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Eating the Placenta

Sara Pereira is a pre and post-natal massage therapist and a licensed placenta encapsulation specialist . She dehydrates the placenta and pulverizes it into capsules. There is no data or research behind ingesting the placenta, but it's practiced widely in Asian cultures.

By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

Sara Pereira is a pre and post-natal massage therapist and a licensed placenta encapsulation specialist. She dehydrates the placenta and pulverizes it into capsules. There is no data or research behind ingesting the placenta, but it's practiced widely in Asian cultures.

Good Food contributor Eddie Lin cooked and ate his wife's placenta. Read his story here.

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Eating the Placenta

Sara Pereira is a pre and post-natal massage therapist and a licensed placenta encapsulation specialist . She dehydrates the placenta and pulverizes it into capsules. There is no data or research behind ingesting the placenta, but it's practiced widely in Asian cultures.

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Good Food

Eating the Placenta

Sara Pereira is a pre and post-natal massage therapist and a licensed placenta encapsulation specialist . She dehydrates the placenta and pulverizes it into capsules. There is no data or research behind ingesting the placenta, but it's practiced widely in Asian cultures.

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