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Plan: Meat Only
Stats: 200/169.6/175
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Progress: 122%
Location: Eastern WA
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Originally Posted by Rheneas
Not strictly true, humans continue to produce the digestive enzyme lactase throughout their lives which is used to break down lactose in dairy food so not only infants benefit from milk products. I don't know why we do but we just do. Those who are 'lactose intolerant' (an overly misused common selfdiagnosis of the modern age) may simply have reduced production of lactase.
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Some people that are "lactose intolerant" are really gluten intolerant (celiac disease). Lactase is produced on the tip of the villi in the intestines. On those that are intolerant, gluten blunts the villi, destroying the cells that produce the lactase.
Once celiacs drop the gluten from their diets and heal their gut, they frequently find that they are no longer lactose intolerant. |