Placenta Encapsulation

What is Placenta Encapsulation?

Placental encapsulation is the practice of ingesting the placenta after it has been cleaned, dehydrated, ground, and placed into pills, which is then taken by the mother and is said to have numerous health benefits.

What Are The Benefits Of Placenta Encapsulation?

It’s believed consuming the placenta can:

-Help to balance your hormones

-Replenish depleted iron levels

-Assist the uterus to return to its pre-pregnancy state

-Reduce post-natal bleeding

The effect of the maternal ingestion of desiccated placenta upon the rate of growth of breast-fed infants
Hammett, F. S. (1918). Journal of Biological Chemistry, 36(3), 569-573.

“The effect of the ingestion of the desiccated placenta by the mothers on the rate of growth of the breast-feeding infants is at once apparent. […] the mean increase over the normal percent change in weight on the 13th day being over 60 percent.”