"Eat placenta": the nutritional value of placenta

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Some time ago, if you were asked, "would you like to eat my placenta?" I'm sure you'll be shocked on the spot. I said, "my friends and I are shocked!" For a time, "eat placenta" caused a heated discussion among netizens and became a hot word on microblog. Can placenta be eaten? How is placenta handled best? Don't worry. Today I'm going to talk about placenta!

"Eat placenta": the nutritional value of placenta

First, the placenta is the "canteen" of the fetus. The placenta is the organ of material exchange between mother and child, which is formed by the combination of embryo membrane and maternal endometrium during human pregnancy. The fetus develops in the uterus and depends on the placenta to obtain nutrition from the mother, while both sides maintain considerable independence.

Second: placenta is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which is called Ziheche, so placenta can be eaten. The mother deer will eat her placenta after giving birth to a fawn. One is to supplement her energy, and the other is to prevent the bloody smell of the placenta from attracting predators.

Third: for pregnant women who want to use "eat placenta" to improve their health, experts suggest that they must be prescribed by a professional doctor. If it's just cooked to eat, then its protein is no different from eating meat. If the maternal itself has hepatitis B, AIDS, syphilis and other viruses, there may be residues in the placenta, but not conducive to health after eating.

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At present, scientists have found that placenta contains: placental sub totipotent stem cells, placental hematopoietic stem cells, placental mesenchymal stem cells, placental mother stem cells and so on. Placenta stem cells are pluripotent stem cells, which can differentiate into all cells in the body, and then form all tissues and organs of the body. Placenta derived stem cells play an important role in clinical application. It has unlimited prospects in many fields, such as auto organ repair, clone transplantation, cosmetology, treatment of genetic diseases, heart disease, liver disease, diabetes and so on.