In Ireland today, there's a vogue for eating them, as pate, grilled with garlic and herbs, and in various other exotic gourmet recipes. It makes very good sense. It replaces iron and other essential elements lost during the copious bleeding that often accompanies childbirth. It seems to replace or supplement other essential nutriments. I found it especially intriguing to hear the anecdotal evidence that postpartum depression is seemingly rare among women who eat their placentas, or rather the placentas of their babies. I hope some brave obstetricians, or traditional birth attendants, will mount a randomized controlled trial to test this anecdotal evidence as rigorously as possible.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
The Placenta
The bonus for waking at 5 am on Sunday mornings is to listen to one of RTE's documentaries. RTE, the radio and television network of the Republic of Ireland, has excellent documentaries. This morning's was the best I've heard in a long time. It was about the placenta. Many animals eat their placenta. In the days when I bred dachshunds, my lovely dachshund bitch Helen used to eat hers.
In Ireland today, there's a vogue for eating them, as pate, grilled with garlic and herbs, and in various other exotic gourmet recipes. It makes very good sense. It replaces iron and other essential elements lost during the copious bleeding that often accompanies childbirth. It seems to replace or supplement other essential nutriments. I found it especially intriguing to hear the anecdotal evidence that postpartum depression is seemingly rare among women who eat their placentas, or rather the placentas of their babies. I hope some brave obstetricians, or traditional birth attendants, will mount a randomized controlled trial to test this anecdotal evidence as rigorously as possible.
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In Ireland today, there's a vogue for eating them, as pate, grilled with garlic and herbs, and in various other exotic gourmet recipes. It makes very good sense. It replaces iron and other essential elements lost during the copious bleeding that often accompanies childbirth. It seems to replace or supplement other essential nutriments. I found it especially intriguing to hear the anecdotal evidence that postpartum depression is seemingly rare among women who eat their placentas, or rather the placentas of their babies. I hope some brave obstetricians, or traditional birth attendants, will mount a randomized controlled trial to test this anecdotal evidence as rigorously as possible.
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