…doula Rean Cross will collect the placenta from hospital, steam it, slice it, dehydrate it and grind it into powder to make pills new moms can take to help boost energy levels, fight mood swings and enhance milk production.
Cross says she doesn’t know of any scientific studies about the health effects of eating the placenta, although human placentas have been used for thousands of years in traditional Chinese medicine. The doula doesn’t know for sure that effects reported by new mothers are linked to placenta pills. “I can’t prove it.”
So like…what’s wrong with eating that weird ghee-cheeni-badam thing that desis feed their women to help gain energy? And like…if you cook the placenta, you degenerate the proteins right. So then, doesn’t that like…kill all the hormones and what nots in the placenta to boost the so called milk production? Eat ajwain…it’s less gross :o
Well, since it is degenerated, what's wrong? The human proteins or dna are not exactly the same anymore, are they? And shampoos often have placenta products, I believe...albeit animal ones...:p
By that same logic, I should become a cannibal, since the proteins are all degenerated and stuff. Does that make a cow a cow if it’s cooked?
Eurgh shudders gorays
ps wait they do not! I buy all St. Ives products they say not tested on animals! (ok not all…some…I have got to read my shampoo bottle carefully now. Thanks a lot )
Welllll...a cooked cow is still a cow. I'd say the essence is not completely lost. But a pureed or dried/ground cow? I'm not so sure if that can still be called a cow.
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