{"id":239681,"date":"2026-06-26T06:26:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/the-placenta-the-organ-that-programs-human-health-before-birth-dr-perrie-otierney-ginn"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:26:50","slug":"the-placenta-the-organ-that-programs-human-health-before-birth-dr-perrie-otierney-ginn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/the-placenta-the-organ-that-programs-human-health-before-birth-dr-perrie-otierney-ginn","title":{"rendered":"The Placenta: The Organ That Programs Human Health Before Birth | Dr. Perrie O\u2019Tierney-Ginn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QuZQlBsevpY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Perrie O\u2019Tierney-Ginn, Ph.D. \u2014 Executive Director of the Woman, Mother &amp; Baby Research Institute \u2014 Tufts.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Before your heart, brain, or lungs fully developed, one remarkable temporary organ was making decisions that may influence your health for decades. Dr. Perrie O\u2019Tierney-Ginn (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.placentascience.com\/\">https:\/\/www.placentascience.com\/<\/a>) explains why the placenta could be the most important organ you\u2019ve never thought about.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Perrie O\u2019Tierney-Ginn, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Woman, Mother &amp; Baby Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuftsmedicine.org\/researc\">https:\/\/www.tuftsmedicine.org\/researc<\/a>\u2026 and a Research Associate Professor in both Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology at Tufts University School of Medicine (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuftsmedicine.org\/researc\">https:\/\/www.tuftsmedicine.org\/researc<\/a>\u2026 and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy (<a href=\"https:\/\/nutrition.tufts.edu\/academics\">https:\/\/nutrition.tufts.edu\/academics<\/a>\u2026).<\/p>\n<p>A self-described \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Perrie O\u2019Tierney-Ginn, Ph.D. \u2014 Executive Director of the Woman, Mother &amp; Baby Research Institute \u2014 Tufts. Before your heart, brain, or lungs fully developed, one remarkable temporary organ was making decisions that may influence your health for decades. Dr. Perrie O\u2019Tierney-Ginn (https:\/\/www.placentascience.com\/) explains why the placenta could be the most important organ you\u2019ve never [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}