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January Jones: Placenta Eating

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Mad Men star January Jones made headlines for saying she ate her own placenta after childbirth. Jones told People that there’s nothing “witch-crafty” about it and that she recommends it to all new moms.

Consuming the placenta after birth purports such benefits as preventing and alleviating postpartum depression, helping to aid in the production of breast milk and lactation, aiding your uterus in returning to its normal state, and replenishing all of the nutrients lost throughout pregnancy and the act of childbirth. Eating afterbirth even became so trendy that there was a cookbook called The Placenta Cookbook by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian.