{{Women have long been told that a good bra can help support the chest, relieve back pain and prevent sagging.}} <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Researcher Prof. Jean-Denis Rouillon, a sports science expert from the University of Besan\u00e7on in eastern France claims that “bras are a false necessity,” according to The Local.<\/p>\n
“Medically, physiologically, anatomically – breasts gain no benefit from being denied gravity,” said Rouillon. “On the contrary, they get saggier with a bra.”<\/p>\n
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 Besan\u00e7on, where he carried out his research.<\/p>\n
He found that no evidence that bras helped ease back pain. Instead, he found that the chest supports could even add to the problem.<\/p>\n
According to The Connexion, the findings suggest that breasts would gain more tone and support themselves if no bra was used. <\/p>\n
Researchers explain that bras limit the growth of supporting breast tissues, leaving the breast to wither and degrade more quickly.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Some of the women who took part in Rouillon’s study told France Info that not wearing a bra helped ease their back pains.<\/p>\n
Capucine, a 28-year-old participant in Rouillon’s study, swears by the results and hasn’t worn a bra for two years.<\/p>\n
“There are multiple benefits: I breathe more easily, I carry myself better, and I have less back pain,” Capucine said, according to France Info.<\/p>\n
However, Rouillon says the findings do not mean all women should throw away their bras.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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