[saidnooneever]

I for one am glad that now people can have a healthy serving of cheese without the side effects.

Do you think we will become more and more tolerant? like with the happy people? One day maybe we can drink only milk and eat only cheese, even on the sweltering summer heat. For me those days i still struggle and sometimes reluctantly find myself reverting back to greens

[spider-mario]

A lot of cheese is naturally lactose-free. That’s not really where most of the “danger” is for people who don’t tolerate lactose.

[serious_angel]

> Do you think we will become more and more tolerant?

I do not, sorry. This question feels quite odd to see, too, frankly. I became intolerant in ~20 years just "because", and only when I checked at medics for non-related general tests, and out of the blue it showed on the results paper. And And this is when I never had any abnormal meals with it, but just casually and normally as any other one, I believe. It was like a blow to the gut...

This intolerance changes the life much. It makes impossible to have any meals with other people in group or be afraid of trying anything that may have any kind of milk in it, and you may imagine that there's so much of it out there... including many kinds of common bread, cakes, candies, certain cheese, coffee as Latte, Cappuccino etc. The aftereffect depends on the person, and some have diarrhea-type issues, but in the case here, it only the stomach that hurts so much as if someone cuts it inside-out. There are tablets, but... it's always dear scary and it doesn't help much...

Currently, I am ~1.75m and ~63kg in ~40 years old woman, and I see more of this intolerance become normalized in European and Asian countries where some stores sell lactose-free holy milk and some cafes offer a so much appreciated lactoze-free lovely coffee...

[lawyerdog]

I was the same for almost 40 years of my life. A year ago I stumbled upon this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90rEkbx95 "I fixed my lactose intolerance -- by chugging ALL the lactose" and made an experiment myself. It was horrible but it worked - I can now eat milk products. It is DIFFERENT from the people who can naturally eat lactose. For example, I cannot eat whey protein, or drinking raw milk is still a gamble, but butter, cheese, any fermented products like kefir or yogurt is not an issue for me any more. Another difference is that it basically works on a symbiotic level, it's not me who digests that milk stuff but the gut bacteria that I grown with this method. Therefore, when I do not eat milk products for a long time I gradually lose ability to digest lactose, or when I take antibiotics, I also can lose it, but restoring it is easy - just eating a lot of yogurt restores the ability in a couple of days. I strongly suggest anyone suffering from lactose intolerance to try it.

[jareklupinski]

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