BRAS AND BREAST CANCER
Not wearing a bra to prevent breast cancer is too simple and hardly mentioned in the media or even considered by many cancer experts. Breast cancer kills 43,000 women annually and strikes 180,000
women each year. Going without a bra to prevent breast cancer is certainly not popular with women but neither is having their breasts removed her taking tamoxifen instead. It costs nothing to stop wearing a bra, but it costs healthy women over $7 billion a year in the United States to take tamoxifen as a preventative.
Bras worldwide support, lift, and smooth out the breast, and create and inspire fantasies. Bras have been around for a long time. It has caused a social debate by both men and women and is a significant and powerful voice to be reckoned with. Who is in charge of the female breast in today’s society, men or women?
Most cancer specialists say the idea isn’t even worth commenting on, the theory that constriction from bras allows toxins to build up is unfounded, and a bra that fits snugly doesn’t interfere with drainage of the breast.
Scientific skepticism is wonderful. Yet there are numerous references linking fibrocystic breast disease, benign lumps, and cysts to cancer. Yet 90% of women who have fibrocystic disease find improvement by not wearing a bra.
Many women think it’s normal condition to have lumpy breasts and don’t consider it a disease. But if a breast duct is filled with fluid, like a balloon filled with water, the area is compressed, ducts become blocked, and scar tissue forms.
Bras are a recent invention and bras were added to the corset in 1863. In 1913, Mary Jacob, put two silky pieces together with some pink ribbon forming a restraining version of the bra.
Bras have caused us pain, skin irritation and the under wire has caused discomfort. An allergic reaction to the metal may cause a rash. Very heavy breasts can cause back pain, muscle tensions and headaches. Ill fitting, bras can help cancer growth and prevent your body from excreting cancer-causing chemicals. The bra industry notes that 80% of women wear the wrong size bra.
There are numerous lymphatic pathways in the armpits and under the breasts and also between the breasts. These lymph fluids wash out the waste materials away from the breast. Push-up bras inhibit this action and toxins can accumulate in the breast predisposing to cancer development. Toxins like PCB, dioxin, benzene, can cling to the body’s fat tissues in the breasts.
Most women lean and small breasted don’t need bras. Large breasted woman and overweight women, wears bras for support and comfort. A lump in the breast is often just trapped lymphatic fluid that can’t move away from the breast tissue. Women who wear bras have higher levels of prolactin hormone.
A recent Harvard study showed an increase in breast cancer rates in women who wear bras. The odds of getting breast cancer dramatically increase in women wear bras over 12 hours a day. A bra worn less than 12 hours a day lowers the cancer risk by 50%. 75% of women with breast cancer do not have any typical breast risk factors. Women in Western countries get more breast cancer than African women.
In 1991, researchers Hsieh & Trichopoulos found that pre-menopausal women who do not wear bras had half the risk of breast cancer compared to bra wearers. . Eur J Cancer. 1991; 27(2):131-5.)
A Swedish study showed children at age 7 who were big boned had a much lower risk of postmenopausal cancer. The protective effect is ever greater for the ER negative breast cancers. Looking at pictures of girls at age 7 for body size can be a predictive of breast cancer risk. Thin girls at age 7 may have a higher risk of breast cancer.
The lightest possible bra exerts pressure in excess of that found within the lymphatic vessels.
Breasts feeding and pregnancy completely develop the breast lymphatic system. Women who exercise have a lower risk because of breast movement. Every bounce of the breast increases in emphatic flow and cleans the toxins and waste in the breast. Women in a high economic bracket have increased risks, probably because they wear their bras more hours per day.
The lymphatics are highly dependent on movement. If you are on a plane, your ankles can swell because the lymphatic circulation becomes absent. Wearing a bra with underwire, especially to bed, lowers the normal oxygen content and prevents normal lymphatic flow.
Breasts, like other external organs also have a lower body temperature. Cancers can be temperature sensitive to hormonal changes and the monthly cycle. Constricting bras cause dents, red creases, and grooves in the skin.
The National Cancer Institute does not list bras as a breast cancer risk. They do find alcohol, tobacco, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, and excess weight all contribute to increased breast cancer risk. Medications, some foods and drink can affect your hormonal level.
Finding a good Bra
This takes time and patience. The stylish bra brands are worthless if they are poorly designed or ill fitting. Reject a bra that hurts, or simply doesn’t fit properly. The broadband must fit snugly to the chest just below the breast so the bra weight can be transferred to it. If the broadband is loose, the shoulder straps must take the weight. This sets off a chain of reactions, with the back of the bra rises up and the straps dig into the shoulders.
A good bra will result in your breast weight evenly distributed. The cup shape must hold your breasts and your shoulder straps should not dig into your shoulders. Once your bra ceases to feel good, send it to the dead bra disposal center.
COMMENTARY
A bra is not a necessity, so wearing one is a personal choice. When you take your bra off, and see red lines on the side or underneath your breasts, and see marks on your shoulder from the straps, your lymphatic flow is being cut off. Push-up bras and those with underwire or high side panels have a constricting effect on the lymphatic vessels. It is important to find a good fitting bra and also give your breasts free time away from bras daily.
The correlation between wearing a bra and breast cancer is found greater than that of the connection between smoking and lung cancer. No one has anything to sell or to profit from women not wearing bras. It could upstage Cancer research costing billions. Many women with breast problems are reluctant to find a simple solution for a common problem.
It is more important to prevent breast cancer than to try to cure it.
If going without a bra will prevent clumpy painful breasts and fibrocystic disease, can reduce the risk of breast cancer. Going without a bra may prevent many breast cancers. One must however remember that going without a bra may reduce a benign cyst but will do nothing or in existing cancer. You must have this checked with a doctor.
Sagging breasts are inevitable whether you wear a bra or not. Since ligaments support the breast, wearing a bra can actually cause more breast sagging. The bra industry knows that bras do not prevent droopy breasts. In fact, bras cause breast to droop since the breasts become dependent on the bra for support and the breast’s natural supporting mechanisms become atrophied from nonuse.
More research is necessary on this subject. Perhaps it is better to remove your bra if you have breast problems . Bra removal however is not a billable medical procedure. Until that time women should take the precaution of loosening up.
The bra industry knows bras can cause cysts and pain. They shift the blame to you the buyer, claiming you should get a professional fitting. How do you get a properly fitted push-up bra? Some bra manufacturers now offer patented bras claiming to mitigate the damage including cancer caused by conventional bras.
Billions of dollars are spent each year on the detection and treatment of breast cancer. A great deal of money would be saved if bras went out of business. Experts can’t explain why over 70% of breast cancer cases have no risk factors.
There is a great deal of resistance to change. Industries contribute to disease, and some profit from disease. The advertising media propagates attitudes and fashions that perpetuate breast cancer.
As long as our culture scorns a natural bust line,rather than face social and public media pressures, women are encouraged to keep breast pain, red marks, and indentations cysts, despite increased cancer risks.
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SOURCES:
The National Institutes of Health; the Märit and Hans Rausing's Initiative against Breast Cancer; and the W81XWH-05-1-0314 Innovator Award, US Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
Breast Cancer Res. Published online April 15, 2010
J Physiol Anthropol Appl Human Sci. 2002 Jan;21(1):67-74.
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