I Regret Eating My Placenta

omg too much

"pretty dece waves today, pretty intense chumming in the shallows"

stoked about this thread now, thanks thread

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frankly this news makes me concerned about not knowing this trend of placentas in my libraries

you shouldn't be able to give a placenta to a library

I'm happy you brought honor into this thread, really don't get why everyone was hung up on science, like anybody does anything based on scientific studies.

aside from my grandfather who lives and will die by Consumer Reports magazine.

that's a good magazine

Your mommy's all right
Her dinner tonight
Might just seem a little weeeeeird
Placenta
Placenta
Baked in a cheese souffleeeeeeeee

gee oh ay tee

so heads up surfers, there's placenta in those waves

― tempestuous alaskan nites! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, April 2, 2012 12:58 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iirc that's no big deal and is called chumming

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, April 2, 2012 12:59 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is where the thread jumped the shark, right?... right?

...guys?

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Found this:
http://www.med.yale.edu/obgyn/kliman/placenta/articles/Plac%20Hormones.html

The last three paragraphs sum it up.

tried to read that, but gave up at the part where the villainous synthroblast is the major source of placental hormones. cannot be true.

Proteins and hormones from the placenta are piped directly into a fetus! That doesn't mean any of those are bioavailable through digestion.
Maybe we should be liquifying and injecting it.

actually, that was pretty fascinating, the idea that the placenta regulates not only the uterine environment but the mother's biological functions in order to produce a healthy child. cool beans.

Proteins and hormones from the placenta are piped directly into a fetus! That doesn't mean any of those are bioavailable through digestion.

nor does it mean that they aren't. basic point is that the placenta is biologically unique, as that was in question upthread. also, the fact that all placenta-producing animals eat the placenta does at least suggest that it's a useful, healthy food source. not necessarily some miracle food, but probably nutrition-dense and worth eating.

I kind of like the idea that the mom is annoyed that the baby has been eating half her food for 9 months and THATs why she eats the placenta

also, the fact that all placenta-producing animals eat the placenta does at least suggest that it's a useful, healthy food source.

or that there are other reasons? I mean, this is a great explanation but the idea that the mother can't go look for food with newborns and it's readily available, or that eating it could ward away predators are other possible meanings. it could be any of these, all of them, or none of them.

get outta here w/ your science

hehe

It could be aliums

fwiw the soul is in the placenta and the mother must eat it for safekeeping. When the baby reaches a certain age, the mother passes the soul to the child.

I've had time to think about it some more and I still find it a little creepy but I guess it is kind of a nice idea.

I have no desire to have a baby, but that being said I can't imagine anything more fulfilling or beautiful than growing a child inside you....I spent almos the whole 9 months around my sister when she had her first and I thought it was the most amazing, cool thing, all the changes she went through every day, let alone every month. and there's something kind of connected I guess about placentophagy that at least on a theorretical level is kinda cool. So I can say that I guess I respect it? But only maybe people I know or like or who aren't weird attention-seeking crunchy hippies :)

Also for all my being skeeved out if any ilxors do this ever I want a full report including recipes <3

or that there are other reasons? I mean, this is a great explanation but the idea that the mother can't go look for food with newborns and it's readily available, or that eating it could ward away predators are other possible meanings. it could be any of these, all of them, or none of them.

― mh, Sunday, April 1, 2012 9:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if the mother is predictably weak following birth and has little energy to search for other food, then there's every reason to think that evolution would favor the production of a placenta that is safe & healthy to eat. sound system: nutrients are siphoned off by the mother's body during gestation in order to feed the placenta/embryo. after birth, some of those nutrients are returned to the mother via placentophagy in order to help her recover and produce milk. question then becomes "why wouldn't you eat the placenta?"

When the baby reaches a certain age, the mother passes the soul to the child.

this is done through the boobs, iirc

Why wouldn't you? Because you can just order pizza or go to taco bell.

sweet hypothesis c, but you are just making shit up that fits

this is all speculative. i admit that. but we can deduce certain things with a reasonable degree of certainty, given what we know of evolutionary dynamics:

if placenta-eating were in any way harmful, there would be no way for it to become widespread in the animal kingdom. evolution would not permit this. nor would evolution so universally select for a behavior with no clear benefit. we can ascertain these things through logic alone. also, since consumption of the not-harmful-and-likely-healthful placenta is so widespread, it's reasonable to think that evolution would in the long run favor the production of a placenta that is worth eating in various ways. none of this is ironclad proof, but nor is it "just making shit up".

Why wouldn't you? Because you can just order pizza or go to taco bell.

lol this is where the discussion gets weird to me bcz ppl are like "how could people eat PLACENTA ooh gross! they should eat totally inedible garbage instead"

like imo if you have eaten at mcdonald's as an adult then you don't really have much to say to people who'd eat placenta, or people who'd swallow tacks, or w/e

like, in the absence of scientific evidence to the contrary, i think simple logic dictates that you should eat the placenta

but i ate a macnugget once, so what do i know?

in the absence of legislation I propose a constitutional amendment requiring all americans to eat placenta

like, in the absence of scientific evidence to the contrary, i think simple logic dictates that you should eat the placenta

― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, April 2, 2012 12:39 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

4 out of 5 yoga instructors agree

life liberty and the pursuit of placenta

Do all domesticated animals eat placentas every time? If it was for other reasons found out in the wild, would domesticated animals still do this? I had a cat that would put stuff in his food bowl to "hide" his food. Someone told me that is what wild cats did. My other cat wouldn't even cover her own poop. No need too, she was safe in a house and knew there were no predators.

Same cat lady told me that cats covering poop had something to do with covering their tracks.

cats covering their poop is just a trend, cats who buck this trend are presently on the cutting edge of catshit fashion

Ha!

what if you combined placenta eating with butt chugging?

if placenta-eating were in any way harmful, there would be no way for it to become widespread in the animal kingdom.

isn't eating one's own poop widespread in the animal kingdom?

i never realised that there was quite so much placenta in a placenta. those people upthread had leftovers, for some reason i always thought placenta was more amuse-bouche quantity

i mean, i thought it'd just be like eating an oyster or something

no no it's a lot of food - "placenta" is actually a Latin contraction of "pluribus" ("from a lot") + "cena" (evening meal)

isn't eating one's own poop widespread in the animal kingdom?

― sarahell, Monday, April 2, 2012 1:35 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i meant "so widespread". most mammals eat the placenta, even those that don't eat meat and even if other food is available. like, so far as i know (and correct me if i'm wrong), cow moms will always do this. poop eating is much less common.

from wikipedia, on the idea of health benefits:

The placenta contains high levels of prostaglandin which stimulates involution (an inward curvature or penetration, or, a shrinking or return to a former size) of the uterus, in effect cleaning the uterus out. The placenta also contains small amounts of oxytocin which eases birth stress and causes the smooth muscles around the mammary cells to contract and eject milk.[citation needed]

yeah placentas are huge

my second child was born at home and the placenta (finally) came out and we put it in a bucket

the midwife asked if i wanted to see it better (while my wife was getting cleaned up) and i was like, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity

we took the bucket upstairs, took out the placenta and spread it out on a plastic shopping bag. the midwife had a little tool that she used to show me all the different parts of it. it has an anatomy all its own!

what i never really realized before then is that the blood supply in there is totally separated from the mother's blood supply; there's like a one-way filtration system in place. so if the mother gets some kind of disaease or something, the baby is relatively safe. it's totally amazing

all that said, i would never eat one in about a million years why because i am not a cannibal thnx

tracer your midwife sounds kind of awesome

aero are you kidding me with the latin

hum, according to the oed in classical latin it is actually a kind of cake