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The placenta has long been thought to produce serotonin during pregnancy. But in a new study, Yale researchers shatter the deep-rooted hypothesis—and show that the placenta doesn't produce serotonin ...

I had not given much thought to placentas until the one inside me refused to come out. I’d never thought of the placenta as an object that had agency, let alone its own personality. But there I was, ...

What could possibly go wrong? After all, Kim Kardashian, Alicia Silverstone and January Jones have done it. Well, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just reported a new possible risk ...

She’s the latest star to spill about chowing down on some form of her placenta after giving birth. The placenta is an organ that "looks like a piece of brisket," says Mary Jane Minkin, M.D., clinical ...

The placenta is mysterious but mighty. The only transient organ in the body (meaning it grows, then leaves), belonging to both the mother and the fetus, the placenta is a major part of our little ...

Eating a placenta may not give you the health benefits some people want you to believe it has, but using it as a bandage might. While some mammals may eat their own placentas due to limited ...

Interviewer: Eating the placenta, should you or should you not? That's what we will be discussing next on The Scope Announcer: Medical news and research from University of Utah physicians, and ...

Your body undertakes an incredible responsibility during pregnancy: nurturing and growing another human life. At the centre of this process lies the placenta, an organ that many expecting parents are ...

While placenta eating is controversial among doctors, stars have encapsulated, blended and cooked their placentas for the rumored benefits. (Photos may not be for the squeamish!) Christina Butan is ...

Kim Kardashian West welcomed her second child, son Saint, on Saturday Though her 3-day old son Saint is happy and healthy, Kim Kardashian West didn’t have an easy labor. A source tells PEOPLE ...