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.
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.
@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.
@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]
@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.
@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
@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.
@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.
@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.
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.
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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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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