Posted on 04/12/2013 6:07:33 AM PDT by Loyalist
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Susan Stewart collects fresh human placentas, takes them home and steams them with lemon, ginger and cayenne pepper. Once cooked, she puts the organs in a dehydrator overnight then grinds them and measures the powder out into gel capsules.
The service – the Calgary single mother makes a living at this – costs about $200.
Within a day, she presents new moms with their placentas in pill form – an average human placenta yields about 150 capsules – with promises of renewed energy, better lactation and no post-partum depression. They keep indefinitely.
Placenta-eating has gained some cachet among the natural-birth set, including Mad Men’s January Jones. Ms. Stewart said she became interested in it in 2009, after she was knocked down by depression following the birth of her first child, and she could see little downside from trying it.
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I just Googled this topic and found Placenta Recipes
lol
you are nuts fer shur
Some also eat their crap and vomit!! This is DISGUSTING.
Yeh! Where’d all the witch doctors and bones go!?
Ms. Stewart..single mom..eating placentas..it’s the new way.
Not an expert, but having kiddos and raising a family without a Father probably doesn’t help with depression issues.
Post-partum depression might be aggravated by a culture of death that devalues motherhood and makes a woman think that being a mother makes her less of a person.
Cats and dogs do it, maybe it does work.
Laraine: “By the way, are you planning to eat the placenta?”
Gilda: “You’re kidding! You mean the afterbirth?”
Laraine: “That’s right. Many mammals eat their own placenta. It’s nutritious, it’s 100 percent natural, and now that you’re going to have a family, you’ve got to watch your food budget more than ever. And there’s no cheaper meat than placenta.”
Gilda: But is there enough placenta to make a complete meal for my husband and myself?
Laraine: Not if your husband has a hearty appetite like mine. And that’s why you need Placenta Helper.
Gilda: Placenta Helper?
Laraine: That’s right. Placenta Helper lets you stretch your placenta into a tasty casserole. [Holds up a box of Placenta Helper.] Like Placenta Romanoff—a zesty blend of cheeses makes for the zingy sauce that Russian czars commanded at palace feasts. Or Placenta Oriental. An exotic mixture of oriental vegetables and exotic herbs and spices creates an exotic meal. Look, you can have placenta only once every nine months. Why not make a rare occasion, a rare occasion?
[CUT TO: Gilda’s kitchen. John Belushi, as her husband, has just finished his placenta casserole.]
John: Ummm. That was great. Let’s have Placenta Helper every night.
Gilda: Oh, honey!
I don’t think I ever saw a dog or cat sitting in a psych’s waiting room awaiting their appointment...so maybe you’re right!
The skit never made it past the censors........I have a feeling that skit could have only come from the warped mind of the late, great Michael O’Donoghue.
Other animals also eat their own vomit and feces. There’s a reason we don’t imitate them.
Do you understand why they do that, though? It’s not because they like the taste!
For instance, rabbits eat their excrement, because their bodies did not digest all of the nutrients on the first pass. Dogs eat their vomit to reingest lost nutrients. Fecal matter is much the same. If an animal is well-fed, they will not opt for vomit or feces as a meal. In the wild, however, that may be the only meal they get for a while.
It’s similar to survival tactics in many ways. Your urine can serve to keep you hydrated in an emergency situation. Your feces, not so much. There’s a reason it’s called “waste.”
Placenta is not explicitly waste, it’s “leftover biomass.” There’s nothing found to be caustic or deadly to humans in after birth, it’s just not something for which we’ve concocted recipes.
“Do you understand why they do that, though?”
It doesn’t matter. You see, we have this thing called “civilization”, and one of the ground rules is, we don’t model our behavior on that of animals. Well, at least that’s how it used to work.
Hence my comment that if a dog is well-fed by a human, they won’t resort to eating vomit or feces. They will, however, almost always consume their placenta.
[Thanks to Gefn for the heads-up.]
"Not raw, not raw.
A few carrots, some potatoes,
A little broccoli."
Well I am feeling a bit peckish.
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