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Placenta Pâté

  • 26-01-2010 11:46pm
    #1
    megfox
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    In an article on Sunday the 24th of Jan in the Sunday Independent Life magazine titled "The best of Mother Earth" the journalist Deirdre Morrissey clams that she and a small party of others willingly ate Pâté made from human Placenta. She claims that it’s a very nutrient rich food source. I’m not a biologist or a nutritional therapist but that all sounds wrong to me. Is there any scientific validity to her claims or is she just being sensational and deliberately off the wall?

    Placenta Pâté


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  • #2
    DrIndy
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    There would be a lot of easily digestible protein there - i don't know if there would any higher than normal levels of other nutrients though.


  • #3
    Duddy
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    Lots of prostaglandin:D


  • #4
    megfox
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    You mean to say that there’s not a doctor or a nutritionist among you to refute her wild claims?
    Perhaps no research has been done in this area.


  • #5
    tricky D
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    The claims are less wild and more canablism taboo than anything. It is nutritional, but not significantly more than other meat.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placentophagy

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4918290.stm


  • #6
    Tree
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    megfox wrote: »
    You mean to say that there’s not a doctor or a nutritionist among you to refute her wild claims?
    Perhaps no research has been done in this area.
    It's just meat really. I would imagine the hard part would be getting it back to cook. Wouldnt be any more or less nutritious than other offal.


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  • #7
    Jessibelle
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    Wasn't there a trend in the states for awhile about freezing the placenta to eat at a later time with the slightly more grown -up child?

    Back on topic, I kow in animals, such as goats, the consumption of teh placenta is thought to be because of the prostaglandin which stimulates involution (shrinking) of the uterus, in effect cleaning the uterus out, so that could be benifical I suppose, but other than that, really couldn't see that many nutritional benefits to it.


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