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Could eating placenta have medical benefits?

Buffalo Toronto Public Media
Published April 10, 2012 at 10:08 AM EDT
Both animal and human placenta has been used as an ingredient in cosmetics. But could ingesting it provide medical benefits?
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Both animal and human placenta has been used as an ingredient in cosmetics. But could ingesting it provide medical benefits?

Could eating placenta, or the afterbirth, provide medical benefits for mothers, or possibly, all humans? That’s the question behind a new paper from a team of Buffalo researchers. But, as Daniel Robison reports, finding the answer will not be easy.
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