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You joke, but there are literally people who eat their own placenta. I know someone who did. Crystals and essential oils and energy healing and all that, you know. I don't talk about that kind of stuff with her because for some reason we just can't seem to find common ground lol
I've heard of people getting placenta pills to deal with the anemia after birth. I don't plan on having kids and thus have never been interested enough to research it.
Iron supplements also work 😂
The placenta is not pleasant to look at, so I can imagine pills make it more palatable. I don't think a lot of study has been done on the effects of eating placenta after birth, but it's technically a separate organ that belongs to the baby.
So no matter how you spin it, they're eating baby organs.
Doesn't actually belong to the baby, it's a hybrid organ that contains DNA and tissue that comes from both the mother and the fetus.
Pop that sucker into a blender and you don't have to worry about how it looks. Mmm Mmm placenta milkshake.
Here's a relevant link to an 2000's Finnish tv travel/cooking show Madventures and their placenta dish. I think I'd rather take it in pill form.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=15wqaGATHnA
Ive heard of people using the placenta pills to help reduce postpartum depression. Not sure if that works. But research has been done to show it reduces bleeding after birth if consumed immediately.
Terrible source but its late and im tired: "Postpartum hemorrhage has been controlled by using a small quarter-size piece of placenta placed in the mother’s cheek or chewed by the mother first and then held between her cheek and gum" https://www.midwiferytoday.com/mt-articles/the-power-of-placenta/
Yeah, my critical thinking self wonders what kind of magic makes bleeding stop by putting a piece of meat in your cheek.
Bleeding stops when the uterus shrinks back down so the huge open wound left behind by the placenta becomes a small wound. Oxytocin makes that happen, and you get that by just holding your baby. I don't know how eating the placenta would contribute.
My money is on it being the elemental power of bullshit. It's likely the same ingredient that makes homeopathy actually 'do' anything: time i.e., it would have happened at that point regardless.
hormones? the body has many magic chemicals.
I'm not sure it's the meat....I think it might be the chemicals in the meat. This isn't my hill to die on, but you're totally OK to stick to the modern Dr's advice if you hemorrhage after childbirth. I can't think anyone will ever forcefeed you placenta 🙃
Oh, surely there must be another way! No thank you! 🙃
Petocin injection will do it if memory serves.
Maybe you could bond over dinner and a fine glass of urine.
Lots of mammals eat the placenta. Eating it recovers some nutrients for the mother. No woo required.
As humans who have plenty food, no placenta eating is required to get enough nutrients
But it is probably the most environmentally friendly source of nutrients.
Vast numbers of humans live in poverty and may not have abundant nutrients. Would that your statement was universally true.
There is an assumption that everyone surfing Lemmy are from developed countries. I'm not generalizing the western placenta eating experience to Somalia or Bangladesh
I don't really understand why you wouldn't though? Like it's just an organ, people eat organs all the time. At least this one involved bringing life into the world instead of death.
The only reason not to is if your brain is fucked up enough that you think it's icky or something.
You eat human organs all the time?! And you're saying my brain is fucked up?!!
people eat organs of other animals, learn to read.
I'm vegan
How could I read something you didn't write 😂
I'm struggling to understand what you're trying to communicate about yourself here
Or she could have a Boost supplemental nutrition drink and have it taste like chocolate instead of blood and placenta.
I’m a vegan who smokes weed and I think that’s the extent of my woo (though Ron Swanson would certainly disagree, I’m very often struck by how much woo German medical doctors are allowed to push).
I’d want to do it, partly because the large quantity of bioavailable iron calls to me, but also because of the oxytocin and potential bonding effects (if it doesn’t have any, it doesn’t have any: no harm done). I don’t think I want it enough to really push back against a doctor/hospital that didn’t want to allow it, but I might look for one that is open to it.
I have a friend that became one of those people after high school. She made a killing for a few years from whacky people who wanted her to make the placenta into Christmas ornaments... She tried showing me photos of her stretching it over glass balls but I couldn't stomach it.