Placentophagy

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Placentophagy (from 'placenta' + Greek φαγειν, to eat; also referred to as placentophagia) is the act of mammals eating the placenta of their young after childbirth.[1] It's also cropped up among a very small number of particularly nutty circles as a form of alternative medicine.[2] There's also just about no record of the practice ever existing historically in any form other than modern Age of Aquarius wingnuttery.[3] Even in the placentophagy tests that have been performed, there isn't any evidence that animals prefer eating the placenta to eating liver given to them by scientists as an alternative.[4]

Eating a favorite meat dish after giving birth probably has the same benefits, such as they are, as placentophagy.

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