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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Brace yerself...

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Honestly, I think Joel Stein is disgusting NOW - way more so than placenta is, or a woman of 50. Who the fuck talks like that about their life partner? I don't care that it's supposed to be "funny".

As to eating placentas, there's some evidence that it helps with post-partum depression, and anemia. Other mammals do it, I'm not sure why we shouldn't. If you are eating your own placenta, you aren't going to get sick from it or anything. While I personally am a bit weirded out by the cooking aspects of it, I am less so of the post-partum smoothie or the encapsulated pill form. Hospitals usually sell women's placentas to major pharmacutical companies who use it in haircare products, body creams, and other stuff. Why should THEY get all the benefits, but the woman who MADE it, shouldn't get any? Not even financial compensation when the hospital makes money off her organs?

To each their own, I say (get it?). But the "OMG THAT IS SO GROSS" comments always seem really immature to me. How is that contributing to the discussion?

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