Skeptoid #602: Should Moms Eat Placentas?

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Brian Dunning

History, Skeptic, Social Sciences, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Skepticism, Paranormal, Science

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The modern practice of Western mothers eating their placentas is a new and strange attention-seeking behavior.

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0:00.0	Many animal mothers will often eat their own placenta immediately after giving birth.
0:09.0	Why not?
0:10.0	As it's an excellent high-energy food source for someone who needs to start nursing
0:13.4	a baby.
0:14.4	But then in recent decades, human women began doing the same thing, producing mortified
0:20.0	looks on their doctor's faces.
0:22.4	According to Dietetic Science, is there any conceivable reason why a woman should
0:27.2	eat her own placenta?
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1:30.7	Pluscenta Eating
1:33.9	It sounds like something straight out of silence of the lambs, and it's called placenta
1:39.1	phagee.
1:40.2	The new age practiced by today's trendy moms of eating their own placenta following childbirth.
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