According to new research that includes eating human placenta’s, there’s been a recent surge in interest in placentophagy. The practice of eating the placenta after birth sometimes raw sometimes cooked sometimes dried and packed into capsules.

Eating the placenta can help new mothers recover from child birth. It prevent postpartum depression and boost the production of breast milk among other things.

It is an organ that forms in the wall of the uterus in the earliest phases of of pregnancy. Its actually the only organ that the human body forms temporarily and then expels. While in its place it supplies oxygen and other nutrients to the fetus. It produces Hormones that stimulate its development, filter out its waste and protects it from bacterial infections

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