UNLV Study Finds No Iron Benefit from Eating Placenta.
When “placentophagy” is used in this paper it can be assumed that it refers to postpartum human ma-ternal placentophagy (the post-birth consumption of the placenta by the person who has given birth) unless otherwise specified. The method of placentophagy most commonly practiced is “encapsulation”, a process where the placenta is dehy-drated, ground and placed into capsules ( 4). This.
Dr. Clark: Well, in all of our research into this practice, we were not able to determine exactly when this began, particularly in the U.S. and mothers here practicing placentophagy, but with all the best accounts, we were able to locate it back to the 1970s as a practice in the U.S. And there seems to have been a resurgence, so to speak, in more recent years where we see celebrities.
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Placentophagy, the practice of afterbirth ingestion among humans, has grown among middle-class, white women in Western societies. Although the reasons for placentophagy are varied, it is generally promoted as a means to help postpartum women stabilize mood, enhance recovery, and increase milk production. Virtually no studies have explored the effects of placentophagy on humans, and several.
The team of this project consists of specialists in obstetrics and placenta research. We are experienced in collaborating in research projects and eager to investigate placentophagy in more detail. Besides that, we are all mothers (of 11 kids total) and do understand women and their needs in childbed. Our aim is to improve postpartum treatment.
Although proponents of maternal postpartum placentophagy claim improvements in lactation, ingestion of potentially active estrogens in the placenta may have the opposite effect on milk production via suppression of prolactin production. As discussed, research on animal models regarding the effect of placentophagy on prolactin levels and lactation is inconclusive Blank and Friesen, 1980. Blank.
Until now, scientific research on the use of placenta remedies as a unique and cheap therapeutic treatment for women suffering from pathologies like anemia, depression or lactation difficulties, does not exist. To be able to discuss possible effects of placentophagy, the content of placental tissue has to be tested. The goal of this project is to analyze the hormones and elements from a sample.