Kourtney Kardashian is chowing down on her placenta post-birth and she is loving it! She posted the photo below with the following caption:
Yummy...PLACENTA pills! No joke...I will be sad when my placenta pills run out. They are life changing! #benefits #lookitup
If you want to #LookItUp, this is a pretty good history about the act of eating your placenta — the organ that develops on the wall of the uterus during pregnancy, removing waste and providing oxygen and nutrients to the baby through the umbilical cord — after birth. The idea is you take in all the vitamins and nutrients from the placenta and it helps you "regain energy, reduce bleeding, increase milk production and fight off postpartum depression." This is not medically proven, but many women swear by it.
Some women eat the placenta straight-up, but most prefer what Kourtney did, called encapsulation, in which the placenta is steamed, dehydrated, and ground into capsules for consumption. Yum!
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