On an appearance to CNN’s medical show “House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta,” Matthew McConaughey said that he’s planning to plant his son Levi’s placenta in the ground. Fair enough.

“That’s fertile ground, so to speak. So we’re gonna plant. It’s gonna be in the orchards and it’s gonna bear some wonderful fruit. “When I was in Australia, they had a placenta tree that was on the river… and all the placentas of all that tribe, all that clan - whatever aboriginal tribe that was - all the placentas went under that one tree.

“It was this huge behemoth of just health and strength. This tree was just growing taller and stronger above the rest of Mother Nature around it. It was gorgeous.”

Well, who doesn’t love the smell of freshly-tilled placenta decomposing in the heat of a August afternoon? I know I do. I’m glad he’s not making a banana-flax placenta smoothie out of it to enjoy before his morning jog or using it as an invigorating face mask to open his pores.