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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 MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday December 06 2017, @07:50AM (2 children)
The book "Laughter Is The Best Medicine" was written by a guy who had what was diagnosed to be terminal cancer.
He decided to go out in style so he rented lots of funny movies. After a period of feeling joyful all the time his cancer went into remission.
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(Score: 2) by Lester on Wednesday December 06 2017, @02:18PM (1 child)
So?
And many people gets cured by prayers in Lourdes sanctuary.That is not science, that is anecdotical evidence. You should check a group of people that followed a medical treatment and people who follow alternative treatment. Medicine says 70% of success, 30% of failure. Alternative medicine says "it worked forma this guy" but how many cases it didn't work? Answer "It worked also for that other guy"
Steve Jobs, after a diagnostic of cancer, ignored doctors recomendaciones for 9 months and when he decided to follow a normal treatment, it was too late and finally died of... stubbornness.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Health_issues [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday December 07 2017, @01:46AM
I remain puzzled by that.
Tim Cook had himself tested for transplant compatibility - he was. Yet Jobs turned down Cook's quite selfless offer.
(We can donate one lobe of our liver while the rest of it takes up the slack. Live donors can also give one of their kidneys.)
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