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Kim Kardashian ate her own placenta ... and it's causing quite a stir online

Many people believe the practice can help boost energy levels and prevent postnatal depression.

LAST WEEK, KIM Kardashian gave birth to her second child, Saint.

And today, the reality star has revealed that she ate her own placenta.

(Yes, that is a jar of placenta capsules labelled: “Kim – Your Amazing Placenta”).

In a piece published on her app, Kardashian wrote that she opted to eat her own placenta after hearing that doing so could help prevent post-partum depression.

“I really didn’t want the baby blues and thought I can’t go wrong with taking a pill made of my own hormones—made by me, for me,” she wrote.

I had great results and felt so energized and didn’t have any signs of depression!

And as with everything Kim Kardashian does, it has caused a bit of a stir.

Others, meanwhile, are struggling to form full sentences.

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Kim is not the first celebrity to speak out about eating her own placenta.

In fact, her sister Kourtney Kardashian tweeted earlier this year about her “yummy” placenta pills.

More and more women have opted to eat their own placenta in recent years, often in capsule or smoothie form. Many believe that doing so can help boost energy levels, increase breast milk production and prevent postnatal depression.

It is worth noting, however, that a study published in Archives of Women’s Mental Health in June of this year found that there was no “human or animal data” to support these claims. 

But a new Northwestern Medicine review of 10 current published research studiplacentes on ophagy did not turn up any human or animal data to support the common claims that eating the placenta — either raw, cooked or encapsulated — offers protection against postpartum depression, reduces post-delivery pain, boosts energy, helps with lactation, promotes skin elasticity, enhances maternal bonding or replenishes iron in the body. 

Written by Amy O’Connor and posted on DailyEdge.ie

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    Jun 29th 2017, 6:12 PM

    We have the INM owned People/Guardian in Wexford also. Town like Enniscorthy doesn’t need 2 local papers. Sad to see though. Echo has been around for a long time.

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    Can’t be a good time for anyone involved in the production of newspapers.

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    Jun 29th 2017, 8:34 PM

    Problem with the Echo was its lack of presence online, paper is on the shelves a full week before its uploaded online. Print papers are on the way out so papers, even local ones need to modernise to stay alive. Wexford man in Dublin and would love to read up on the news at home however by the time it’s available it’s old news. Very sad for those losing their jobs.

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    @Caped Crusader: when I lived in Cork I could get it in Easons on The People on Thursday when it came out on Wednesday.

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    Why does Wexford need 4 newspapers? Are Sky News opening a bureau there too

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    Jun 29th 2017, 6:51 PM

    No surprise here as internet is slowly killing the print media off…DOB, you have been warned!

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    of course denis o brien the globalist sellout is going to buy them and have more control over local media they already brainwash us enough in the other papers with fake news and other rubbish

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    Jun 30th 2017, 6:03 PM

    The market is too small to support two papers, we alternated between the echo and people papers, but as someone else mentioned, the people has more of a online presence.

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