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.
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20080101043727/http://cogprints.org/757/0/gustibus.htm
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4918290.stm
- ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1807646/?page=1
- ↑ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dev.21208/abstract;jsessionid=BA0945B97866F9BF140403326618CA4A.f04t01?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false