Name: 吃人其實是不健康的嗎？ (Is Eating Humans Actually Unhealthy?)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:36:06.000Z
Duration: 3 min 44 s
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- [Narrator] Did you know that cannibalism used

That's right, in the 17th century, well before Advil,

Europeans would ingest ground up mummies for headaches.

And human fat, blood, and bone were used to treat everything

from gout to nosebleeds, yet cannibalism is largely absent

For starters, we now know that human meat

According to one study, human muscle contains

That's less than beef, and nothing compared

Now you might think this would actually make human burgers

until you remember you're probably trying to eat humans

So low cal is the opposite of what you want,

plus it's not worth taking the risk if you could help it.

It turns out we carry some pretty nasty diseases

that make 24-hour food poisoning look like the sniffles.

Eat someone raw, and you risk contracting

it still won't always go so well for you.

Case in point are the Fore people of Papua New Guinea.

of the deceased family members out of cultural tradition.

But that practice stopped after hundreds of people died

rare neurological disorder which they contracted

The brain tissue contained prions, deadly misfolded proteins

They survive the cooking process and, if eaten,

Oddly enough, cannibalism itself isn't illegal

in the US or UK, but you probably committed some crime

One exception that won't put you behind bars

The most common example today, called placentophagy,

is when a woman eats her placenta after giving birth.

The idea is that it could raise energy levels

and reduce the risk of postpartum depression

has recently found new life in Western culture.

that will grind your placenta into a powder

so you could take it like any other vitamin supplement,

but the CDC warns that even this cutting edge form

because it could transfer a harmful bacteria

Oh, wait, wait, I mean according to cannibals.

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吃人其實是不健康的嗎？ (Is Eating Humans Actually Unhealthy?)

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