Placenta Encapsulation

What is Placentophagia?

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Placentophagia is the process of a new mother consuming her placenta postpartum by either eating the placenta raw, cooked, in capsule form or drinking the juices from the placenta once it is cooked. This is not an issue for vegan mothers because nothing was harmed to bring about the organ meat for consumption.

 

Benefits:

• Preventing and lessening the risk of postpartum depression or 'baby blues'

• Replenishing iron from blood loss during birth and to prevent postpartum anemia

• Lending you a consistent flow of oxytocin long after your birth euphoria ends

• Providing the HPL hormone to help establish an early and healthy milk supply

• Stabilizing your ever changing hormones post birth

• Replenishing your B vitamins and energy that were used during the labor and birthing process.

• Protection from infection and bleeding due to retained placenta tissue or membranes.

• Offering natual pain relief from the labor and birthing process

 

Hormones known to be in the Placenta: 

• Oxytocin - This hormone is the feel good or love hormone.  Creates a feeling of bonding, pain relief, happiness and elation.  

• Cortison - This hormone unlocks energy stored in the body and combats stress.

• Interferon - This hormone stimulates the immune system to fight off infection while the mother is healing from birth.

• Prostaglandins - This hormone acts as an anti-inflammatory

• Hemoglobin - This hormone replenishes iron and stimulates iron production in  blood.

• Urokinase inhibiting factor and factor XIII- This hormone lessens bleeding and promotes faster healing.

• Prolactin/HPL - This hormone stimulates healthy mammary funcation and milk production.​

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