refractory period.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractory_period_(sex)