THE VALUE OF THE PLACENTA
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The Virginian ^
| 1/1/2019 | Moneyrunner
Stop the presses! No, it’s not a joke. It’s
not satire from “The Onion.” This is the Virginian Pilot banner headline - front page center - on New Year’s Eve. And if you think that this is an aberration, the following day’s front page features “Norfolk doctor turns 180 pounds of sugar into Chrysler Museum.” Complete with a color photograph of this creation. Happy New Year? This is not some rinky-dink student publication. The Pilot is Virginia’s largest daily, serving Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News and smaller communities in Southeastern Virginia and parts of North Carolina. It’s all...
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Mom who left placenta in Mississauga park says investigation was 'biggest misunderstanding'
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CP24.com ^
| 11/28/2018 | Kayla Goodfield,
A 27-year-old mother who left a placenta, umbilical cord and forceps in a Mississauga park for “holistic purposes” said a police investigation into the matter was “the biggest misunderstanding.” Natasha
Das Gupta told CP24 she left the afterbirth items at Sugar Maple Woods Park, located in the area of Duncairn and Glen Erin drives, one year after she had her daughter Indika inside her home. “I wanted to do something really natural with it,” she said. “I didn’t just want to throw it in the garbage and the compost bin was not really a better choice. I wanted to do...
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New research suggests no mental health benefits to eating your placenta
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University of British Columbia ^
| 5/2/2019
Eating your placenta provides no mental health benefits for new mothers, suggests new research from the University of British Columbia and the BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services’ Research Institute. The study, published online today in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, is the largest so far to look at
the effects of eating one’s placenta—a practice known as placentophagy. Researchers used data from a 10-year genetic study involving 138 women with a history of mood disorders and compared data on outcomes between those who had eaten their placenta and those who had not. “When you ask women...
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HGTV star Christina Anstead ate her placenta after giving birth to son
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Fox News ^
| September 15, 2019 | Jessica Napoli
star Christina Anstead on how she found love again with her husband Ant and her new HGTV show 'Christina on the Coast.' Christina Anstead is letting fans join her on her postpartum journey. The
HGTV star, who gave birth to son Hudson last week, revealed on social media that she's been consuming her placenta in pill form. “First time I’ve tried it — and I think these placenta encapsulation [pills] are working," the 36-year-old wrote on her Instagram Story.
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Police found a human placenta in an Ontario park. Turns out it was just part of a 'holistic' ritual
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National Post ^
| Nov. 28, 2018 | Sharon Kirkey
An Ontario mother who dumped her bloodied placenta in a public park was just practising a “holistic” ritual to mark her child’s first birthday, police say. While
hospitals consider placentas medical “waste,” in some home birth practises the organ is considered special and “spiritual,” scholars say. Popular rituals include burying it under a favourite plant, tree or shrub, or eating it — a practice that comes with risks to mothers and their babies, and that some doctors have said borders on cannibalism. On Tuesday, Peel Regional Police issued an alert appealing for the public’s help finding a woman and child...
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Research adds insights into preeclampsia, a deadly pregnancy complication (HCQ helps & and the placenta is the problem)
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Medical Xpress / Yale University / Journal of Reproductive Immunology ^
| April 17, 2023 | Isabella Backman / Daisy León-Martínez et al
Preeclampsia is a dangerous complication during pregnancy that endangers both the mother and fetus. New
research has uncovered a possible mechanism for how this potentially life-threatening condition occurs and the potential of hydroxychloroquine to treat it. Researchers knew that in pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia, the development of the placenta is impaired. Furthermore, they knew levels of placental DNA in the mother's blood, known as cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA), are significantly higher in women who experience preeclampsia. So, a team led by Vikki Abrahams, Ph.D. studied the interactions of cultured placental cells called trophoblasts with levels of cffDNA observed in preeclampsia,...
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COVID Vaccine mRNA Can 'Spread Systemically' To Placenta And Infants Of Women Vaccinated During Pregnancy
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Epoch Times ^
| 02/21/2024 | Megan Redshaw
A new report suggests vaccine mRNA does not remain at the injection site following vaccination but can “spread systemically” to the placenta and umbilical cord blood of infants whose mothers are vaccinated during pregnancy.(KwangSoo Kim/Shutterstock)In a peer-reviewed pre-proof accepted for publication in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, researchers presented two
cases that demonstrate, for the first time, the ability of COVID-19 vaccines to penetrate the fetal-placental barrier and reach the inside of the uterus. Additionally, researchers detected spike protein in placental tissue, indicating the bioactivity of the mRNA in reaching the placenta.Researchers vaccinated two pregnant women with mRNA...
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"My First Time Eating Human Flesh" — Celebrity Couple Posts Video Eating Wife's Placenta
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says.com ^
| 5/19/2023 | adho Ram
Taiwanese-American actor, Benji Wang, 40, and his wife, Cindy, welcomed their baby girl into the world on 12 May. They posted a Reel on the husband's Instagram account, @kungfubenji, on 14 May. The Reel, which has been flagged by the platform as containing graphic content, shows Benji demonstrating how he cooked the
umbilical cord and placenta by first washing and cleaning them. He then chops the placenta with the umbilical cord into bite-size pieces before boiling it in water. After boiling once, he changes the water and boils the pieces again. He then stir-fries them with onions, ginger, and capsicum...
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