What does the placenta do?

This amazing, essential, and delicate system of tissues plays a huge role in influencing the health of your child. The placenta serves a number of functions - most importantly functioning as the bridge between baby and mom. Filtering nutrients (as well as oxygen and toxins), the placenta passes along everything that mom ingests or inhales.

The placenta also serves an immunity role - helping pass along mom's immune cells before the fetus can develop them on his own. As the physical interface between the fetus and the mother, the placenta is where you are most literally bonded to your baby. The flip side of that beautiful bond is that everything you do - the vapors you inhale, the toxins you expose yourself to, the cucumber-and-cookie sandwich you crave - can get passed on to your child through that miraculous organ.

The placenta has one big job: Preserve and protect the fetus. Typically, it does a darn good job of doing so, especially when facing challenges shared by our Paleolithic pregnant ancestors, such as infections and natural toxins. But the reality is that it's not always equipped to handle all of the things that we're seeing in today's diets and environment.

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