What is the difference between horse placenta and other types of placenta?

In recent years, people often see more and more placenta products with the words “horse placenta” due to the increasing demand for horse placenta in beauty and its popularity in the beauty industry.

In the past, it was just called “placenta” because the raw materials were rarely included in the product name. In addition to horses, the animals whose placentas are used as raw materials for placenta beauty products are deer, sheep and pigs.

The growth and development factors of horse, deer, sheep and pig placenta are very different. These factors can be found in different levels in each species. However, in general, horse placenta is considered to be the best quality in terms of nutrition and growth factors compared to other types of placenta from other animals.

So why is the horse placenta so different?

First, the most obvious difference is the gestation period of the species.

It can be seen that the horse has the longest gestation period, lasting up to 330 days (~nearly 1 year), followed by deer with 219 days, sheep with 152 days and pigs with only 100 days. This means that the horse placenta will receive and absorb more things in its mother’s body, helping them develop and grow better than other species.

Moreover, according to analysis, the horse placenta is also the type that contains the highest nutritional content and growth factors today. They contain a lot of protein, calcium, phosphorus and vitamins necessary for development and growth. This may explain why horse placenta is considered the rarest and most expensive product today, while the remaining species are not as highly valued.

However, that does not mean that only horses have good growth factors. Deer and sheep are also considered fast-growing animals, but they are raised for reproduction and mainly for meat and horns.

Deer contain a lot of protein, vitamins and minerals necessary for the human body, mainly concentrated in the antlers. Therefore, deer antlers are valued and used as medicine since ancient times. However, the deer placenta is not widely used due to low yield, difficult processing, and the growth factors concentrated in the deer placenta are few.

Pigs are also one of the animals raised for meat and mainly used in cooking. They contain a lot of protein and fat, but have a lower nutritional index than other species.

Why is horse placenta so rare?

To understand why horse placenta is rare, you first need to understand the composition of the “placenta”. The raw material of the placenta is a special type of “meat” called placenta, which is a lump of protein. This protein includes many types of Amino Acids and the types of Amino Acids contained in different large quantities depending on their properties. For example, meat that is mainly muscle is different from meat that is mainly composed of other tissues (skin, subcutaneous tissue, organs, etc.) which have unique textures and functions due to significantly different Amino Acid balances.

Especially for horses, which are known for their extremely strong muscles. In horse placenta, there are 63 types of Amino Acids, such as Valine, Leucine, Isoleucine,… which are active Amino Acids and Lysine – one of the Acid-burning Amino Acids.

Therefore, Horses are considered the most nutritious food source compared to other animals, the source of nutrients and growth factors is mainly concentrated in the meat and placenta, so horse placenta is still considered to have the best quality in terms of nutrition and growth factors.

Although this factor depends on the origin of the raw materials and the difference of the breed, according to many studies, the Cytokine content in horse placenta is at least 6.3 times higher than sheep placenta, 6.9 times higher than deer placenta and 7.2 times higher than pig placenta.

This is explained by the fact that horses only conceive one calf at a time and have a longer gestation period than other species, so the placenta develops larger and has more nutrients in the mother’s womb.

The demand for horse placenta is increasing due to its high quality

The ancients had the saying ”Sick people should eat horse meat” and ”Applying horse oil will help them recover quickly”.

Because horse meat contains a lot of iron and Amino Acids, it is an excellent nutritious food, horse oil is similar to human lipids, easy to harmonize, so it seems to have been used as a substitute for medicine.

Unlike pigs, horses give birth to fewer offspring and they have a gestation period longer than humans by more than a month and only give birth to one litter at a time. Moreover, the size of the horse placenta is also very large. It can be said that horse placenta is rarer than deer and pig placenta in both the number of individuals and the number of offspring born.

Because there are so many outstanding advantages and rare in terms of individual numbers, each part of the horse is researched and utilized to its maximum effectiveness. Typically, horse placenta is increasingly used due to its high quality, it is gradually attracting attention as a rare and expensive ingredient.

Horse placenta helps nourish healthy foals from the womb

With the quantity and quality of amino acids and the richness of nutritional components much higher than deer, sheep and pigs, although difficult to process and low distribution volume, horse placenta is still sought after for its quality.

Surely many of you have seen pictures or videos of a newborn foal trying its best to stand up. In humans, it takes almost a year after birth for a child to start walking, but in horses, they can quickly stand up and even run after a few days.

This is because the foal has developed well inside the mother horse’s uterus and the horse placenta plays an important role in nurturing the foal fetus.

In fact, just like humans, miscarriages and infertility are not uncommon in horses. There are several reasons for this, such as failure to implant despite mating, the placenta not developing and leading to premature birth.

The reason why horse placenta is considered a rare and precious product is also due to its composition. Horse placenta contains up to 36 types of amino acids that are not found in deer and pigs. In addition, horse placenta contains more cell growth factors and it is believed that the expectations for beauty and health effects are superior to other types of placenta.

It is not unreasonable to think so, because the horse placenta is the placenta that nourishes a small fertilized egg into a foal that is strong enough to walk immediately after birth.

Horse placenta contains many cell growth factors that help regenerate the skin

The placenta contains components called “cell growth factors”. It is one of many specialized proteins, grouped together as “cytokines”, which act under the influence of the immune system.

These cytokines are naturally present in the human body. For example, the epidermal growth factor called EGF covers the top cells of the skin from the epidermis to the dermis. A growth factor that stimulates fibroblasts deeper than the epithelium is called FGF. When the epidermis is injured for some reason, these cell growth factors and growth factors will concentrate at the wound and proceed to repair and restore the skin until the wound heals.

The EGF cell growth factor that works according to this mechanism has been studied as a raw material for regenerative medicine and applied in the fields of cosmetics and health care.

Furthermore, in 2015, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, recognized the excellent effects and research results of EGF, and even made the judgment that it is “equivalent to pharmaceuticals”.

Since 2015, human oligopeptide-1 and oligopeptide-13 have been used. Cells can be damaged by “reactive oxygen” in the body, causing aging to develop, such as the increase of spots and wrinkles, and health to decline. When the antioxidant power in the body declines due to aging, fatigue, illness, etc., it will make the physical condition worse.

It has been found that some vitamins, minerals, and enzymes stimulate the body’s antioxidant ability, and these components themselves act as antioxidants, which are found in abundance in horse placenta.

So which horse placenta should you choose???

Horse placenta is becoming popular due to its high quality and great effects. Horse placenta is a great ingredient for beauty, health and anti-aging. When choosing a product, it is important to choose the one that best suits your purpose. Products made for cosmetic purposes often have added Collagen, Amino Acids and Vitamins.

On the other hand, to recover from fatigue and increase endurance, sometimes not only Vitamins are added but also good ingredients for nutrition and supplements are added.

However, there are many types of horse placenta on the market, such as Hookaido racehorse placenta, thoroughbred horse placenta, Mongolian war horse placenta, etc. Therefore, when choosing to buy a product with the ingredient “horse placenta”, you should also ask carefully which horse placenta the product belongs to.

According to recorded documents, Mongolian horse placenta is the most expensive placenta today, much more expensive than regular horse placenta but the effect is extremely wonderful. Therefore, products made from Mongolian horse placenta are always sought after by the beauty industry despite the extremely expensive price.

Origin of the Mongolian horse breed

The Mongolian horse is a native horse breed of Mongolia, this is a famous war horse breed born on the steppe regions