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A small human trial (27 participants) has found no benefits to consuming (dried) placental pills. The control group took pills containing beef or vegetarian mock beef:
In two new studies, researchers conclude that new moms who consume their placentas experience no significant changes in their moods, energy levels, hormone levels, or in bonding with their new infant, when compared with moms ingesting a placebo. "It really does show that most of what's going on, if not all, is a placebo effect," says Mark Kristal, a behavioral neuroscientist at the State University of New York in Buffalo who has studied the practice—known as placentophagy—in other animals for more than 40 years.
Humans aren't the only species that eat their placentas. In fact, nearly all mammals do. In rats, placentophagy spurs moms to start taking care of their pups and relieves birthing pain; both amniotic fluid and placentas contain a factor that acts as a morphine-related analgesic. But whether placentophagy confers such benefits in humans has been unclear. What is clear is that the practice is gaining in popularity. Before the 1970s, it was used occasionally in traditional Chinese medicine to treat a host of ailments in men and women. Now, there are cookbooks that offer guidelines for the storage and preparation of placenta-based smoothies and meals. Most contemporary consumers first steam and dehydrate the placenta before pulverizing it and fashioning it into a vitaminlike pill.
Maybe they need to eat it when it is fresh and raw instead of dried and powdered.
Effects of placentophagy on maternal salivary hormones: A pilot trial, part 1 (DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2017.09.023) (DX)
Placentophagy's effects on mood, bonding, and fatigue: A pilot trial, part 2 (DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2017.11.004) (DX)
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(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday December 05 2017, @03:01AM (6 children)
So I did a quick search and found this.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/is_cannibalism_illegal
Looks like these commie mommies better stay out of Idaho ;)
Also according to another source it's legal in the UK. I have no idea on other countries however. YMMV.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday December 05 2017, @06:56AM (5 children)
If a leprosy sufferer loses a finger and someone eats it, it's still cannibalism? What about a finger lost during the mincing of your [favourite-hamburger-joint-name here]?
What about the discards from the surgical interventions?
If Tyler Durden would have use the human fat to fry doughnuts, it's still cannibalism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Tuesday December 05 2017, @08:17AM (2 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday December 05 2017, @02:03PM (1 child)
Idaho books [idaho.gov]
By this definition:
- if you ingest lymph, bones, internal organs, just the fat or the brain is not cannibalism;
- if you ingest flesh or blood of a human being unwillingly is not cannibalism
Extremely limited in the scope of what a true cannibal eats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday December 05 2017, @07:43PM
Also lymph, organs, fat, etc. are all encompassed by the word flesh.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday December 05 2017, @12:42PM (1 child)
And if all the cells you were born with have died and been replaced with new ones, are you the same person you were then?
:)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Tuesday December 05 2017, @02:40PM
Only if your name is Theseus.