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Kim Kardashian ate her own placenta ... and it's causing quite a stir online

Many people believe the practice can help boost energy levels and prevent postnatal depression.

LAST WEEK, KIM Kardashian gave birth to her second child, Saint.

And today, the reality star has revealed that she ate her own placenta.

(Yes, that is a jar of placenta capsules labelled: “Kim – Your Amazing Placenta”).

In a piece published on her app, Kardashian wrote that she opted to eat her own placenta after hearing that doing so could help prevent post-partum depression.

“I really didn’t want the baby blues and thought I can’t go wrong with taking a pill made of my own hormones—made by me, for me,” she wrote.

I had great results and felt so energized and didn’t have any signs of depression!

And as with everything Kim Kardashian does, it has caused a bit of a stir.

Others, meanwhile, are struggling to form full sentences.

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Kim is not the first celebrity to speak out about eating her own placenta.

In fact, her sister Kourtney Kardashian tweeted earlier this year about her “yummy” placenta pills.

More and more women have opted to eat their own placenta in recent years, often in capsule or smoothie form. Many believe that doing so can help boost energy levels, increase breast milk production and prevent postnatal depression.

It is worth noting, however, that a study published in Archives of Women’s Mental Health in June of this year found that there was no “human or animal data” to support these claims. 

But a new Northwestern Medicine review of 10 current published research studiplacentes on ophagy did not turn up any human or animal data to support the common claims that eating the placenta — either raw, cooked or encapsulated — offers protection against postpartum depression, reduces post-delivery pain, boosts energy, helps with lactation, promotes skin elasticity, enhances maternal bonding or replenishes iron in the body. 

Written by Amy O’Connor and posted on DailyEdge.ie

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    Mute Paul
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    Dec 14th 2015, 9:40 PM

    It should be illegal for media to report about these people!

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    Mute Supernova
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    Dec 14th 2015, 10:06 PM

    It should be illegal for people to take the bate. Media laugh at you as they earn money from it.

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    Mute Trevor Beale
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    Dec 14th 2015, 9:40 PM

    That woman should be shot with a ball of her own $hite.

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    Mute sarah hill
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    Dec 14th 2015, 10:27 PM

    Or her own placenta

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    Mute Beachmaster
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    Dec 14th 2015, 10:38 PM

    Kim ups the ante yet again. Don’t be surprised to hear Caitlyn eats her own penis.

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    Mute david dickson
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    Dec 14th 2015, 9:42 PM

    Wish she would eat herself.

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    Mute jenni
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    Dec 14th 2015, 9:50 PM

    She did. Yuck.

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    Mute jenni
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    Dec 14th 2015, 10:22 PM

    This whole shower have had far too much attention. None of them are role models, the extended family, jenners could be considered even worse( one makes out shes a sex doll in a wheelchair, while her sister is parading down a victoria secrets runway). Its back to basics we need. Less of this nonsense online..

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    Mute Paul O'b
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    Dec 15th 2015, 1:10 AM

    By reading this story and commenting on this your giving it more attention. Why bother?

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    Mute Paul O'b
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    Dec 15th 2015, 1:12 AM

    I didn’t even know she had a kid until now. It’s not difficult to steer clear of the bolleex if you really don’t want to know.

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    Mute Kevin Ryan
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    Dec 14th 2015, 9:46 PM

    She’s so full of herself.

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    Mute Gary
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    Dec 14th 2015, 9:52 PM

    Kevin, she is now after eating her own placenta.

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    Mute Joanna
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    Dec 14th 2015, 9:58 PM

    Gary, that was the joke.

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    Mute Liam Byrne
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    Dec 14th 2015, 10:10 PM

    No it’s not causing quite a stir online. This is the first I’ve heard of it and it’s 10pm. Please stop reporting this non news.

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    Mute Armin Tamzarian
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    Dec 14th 2015, 10:40 PM

    Indeed! Must she get attention for everything she puts in her mouth???

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    Mute Tomestical
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    Dec 14th 2015, 9:59 PM

    Alright Kim, next challenge: you’re gonna eat you own shit.

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    Mute The Guru
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    Dec 14th 2015, 9:58 PM

    Please people do not read and especially do not comment on these articles. It’s the only way to make them stop. And yes I’m aware of the irony.

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    Mute Declan Mannix
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    Dec 14th 2015, 11:06 PM

    Kim, I think the lack of the baby blues could down to the team of round the clock nannies and the 300 Million freaking dollars in your bank account. Give is a break luv

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    Mute kevin byrne
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    Dec 14th 2015, 9:55 PM

    I ate placenta once , i just dipped it in flour and deep fried it … Washed it down with a bottle of 1974 cat piss.

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    Mute Donal O'Brien
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    Dec 14th 2015, 9:58 PM

    Quite common for cows to eat the placenta after birth. Nothing to see here.

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    Mute Harry
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    Dec 14th 2015, 9:44 PM

    Christ almighty that’s vile

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    Mute molly coddled
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    Dec 14th 2015, 9:55 PM

    Oh God, eating your own placenta was a weirdo ‘thing’ back in the 80s, mind you they used to fry it back then.

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Dec 15th 2015, 1:27 AM

    Now he is a vegetarian…

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    Mute de la Rey
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    Dec 14th 2015, 10:30 PM

    Makes a change from her usual diet of sausage

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    Mute Omar Batistuta
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    Dec 14th 2015, 10:10 PM

    So what? It’s not illegal and some think it’s good for you. Why would anyone care what she does??

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    Dec 14th 2015, 9:43 PM

    FFS..

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    Mute Ron North
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    Dec 14th 2015, 11:22 PM

    I’ve seen her swallow worse!

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Dec 15th 2015, 1:05 AM

    O you are lucky…

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    Mute Mairead Ni Chleirigh
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    Dec 14th 2015, 10:11 PM

    Next she’ll have her own brand of anti depressants…

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Dec 15th 2015, 1:28 AM

    Blue smarties..

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    Mute Paul Wallace
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    Dec 14th 2015, 10:17 PM

    Between her the mccanns and James McLean I don’t know who’s the biggest attention seekers.

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    Mute Donal O'Brien
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    Dec 15th 2015, 6:18 AM

    Her, I think.

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    Mute Charles Coughlan
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    Dec 14th 2015, 11:21 PM

    Its a pity Kim Kardashian wasn’t eaten by own placenta so we wouldn’t have to read tripe like this.

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    Mute Jon Kelly
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    Dec 15th 2015, 5:21 AM

    THIS.IS.NOT.NEWS

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    Mute Sorin Aldoescu
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    Dec 15th 2015, 9:26 AM

    Now there’s a name I bet u she didn’t think of…PLACENTA WEST

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    Mute Rashers Tierney
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    Dec 15th 2015, 3:13 AM

    If there was publicity in it that dear lady would eat weeny balls of shite rolled in whitewash. I’m so sick of her.

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    Mute Michele Savage
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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:41 AM

    She ate her baby’s placenta. Her own is long gone.

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Dec 15th 2015, 1:04 AM

    At least she is not hanging around abortion clinics yet? lol.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 6:36 AM

    Do your arms ever tire from holding up placards outside them?lol

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:53 PM

    Why, is there abortion clinics here, Oggie?

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:55 PM

    I know an old lady who swallowed a cow,
    I wonder how she swallowed a cow?!
    She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
    She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
    She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
    She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
    She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
    That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
    She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
    I don’t know why she swallowed the fly,
    I guess she’ll die.

    At least the old woman didn’t swallow a placenta…

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    Mute Kevin Slater
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    Dec 15th 2015, 11:10 AM

    How insecure and desperate are these idiots that they will do ANYTHING to stay in the spotlight?

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