CURSED Placenta TikToks

Well, Placenta-Tok is a thing. Thinking you might eat your partner's placenta or keep a freezer of friend's placentas as smoothie ingredients? There's a social media platform for that! Come with me as I descend into the pits of Placenta-Tok. Surely we can mine some education from this blursed cave my canary tail fell down against my will.
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[@lesleyb26]

If your body goes through the process of expelling something, then I have no desire to put it back in 🤢

[@needzzzzs]

Amen!!

[@catherinenelson4162]

Well said!

[@kingofichigo]

Yeah, I don't think my body wants what it expels back

[@AngelJuliet]

For real. The people who eat poo and pee too

[@mehzgirl5044]

Yes, I agree

[@strawycape9693]

"Well lots of animals eat their placentas so there must be a good reason" do these people not realise that "lots" of animals will also eat their own offspring?! I don't see them suggesting that!

[@pistachoo.]

Rabbits eat their own poop, just sayin'...

[@leilanij2567]

Good point! Also, lots of animals eat their own 💩

[@littleshedevl]

@@leilanij2567dogs eat all sorts of animal 💩

[@iryelles]

😂😂😂

[@catherinenelson4162]

Now that you suggest it, why not eat our teenager's when they become intolerable? 🙃

[@kaydee.shayd.]

When people say "but animals eat it!" 🤷🏼‍♀️ Hi, I'm an RVT. Let's say you get your female dog spayed & don't keep a cone on her while she is healing. She will rip out her sutures, and could possibly eat through her own body wall. There have been cases of dogs doing this, and their intestines fall out of them, and they eat their own intestines, they will eat themselves to death. So basically what I'm saying is, animals will eat anything, and that doesn't make them smarter than us.

[@tibblez88]

Yeah I was going to say that dogs eat their own poop, so that’s not a really good argument lol.

[@kiararaine3636]

@@tibblez88 I mean there are people who drink their own piss.

[@StylaPet]

Also, nature makes animals eat the placenta and other afterbirth often as a means of disposing of the evidence that a birth has occurred because it can draw predators that would kill them and/or their young… that’s not exactly a concern for humans unless maybe you just unexpectedly gave birth near a den of lions 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@il42]

my dog last weekend threw up, then ate its puke. While we were trying to enjoy our babrebque

[@faemike55]

@@il42 It must have been quite the experience. I pray your dog will have the courtesy to do that deed somewhere private.

[@alexdavis5766]

You sure he’s not crying because he knows he’s about to eat placenta and not because he’s just become a dad?! 😂

[@loreleiford700]

Yeah that nervous laugh he did…😆

[@ginninadances]

The testicle king... Does that mean he also eats testicles?

[@louise102nd]

Yeah no he's a "raw diet carnivore" tic toker his whole stick is eating weird things raw people were very angry that he used his child's birth to just further his look at me eating weird raw things

[@blueblack3591]

This was so scary. Omg

[@ambercarter9746]

Right!!

[@SongWolf27]

Eating fruit on the bottom cherry yogurt was not a good idea while watching. LOL

[@neen42]

😂

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

Lmfao XD

[@stef1307]

Involuntary snort laugh 😂

[@EllieM552]

She did warn us to put away our snacks lol

[@SongWolf27]

@@EllieM552 I had low blood sugar, I had no choice!

[@autiejedi5857]

I saved my kids and grandson's placentas, but to use them as fertilizer when planting a tree in their honor. Have beautiful dwarf apple trees. 🙂 Eat the apples, not the placenta. 🤮

[@shellythalliburton7559]

Lol. They do this in Jamaica too

[@alinashirinian2485]

This is such a lovely thing to do. If I ever give birth, that's what I would like to do with my placenta as well. Best wishes to you and your family (including the trees, of course!) 🌸

[@2listening1]

Have you heard of placenta percreta ? What is up with that?

[@Reticence9zen924]

That's an important Maori tradition.

[@carlycrays2831]

You see, this is beautiful. This is fine!

[@loreleiford700]

So, I had very, very bad ppd ppa after the births of my first two children. For like a solid year. So bad. So, I was desperate for anything that might help when I was pregnant with our third. So, I fell for the whole “encapsulation” thing. It DID NOT HELP. I had no relief in that way. I had to be on antidepressants, the only thing that actually helped. I very strongly feel that it is downright predatory to suggest that placenta consumption will prevent ppd/ppa/etc.

[@blueblack3591]

I agree

[@saltypork101]

My spouse also struggled with this. I think it's really shit that we don't talk about it more, because it means that even though it's so extremely common, every new mother affected by ppd/ppa/ppp has to go through it alone. Thank you for talking openly about your post partum mental health. You are helping countless future moms to beat the stigma.

[@LadyVenus125]

I'm so sorry. People are stupid. A person is smart.

[@TaterKakez]

@@LadyVenus125best most memorable line from Men in Bleck

[@hamburger7243]

What’s ppd/ppa-?

[@CatVetNele]

Dogs and cats often eat the placenta at birth, but that's more instinctively, so predators don't smell it and find them in this vulnerable position. They often get pretty bad indigestions from it though. Funny, I had just finish typing this before you said it in the video 😅

[@B.H.56]

Our sheep just gave birth and ate all the afterbirth. And this is an animal that will NOT eat anything animal-product related.

[@CatVetNele]

@@B.H.56 must have been quite the sight

[@zoeysmama53108]

​@B.H.56 all of our sheep eat their afterbirth. Other animals can smell it and will come after the lambs.

[@galamander_1327]

I took in a pregnant stray cat (got her fixed later). When she was delivering kittens, I took each placenta and disposed of it. The cat looked at me with appreciation in her eyes, the same way she looked at me when I cleaned up the kitten poop before they could walk to the litterbox. Parent animals will do all sorts of gross stuff to keep their babies safe. It doesn't mean it's good for them or that they like it.

[@CatVetNele]

@@galamander_1327 Very true! It doesn't mean it's good for them, exactly! You gave the mommy cat a lot less work after the hard work she already did by giving birth. The only thing that came to mind is, I would be afraid of the mother cat possibly rejecting kittens if we interfere too much.

[@Cernoise]

You don’t want to miss out on the vital nutrients in that banana sticker!

[@emb3863]

My internet connection failed in the middle of this video, specifically in the bit of that guy making placenta smoothies, and I didn't even notice for a moment there cuz I just accepted it that MDJ was speechless, just completely silent, for 30 seconds straight

[@bethika643]

😂😂😂

[@sophieirwin3497]

I think it’s cool some people plant the placenta in soil with a shrub/tree etc as a) it’s probably got some good fertiliser aspects, and b) it’s quite nice that you have a plant that grows with the baby and it’s linked to them.

[@janemiettinen5176]

My mom, uncle and I have our own birch trees on my (now late) great grannys yard, they were put in on the day we were born. No placenta tho, but the gesture means the world to me. I can still visit our trees, my uncle and his kids live there now. Mom is 18 and uncle is 13 years older than me, but my tree is the biggest now - Im guessing it gets the most light and thrives.

[@texasgirlmomx2342]

Amazingly enough my Grandmother believed in burying the placenta under a rose bush. Said the kid would be artistic later in life. Never ONCE in her 93 years has she suggested we EAT IT

[@megwyn1611]

This would be the one that I would contemplate

[@midnightflame7731]

I would gladly plant my kids placenta when I have them. Like I think it's very sweet and they then have something that will grow with them. It sounds very sweet. Best gift I got ever was this tiny Nike ball from my mum. Still have it and even tho it's obviously been played with it's very cool to look at it and remember it was my first gift and the one gift I never broke. (I was given it when my mum met me in my foster home for the first time when I was two). So I personally think doing something like that is sweet as is giving the child something that they will always have with them. Like a ball, cuddly toy, blanket.

[@thelegioncollective]

This I cam agree on. However, I draw the line at eating the placenta.

[@danaology.]

My aunt married a Māori man and when they had their kids, their placentas were buried at the family marae, which is where they will also have their funerals and be buried near. I think it’s beautiful - the circle of life

[@thelegioncollective]

That I can see a point with. But not EATING IT.

[@NZC_Meow]

Unrelated, but I'm a Māori person too, and we do that too

[@chocolatereigns]

Gonna put a plug in here for donating your placenta to people who train search and rescue dogs! It's one of the best ways for a dog to learn what human flesh smells like, and it's a very under-utilized resource! If I ever have another baby, I want to donate my placenta!

[@annedymock2850]

Never thought of that.

[@Gwaini]

Currently pregnant and now I'm googling how to donate my placenta to search and rescue dogs

[@ThatLittleTexanWoman]

Yes! I'm going to donate mine to Texas EquuSearch.

[@Michelle-up6dl]

I've never heard of this and I'm so glad I found this comment. I'm totally looking into this now

[@hannahk1306]

I've never heard of this before - do you know if there are any benefits of doing this over just having people hide instead?

[@PedroBenolielBonito]

Two minutes in, and Dr. Danielle's facial expressions are already up to eleven. This is going to be GOOD.

[@il42]

My theory is when a society is living comfortably with only first world problems, they come up with sh*t like that. People are getting weirder by the day.

[@lurdesoliveira]

True

[@ericamcreynolds5710]

The funny thing being if you were in a third world situation or a post apocalyptic situation the risk of eating the placenta might be outweighed by the benefit. Still gross though.

[@carlycrays2831]

​@@ericamcreynolds5710But do people do this even in horrible conditions?

[@ericamcreynolds5710]

@@carlycrays2831 I've never been in the situation so I couldn't say. I can imagine though that if I'd just given birth and I had nothing else to eat and no likelyhood of finding food anytime soon I probably would eat it.

[@stephaniereyes944]

I wanted nothing to do with the placenta. My husband accidentally saw me deliver it, and I think his whole soul left his body 😂

[@LauraKruger-tc4ei]

I am an MD who does prenatal/OB care and cares for babies. For lotus births, we specifically counsel families about needing to have a separate restraint system (e.g. extra car seat) if they go home with baby still attached to the placenta. This is because if they were to be an an accident, the momentum from an unrestrained placenta going flying could avulse the cord and cause life-threatening bleeding.

[@MamaDoctorJones]

Wow, I had NEVER even considered that. Wtf. I'll have nightmares about this.

[@JoanieBC]

I just don't understand the whole lotus birth thing or the desire to ingest the placenta (in any form). To be perfectly honest, I feel like this is a lot of New Age-y hoopla that only bears some medical support after-the-fact. As in, "enough people began asking about it, so let's research the efficacy, safety, and practicalities of these practices." Like so many other studies, if done by a specific group with a desire to support their hypotheses, they'll find or manipulate data to "prove" their point. Independent research usually doesn't bear the same findings. The whole idea that we should ingest anything we produce in our bodies because other animals do it is preposterous. Animals do these things because it's an effort to protect themselves from predators and/or because they don't have hundreds of years of medical research and technology to tell them they don't need to eat their own feces/vomit/offspring/insert other random idea here (like feeding our babies using the bird method - I'm looking at you, Alicia Silverstone! ). We're human. We have survived our own stupidity (in most cases), and we really should be beyond the argument of "well, animals do it so it must be beneficial" stage of our timeline. Evolution and common sense don't necessarily go hand-in-hand anymore, do they? P.S. I started my nursing career in pediatrics and maternal health, so I'm not totally without knowledge or understanding of the subject. However, I do not have anywhere near the expertise you two have, so I'm going to have to defer to you on the finer points. I just truly believe we've jumped the shark when it comes to medical logic in the whole placentaphagy/lotus birth arena. I think back to how frog urine or bloodletting used to be common practice and think, "hey, we've learned these things aren't very medically sound practices and found better methods to achieve healthier outcomes. Perhaps we should apply the same logic and wisdom to birthing practices." Am I totally off-base?

[@floedsje]

@@JoanieBC I've looked into lotus births myself since I'm pregnant with my first. It seems like a "half lotus" can be beneficial, where you wait to cut the cord until there is no pulsing heartbeat anymore. It pumps some more blood to the baby so less chance of becoming anemic. After that there seems to be no benefit to leaving the placenta attached and it can actually become harmful, like said in the video. I wish it were standard practice to wait for it to beat out.

[@anotherjunkie2]

I love ya Mama Dr Jones. I can’t finish video making stomach turn

[@jasminekennedy4774]

​@@floedsjeit's a long held belief from decades ago that delaying cutting right away can cause birth complications. Same as many hospitals don't allow you to eat during labor because of a belief of asphyxiation if you get a c section. These are just beliefs from decades ago and a lot of hospitals havent looked into it and updated policies.

[@mrspokitstheriot477]

Most Indigenous Nations I know return the placenta to the Earth in thanks. Many I know buried it next to a tree or in a place with many different plants.

[@kellysnover1852]

In the Māori tradition, they use it to fertilize a fruit bearing tree in honor of the new baby

[@mahavirgadhvi]

We (Hindus) do that in India, more so in rural India than Urban.

[@MelanieCamille]

I asked my midwife about consuming my placenta and she said you can get the same benefits with way less risk by taking an iron supplement from the grocery store

[@wrenmassey6876]

I always thought that if an animal eats a placenta, it is the mother consuming their own placenta immediately after giving birth, certainly not anyone else doing it. It's kinda weird for someone to eat their own placenta if they want to its whatever, but it's hella weird to consume your partners placenta, let alone someone else's entirely

[@imsmolandangery4274]

When I was a kid at an open farm I saw daddy pig eat the placenta, worth mentioning that pigs are known to eat anything that won't walk away allegedly including unconscious people

[@AdaireKrickets]

​@imsmolandangery4274 My grandma said the pigs will even try to eat you as you try to crawl away. Guess her uncle fell into the pig pit and broke his arm. The pigs swarmed him and then RIPPED that arm off to eat. The rest of him got out with nasty bite marks. Animals do wild things, I don't think we should emulate everything they do😅😅

[@norawin]

​@@AdaireKricketsyeah and pigs will literally eat other pigs without batting an eye

[@hopefullyhelping6664]

@@AdaireKricketsWTF!!!! Pigs are so cute but so freaky.

[@jasminekennedy4774]

Also the placenta is both mom and Babies' DNA so I would consider consuming it cannibalism

[@Katie-hh9eu]

You cannot convince me that this isn't cannibalism, disgusting.

[@Romanticoutlaw]

I mean, it is cannibalism, but the disgust is largely cultural

[@jocelynprior1874]

Cane here to say this

[@ah5721]

dogs, cats and other mammels moms eat placentas , it a filter not a muscle

[@TheBlkKat]

@@ah5721 They also eat their young's poop to keep their dens, burrows, etc., clean and deter predators. Should humans also be doing that since you are using other mammals as justification?

[@frickfrack7075]

​​​@@ah5721 "its a filter, not a muscle" should give you even more pause.... it's a filter, like cmon. Also, what would that have to do with consumption? People eat lots of things that aren't muscle, what's your point?

[@keziahyamamoto6311]

Thank you for making this video. I like the apple tree idea, but I wouldn't even feed a placenta to my dogs.

[@jennyh4025]

I’m from Germany and the (apple)tree thing is quite common in some parts here. But I would never voluntarily give my (or any other) placenta to anyone or any animal to eat. If they do it because of „genetic programming“ okay, but I wouldn’t actively give it to them.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

The craziest thing that guy on Joe Rogan said was that he leaves the sticker on the banana. That's less gross than the other things he said, but it is harder to possibly tell what the thinking might be. It also makes me think he's purely trolling.

[@acemarston8186]

At what point does this become cannibalism? No hate or anything but It’s close enough it give me a squick

[@Jadzebra]

I think cannibalism is more about eating permanent flesh, like your skin or muscle tissue, placenta is renewable tissue that is discarded naturally so I don't think it would logically count, but technically? It's for sure cannibalism, it's human flesh.

[@bunnyrabi]

Also I think animals do that naturally, not due to health benefits but because they have to use their mouth to help get the baby out. We as humans really have no reason to do this other than copying animals lol

[@carrotfishofishal]

​@Jadzebra by that logic, if someone ate a human's liver or the very tip of a severed fingertip, would it not be cannibalism by that definition ?

[@Moonpie90]

​@@carrotfishofishalhuman liver pate sounds like a possibility then

[@thephamilybusiness9485]

I think this would fall under ritual cannibalism

[@AquReese24]

This is why my friends and I made a pact NOT to ever eat our placentas.

[@stef1307]

You needed a pact for that? 😂

[@AquReese24]

@@stef1307 Not really, but my friends found a lasanga and smoothie recpie one day that had placenta in it, so we were deeply disturbed lol

[@catladyfromky4142]

Just like I have a pact with every single person I know not to eat any placenta. We don't talk about it, but it's always there.

[@kathleenwoods8416]

I like the implication that this pact would be a challenge to keep. I kinda want to know what its like in your circles.

[@letmedream111]

​@@AquReese24hUHhUh?!?!?!

[@ivanahettnerova3533]

And I thought that only doctors who are comming across patients who ate placenta were veterinarians. 😂

[@Serenity_Dee]

Wait, did he just say "Testicle King out"? Who decides to name himself Testicle King?

[@JimsDiscountHam]

His name is Pauly Long and he has been call "The Testicle King" for his diet of raw animal meat and organs including testicles and animal genitalia. He claims his diet is to help with stomach issues but I thinks it's just him using a fad diet as a gimmick for his content.

[@wizardninjapenguin]

It's because he has a channel that features him eating raw (animal) testicles.

[@imsmolandangery4274]

Is it like the liver king? Got a social media following for showing a bizarre diet including raw (animal) liver, thus guy presumably eats testicles

[@haylene7521]

I think its because he eats animal ones

[@christinebenson518]

I want to know if his wife is Ovary Queen.

[@randischneider23]

I think the cutting a placenta in bacon slices made me more uncomfortable than the bladder condoms....

[@MoonWerewolfAir]

I have seen some real gross things being in medicine myself, but I admit that I screamed watching that first TikTok and almost puked at seeing the one where the girl was cooking it and the dehydration ones. Oh my God, wouldn't that be cannibalism still???

[@christinereinhart2111]

Me too so gross

[@NellFace]

If you eat your own, it's not cannibalism (though it's still gross) but eating someone else's?? How is that legal????

[@shroomyk]

@@NellFace eating your own is called autocannibalism. Technically people who bite off the little dry bits from their lips or fingers and swallow them are also performing autocannibalism.

[@ChimeraGirl_]

I agree, I think it is. I mean, the placenta is an organ much like the kidney, the stomach, the heart, etc...like how is that not cannibalism?

[@Ruthavecflute]

@@NellFace Techniquely, it's the baby's placenta, not the mothers - the cells that make up the placenta originate from the fertilized egg, just like the baby does. I think that's somehow even worse!

[@DaniS398]

people who say "well animals do it" don't realize, animals eat the placenta to keep predators from smelling where their newborns are, not for nutrients. I just took a pic of my second child's placenta (my 1st was taken to the NICU so I didn't even think about the placenta when he was born. It really is a cool organ and, not gonna lie, I was quite impressed with mine.

[@kristineapodaca3173]

My doctors would hold it up and show it to me, at my request, just because it's interesting. But then, ya know, do whatever it is you do with that, thanks!

[@megwyn1611]

I asked to see the placenta. The OB said to the midwife, she wants to keep the placenta. No!! I want to see it, it's interesting. I do not want to keep it. 🤢

[@riahelaine6110]

I was so overwhelmed when I had my daughter that I didn’t see mine. My mom said it was big though. I kinda like the tree idea but consumption sounds absolutely revolting.

[@rachel8623]

I haven’t and will never give birth but I would be all for checking out the placenta, and I really like the idea of burying it and planting a tree. Placentas are genuinely cool! But…eating it? Nope nope nope…

[@fonjadidi]

Before I was pregnant I was interested in the whole placenta capsules idea because of all the claims of the nutrients etc, but now that I'm pregnant I'm like oh heck NO!! And also animals eat it because they're trying to hide the scent of birth not because of the nutrients, even my sheep guardian dog will help by peeing on the birthing spot.

[@iryelles]

After giving birth the nurses asked if I wanted to see the placenta. My answer was a very resounding No! 😂 I think the body is really cool but at that moment I didn't want it near me. 😅

[@gemmaryan5095]

I’m not sure if you’ve spoken on this previously (I haven’t been able to find anything) but I would love to hear your thoughts on pain management for iud insertions, cervical biopsies, etc. There’s been a lot of women speaking out about traumatic experiences with these procedures and I haven’t see any medical professionals speak on it, except the odd gaslighter here and there.

[@bethanybalmer7944]

I’m a labor nurse - I usually have a stomach of steel but especially the first video almost did me in. Never have I heard of raw consumption, especially when it’s done by someone other than the birthing person - I’d be curious if he was expecting benefits or just proving something in his mind.

[@lilitharam44]

I remember a controversy with HBO in the 90's because they showed a group of people eating cooked placenta. HBO got in big trouble with the networks and someone higher up in the government or something because they said that HBO was promoting cannibalism. Guess we've moved past that now?

[@lurdesoliveira]

OMG! I remember that!

[@lilitharam44]

@@lurdesoliveira Glad I'm not the only one who remembers that!

[@arcticxabyss]

I honestly would NOT be okay with eating someone's placenta for LITERALLY any reason!! 🤢

[@LadyVenus125]

Me too! My god, that's so disgusting.

[@arcticxabyss]

@@LadyVenus125 if only you had the ability to unsee it 😂

[@LadyVenus125]

@@arcticxabyss Yep.

[@kristineclevinger]

One time when I put a newborn horse placenta in the woods in the back of our farm, around 100 turkey vultures showed up within 15 minutes. Maybe that's the best use for them.😂

[@MsPeabody1231]

😂😂😂

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

I'm so glad my expectant daughter-in-law is a vegetarian and my son is a biochemist and highly-unlikely to approve of eating raw meat in any form! The first one - all I could think of was "stop mucking around and cuddle that baby!" The second guy - he's going to die of some unusual condition before long...

[@junipermeisje6300]

Oh first time I heard of placenta eating was from vegetarians, because it’s the only meat you can eat without an animal dying. And as for eating raw meat: Your son in law can thoroughly bake it before they eat it. ;)

[@junipermeisje6300]

I mean son (it’s your daughter in law that’s the vegetarian)

[@Olemannen88]

Fun fact, in Norwegian placenta is "morkake", which translates to "Mothercake"

[@shiningmoa4604]

same in swedish (moderkaka)

[@spulwasser]

Same in German: Mutterkuchen

[@KanaG44]

In Finnish it's 'istukka'. I can't find the etymology but I'd guess it has something to do with 'istua' (to sit)

[@mek493]

In Gaelic it literally translates to birth-cake

[@ainacamiramonet9301]

The name placenta also makes reference to its shape, which was reminiscent of a cake

[@nyves104]

I'll never be able to look at placentas as anything but gross bc in college, I had a friend who worked at horse barn. One summer, after helping with a birth of a foal, she decided to put the placenta in a bucket and left it out in the sun for WEEKS. She took near daily pictures of it and would send them to me (unasked! I had no desire to see them, but she sent them anyways). I will never be able to unsee it.

[@ashleysmith5001]

I am so sorry for your trauma, that's horrible that she sent that to you without asking. I would be very upset too.

[@youiswhoyouis3304]

Yeah... let's attract more flies and other parasites around the farm...😒😮‍💨 What every rational horse person wants! Not to mention potentially sickening wildlife or domestic farm animals (cats, dogs, pigs, etc) that might get into it...

[@nyves104]

@@ashleysmith5001 trauma is a strong word for that, it was beyond gross for sure and I'll never be able to see a placenta the same way, but I'm unhurt by it. I appreciate the concern though

[@nyves104]

@@youiswhoyouis3304knowing her, she probably thought she was being very smart and careful about it, but yeah, in hindsight, an absolutely terrible idea to invite that around other animals

[@youiswhoyouis3304]

@nyves104 Potentially, I suppose. Ours get sprinkled with lime (not the fruit, lol) and really buried or out to our resident vulture friends within a couple of hours. The placenta smells horrible in the heat and will somehow get maggots on it within a day....🤢

[@Crearecantareparlare]

We planted both my son and last daughters placentas under a tree for each of them - just so as not to waste it. I painstaking grew that thing and I didn’t want to throw it away lol.

[@calypso8436]

Yes!!! I am pregnant with my first and the idea of my placenta going to medical waste just breaks my heart. I think I will plant it 😊

[@Nylak-Otter]

Give me your placenta if you're going to waste it, ya nasties! I use discarded placentas to train human remains detection and recovery K9s. It can actually help bring the lost back to their families or bring criminals to justice, rather than just making you nauseous.

[@MamaDoctorJones]

GREAT use of placenta. 10k points more than smoothie ingredient.

[@Bandgazebo]

Not as a woo or sentimental thing, but purely out of scientific curiosity - it was part of my birth plans to make sure we got pictures of the placenta. I knew I would be too busy to take a look, but I wanted to see it! Especially since I had SUA on one baby, so it was really cool to see how it was different and see all the beefy arteries branching out from the single one.

[@nyssac2914]

I asked to see mine post c-section but it was in a kidney dish, so all folded up, and held up a little bit too high for me to lift my head and see. Still glad I asked 😊

[@carlawinduss4665]

What i find a bit freaky about this is that some woman claim its not cannibalism because they are eating their own organ . But while the placenta grew in your body its actually genetically identical to your baby . An embryo comes with the instructions to form the placenta that starts happening straight after implantation . Thats also why amniocentesis is performed by taking a small sampe of placenta to check the genetic health of the foetus . So that really makes it even more gross to me .munching down meat thats formed alongside your baby ,identical to your baby .

[@bunnyrabi]

Do people just ever sit down and really think... even if it was a cultural practice in some very remote groups of people, there is probably a very good reason as to why i didnt spread out... just like chinese feet binding, it was a cultural practice but i didnt spread much outside of china. In fact when Manchuria invaded they ended the practice because it was seen as obviously barbaric. As a cultural major, i hate when people use others cultures as like their evidence of why they should do something. Its like old question: would you jump off a bridge just because all your friends are doing it?

[@carlycrays2831]

Especially since everyone here who say they are a part of these cultures is saying that they just use the placenta as fertilizer and plant a tree with it. That sounds far less insane.

[@phoenixdiricci6043]

There was a story fairly local to me a few years ago, where a family hosted a "welcome to the family" party with their new baby and served the unknowing guests placenta...

[@barbaraemmenegger1841]

I was okay with it... until MDJ mentioned that the placenta acts like a filter to keep bad stuff away from baby.... but other people also eat kidney and liver sooo 🤷‍♀️

[@mrsdoctorsong]

Yeah I find that weird too 😂 why eat a kidney that’s where wee comes from 🤢 😂

[@barbaraemmenegger1841]

I now arrived at the cannibalism part. And am grossed out 😅

[@Nevertoleave]

Apparently liver is healthy for you, but it also shouldn’t be containing toxins just acting as a filter for the blood so you get the good stuff and passing the bad out, and other stuff too. Which makes sense that it wouldn’t hold on to toxins, only so much room and then the organ would stop working. But there’s not much evidence that the placenta does anything. It’s not like a bunch of people saying it made them feel better is real evidence. You give people sugar pills and say they’ll make you feel better and for some people it will. The placebo effect. It doesn’t mean the placebo does anything, their brain just thinks it’s going to work so it acts like it does

[@user-em1qm3ut2y]

That's an interesting remark. We can eat liver and kindey of other species. But the good thing is that other species' dangerous diseases are not transmitted to us human. So we're globally safe (some disease still are). Therefore eating cow's or sheep's placenta would probably be safer. Hm. I did not want to think about that... why? xD

[@jeddybear5909]

​@@user-em1qm3ut2yremember, some people purchase those animals' testicles and brains to eat as well, I'm sure there's a whole shopping list of organs from animals out there that people enjoy culturally that are seen as "unique" or "disgusting" to others. My MiL enjoys chicken feet and fish eyes in her soup, I tried not for me (too chewy/fatty for my liking) but plenty of people enjoy it.

[@blazelightshine2311]

So at 10:52, that's a goat, and as a goat breeder, when my does pass their placentas, I usually actually try to take it away sooner rather than later. I mean first I look to see if it looks more or less intact to make sure there's no pieces left inside I need to worry about, and then I let them chew on it a bit sometimes, but there might be a bit of a choking risk since they don't usually eat stuff like this and in general I've never found it to do much for my girls so I try not to leave it too long once I notice, not a big deal if they do eat it but I usually just scoop it up and put it aside until I can go bury it. Still an interesting video though!

[@sk-wx1cf]

MDJ is so interesting and informative! People are basically nuts! And the first guy -- he takes a single tiny token bite and claims that he ate his son's placenta. 🙄

[@XSemperIdem5]

The number of times I yelled "no, no, no" at the first one. And dude with the freezer of human organs is giving off those cannibal vibes. I wonder if some people like him do it because they secretly have a fetish for cannibalism but this is the only way to legally do it.

[@gabriellalaplace]

A whole freezer of placentas. What about hiv ?

[@NightWhinnys]

The midwife at my first birth held the placenta up to show me and we had like a little moment of placenta appreciation in the delivery room. 😊 I loved that moment so I put it in my birth preferences for that to happen again at my second birth. And that is as much placenta interaction as I needed in my life. 😆

[@OfficialAtlass]

That first video made me go through every stage of grief within a minute

[@atheistangel7253]

There goes my last shred of innocence 😊

[@nono-yn5uc]

You said "put away the snacks"... Ok.. I'll come and watch later xD Was looking forward for content to watch while having dinner =)))

[@stephaniehawk9389]

Ugh...the crunchy crew loved this stuff when my kids were babies about 10+ years ago. The blatant lies and manipulation that people would say about eating the placenta was unbelievable. 😬😬😬😬

[@pistachoo.]

the... crunchy crew?!

[@stephaniehawk9389]

The folks who believe anything that isn't natural or organic is evil...they're usually very anti-vaxx, shame mothers who formula feed or follow any mainstream parenting advice. They're also pretty frequently ardent homebirth lovers who use Certified "Professional" Midwives, aka, lay midwives who have zero real medical training and have "apprenticed" at 6 or 7 births with another CPM. These same type of midwives have killed quite a few healthy, full-term babies who would have survived if they'd been in a hospital.

[@XSemperIdem5]

Wtf is a crunchy crew? Because it's clearly not about tortilla chips.

[@stephaniehawk9389]

@@XSemperIdem5 look right above your question.

[@crazymusicchick]

​@@XSemperIdem5 in the 60s they probably be called hippies today conspiracy theories probably anti government, anti vax,anti chemicals, most likely vegan, types

[@shedaboi4452]

So my mom works as an asl interpreter in birthing centers and has known very few people who have kept the placenta to eat. That being said, even those few people NEVER ate the placenta raw. She knew one lady who has had many children and froze hers and packed it into pills. Regardless it’s very dangerous and insanely gross so just DONT.

[@Ali626AMM]

I didnt think I was terribly squeamish, you went right on ahead and proved me wrong. 😅 This is not a thing I want any part of. And I actually thought the "smoothie dude" had it all over his face. 😂 That's what I get for multitasking. Love you.

[@Pentax47]

I LOST IT at "placentamental" 😂😂😂

[@pistachoo.]

bwahahahaha!

[@CatVetNele]

I find it so weird, it's not like you even get the chance to ask for the placenta nor is it offered to you at birth whether or not you want to keep it, here in Belgium. I have heard of planting a tree with it more often, but eating it, nope, haven't heard that one over here.

[@mrsdoctorsong]

In the UK you can take it if you want, most midwife’s make a point of asking you if you want it

[@CatVetNele]

@@mrsdoctorsong I thought something like that, how considerate!

Never heard of someone keeping their placenta here in Switzerland either

[@jannyrijkeboer6583]

I got offered it in the Netherlands I let them use it for research

[@ailem2707]

In my country, it’s considered a biohazard, so it goes almost to the incinerator after the inspection after birth (unless it needs to be studied by anatomical pathology first)

[@wrenmassey6876]

Do what you want with your own organs as long as you understand the associated risks becuase ultimately it is your body, but why the hell are people out here eating other peoples placentas???

[@carlycrays2831]

Yeah, I guess this would all make more sense to me if the mother was the one eating it. Then I sort of get it. I don't get why all these dads and random people are eating it.

[@galaxychar]

It’s weird and cannibalism either way.

[@queenmotherhane4374]

Back in the ‘50s, a friend of my mom heard that hospitals took placentas and extracted gamma globulin from them. (I have no idea whether this is true or even possible.) When she woke up all groggy from childbirth (they used to knock you out back then), she demanded that the hospital pay her for her placenta!

[@mybabyghurl]

Before video starts: eating lunch After warning not to eat while watching: Nope i have a strong stomach During video: Ummmmmm 🤢(food not appetizing anymore) After video: Maybe I can eat again - remembered I was eating roast beef. Lunch is over. I will never disregard your warnings ever again MDJ.

[@andeverytimewekiss]

you know the video is good when you’re only 1:35 minutes in and you’re already gagging so hard you’re basically swallowing your tongue

[@NellFace]

At least you're not swallowing your placenta...

[@andeverytimewekiss]

@@NellFace good point 😭

[@odakotarose]

well, today is as good a day as any to start fasting 😬

[@stereokuuji]

0:48 I'm jumping into this video like right after eating Will let you know where I puke from 1:59 Almost 11:05 Well, there goes my food😢

[@Angel0fTruth]

I've known of ppl that would encapsulate their placentas. That makes me feel sick to think about it! 🤢 i do find planting a tree with it endearing however.

[@SilentMartyrPhotogCo]

I will never forget after my son was born my Ob going, "Aww your placenta is shaped like a heart!" She kept looking at it and sharing it with people in the room. Meanwhile, my husband was struggling to look at it, lol.

[@katedwyer5599]

I love the calm, factual way you approach something that could also be approached with a very different level of receptivity.

[@rekaesmate3733]

I don't know if the little puns in text on the screen are from MDJ or the editor, but they are gold 😂

[@brianhaskell8871]

This was a crazy rabbit hole that we traveled in today. Was definitely not fully prepared for that one. Thank you for all the useful information that you give. I really enjoy your content. Have a wonderful day.

[@sarahhutchinson7377]

It's so often that people will eat things that they have been told that is good for them, even when they hate it so much and it isn't good for them (like placenta or that shake the guy from Rogan's show was talking about)

[@aCoffeeWithKate]

Dr Jones, I actually almost threw up! I'm expecting my third and realistically this is probably the best petty revenge from mom to dad hehehehehehehe

[@westzed23]

Wouldn't it be cannibalism? Why eat it at all? Where the first guys are eating raw placenta, they should be watching for viruses and such. Any blood borne disease like hiv or hepatitis could be caught. Wouldn't putting dried placenta in capsules also carry diseases or contaminants? EDIT: I finished watching the video. I had to watch in segments. You did cover these concerns. I have heard that in some cultures it can happen but that it is very rare. To eat it because in animals the mother eats the placenta makes no sense. The mother often eats the baby's poop too to keep a den or nest clean.

[@skarletcharity]

Why is the DAD eating it? In the animal world, the MOTHER eats it, shes the one who needs the nutrients

[@mrsdoctorsong]

There’s no evidence it provides any beneficial nutrients and animals only eat it so predators can’t smell it.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

In animals where the mother eats it, it is desperation for calories and/or preventing a predator from smelling it and finding her and her baby vulnerable. Plus, humans evolved cooking out food and can no longer digest certain things raw like that.

[@imsmolandangery4274]

I saw daddy pig steal it on an open farm when i was little. I'm not going to follow a pig slop diet even if a tiktok said it would increase sexual release (pigs climax for 30 minutes and eat whatever the farmer doesn't).

[@jasminekennedy4774]

The mother eats it so predators aren't attracted by the smell. She's not trying to get extra nutrients from her placenta

[@xBullTerrierFreakX]

When I was a kid, my cat had kittens and even SHE gaged on the placentas 😂

[@BallisticBethany]

Y'all are so lovely!!! Hoping I can buy the book!! I adore your content so much. Always look forward to new posts. ❤

[@Nevertoleave]

Lots of animals also eat their young! Humans frown upon that. Maybe, just because your goat does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea for you to do it. Do you also eat off the ground? Do you lick salt? Do you not wipe your ass? “Animals do it” is not a bases for a good argument

[@maria_dream10]

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[@Lemon_Lime_Lily]

I think placenta eating falls in a weird spot on the “is it cannibalism?”. Like it’s more than tasting your blood from a cut, but it’s far better than eating another persons skin.

[@carlycrays2831]

But a lot of the people eating them are either the fathers or random people

[@coasttocoast2011]

Thanks Doctor Jones, this is what I needed on a Tuesday morning before work 😅

[@lyspaere]

Honestly MDJ you've MADE MY DAY by telling me the joyous news that the research doesn't tell me I should consider even the encapsulation!!!!

[@twinkstomp]

I remember someone telling me that they planted a tree over the placenta when they had their kids. I was thinking about doing the same because it did seem like a beautiful idea. Then at the hospital I only had eyes for my son, not thinking about either the trees nor placenta. I was shown the placenta and I remember thinking it was a bit scary looking.

[@larkin2890]

i had already seen the first video once before and somehow i gagged even harder this time

[@LivVvVvvvvVvvVvvvvvVvvv]

My rabbit gave birth a few weeks ago. I stepped in the doorway anr felt something squishy under my boot. It was my rabbits PLACENTA 💀💀💀. I had to peel it off. To this day I am traumatized 🤣

[@TashitaxLinda]

I am in training as a lactation consultant and we were told explicitly in our class that though there's little data about placenta encapsulation (they didnt even touch eating the placenta, because it was agreed that's nasty), anecdotally every time they've seen clients for lactation supply issues who are on placenta pills, once the pills are eliminated most of the supply issues they have go away, even if no other modifications are made.

[@cwanberg]

This was my situation with my first and one of many reasons I actively advise my friends, family, and doula clients AGAINST placenta encapsulation. I didn't even consider taking placenta pills for my next two births.

[@madie3199]

This video is so good! Love you so much! ❤❤❤

[@Zed.TheReaper.McCormick]

Considering other videos I watch on youtube, I thought encapsulating the placenta meant pouring epoxy resin over it. Oh well. Also: placentimental

[@MamaDoctorJones]

omg the mental image of a placenta in epoxy 🤢

[@eilishfox01]

Thanks, MDJ! I learned a good deal from this video; predominantly, the placenta is way bigger than I thought!

[@waterchild83]

That first one made me almost toss my dinner. So gross. I’m glad you did the video and put some education about all this.

[@RB-vo4gi]

I don’t really have much on an opinion about placentophagy because even though it’s dangerous, it’s still their choice. In the tv show Servant though, they cook and serve placenta (within desserts or something, it’s been a while since I saw it😮) at a party but it’s not shown that they let anyone know these desserts have placenta in them. It’s one thing to eat the placenta yourself: it’s another thing to trick other people into eating it.

[@visitor55555]

Just a potentially obvious question but isn't this bordering on, if not clearly cannibalism? Edit: I typed this about 2 minutes before MDJ said it.

[@fire23fairy]

My first thought when I saw the animal one was "a lot of animals eat their own vomit, too. Does that mean we should be eating our vomit?" 😂

[@littleshedevl]

Omg I love your videos. It’s 1030pm and I’m trying so hard not to laugh out loud (people are sleeping in my home) from your “why?” melt down but it’s too funny

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

I've always heard about the health benefits but was never sure :) very interesting though!

[@mallorylischer]

Welcome to the crunchy side of TikTok

[@keelyjanehillesheim5287]

I love the editing in this video! Maybe not the placenta eating but the editing rocks!

[@DaveSlutzky]

Love it when the research is linked on science videos. Yay!

[@Pigimyshrewed]

So, I’m not sure if it’s the fact that I’m eating and dealing with 1st trimester nausea, or if this really is THAT gross, but all I can say is “No…” over and over again!!!

[@annejeppesen160]

It’s not just your parasitic induced nausea - it *is* THAT gross

[@Moonpie90]

I'm going to regret watching this immediately after dinner aren't I

[@hotabaka7281]

I didn't expect to gag as much as I did watching that first clip, but that was rough! 🤢

[@rubyrose3553]

Thanks so much for this video.