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Placenta bandages have far more health benefits than risky placenta pills − a bioengineer explains

  • Written by Marley Dewey, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
Placenta bandages have far more health benefits than risky placenta pills − a bioengineer explainsWith some bioengineering, placentas can be recycled for various medical treatments.mikroman6/Moment via Getty Images

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.

The placenta is an organ created during pregnancy that provides nutrients to a growing fetus through an...

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