Ah yes, rat studies (or, more accurately, study singular) on pain tolerance as evidence that placentaphagy prevents hemorrhage THIS MAKES TOTAL SENSE SUREpic.twitter.com/ASYiXhRl3b
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Ah yes, rat studies (or, more accurately, study singular) on pain tolerance as evidence that placentaphagy prevents hemorrhage THIS MAKES TOTAL SENSE SUREpic.twitter.com/ASYiXhRl3b
Every woman who births a baby also poops this is just absurdpic.twitter.com/7bJvGJkRtZ
The next paragraph is amazing: despite none of these references containing anything even approaching a clinical trial, it begins with a list of claims and ends with this insanitypic.twitter.com/Hn97TC4rPC
A clinical recommendation. The reference? A non-peer-reviewed opinion piece written by someone who watched her cat giving birth THIS IS INSANELY DANGEROUSpic.twitter.com/djhCY3gG6N
And apparently people are actually using this advice (based on the original birth plan) Women who might be hemorrhaging to death Using A PLACENTA BASED ON SOMEONE'S CAT
I'm not often speechless with horror, but this is perhaps the worst piece of dangerous nonsense that I've come across in a long time @DrJenGunter @gorskon @CaulfieldTim
There's even a whole mythos built on this one cat-based theory from 2010 This Is Nutshttps://www.bellybelly.com.au/birth/postpartum-haemorrhage-just-eat-your-placenta/ …
Overwhelmed by the urge to throw a book on comparative placentation at that person's head. It's down to physiology. If humans had epitheliochorial placentas, it wouldn't be an issue. Placentophagy has literally nothing to do with it.
This is not the first nor sadly the last, time dangerous advice is based on complete ignorance of animal biology
Ever since I read this I've been trying to come up with my own "I've never heard of........." hypothesis.
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