Well this is total garbage: "Jan then realized that she had never heard of animals hemorrhaging to death...after birth, and so Jan hypothesized that...consuming the placenta guards animals from postpartum hemorrhage."https://twitter.com/fromhanan/status/1036453941108776960 …
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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
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Every woman who births a baby also poops this is just absurdpic.twitter.com/7bJvGJkRtZ
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/ …
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Umm, animals eat the placenta so the smell doesn’t attract predators. If your birthing suite can’t keep hyenas out, you probably need to choose a different location...
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