Consuming your placenta postpartum is one of the many things that may regulate your mood and hormones postpartum. It may have significant benefits for the overall wellness of postpartum mothers.
The benefits of placentophagy (ingesting the placenta) may include:
- balancing hormones
- replenishing iron stores
- increasing energy
- promoting healthy breast milk production
- stabilizing hormones
- decreasing incidence of postpartum depression
- lessening postpartum bleeding
- facilitating faster healing
- providing postpartum pain relief
Placenta capsules are a nutritional supplement and do not take the place of medical care for severe anemia, inadequate milk supply, postpartum depression/psychosis or anxiety.