Must read if you had a prem or are interested in consuming placenta In 2009, Finnish scientists showed that placentas from healthy children born at term were coated in DNA from lactobacilli and bifidobacteria. Somehow indigenous microbes—or at least their DNA—found their way to this inner sanctum without causing obvious problems. In 2011, a group at Harvard found that 40 percent of placentas from more than 500 preterm children born by C-section contained culturable microbes. In this case, those placentas colonized by vaginosis-associated species were slightly inflamed. But the placentas coated with lactobacilli were not.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 13:27:49 +0000
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