Sophia Johnson

Weimar, Germany

Postgraduate Student, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Intern for Anesthesiology/Intensive Care, Sophien- und Hufelandklinikum Weimar

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A scientific approach to placenta remedies: What hormones are found in placenta tissue?

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preliminary resultsSample Analysis trace mineralsYeast-Estrogen-AssaySample handoverFood GmbH JenaPlacenta-Lab Jena University ClinicGetting started

Published on Mar 16, 2018

Show your research...

We have exciting news:For everyone who is interested in our work at the Placenta-Lab: please watch and enjoy this short movie about our Placenta remedy Project. The manuscript of our paper "Human P...

Published on Nov 06, 2017

Congress for Perinatal Medicine, Berlin, Germany 30.11. - 02.12. 2017

The first presentation of our research data on placenta remedies will be at the Congress for Perinatal Medicine in Berlin. The german Abstract for the poster presentation is now available online: h...

Published on Aug 17, 2017

New Hypothesis on Postnatal Infections and the Role of Group B Streptococci

New Hypothesis onPostnatal Infections and the Role of Group B StreptococciAn amazing field of research has opened with the newinsights into the human microbiome. Communities of microbes (bacteria,f...

Published on Apr 11, 2017

Preliminary research results

Last week the preliminary research results were presented at the placenta lab meeting and were discussed by the team of scientists, obstetricians and gynecologists.We have interesting data that we ...

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Sample Analysis in progress

This is a short note to keep you posted on our research progress. Last week our team met with biochemists at the “Food GmbH” to determine how the analysis of placenta samples is p...

Sample Analysis

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Published on Jun 29, 2016

Sample handover

YES!We have completed taking our samples and handed all material to a laboratory which specializes in food analytics - "Food GmbH Jena Analytik-Consulting". Their team will help us ...

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Published on Apr 25, 2016

Starting our Lab-Work

I am very happy to let you know that we finally get started!!We did a test-run in the placenta-lab, solved some minor technical problems and revised our protocol.Now...

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The placental microbiom

Picture taken from:www.sciencetranslationalmedicine.org/cgi/content/full/6/237/237ra65/DC1Here is a short update on our project. We are about to start!Last week our team met with the Microbiologist...

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Hallo Céline, das Paper ist eingereicht bei "Placenta" und gerade im Peer Review. Sobald es publiziert wird, werde ich eine Lab-Note dazu schreiben. Viele Grüße!

Jan 07, 2018

A scientific approach to placenta remedies: What hormones are found in placenta tissue?

Dear Katie, thank you for your message! We´ve got all results back and working on the statistic analysis. We also got the results of the microbiological contamination of our retain samples. This will all be published in my medical thesis. Working hard to get everything done ;-)

Jan 06, 2017

A scientific approach to placenta remedies: What hormones are found in placenta tissue?

Dear Muriel, we are still waiting for the results from hormone analysis. The results will be published in my medical thesis. As soon as we have more information I will post them in a new lab note. Best, Sophia

Dec 01, 2016

A scientific approach to placenta remedies: What hormones are found in placenta tissue?

Still waiting for the results from "Food GmbH" the Analytik lab... Sorry!

Nov 07, 2016

A scientific approach to placenta remedies: What hormones are found in placenta tissue?

Thank you for your comment Denny! We still can´t answer this questions, there is a lack of scientific data on placentophagy. In our study we aim to find out if there is a risk for women who engage in placentophagy due to the bacterial contamination of the tissue. Further, we want to compare preparation methods and their impact on bacterial colonisation of placenta remedies. The good news is: we are about to start. Hopefully by next week we will receive the first placentas from donors to start the analysis.

Mar 11, 2016

A scientific approach to placenta remedies: What hormones are found in placenta tissue?

Hi Karen, we had a lab meeting today and discussed our further plans. I am really excited about the project, but there are many things to prepare and think of before we can start..

Dec 04, 2015

A scientific approach to placenta remedies: What hormones are found in placenta tissue?

Danke! I am thankful for your support.

Dec 04, 2015

A scientific approach to placenta remedies: What hormones are found in placenta tissue?

Hi Diana, great to hear from you! We will be happy about any exchange. Best, Sophia

Dec 04, 2015

A scientific approach to placenta remedies: What hormones are found in placenta tissue?

Hi Karina, please make sure to contact your midwife/physician before using placenta remedies as we can not provide individual medication advice. It is your responsibility to determine whether using placenta capsules can be beneficial to your wellbeing postpartum. We are hoping to get more data about placenta remedies through our research. Best, Sophia

Nov 25, 2015

A scientific approach to placenta remedies: What hormones are found in placenta tissue?

Hi Denis, as far as I know such studies do not exist, jet. There is a survey conducted by J. Selander (see my Oxytocin lab note) and it seems that placenta remedies could influence the mood of women postpartum. Our study aims to find out, if hormones that are discussed to have an impact on PPD, are contained in placenta tissue after dehydration.

Nov 24, 2015

A scientific approach to placenta remedies: What hormones are found in placenta tissue?

Dear Florence, Thank you for your support! As you say, more research on this topic has to be done - and this experiment will be a good starting point. We will do basic research but placebo controlled, double blind, clinical trials have to follow. I am happy to share the data we will collect with this experiment. It gives women a chance to decide well-informed if they want to use placenta remedies or not.

Nov 23, 2015

A scientific approach to placenta remedies: What hormones are found in placenta tissue?

Hi Jules, Thank you very much for your comment. Placentas from spontaneous, unmedicated birth will immediately be prepared at the placenta lab for further analysis. Each placenta will be divided in half, of which one part will be dehydrated, the other part frozen. After a sample size of six placentas is collected, the material will be transferred to the food analytic laboratory where approximately 11-12 substances will be tested for. I want to compare the contained amount of elements such as lead, iron and mercury. Furthermore, the amount of hormones such as CRH, oxytocin, human placental lactogen, estrogens and gestagens will be analyzed before and after the dehydration of placental tissue.

Nov 20, 2015

A scientific approach to placenta remedies: What hormones are found in placenta tissue?

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