Riley Botelle
Riley Botelle is a medical student at King’s College London. They volunteer as a Clinical Support Worker with Doctors’ of the World, work at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre and are interested in psychiatric, sexual and inclusion health research. Their 2018 Global Health BSc dissertation formed the basis for this paper.
Why do some people eat their placenta?
Human placentophagy, the practice of eating one’s own placenta, has gained popularity in recent year, despite a lack of reliable evidence of the expected benefits of the practice. A new paper in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth examines the reasons why some new mothers engage in the practice. In this blog post, the lead author of the study summarizes their findings, including the reasons the practice has become so popular, and highlight some concerns as well.
Almost every animal on the planet which produces a placenta eats it after birth. There are only a few exceptions to this rule – aquatic animals, camels, and humans.
In fact, humans are so averse to eating our own placentas after birth that it has not been recorded by any culture anywhere in the world in all of human history. We have buried them, burned them and occasionally sold them as medicine to other people, but as far as we know, we have never routinely eaten our own. That is, until the 1970s, when the practice started spreading.
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