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Is a BRA GOOD or BAD for your BREASTS? - - DEPENDS...
“Since when do you have started wearing brassiere?"How long do you wear your bra each day on the average?"
The nature of the bra, the tightness, and the length of time worn, will all influence the degree of blockage of lymphatic drainage.
In our society today, most females wear bra over their breasts, and thus are supported from their earliest signs of breast development during puberty, which prevents their ligaments from developing and enabling them to do their natural job.
If you have ever decided to get back into running after a long time, have you ever noticed that ligaments and muscles in your legs and feet are weak and become tired quickly? Your ligaments and muscles would have weakened. If you had continually used those ligaments and muscles in your legs… if you had allowed them to do their job… the tension and weight bearing derived from running would have caused the ligaments to get stronger without pain.
Females that do not wear a bra daily have ligaments that become stronger through use, therefore minimizing the pain and usually providing more natural lift.
Now and then, one should go BRALESS. Allowing oneself to go braless occasionally, whether at home or even in schools is a healthy habit. Ligaments attach the breasts to the pectoral muscle on your chest. When you wear a bra, your supported breast does not allow the pectoral muscle to be exercised as much as it could be. When you do not wear a bra, as you move your arms, reach, and lift, your pectoral muscle is strengthened. The muscle can then offer better support to your breasts.
Comfort from support is given as one purpose for wearing a bra. Unsupported breasts pull on internal components and that it is painful. The support from a bra will relieve the internal tension from the suspensory ligaments that pull inward from the inside of the skin of the breast, but that is not necessarily good. Some ligaments are actually formed like a basket (or like a brassiere) inside of the breast, to cradle the breast and support it. Constant, unnatural, external support from the bra will allow the ligaments to wither or shrink. If the ligaments are allowed to weaken from the lack of use, they will become sore when they are later required to fulfill their designed purpose of supporting the breast.
Some females are concerned that when the breasts are pendulous or sagging enough, they will lay against the chest wall and cause perspiration, irritation, and skin rashes. This may affect some, so they wear a bra to prevent the breast touching to rib-cage. Many of those females prefer not to wear a bra, and deal with perspiration in other ways. These may include their making a garment from cotton (for absorbency) that comes up under the breasts at bottom, without covering the breasts. Similar to a cotton tee-shirt that stops below the breasts, it is worn under their outer clothing. The buildup of perspiration in the bra itself is more unbearable than going without the bra. BRALESS will allow air to circulate around the breasts and evaporate the moisture. Some research is being done on the health problems that may be caused by the self-generated heat from the breasts that cannot get away from the body. The theory is that a bra prevents the heat from the breasts from escaping, causing an increase in the internal temperature of the breast.
Air circulation is important, and the type of clothing worn can have some control over temperature control. Try to avoid using an anti-perspirant under the breasts. One should encourage fluid flow both throughout the body and from inside the breasts to the outside, to flush out the toxins trapped in our bodies.
