Ok this totally sounds like some urban legend some crunchy granola women made up to justify their own placentophagy… but yes it has been observed and described in a peer-reviewed publication 🧪
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25007717/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25007717/
August 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Anthropologist here. I’ve studied birth (evolution + culture) for about 15 years.
Some commentary on the evidence on placentophagy and lotus birth. ↓
You’re right to think there’s trauma that drives interest in natural birth. Which is why I avoid mocking “crunchy” moms.
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Some commentary on the evidence on placentophagy and lotus birth. ↓
You’re right to think there’s trauma that drives interest in natural birth. Which is why I avoid mocking “crunchy” moms.
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My understanding is that it’s mixed among apes, but almost nonexistent in humans. And the fact that many toxic chemicals have been found in placentas suggests it acts as a filter, and that humans at some point stopped eating it for a good reason. IIRC Julienne Rutherford had commented to this effect
August 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Julianne "Jules" Paige (she/her) is a PhD student in Applied Medical Anthropology, focused on maternal placentophagy as integrative repro health practice. Her doctoral project explores this, gathering insights from mothers + healthcare pros.
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September 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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God forbid he learns in some cultures women practice placentophagy for its vast amount of nutrients......
October 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Eating the Placenta After Birth?! Let’s Talk About It.
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May 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Also worth noting is that placentophagy is a great way to get yourself and then also get your newborn infant, who has a very fragile immune system, dangerously sick!
(Before they're 8 weeks old, a baby can go from sudden fever to death in well under a day.)
www.ajog.org/article/S000...
(Before they're 8 weeks old, a baby can go from sudden fever to death in well under a day.)
www.ajog.org/article/S000...
Human placentophagy: a review
Placentophagy or placentophagia, the postpartum ingestion of the placenta, is widespread
among mammals; however, no contemporary human culture incorporates eating placenta
postpartum as part of its tr...
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July 1, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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People who are into placentophagy should also know that most of the studies supporting it are retrospective self-report. Double blind randomized trials have found NO effect on blood iron, postpartum depression, or lactation.
August 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Calvin Harris & Vick Hope Share Baby & Placenta Pill Photos
#CalvinHarris #VickHope #BabyMicah #HomeBirth #PlacentaPills #CelebrityParents #Parenting2025 #Placentophagy #CelebrityNews #ViralTribute
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Calvin Harris shocks fans with placenta pills and unfiltered tribute to wife Vick Hope after home birth
The DJ’s home birth post with Vick Hope includes age-restricted images that have shocked and divided fans online.
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August 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Eating the Placenta After Birth?
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September 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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🧪 Hey #primate crowd, are there any more recent refs than the below to placentophagy in chimps or bonobos?
Fujisawa, M., Hockings, K. J., Soumah, A. G., & Matsuzawa, T. (2016). Placentophagy in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Bossou, Guinea. Primates, 57(2), 175-180.
Fujisawa, M., Hockings, K. J., Soumah, A. G., & Matsuzawa, T. (2016). Placentophagy in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Bossou, Guinea. Primates, 57(2), 175-180.
October 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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this is an unfair comparison actually. placentophagy is more akin to eating an egg shell of a newly hatched chick (which is quite common in nature), eating unfertilized eggs is more like swallowing after sucking someone to completion (but birds are also known to eat their own unfertilized eggs)
November 12, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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I was reading about placentophagy and came upon this increasingly WILD paragraph in an article about whether or not it's cannibalism.
August 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Heute lernte ich über #plazentophagie bei Menschen. tl;dr: es gibt keine Hinweise auf eine negative Wirkung, aber auch keinen Nachweis daß es was bringt.
https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/pdf/10.1055/a-0674-6275.pdf
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Kannst halt nicht gut 'ne Doppelblindstudie […]
https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/pdf/10.1055/a-0674-6275.pdf
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Kannst halt nicht gut 'ne Doppelblindstudie […]
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