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It's true that placenta has many different kinds of nutrients, such as protein, and chemicals like Prostaglandin and Oxytocin. Oxytocin has been associated with Maternal behavior, mom-baby bonding, social recognition, and orgasm.......... However, if you really want the good stuff in there, it would make more sense to eat it raw rather than going through the whole process of steaming and drying. Some ingredients like Prostaglandin has a very short half-life, they get inactivated really easily during the process. Eww.......there is probably nothing wrong with the act. But it's so hard to accept it psychologically, since we are supposed to be civilized.
thenewgreen · 4593 days ago · link ·
Yeah... there's just something about eating one of your own "organs" (that's essentially what the placenta is) that really gives me the creeps. -It completely fly's in my "self preservationist nature".
I bet if people wanted to, they could come up with reasons why eating ones appendix after surgery helped in the recovery because of it's composition of "lymphoid tissue".... blah, blah, blah. I agree with kleinb100, it's "white woman woo".