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Some new mothers swear by the placenta of the baby.
Molly Halper never dreamed that she would eat the baby's placenta, an organ that connects the mother to the fetus and is usually discarded after birth.
Halper, who lives in Arlington Heights, Illinois, said to her family: "My husband and I used to joke ".
"We are not vegetarians, we are not trees --
Granola hugseating people.
We're Republicans in the suburbs.
We thought it was hippie.
But after two struggles with baby blues and the need to replenish breast milk supply with formula milk powder, Halper is interested in the idea that hormones in the placenta may help.
To reduce the ick factor, Halper paid someone to process the tissue into a capsule when her third child was born.
Medical experts say there is no scientific evidence that eating the placenta is beneficial to women because there is no control study to test it and placebo.
Placenta pills have also not been analyzed to see what substances they contain.
"Before all the scientific research is completed, the warning exceeds the expected benefits," said New York neuroscientist Mark Kristo, who studied the placenta swallowing-the science of placenta consumption in laboratory animals.
However, the idea is popular, says Deb Pocica, Halper's doula, who has packed more than 250 placenta for about $250 (RM775)apiece.
Pocica said she also trained 30 people, mainly to produce placenta capsules in the Chicago area.
Women who eat baby placenta claim benefits, including reduced fatigue, more balanced mood and increased breast milk production.
Some doctors and researchers say the benefits of these reports are nothing more than a placebo effect.
They point out that wrapping and digestion can destroy at least one class of hormones in the placenta.
Halper says her doctor is not against her plan. Worst-
In this case, they say, the pill will not have any effect.
Her husband is also very supportive.
So after the birth of Halper's daughter, pochka wrapped the placenta and Halper took pills for about six weeks.
Halper said that she felt energetic and recovered quickly in her body.
She was able to breastfeed her daughter without replenishing the formula and she had no problem with baby blues. At her six-
Her obstetrician says she seems to be doing a good job.
"I was very shocked at how much I felt better," Halper said . ".
"I don't recommend enough.
"In a survey of 189 women who ate the placenta of infants, 95% reported that their experiences were either positive or very positive, 98% of respondents said they would repeat the experience.
Daniel Benyshek said: "Of course, we don't know if these are placebo effects and whether their positive results are based on their expectations, "The author of the study and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
This year's findings are published in the journal Food and Nutritional ecology.
The report disclosed that first author Jodi Selander is the founder of placenta benefits, an online source of information and also provides training for placenta closure agents.
Kristine, a psychology professor at State University of New York at Buffalo, recorded some of the benefits of rats who consumed the original placenta and amniotic fluid after delivery.
But he warned that human mothers would not benefit from eating the placenta.
"Human Science does not exist at all," he said . "
"There is nothing we can scientifically point out that eating the placenta is helpful and completely harmless.
Benyshek said he is in the final planning stage of the double eleven.
A blind pilot study will compare the effects of placenta capsules and placebo on women's postpartum experience.
The placenta is a circular organ, about the same size as a flying disc, growing in the uterus, the boundary between women and the fetus, delivering nutrients and oxygen through the umbilical cord, taking away waste and carbon dioxide.
It also took over the hormone production of the mother during pregnancy.
Many other female mammals, including the closest primate of human beings, ate the placenta shortly after birth, but there is no evidence that this behavior is based on kristar and Benyshek in the new mothers of any human culture.
Kristina's work on laboratory rats found that by changing the way certain signals are processed in the brain, consuming amniotic fluid and placenta increases tolerance to pain and speeds up the onset of maternal behavior.
He believes that the molecules that contribute to these positive effects may exist and can also play a role in people.
However, Kristina said he suspected that the biggest benefit of the mother's reported consumption of the baby's placenta was due to the placebo effect.
He pointed out that among women who cite benefits, it doesn't seem important how the placenta is prepared, when the woman eats and how much she eats.
"Assigning cause and effect relationships where they don't necessarily exist is almost part of human nature," Krieger said . ".
"Two things have happened and people are connected in their minds. We all do it.
Dr. Mary Beth Luo, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University's Fanberg School of Medicine, said she also believes that the placebo effect can bring benefits.
Nevertheless, she added that it would be difficult to find shortcomings if placebo could improve the symptoms.
Kristine says he believes that a placenta product molecule called peptide will be destroyed during processing or later in the digestive tract.
But steroids, including progesterone and estrogen, may be complete in placenta pills and can survive digestion in order to be absorbed in the large intestine, he said.
None of these ideas have been scientifically tested, he stressed.
It is not clear whether the placenta is dangerous.
"I don't think this is a huge risk;
"I think it could be a slight risk," Krieger said . ".
"We just need to be very careful if it has a negative impact.
In 15 years, Dr. Lore said, she met five patients who wanted to eat the placenta of the baby.
Dr. Lore said that while she tried not to get in the way of women, she did not encourage women to do so.
"It's unlikely to be harmful, but you don't know. ” Thirty-
1% of women did report some negative aspects, including unpleasant taste or smell, headache and packaging costs, after receiving a survey on placenta eating.
Selander, who lives in Las Vegas and took placenta pills after two of her three daughters were born, believes that encapsulation is a way to reduce the risk of postpartum depression during hormonal fluctuations.
"In every case, we're talking about healthy women eating healthy placenta," Selander said . " This minimizes potential risks.
Hospitals in Chicago have different policies for patients who want to keep the placenta.
For example, the Northwest Memorial hospital asked the mother to sign a release form.
She was then asked to take over her personal property and transfer it out of the hospital, said Su Fula, manager of triage and delivery operations.
Pocica of Schiller Park says the woman's partner or other family members usually take the placenta home on ice.
Pocica likes to start the encapsulation process within 24 to 48 hours, so the organs are as fresh as possible.
First, she simmered the placenta gently and then dehydrated in the food dehydrator for the night.
The next day, she ground the dry placenta into a powder and put the powder into a capsule that is kept in the refrigerator.
She said she disinfected all the equipment and wore gloves.
The New Lenox resident, Marcy Pluchar, said her husband introduced the idea of a placenta package during her second pregnancy.
She said he hoped it would help her feel better than after their first daughter was born.
"I have never been diagnosed with postpartum depression, but I think I am suffering from postpartum depression for the first time.
Pluchar persuaded the use of the placenta pill to be "really helpful"-she even found herself checking the watch to see if it was time to take it next time.
Due to her positive experience, she will recruit Pocica to summarize the appeasement of her next child, which is "not even a problem" and the twins are now almost five months old.
"I think it's great," Pluchar said . ".
"Could this be part of the placebo effect because I think it will work? Sure.
But I don't care.
-Chicago Tribune/mcclage-