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Post by Random Panther on Apr 4, 2012 7:02:05 GMT -5
The benefits of placenta ingestion by non-human mammalian mothers are significant. It provokes an increase in mother-infant interaction,for instance,and increases the effects of pregnancy-mediated analgesia in the delivering mother. It also potentiates opioid circuits in the maternal brain that facilitate the onset of caretaking behavior,and suppresses postpartum pseudopregnancy,thereby increasing the possibilities for fertilization.
I'm wondering if our species is missing out by not practicing placentophagia.
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Post by bigwillybear on Apr 4, 2012 7:53:20 GMT -5
You might be missing out pal but I'm dining on the NHS for free. Afterbirth a l' orange mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2012 8:34:13 GMT -5
Eh I've figured I eat my share when I eat eggs...
But I can see your point. I read somewhere that they are giving placenta (or something they've cooked in the lab to resemble placenta) injections to woemn they feel are prone to Post Partum Depression.
For me, having seen a few placenta in my day, the thought of eating one, well let's just say I'd eat spiders first.
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Post by philipkduck on Apr 4, 2012 10:33:39 GMT -5
Eh I've figured I eat my share when I eat eggs... But I can see your point. I read somewhere that they are giving placenta (or something they've cooked in the lab to resemble placenta) injections to woemn they feel are prone to Post Partum Depression. For me, having seen a few placenta in my day, the thought of eating one, well let's just say I'd eat spiders first. Of course you'd eat spiders first. You wouldn't have them as a main course would you ? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2012 10:36:58 GMT -5
Eh I've figured I eat my share when I eat eggs... But I can see your point. I read somewhere that they are giving placenta (or something they've cooked in the lab to resemble placenta) injections to woemn they feel are prone to Post Partum Depression. For me, having seen a few placenta in my day, the thought of eating one, well let's just say I'd eat spiders first. Of course you'd eat spiders first. You wouldn't have them as a main course would you ? Ouch, didn't think of that, quite tacky and bourgeois eh? |
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Post by Jenne on Apr 4, 2012 19:41:09 GMT -5
I heard of making pills out of it or something--drying it and sprinkling it on stuff. The best use for it I heard of though was planting it as fertilizer beneath a tree.
I'm not hip to eating the placenta I'm currently growing inside me...nuh-uh. The mere thought sorta makes the bile in the gorge come up...
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Post by spazmosis on Apr 7, 2012 20:34:22 GMT -5
I knew a couple who got to keep their placenta. They chopped it up into little cubes and froze it. And they each ate one once a week. Almost like popping a multivitamin but weekly.
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Post by marisol on Apr 7, 2012 21:11:54 GMT -5
What was the point of doing this?
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Post by dawnkeyfromuranus on Apr 7, 2012 21:17:57 GMT -5
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 8, 2012 10:35:24 GMT -5
Lots of tribal societies ingest the placenta. Sometimes all of it. Sometimes just pieces. And there are ritual ways of disposing of whatever is left. Special trees it is buried beneath or sacred spots where they are interred.
Often it is fed to siblings as a means of bonding the children in a way that is more special that their other tribal ties. Symbolically taking a part of the new sibling into them.
Animals eat it though because it's the best means they have of cleaning it all up. Humans have been able to use tools for that sort of thing for a long time.
A placenta left lying around newborns of any species would be a massive risk as it would decay rapidly and the bacterial infections possible from contact with it would kill them all.
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Post by spazmosis on Apr 11, 2012 1:42:51 GMT -5
Lots of tribal societies ingest the placenta. Sometimes all of it. Sometimes just pieces. And there are ritual ways of disposing of whatever is left. Special trees it is buried beneath or sacred spots where they are interred. Often it is fed to siblings as a means of bonding the children in a way that is more special that their other tribal ties. Symbolically taking a part of the new sibling into them. Animals eat it though because it's the best means they have of cleaning it all up. Humans have been able to use tools for that sort of thing for a long time. A placenta left lying around newborns of any species would be a massive risk as it would decay rapidly and the bacterial infections possible from contact with it would kill them all. I'm also guessing that if an animal left placenta laying around then any predators nearby who happen across it will know that there are infants close-by and get busy on the hunt coz infants make easy meals. |
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