Over the last two decades, the placental encapsulation community has made exceptional progress toward educating families about utilizing the placenta as a postpartum support. However most placentas born today are not used for maternal consumption. They are used for regenerative medicine.
Over 90% of placentas in America are sold to corporations that make medicinal products from the stem cells or else they’re donated to tissue banks like ‘Be The Match’. These companies don’t want placentas because of the iron, vitamins, or minerals—these are properties that can be found bottled at any corner pharmacy. What’s truly valuable in the placenta are the growth factors and stem cells.
Most of our work focuses on persons 65 pounds and under as the ideal demographic to see systemic gains from a oral administration of the placenta because of the volume of stem cells in a term placenta. So to be clear– parents feed their children raw placenta. Placental stem cells are “orally active,” and like most other natural medicines can work medicinally when eaten. In this method, the body does all the bio technical engineering itself by stripping the extracellular matrix and uptaking what it needs. The whole field of regenerative medicine started at the turn of the century with tests done on oral ingestion of stem-cell rich bone marrow and only progressed to an injection method years later. So this method is merely harkening back to a previously accepted practice. Modern tests done on oral vs intravenous delivery of stem cells found that orally consumed stem cells are 95% as effective as injected ones.
Because we can tag and track stem cells, we know they travel to
areas of inflammation, disease, and damage. Even when hospital transplant teams do ‘bone marrow transplants,’ they don’t drill open bones fill them with cells. They simply attach the patient to
an IV and put the donor stem cells into the patients arm—the cells are mobile (just like all white blood cells!) and know where to go. Our programs include a 90 day supplement and dietary regimen
to help heal inflamed, leaky guts so the stem cells are free to target more important issues.
With any delivery method, cells do get stuck in the filtration systems of the body. Injected stem cells collect in the liver, the kidneys and lungs. Orally-consumed placental stem cells will establish in the gut—which is actually great for most kids!
According to the International Society for Stem Cell Research, “Most stem cells have specific and limited capabilities. Without manipulation in the lab, tissue-specific stem cells can only generate the other cell types found in the tissues where they live… Thus, it is unlikely that a single cell type can be used to treat a multitude of unrelated diseases involving different tissues or organs.” Happily, the placenta has a wealth of different types of stem cells–after all it helped grow an entire human with every type of tissue
Stem cells can create significant changes in the body, even if there isn’t a clear diagnosis. This is really good news particularly for vaccine injured kids when it’s not clear what damage has been done. Medical teams that work with regenerative medicine need a diagnosis and treatment plan so they can inject the patient with the right type of stem cells. But the placenta has a ‘broader therapeutic potential’ because there are so many types of stem cells within the placenta, because those stem cells are pluripotent, and because the growth factors aid with tissue repair. So the answer of whether the placenta could help anyone who isn’t well, the answer is usually, truthfully, yes!
The immediate results many kids see in the first 72 hours may be due to the activating growth factors have on dormant or ‘quiescent’ stem cells. Dormant or ‘quiescent,’ (essentially non-dividing stem cells) stem cells hibernate in tissues until they are activated by a need for additional cells because of normal growth or a sudden injury. Regenerative placental medicine that includes stem cells and growth factors can powerfully regulate cells’ biological responses to enable system-wide renewal, restoration, and growth. Stem cells usually take six weeks or longer to transplant and begin to function.
Blood type and the blood Rh factor don't have a structural roll in the cell functioning between donor and recipient. Even if you were to have a full organ like a kidney, the blood type does not have to match.
The Risk Of Third Party Placental Consumption Are The Same As Maternal Consumption
All statistically relevant risks are the same in this method as maternal consumption of the placenta–there are no additional risks. Though most of us are fully comfortable giving the placenta to the mother, we hesitate at the thought of giving it to a third party. Here’s the truth: if a tissue is being given for it’s living cellular properties, it is either passes rigid safety standards, or it doesn’t. It is either safe for anyone or else it is safe for no one; this is the common-sense standard in medical communities where the vast majority of transplanted tissues have unrelated donors and recipients. We didn’t reinvent the wheel but simply adopted safety standards used by all tissue banks for live cell donation. The training courses have detailed guidelines that ensure a placenta is safe for consumption to protect from infection. Besides, the placenta contains properties from both the mother and child– even when the mother consumes it it contains genetics and other properties foreign to her. The placenta that passes industry standard safety criteria for blood borne pathogens and infection is best suited for any third party in need of it’s gifts.