Can the placenta be eaten? Really a great tonic? Don\’t be ridiculous, it will kill you

The wife of Lu Yangang, a new citizen of Changzhou City, had just given birth to a fat boy. Just as the family was immersed in the joy of having a baby, they discovered that the placenta had been taken home and stewed in soup by the hospital\’s cleaners, which made the family very angry. At present, the cleaner involved has gone to the Wuxing Police Station to explain the situation. After police mediation, the two parties also reached a settlement. Although the news has passed, it has also exposed loopholes in the hospital\’s placenta storage process, further confirming the public\’s misunderstanding of the nutritional value of placenta. What is the placenta? The placenta is an important organ for material exchange between the fetus and the mother. It is a tissue and organ between the mother and the fetus that is formed by the embryonic membrane of the embryo and the mother\’s endometrium during human pregnancy. The embryo not only plays the role of the baby obtaining nutrients from the mother\’s body, but also maintains considerable independence. It also synthesizes a variety of hormones, enzymes and cytokines to maintain normal pregnancy. After reading the above introduction, I believe everyone will have a certain understanding of the placenta. It is just a unique organ during pregnancy. However, various folk \”legends\” about the placenta have endured for a long time, and have even formed an interesting phenomenon of \”placental culture\”. It makes an organ that was originally normal become full of magic. Folk rumors say that eating placenta can greatly nourish the body. Mothers who eat it can increase their immunity and speed up uterine recovery. Ordinary people can strengthen their bodies and prolong their lives after eating it! There are even rumors that eating the placenta can cure infertility, impotence, and keep your appearance forever… It is a cure-all for all diseases, is it true? A piece of meat has so many effects. Is this really the case? Is eating placenta really beneficial? Does eating placenta really work? Maybe you will say that the reason why so many people around you are thinking about eating placenta must be because of its benefits. However, until now there is no clear evidence that eating placenta is beneficial to people, and it even has many hidden dangers. In 1954, researchers found that 181 of 210 women who took placenta had improved lactation. But this experiment has not been repeated until now. In 2013, researchers conducted a questionnaire on 179 women who had eaten placenta. Although they said that their health had improved after eating placenta, the psychological effects were not considered, and the questionnaire also had obvious personal subjective tendencies. In 2015, Northwestern University in the United States analyzed 10 previous studies on placenta consumption and still came to no conclusion. 3What nutrients are in the placenta? In the second and third trimesters of pregnancy, the placenta does secrete nutrients such as progesterone, estrogen, immune proteins, and growth factors, but this does not mean that the placenta can be replenished. Because the components of protein, vitamins, minerals, etc. in the placenta are similar to those of ordinary internal organs. The so-called nutrients-immune proteins and growth factors will lose their activity after cooking. Even if a small part survives, it will be broken down into amino acids by gastric juice, and its nutritional value is the same as ordinary meat. Placenta is risky, so you need to be careful when eating it. Not only do you get the so-called benefits, but there are also certain risks. A Russian medical scientist used electron microscopy to examine 66 women suffering from hepatitis. Among them, 35 pregnant women were infected with placentalitis due to hepatitis virus infection. The placenta of these pregnant women was found to contain hepatitis virus.All the babies born were infected with the hepatitis virus. Viruses such as hepatitis virus, HIV, and Treponema pallidum can all be transmitted through the placenta. People who want to take care of their bodies by eating placenta, if the placenta you eat is like this, the consequences will be disastrous. Moreover, if too much estrogen in the placenta is taken in by women, it will increase the risk of breast cancer; in men, it will increase the risk of prostate cancer. If a child consumes too much estrogen, female babies may develop precocious puberty, while male babies may become effeminate due to excessive estrogen intake. For those women who need to supplement estrogen themselves, they should also receive treatment under the guidance of a doctor according to their own conditions. Instead of blindly listening to rumors and eating things whose effects are unknown or even dangerous. Up to now, research on the consumption of placenta has not stopped at all times and at home and abroad, but there is no clear conclusion on the health effects and risks of placenta. Therefore, for the sake of personal health, it is better not to risk yourself by eating the placenta! Eating the placenta, let’s see what netizens say @nimiaojie: I think eating the placenta is similar to eating menstruation. @小彦子: After many pregnant women give birth, the elderly chop up the placenta and stuff it into buns and make dumplings for people to eat… @唷头auntie: My grandfather eats this regularly. It is said that eating it can improve immunity…Every time someone tells me that I am afraid Eating egg yolks, let me tell you that you didn’t see any objection to eating human placenta. Why are you so nervous about eating chicken placenta? @ shtfgiy: In those days, caesarean sections were done every day, and each one had a bag of placenta @ Tang Jike: The countryside is superstitious about this! @ grapefruit tea: If I don’t take it back and dispose of it, will a nurse in the hospital take it away and give it away or secretly take it home and eat it myself? Thinking about it is a bit irritating @ I Love Spring: Some people with asthma eat this. When I was a child, I tasted it and was told what it was. After knowing that it was traditional Chinese medicine, I felt that traditional Chinese medicine is really all-encompassing… @ Shui Bingyue: I really don’t know what it is spread among the people. How did the placenta supplement spread @ Foreign Moon: Taste…According to relevant regulations, the placenta delivered after delivery belongs to the mother. As long as it does not carry infectious diseases, it can be handled by the mother herself. However, TaotaoG does not recommend that mothers or family members eat placenta, and placenta as a medicinal material should also be used with caution. The simpler method is to let the hospital handle it centrally. Or, if you are not \”confident\” about the hospital, you can try the following creative ideas. • Placenta planting: You can bury it in the ground, plant a tree on it, and let the sapling grow with the baby to express a good wish. • Placenta painting: Print the traces of the placenta on paper. You can keep the original red color or paint it with your favorite color to make a wonderful picture. You can also use potions to turn the placenta into coral, which is also very stunning.