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	Placentophagy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Placentophagy is the act of mammals eating the placenta of their young after childbirth.
		Pinnipedia and Cetacea are exceptions to mammalian placentophagy, as is the camel.
		The most general benefit of placentophagy, according to recent research, is that placenta and amniotic fluid contain a molecule (POEF, Placental Opioid-Enhancing Factor) that modifies the activity of endogenous opioids in such a way that produces an enhancement of the natural reduction in pain that occurs shortly before and during delivery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Placentophagy (470 words)

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		Such ideas have divorced us from our animal nature so that today, for the majority, a practice such as placentophagy is unthinkable, and disgusting, although anthropological studies reveal that placentophagy is not taboo to all human cultures.4 and 5 The native people of Brazil have been known to eat the placenta after childbirth.
		My first introduction to placentophagy was a television programme in 1981, "Where there's Life there's Hope", with Doctors Buckman and Stoppard: a woman's husband cooked the placenta and she ate it.
		Placentophagy is a taboo subject and yet my husband's cousin said to me "You had natural childbirth - you didn't eat the placenta, did you?".
	www.birthrites.org /placent.html (1821 words)

	Effects of placentophagy on serum prolactin and progesterone concentrations in rats after parturition or superovulation ...
		Effects of placentophagy on serum prolactin and progesterone concentrations in rats after parturition or superovulation -- Blank and Friesen 60 (2): 273 -- Reproduction
		Effects of placentophagy on serum prolactin and progesterone concentrations in rats after parturition or superovulation
		In rats that were allowed to eat the placentae after parturition concentrations of serum prolactin were elevated on Day 1 but concentrations of serum progesterone were depressed on Days 6 and 8 post partum when compared to those of rats prevented from eating the placentae.
	www.reproduction-online.org /cgi/content/abstract/60/2/273 (147 words)

	Tom Cruise 'will eat baby's placenta' - Page 3 - Atari Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Marsupials, which are an order of metatherian (pouched) mammals, resorb rather than deliver the placenta, and therefore cannot engage in placentophagia; they do, however, vigorously lick birth fluids as they are excreted [1].
		The most general benefit of placentophagy, according to recent research, is that placenta and amniotic fluid contain a molecule (POEF, Placental Opioid-Enhancing Factor) that modifies the activity of endogenous opioids in such a way that produces an enhancement of the natural reduction in pain that occurs shortly before and during delivery [2].
		Those who advocate placentophagy in humans, mostly in modern America and Europe believe that eating the placenta prevents postpartum depression and other pregnancy complications.
	www.ataricommunity.com /forums/showthread.php?t=519786&page=3 (3196 words)

	Second Epinion: The Placenta: It's What's for Dinner
		Cruise suggested he might eat her placenta after birth - a practice known as "placentophagy." He was quoted: "I'm gonna eat the placenta.
		Placentophagy is practiced by most mammals and certain cultures.
		It is believed by some that snacking on the afterbirth reduces post-partum pain and prevents depression.
	secondepinion.blogspot.com /2006/06/placenta-its-whats-for-dinner.html (596 words)

	About Placenta Benefits.info - Placenta Capsules, Placenta Encapsulation Services
		When I became interested in exploring placentophagy, the articles were often difficult to find, and highlighted the strangeness of it more than anything.
		Postpartum depression is a serious condition that is a real concern to many expectant women.
		After researching the benefits of placentophagy, I was prepared to give it a try.
	placentabenefits.info /about.asp (902 words)

	Cruise's baby girl enters a world of controversy
		I'm gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there." He later played down his comments, telling a television audience: "We're not eating it." But by then, the debate over what some parenting websites call " placenta etiquette" had already been ignited.
		Placentophagy, the eating of the placenta after birth, is common among mammals - and also in some human cultures.
		Followers of Chinese medicine prepare it with rice wine, herbs and ginger before the mixture is dried, and it is then taken in capsules three times a day by the mother during the first month after birth.
	chinadaily.com.cn /entertainment/2006-04/20/content_572073.htm (878 words)

	Cultural Views on the Placenta
		The Chinese believe a nursing mother should boil the placenta, make a broth, then drink it to improve her milk.
		That practice, known as "placentophagy," did not go over well when depicted last year on the British cooking show "TV Dinner," according to The Independent, a London newspaper.
		The show featured a London couple celebrating the birth of their granddaughter by preparing, then eating, the baby's placenta as a means of reflecting rituals around the world and symbolically sharing in the baby's gene pool.
	www.tidesoflife.com /placenta.htm (722 words)

	Deep End Dining: Haute Cuisine: Celebrity Placenta. Only in Hollywood! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The practice of eating placenta is called placentophagy, and certain female wild animals do it immediately upon giving birth to their young and vulnerable ones.
		Astonishingly, this placentophagy is largely advocated in America and Europe.
		i suppose placentophagy is done more often in western countries rather than others.
	deependdining.blogspot.com /2006/04/haute-cuisine-celebrity-placenta-only.html (1210 words)

	The Velvet Hot Tub: Cruise Flirts with Cannibalism
		Now The Velvet Hot Tub prides itself on its journalistic integrity, but the story has passed our standard for authenticity: it was published on the internet, there are quotation marks, and it's not the first of April.
		The practice of a mammal eating the placenta of their young after childbirth is known as Placentophagy.
		The meal is believed by some to prevent post partum depression in women.
	www.thevelvethottub.com /2006/04/cruise-flirts-with-cannibalism.html (292 words)

	Comparative Placentation
		Both delivered young in March; first conception occurred at age 18 months, singletons were the rule.
		Dittrich (1970) stated that sexual maturity is reached at 27 months and that placentophagy is normal.
		Early stages of implantation have not been described.
	medicine.ucsd.edu /cpa/dorc.htm (1313 words)

	linkfilter.net - fresh links daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Placentophagy is the term used to describe the act of mammals eating the placenta of their young after childbirth.
		The placenta also contains small amounts of oxytocin which eases birth stress which eases birth stress and causes the smooth muscles around the mammary cells to contract and eject milk.
		A fairly common practice in California's Bay Area and in the UK.
	linkfilter.net /?id=109538 (481 words)

	The Green Man: Placentophagy
		It is her babies afterbirth and it is best eaten raw.
		This is called placentophagy and nearly all non-human mammalian mothers practice it.
		It was presumed until recently that the only benefit that was gained was simply that it was a valuable source of nutrient that most animal mothers could not afford to waste.
	thegreenman.net.au /mt/archives/001043.html (1009 words)

	Eating your Placenta to prevent PPD... - Page 9 - MotheringDotCommune Forums
		As far as all the extreme negativity on this thread...sadly that always happens when placentophagy comes up.
		I think that if the placenta will let the drug (whatever it may be) pass to the baby, then you have to consider that it would likely retain some of it, too.
		However, I have not researched this particular aspect of placentophagy...
	www.mothering.com /discussions/showthread.php?t=361394&page=9 (2228 words)

	Bioinformatics project: PEG1/MEST
		According to this article the loss of PEG1/MEST results in impared placentophagy in mice.
		I quote wikipedia: “Placentophagy is the act of mammals eating the placenta of their young after childbirth”;
		Some other results are: embryonic growth retardation, reduced survival rate and abnormal maternal behaviour.
	peg1.wordpress.com (1373 words)

	China Doll: YUK!
		There is quite of number of Placenta Recipes to choose from - just bear in mind that we, Chinese, don’t like to eat it raw and don’t spoil it with garlic and butter.
		In the West, the practise by men of Placentophagy (eating the placenta) is generally considered unclean and unacceptable although the growing influence of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) may slowly change the general perception of such a practice.
		In China, placenta has long been a valuable substance in preparing medical drugs for thousands of years.
	hollymolly.net /ca/2006/04/yuk.php (293 words)

	The Queen of All Evil - "Dear Tom, Please Get Help!"
		At least frappe it and bake it in a nice casserole first.
		You know that placentophagy is a common practice in most mammals species, right?
		The placenta is fairly nutritious and has a number of hormones that are beneficial to the mother (the mother, Tom, not the father) if consumed, which is why most mammal species, including herbivores, eat their placentas.
	www.qoae.net /posts/1145382963.comments.shtml (367 words)

	Tom Cruise - Free net encyclopedia
		Image:Tom Cruise2.jpg Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer who has starred in a number of top-grossing movies and remains one of the biggest movie stars in the world.
		His first leading role in a blockbuster movie was in 1983's Risky Business.{{{2{{{nameTom Cruise}}}}}} at The Internet Movie Database Since then, he has received additional notoriety in the press for his outspoken support of placentophagy and Scientology and criticism of psychiatry.
		In an April 2006 interview with GQ magazine taken while Holmes was pregnant, Cruise suggested that he might eat her placenta after birth - a health practice known as placentophagy.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Tom_Cruise (3443 words)

	Hey, pregnant ladies! No wonder you’re exhausted! at LesbianDad
		And no, we didn’t bury it in the backyard, or feast on it the next week.
		There’s a word for that practice: placentophagy.) We were just a tad preoccupied after the birth.
		Okay, “preoccupied” may not get at the right nuance: some of us felt like we just drove a truck through our v*gina, and others of us felt like we just witnessed a miracle, which of course we did.
	lesbiandad.net /?p=84 (553 words)

	in case you thought Tom Cruise wasn't crazy enough - Animation Insider
		Shock is still resonating through Hollywood over the actor's comment he will eat the placenta and umbilical cord of his newly-born daughter Suri.
		Although seemingly bizarre, the practice of Placentophagy is actually not as uncommon as it sounds.
		Mammals have eaten the placentas of their offspring since time began.
	www.animationinsider.net /forums/showthread.php?p=383459 (1090 words)

	TIME.com: Physicians in Philadelphia -- May 13, 1935 -- Page 2
		The practice apparently is good for the mother and probably, through her milk, for the child.
		of Boston gave such placentophagy a new twist and a sound scientific basis by extracting substances from placentas, with which he inoculates children against measles.
		He also expects to extract sub stance to immunize against scarlet fever, diphtheria, infantile paralysis.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,754758-2,00.html (673 words)

	Stupid things omnivores say... (Version 2.0) - Page 99 - VeggieBoards
		It does cushion and protect the chick, but is also used up by the time the chick is hatched.
		To Tom Cruise I apologize, many animals (the placenta kinds) and some human culture's practice placentophagy, the act of eating the placenta after the young is born.
		But in my defense Stephen Colbert did pretend to drink what he called "the amniotic sac" from an egg.
	www.veggieboards.com /boards/showthread.php?p=1302883 (944 words)

	It's complicated - May 14th, 2006
		Everyone's heard about Tom Cruise joking (supposedly) about noshing his newborn baby's placenta and umbilical cord.
		But placentophagy is nothing new, nor is it illegal to chow down on some umbilical carne asada, as long as it's postpartum, of course.
		Placenta pâté has long been a part of Yamamoto's repertoire, but it's not the only human flesh he's willing to prepare for customers eager to experiment with cannibalism.
	ioerror.livejournal.com /2006/05/14 (737 words)

	Aimlessly Wandering..........
		Tom Cruise is going to eat Katie Homes Placenta!!!
		Some people believe that eating the placenta (called Placentophagy) will help with postpartum depression.
		I would assume as not to waste energy.
	blog.aimlesslywandering.net /2006/04/good-god-man.html (451 words)

	ANS 431: Reproductive Behavior
		Suckling A. Milk is letdown in response to suckling B. Young will try to suckle what ever nose comes in contact at first, learns with experience 2.
		Parent-Young Interaction A. Imprinting B. Continuous contact important C. Placentophagy D. Maternal Grooming 3.
		Will lamb where fetal fluids first spill B. Lambing a.
	www.siu.edu /~tw3a/431behav.htm (857 words)

	Help a girl out ladies... [Archive] - MotheringDotCommune Forums
		I feel so alone in this, and wish there was someone local I could connect with.
		Id like to discuss things like cord cutting, placentophagy, etc. There is no way Im going to a hospital this time around, and if I cant get my homebirth with a midwife for insurance purposes (afraid of CPS), I'll be fine on my own with dear ol'hubby.
		I dont even care about convincing hubby anymore either, for the first time its my way or the highway.
	www.mothering.com /discussions/archive/index.php/t-468398.html (664 words)

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