Post breastfeeding tissue remodelling explained by new research

Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 05:02 in Health & Medicine

A ground-breaking study into the changes that occur in a woman’s breast, from growing into one that provides milk for a new-born, and then back to its normal state, has discovered that milk-producing cells are, in effect, cannibalized by other cells following the period of breastfeeding.

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