Traditional Chinese Medicine has been using placenta medicinally for thousands of years. Once your placenta is born iron and hormones leave your body. Your placenta is packed with these and consuming it in any form may help to regain them in just a couple of weeks. Here is what the potential benefits of that are:

    •    Stabilizes hormones & mood, decreases stress

    •    Helps with breastmilk production

    •    Postpartum pain, inflammation & bleeding reduced

    •    Reduces chance of infection

    •    Decreases chance of postpartum depression ("baby blues")

    •    Increases Iron & Vitamin B, therefore increasing energy levels

    •    Helps with bonding by increasing Oxytocin levels