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You can consume milk happily for decades, then stop or drastically reduce your intake, and then every time you consume a bit too much you get diarrhea.
by jobigoud 5y ago
You can consume milk happily for decades, then stop or drastically reduce your intake, and then every time you consume a bit too much you get diarrhea.
- littlestymaar 5y agoIn most cultures with a majority of lactose tolerant people, there's a lot of lactose in everyday food, so people missing the mutation usually never complete their weaning before long in adulthood, when for some reason they “stop or drastically reduce [their] intake”. Unless you know for sure that you have the mutation, stopping drinking milk or consuming dairies at some point in your life comes with a risk of not being able to drink milk ever again in your life. (I don't mean that going vegan is bad or anything, but I wish people knew it can come with a bigger commitment that what you may expect)
- maxerickson 5y agoThat sure isn't how my lactose intolerance went. I stopped drinking milk as a child because it became unpleasant and as an adult have no trouble eating the many dairy products that don't have a lot of lactose (cheese, yogurt, etc).