15-Year Study Reveals Bras Actually Make Breasts "Saggier"

Women have long been told that a good
bra can help support the chest, relieve
back pain and prevent sagging.  However,
a new 15-year French study reveals the
opposite: bras do little to reduce back
pain and, over time, they can actually
make breasts sag even more.
Women who took off their bras for good
experienced a 7mm lift in their nipples
each year they didn’t wear a bra.
Researchers also found that bra-less
women developed firmer breasts and saw
their stretch marks fade.
Researcher Prof. Jean-Denis Rouillon, a
sports science expert from the University
of Besançon in eastern France claims that
“bras are a false necessity,” according to
The Local.
“Medically, physiologically, anatomically –
breasts gain no benefit from being denied
gravity,” said Rouillon. “On the contrary,
they get saggier with a bra.”
Rouillon and his team spent years
measuring the changes in the breasts of
330 women using a simple slide rule and
caliper at the Centre Hospitalier
Universitaire (University Hospital) in
Besançon, where he carried out his
research.
He found that no evidence that bras
helped ease back pain. Instead, he found
that the chest supports could even add to
the problem.
According to The Connexion, the findings
suggest that breasts would gain more
tone and support themselves if no bra was
used. Researchers explain that bras limit
the growth of supporting breast tissues,
leaving the breast to wither and degrade
more quickly.
The study found that women who took off
their bras for good experienced a 7mm
lift in their nipples each year they didn’t
wear a bra. Researchers also found that
bra-less women developed firmer breasts
and saw their stretch marks fade.
Some of the women who took part in
Rouillon’s study told France Info that not
wearing a bra helped ease their back
pains.
Capucine, a 28-year-old participant in
Rouillon’s study, swears by the results and
hasn’t worn a bra for two years.
“There are multiple benefits: I breathe
more easily, I carry myself better, and I
have less back pain,” Capucine said,
according to France Info.
However, Rouillon says the findings do not
mean all women should throw away their
bras.
“It would be dangerous to advise all
women to stop wearing their soutien-
gorge as the women involved were not a
representative sample of the population,”
Rouillon said, according to The Connexion.
While his initial results “validated the
hypothesis that the bra is a false ‘need’,”
he says that women who have been
wearing bras for a long time would not
gain any benefit from stopping now.

Source: endalldisease.com