It is believed that the placenta - a storehouse of beneficial vitamins and minerals that prolong life, youth and provide a means of maintaining beauty. No wonder many cosmetic companies are creating anti-aging agents, which include the placenta.
Some time ago it became popular after the baby is born to give the placenta for processing and to create out of it healthy capsule mother. It was reported that the placenta eating their children were seen Kardashian sisters, Mayim Bialik, Tom Cruise and other star parents. But after a series of studies, doctors advise parents to refrain from platsentofagii.
Results of the study, which had a US gynecologist, was published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. According to doctors, the placenta does not help, as previously stated, to prevent postpartum depression or to increase lactation.
Besides, the placenta in any form (encapsulated, lyophilized and t. D.) Are not only useless for the human body with internal use, but may even be harmful.
According to doctors, in the placenta during pregnancy accumulate microorganisms, hormones and toxins. To destroy them will have to cross the placenta subjected to heat treatment as a minimum of two hours (and to rid it of HIV, hepatitis B virus and Zeke even longer). After prolonged heat treatment placenta will at best useless. Although it may continue, for example, cadmium. The metal that entering the human body becomes a cause of frequent headaches.
"Do not eat the placenta. It will not bring you good Nika ", - concluded the obstetrician Amos Grunebaum, one of the study's authors. "The people who advised women to eat the placenta, well make money on it," - he said. And indeed, in the United States for the conversion of the placenta in capsule for oral administration charge of $ 200 to $ 400.
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