Placenta encapsulation is a two-day process that converts afterbirth into pills. For a growing number of women in Las Vegas and across the country, consuming the placenta after childbirth has been ...

Eating one's placenta, or placentophagy, isn’t necessarily a new trend, but it’s one that’s gained more notoriety in recent ...

UNLV professor Daniel Benyshek and doctoral student Sharon Young are pioneering research into maternal human placentophagy, the practice of mothers consuming their placenta. The ingestion of placenta ...

In the past, consuming your placenta after having your baby may have seemed like a practice exclusively for the patchouli-wearing, water-birth-favoring set, but thanks to big health benefits and ...

(KUTV) — During pregnancy, the placenta plays a vital role between mom and baby. However, some moms are also finding use for it after baby is born. An increasing number of new moms are choosing to ...

Throw it back a decade or two and if a well-known, mainstream celeb said they were off to eat their placenta after giving birth, they’d probably be met with an arched eyebrow or two. Yes, the placenta ...