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True, there remain doubters regarding the nutritional, emotional and esthetic issues surrounding placentophagy, and a lack of research showing it’s worthwhile. But you’ll be Certified and can overcome all that.
I may have to get into this work. We’ve got no shortage of placentas here at the hospital. All I need is to convince Mrs. J. to share her kitchen.
If I was going to eat placenta - highly unlikely, but let’s assume some bizarre reason for it - why would I put it into capsules instead of, oh, I don’t know, making stew out of it or something like that? If you’re doing it for the health benefits (which I’ve heard from some crunchy-granola hippie types) I seriously doubt stuffing it into little capsules will improve anything. And if you’re that revolted by the idea that you can’t choke it down without turning it into medicine maybe you shouldn’t eat it at all. Try some vegetables or fruit, maybe, as those are both good nutrition choices.
Here are some placenta recipes for those who don’t want to lose any of the yummy goodness through making capsules.
It’s bizarre (beyond the bizarreness of placentophagy itself) that recipes refer to cooking the “meat” of the placenta. There is no meat as most of us would understand it in a placenta - it’s almost entirely spongy little sacs filled with blood. Placenta steak is bound to disappoint.
If nothing else, I hope that this thread has helped some people follow their diet plans due to appetite reduction.
The mental image that this post has just raised in my mind is not making my lunch sit all that well… I guess it might be the “just how fresh are we talking…” part. :eek:
I can’t remember what I was watching, but the other night on t.v. I saw a craigslist ad from a woman looking for someone to prepare her placenta so she could eat it later. Blech! I don’t care what it’s good for, I think I’ll pass.
That’s the only way it would be of any value. The placenta contains pitocin, a compound that helps the uterus clamp down and stop bleeding. Pitocin is also available in an IV form, much easier to administer properly, as in enough to stop excessive bleeding, but not so much as to rupture the friable uterus.
Animals chew, or eat the placenta for this reason. Your cat is smarter than you are in knowing how much to eat/chew.
Just sayin’
Excuse my possible pharmacologic ignorance, but I thought pitocin (at least whatever form might be in a placenta) is destroyed by digestion in the G.I. tract, which is why it’s customarily given intravenously.
Anyway, to answer Marley, the reasons I’ve seen given for placentophagy relate to nutritional factors, supposed calming/anti-depressive effects and mystical significance (being at one with Nature/the rest of the mammalian world etc.).
There are surely more dependable, effective and palatable ways to get your vitamins and iron than eating a placenta. As to mood enhancement, there are no studies I know of to show that placenta capsules/Placenta Spaghetti Bolognese are better mood enhancers than Roast Placebo.
As an aside: I routinely examine and section (cut up) placentas for pathologic examination in our lab. In a fresh state they are among the slimiest, bloodiest and all-around ickiest specimens that we get. Labor & Delivery generally send them to us in tubs containing maybe a teaspoonful of formalin, not nearly enough to fix/preserve them properly before they get to us.
He can slurp it up like a piece of spaghetti!
(And yes, that was the disturbing image).