(0:41) Welcome
Welcome back listeners to The Paleo View to episode 355!
We are glad you are here!
This week's topic is one that Stacy asked Sarah about long ago, and it has taken her that long to do the research
There are a lot of myths around this topic, so this show is more of a myth-busting discussion
Be warned listeners, Stacy and Sarah may agree to disagree on various points within this discussion

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The topic this week is wired bras, shapewear, and compression stockings
This has been a blog post topic bubbling in Stacy's head for two years
However, when Stacy started staying home and left her corporate job, she started wearing wired bras less often and made a statement regarding how she had lowered her risk of breast cancer - which wasn't a true statement, as addressed by her followers
Stacy thought it was a scientific fact because it is mentioned so often that wired bras increase your risk of breast cancer

Where Stacy thinks that Sarah and her will have some nuances on their discussion is on Shapewear because Stacy has personally worn body shapewear on almost a daily basis, which she found did have positive impacts
Sarah found that this was a challenging topic to research
To ease the research process, Sarah divided the topic of compression garments into three main areas
Shapewear
Bras
Compression stockings

From here Sarah tried to look into what research has been done on each one of these individually

Tangent - corset wear and corset training can cause a lot of health issues, which has been known for a long time now
This is a different thing because it is no longer a normal fashion anymore
Shapewear today doesn't compare even close to the same level of compression that corsets did/do
So for today's discussion, corsets are not a part of the discussion

Stacy just wants to take a moment to honor Sarah's soapbox about women's appearances
Stacy is living for that and is here for it

There is societal normalcy that you may want to participate in when it comes to wired bras and shapewear
Stacy lost a lot of weight and had a lot of sagging skin; her shapewear gave her comfort during a certain time in her journey



(14:05) Research on Compression Garments
There is a difference between low-pressure compression garments vs. medium compression garments
High pressure would be corset training

There is some science that separates out low pressure vs. medium pressure garments
There are some documented effects of shapewear, specifically with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
There have been studies comparing individuals wearing compression garments on the abdomen and those who experience rapid weight gain, as the symptoms are very similar
What has come out of this research is a substantial increase in acid reflux, to the point where one paper showed a higher risk of hernias in the top of the stomach
So with abdominal compression, there is a doubling of  the amount of reflux and a slowing down of reflux clearing after meals

This particular study looked at people who already had GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease) 
They were then studying the occurrence of reflux after a meal and showing that when these individuals had abdominal compression garments on they had twice the amount of reflux events, compared to not wearing anything
There have been no studies looking at healthy people without a GERD diagnosis, looking to see if they wear a compression garment if they will develop acid reflux as well
It is important to say that the science does not support the statement that wearing abdominal compression garments causes reflux
 

If you do all of these diet and lifestyle things correct, it should mean that you don't have acid refl