Posted on 06/30/2013 9:33:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Awesome, they documented the placebo effect in a group of women primed to experience it!
(This is why double-blind studies are so important, folks.)
"Your own body made it, it's just for you," she says. "No one could prescribe anything more perfect than what your body has made for you."
Placenta is fetal in origin. It's the baby's flesh, not the mother's.
Placenta encapsulationists around the country hope to create a set of standards to ensure proper preparation. "It's becoming so widespread that we need to make sure things are done properly," Pereira says.
I doubt the practice is very widespread at all. It may be the trendy thing among people who live their lives stuck in a cocoon of magical thinking, but very few others find the practice at all appealing. I'd bet that the people going for this also embrace crystals, pyramids, magnetism--all of those weird things that they believe have magic benefits for their health, but which don't do anything at all. Magic is not real.
The mind boggles - serious hurl alert.
“For everything there is a seasoning,
a time and placenta for every activity under heaven.”
I’d bet that the people going for this also embrace crystals, pyramids, magnetism—all of those weird things that they believe have magic benefits for their health....
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You are right, IMO.
It’s why they have abortions to keep the supply up.
I remember going deer hunting and bringing back some venison meat. Now nobody in my family would eat it if I said it was deer meat - Bambi Factor - so I said it was moose tips and everybody dug in and said "great moose." Even today, the kids ask me when I'm going moose hunting again.
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