To Eat the Placenta or Not to Eat the Placenta?

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To Eat the Placenta or Not to Eat the Placenta?

Placentophagia – eating the placenta after giving birth – is ubiquitous among all mammals except for humans, but there’s a growing movement of women who want to eat the placenta for its purported health benefits. As I’ve been reading up on this practice, I’ve been going back and forth between the ick factor and thinking it kind of makes sense. Proponents of placentophagia say that it helps with mother-child bonding, can stave of postpartum depression, and can help the body heal after childbirth. The placenta also contains natural opioids, which scientists think can help with some of the pain mothers experience post childbirth, and it also contains nutrients and hormones that could help with post-birth symptoms like the ones listed above. For human mothers, eating the placenta began to gain popularity in the 1970s. Why Don’t Humans Eat the Placenta? While there is a growing...

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