It's the new fashion of the moment: eating your placinta. I had this project of ingesting a piece of my placinta and all with recipes that were at least original cooked in steak or tacos in smoothie or like Kim Kardashian in capsule. The placenta is the baby's cells used to nourish the baby and it attaches to the uterus. the effect uh uh I would say of membranes, of structures uh which are uh temporary huh uh that is to say that normally after childbirth it is expelled. In recent years, many stars have been ingesting it, such as Calvinaris, who recently encapsulated his wife's placenta. A technique that costs $300 and involves cooking it, dehydrating it, and grinding it into powder to enclose it in capsules. This phenomenon, called plincantophagy, interests stars because its effects are said to be miraculous. Better recovery after childbirth, no postpartum depression, nutritional boost or even eating the placenta would give baby skin. Scientifically, there is no evidence to suggest that placental absorption could be beneficial. Obviously there is blood that remains inside, so it bleeds, there is iron, like in red meat, there are proteins, it is certainly nutritious. Now, does it have benefits beyond just nutrition? We don't know anything about it and we don't really have any arguments to think that. Behind this hype is a real tradition that has existed for years and continues to persist in certain tribes around the world. We must see all the symbolism that there may be behind it. Uh, I see it more as a ritual, like our very distant ancestors did. The first accounts that evoke this phenomenon date back to the Middle Ages. Women who eat it are promised better fertility and more postpartum vitality. Around the 15th and 16th centuries during the Ming Dynasty in China, a medical text offered further benefits to placinta. It is said to be nutritious and to prolong longevity. But it was not until 1970 that the practice gradually reappeared in the United States. And in 2006, the phenomenon became very popular thanks to the creation of the first capsules based on Placenta, stars like Kim Kardashian and Tom Cruise wanted to try the experience at all costs , particularly to preserve their eternal youth. We don't see how an organ that weighs 500g that we have absorbed once, which certainly contains young cells but which will immediately be destroyed in our digestive system, could bring, uh, youth. Except that if this practice is legal in the United States, if it is not the case in France, if we do not have authorization, this organ does not belong to us. So. even if it leaves our body, it does not belong to us and we have no right to it. We don't have the right to sell it, we don't have the right to take it away, we do n't have the right to eat it. All this since a 2012 circular. A decision taken to limit health and bacteriological risks. After that delivery, I developed an infection, but we did n't know what it was. That is to say, I developed a fever, I had pain in my lower abdomen. So I obviously went to the hospital. When the placenta is expelled, it passes into the vagina and in the vagina there are billions of microbes. So any placenta that comes out of the vagina is necessarily exposed to microbes. But if the full Sainta is never given back to the mother, it is also to prevent the development of organ sales networks. It is up to the hospital department to treat the organ either by throwing it away or by keeping it for analysis. There were companies that were starting to offer people the option of keeping the placenta and placental blood for later transplants. And this placenta first, we must examine it to check that there are no anomalies on it which would allow us to understand certain illnesses of the baby, eh. However, there is actually a method for recovering your placenta in France. Giving birth at home alone. For my second daughter, I decided to give birth at home alone, without medical assistance. In any case, I had my partner and a trusted woman who was present who arrived a quarter of an hour before my daughter was born and we were able to look at my placenta, observe, realize that it was whole and so on. This trusted woman is what we call a doula. Their goal is to provide psychological support to pregnant women during labor. But the risk is high because doulas advocate childbirth without modern medicine and are generally not qualified to intervene in cases of hemorrhage or complications. Doua is here for you to listen to you, support you, and help you understand the conditions that make you feel safe to give birth to your baby. And these conditions are all different depending on the women and their history. You must have seen a patient who is bleeding sometimes. A patient who is bleeding is 600 ml of blood per minute, eh, which arrives in the uterus. It's awful. And there, we are really happy to be in a maternity ward, even if it is a 1% risk, uh, we shouldn't take it. You shouldn't take it. So. So, to get the same benefits promised with the consumption of the placenta, but without risking your life, many foods are perfect to consume such as oily fish, green vegetables, fruits or even nuts and seeds. What I advise, but I'm not the only one, is above all to save your energy, to sleep as much as you can. So, we have half an hour ahead of us, we sleep. Uh we have the opportunity to eat, we eat. See, it's like a postpartum birth trek. You absolutely have to enjoy every moment, but especially sleep. [Music]