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    Placenta: More Than Just A Meal

    Time Writer Grossed Out By Placenta-Eating Wife

    Is Sharing Placenta The Recipe For Sisterly Bonding?

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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/18/09

    In reply to Placenta: More Than Just A Meal
    I think I'll pass.
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Placenta: More Than Just A Meal
    Don't you get a pretty good placenta facial for like, nine months in the uterus? How many compliments did you get on your radiant skin when you were just born? I'ma guess zero.
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    Image of Elaken Elaken
    11/18/09

    In reply to Placenta: More Than Just A Meal
    Wow, imagine how traumatized Jon Hochschartner would be by this!
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    Image of OneTwoPunch OneTwoPunch
    11/18/09

    In reply to Placenta: More Than Just A Meal
    Ah, that's nothing. Back in the day, we used to sacrifice virgins! And, if not that, some sacred cows.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    11/18/09

    In reply to Placenta: More Than Just A Meal
    I can't wait for Soylent Ives to hit my local drug store shelves!
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    Image of OneTwoPunch OneTwoPunch
    11/18/09

    @morninggloria: "It's people!!!!"
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    Image of o-line o-line
    11/18/09

    In reply to Placenta: More Than Just A Meal
    Where's the umbilical cord and meconium wrap?
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    Image of GirlFailer GirlFailer
    11/18/09

    In reply to Placenta: More Than Just A Meal
    Unless you use your placenta in a ritual, or religious ceremony, it seems pretty stingy to hang on to it for a facial when you could donate it for stem cell research and cancer treatment.
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    Image of Sadako Sadako
    11/18/09

    @GirlFailer: Why? It's your body. Besides, I don't see why hanging on to it for a facial is any stingier than using it for a religious ceremony.
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    Image of GirlFailer GirlFailer
    11/18/09

    @Sadako: Call me crazy, but donating something for research seems less selfish than using it for a beauty treatment. That's just me, though. I'm wacky like that.
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    Image of Taradactyl Taradactyl
    11/18/09

    @GirlFailer: Placenta isnt necessary for stem cells anymore.
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    Image of GirlFailer GirlFailer
    11/18/09

    @Taradactyl: ? So, you're saying that donating your placenta for stem cell research, and the possibility of it being used in bone marrow transplants is pointless? Please, prove your point.
    Here's a pretty recent article from Science Daily that talks about harvesting stem cells from placentas, and their different uses.
    [www.sciencedaily.com]
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    Image of GirlFailer GirlFailer
    11/18/09

    @Taradactyl: Here's another article about using placental stem cells for cerebral palsy treatments:
    [www.prlog.org]
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    Image of Taradactyl Taradactyl
    11/18/09

    @GirlFailer: No I just meant that you can harvest them from other sources (cord blood). Also there is new research where they are using small scrapings of skin to produce cells (although I'm not sure if this is a viable option yet but it should be within a few years) and I never said I found it pointless to donate placenta.
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    Image of GirlFailer GirlFailer
    11/18/09

    @Taradactyl: Of course there are other ways of harvesting them, but they have found that there are more stem cells in placentas than in cord blood. My main point above, was that keeping a placenta for a beauty treatment seemed silly, when you could donate it for other, more useful things. So when you said that placentas weren't necessary for stem cells, I took that as an argument against their usefulness in research and treatments.
    #tips
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    Image of Kirkat Kirkat
    11/18/09

    @GirlFailer: What if I plan to eat it to try and avoid depression? I'm not being flippant, if I were to have a baby I'd definately have to try it. I hate feeling sad.
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    Image of GirlFailer GirlFailer
    11/18/09

    @Kirkat: I recommend seasoning with Mrs. Dash then pan searing for maximum sadlessness.

    #tips
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    11/18/09

    @GirlFailer: Excellent, I'll keep that in mind when I have one to cook! I'll wait for my partner to pass out from disgust first though, it makes him go green at the thought.
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    Image of Sadako Sadako
    11/18/09

    @GirlFailer: There are people who would say that having a baby is less selfish than aborting it. I don't think I have any obligation to donate any part of my body if I have a better use for it.
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    Image of cuteasabutton cuteasabutton
    11/18/09

    In reply to Placenta: More Than Just A Meal
    Not to mention footballers using it to fix ankle injuries.
    [news.sky.com]
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    Image of linnyt is a walking cliché linnyt is a walking cliché
    11/18/09

    In reply to Placenta: More Than Just A Meal
    Is there anything I could be doing with that un-baby-contaminated uterine lining I flush down the toilet every month? It kind of seems like a waste to let it go.
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    Image of GirlFailer GirlFailer
    11/18/09

    @linnyt is a walking cliché: Lip stain, remember?
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    Image of Tchotchke Tchotchke
    11/18/09

    @GirlFailer: Oh god, I'm shuddering just remembering that picture. Blech.
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    Image of dirtybee dirtybee
    11/18/09

    In reply to Placenta: More Than Just A Meal
    I wonder what the knock-off salons use?
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    Image of OneTwoPunch OneTwoPunch
    11/18/09

    @dirtybee: Bird poop...but it's from Japan, so it's gotta work. Or sake...'cause the sake factory workers have hands that are so smooth!!

    Gotta love snake oil.
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    Image of mfnher mfnher
    11/18/09

    @OneTwoPunch: Aren't the birds on a special grain diet, though? Also, I hear they get massaged daily to keep things moving.
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    Image of ronniedobbs ronniedobbs
    11/18/09

    In reply to Placenta: More Than Just A Meal
    This is one of those times when I'm going to assume that by "Hollywood" they mean a strip-mall storefront bearing that name. I'm also guessing other weirdly-textured "facials" are available there as well.
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    Image of wtfox?! wtfox?!
    11/18/09

    In reply to Placenta: More Than Just A Meal
    Instead of salt, I'm going to take that with the appropriate amount of WTF?! and anti-nausea medication.
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    Image of MeganGlass 就是一个古代的三明治 MeganGlass 就是一个古代的三明治
    07/04/09

    In reply to Time Writer Grossed Out By Placenta-Eating Wife
    A friend had a placenta cooking party after she had a baby. I did not attend. I do not regret passing on that chance, either.
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    Image of clevernamehere clevernamehere
    07/02/09

    In reply to Time Writer Grossed Out By Placenta-Eating Wife
    I always wonder if people who write columns about their marriages/children run this stuff by their partner/children who are old enough.


    Maybe she's totally okay with him announcing when her looks will go and hearing that seeing her give birth made him want to vomit, but for a lot of people this would be a road post on the way to splitsville.


    I find the whole placenta thing mildly gross, but I can't get super grossed out about anything that was once part of me. I just wouldn't eat it.

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    Image of notthemarimba notthemarimba
    07/02/09

    In reply to Time Writer Grossed Out By Placenta-Eating Wife
    I think it's kind of amazing that there are people out there who convert placentas into pills FULLTIME. I can't stop imagining first dates... "So, what do you do?" "Convert placentas into pill form so mothers can take them!"
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    Image of emilyanne emilyanne
    07/02/09

    @notthemarimba: ha now that is an image which entertains me for some reason.
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