Grow Your Own Breasts
A company in Australia, Neopac, are working on a technique which will enable a woman to regrow her own breast after a mastectomy. If it works, it could also be offered as an alternative to silicone implants for women who want larger breasts.
The procedure involves inserting a breast-shaped scaffold underneath the skin. This is then connected to blood vessels under the arm and injected with the woman’s own fat cells, which grow to fill the chamber within about eight months. The operation has already succeeded in pigs, which grew new breasts in just six weeks.
Dr. Phillip Marzella of the Bernard O’Brien Institute told the Daily Telegraph. “What we are hoping to do in the next two years is develop a biodegradable chamber so that the fat can grow inside the chamber, and then the chamber will vanish naturally.”
There is now a trial planned using women who have had a full or partial mastectomy.
I am not sure where I stand on this one - it would be dependent on what the chamber was made of and I haven’ t discovered that yet. But if it is a safe way of making use of the body’s own ability to regenerate fat (and our breasts are mostly fat!), then it could be a good way of allowing women to refind their feminity after the trauma of having breast cancer.
When it comes to changing the breasts which nature gave you, I would never recommend invasive surgery. Through my “Healthy Breasts For Every Woman Campaign” I encouage women to love the boobs they have and use natural methods to protect and enhance them, such as breast massage, which encourages lymphatic drainage and is also great for skin tone and firming. I offer my clients a special breast cream containing spirulina algae and women report firming and toning usually within the first month of using the cream, even after having breastfed children! If you want to know more about this cream, then go to www.protectmybreasts.com.
Nikki Mattei