The idea may be unappetizing to many, but more women are consuming their placentas after childbirth
After reviewing what scientific data exists on the subject, Canada’s pregnancy specialists are encouraging any woman considering eating or drinking her placenta to please refrain from doing so.
“We were getting lots of questions about it,” said Dr. Chelsea Elwood, a reproductive infectious diseases specialist at the University of B.C. and a member of the society of obstetricians’ infectious diseases committee. “Women usually ask me if I’ve heard of this ‘eating your placenta’ thing, and whether I think there’s any benefit to it.”
According to a recent review article, more than 4,000 species of mammals consume their placenta, but researchers have argued that any benefit from placentophagy are likely “species specific,” and not translatable to humans.
Some women have planted their placentas under trees. Last November, police found a human placenta in an Ontario park, planted behind bushes by a 27-year-old woman who had preserved the organ in her freezer for a year for “holistic” purposes, before returning it to nature. In an email to the Post, Health Canada said it has followed up on more than 90 cases involving human placenta encapsulation service providers since an alert was issued last November, “the majority of which were proactively identified by Health Canada.”
A placenta can contain bacteria, viruses, fungi and other infectious diseases, Elwood, of UBC said. The commercial preparation process itself can also introduce infections. There’s also the risk of someone ingesting the placenta of another person if the organs are accidentally switched. Elwood said none of the hormones extracted through the encapsulation process have been shown to reach a level at which they would be potentially of any benefit to the mother.
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