Placenta Power
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A multifaceted look at its function, its importance for the mother and its integrative use in the postpartum period
The placenta is not just the miracle organ of pregnancy. What is now almost forgotten is that the “placenta” has been used as a remedy in midwifery and integrative medicine for centuries.
In “Placenta Power”, the physician Dr Sophia Johnson and the scientist Jana Pastuschek describe the function of the placenta during pregnancy from a professional perspective, but above all focus on the placenta as a remedy and also address the trend of placentophagy, the consumption of one’s own placenta.
At the centre of the book are the research findings from the placenta laboratory at Jena University Hospital, where the authors have investigated which hormones, trace elements and microorganisms are present in the human placenta and whether eating the placenta poses a medical risk.
In “Placenta Power” you can read
- the centuries-old tradition of using placenta as a remedy in midwifery and integrative medicine,
- what is behind the trend of placentophagy (eating your own placenta),
- what the current state of research is on the topic of placenta as a remedy for women in the postpartum period (e.g. for lactation problems or postpartum depression).
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Jana Pastuschek
Jana Pastuschek studied biology, specialising in microbiology, botany, genetics and anthropology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, supplemented by a study visit to Siena in Italy for several months on the prehistory and early history of man. She later expanded her knowledge with a Master of Science in Molecular Medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. After several years of scientific work at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the Institute of Forensic Medicine, both based in Jena, she has now been researching in the placenta laboratory at the Department of Obstetrics at Jena University Hospital for over twelve years.