KKRM-TV: Psychologist discusses "placenta in a pill"

Release Date: February 28, 2011 This content is archived.

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Mark Kristal, professor of psychology, is quoted in a story on KKRM-TV in Colorado about the reasons women choose to eat their afterbirth, including to replace lost nutrients. Forty years into his studies on ingesting placenta, he said, the only way of renourishing the body with the placenta is to be very malnourished during pregnancy.

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