I sent a reply to this last night but EF was under it's down time, and it didn't go through I guess...so I am at work and will again do this quickly.
"Well either you're a liar or a very bad nutritionist, not to mention, can't read. I never said everyone was lactose intolerant at birth. I said once we are weaned off of milk as babies, our bodies do not produce the enzyme to break down lactose."
Actually, this is exactly what you stated: "newsflash...every human is technically lactose intolerant. As adults, we do not have the ezymes to break up lactose. Just some people feel the effects more than others."
Okay, so with this statement, after we are weened off the tit, and as children and adults, we are no longer considered humans? What the hell are we then? By stating that we no longer produce the lactase enzyme after child birth is indeed erroneous as Silver Shadow stated. If this were the case, then we would all have hypolactasia symptoms such as abdominal distention/pain, nausea, osmotic diarrhea, bloating, and obsessive gas from microbial fermentation. If you state that "every human" is lacks the enzyme to break down lactose, then YES, you are the liar and one who cannot even remember what you wrote. Let me give you a tip, the AF store has a product called Neurogenix, maybe you could benefit from its ability to trigger better memory. So nice change of tone, but even with the correction, your statement that "as adults, we do not have the enzymes to break up lactose" is stating that everybody IS lactose intolerant. We do not stay infants forever you know that right?
A decrease in lactase enzyme activity is found during childhood and as adults and is considered phylogenetically normal. Furthermore, most adults only have 5-10% lactose digestion capability as newborn infants, but this is normal and does not correlate to complete remission of the lactate enzyme itself. Even more interesting, try reading up on individuals from Northern Europe, North Africa, and nomadic areas of Arabia whose ancestor's sole source of energy was milk. These individuals of the same population today do not even have much of a decline from a newborn infant. However, those whose ancestors were not milk drinkers DO suffer from an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance where the lactase gene is deficient at higher percentages. This population is rare.
LOL...If you still believe that we, "as adults, we do not have the enzymes to break up lactose" can be proven wrong by taking doses of lactose. In fact this has been performed many times by researchers. Take a 50gm dose of lactose and 30minutes later check your blood sugar levels. Since lactase breaks down lactose into both Galactose and glucose, absorption of these two monosaccharides will cause a shift if blood glucose levels. If no rise is present, then you will suffer from lactase deficiency or its symptoms. If blood sugar is elevated, then obviously the human body had the lactase enzyme to break it down. To add onto this, if Lactose is not broken down due to lack of the lactase enzyme, then it will travel down to the colon and produce H2 gas by microbial fermentation. If H2 is present, then some sort of intolerance is present. however, you can still have gas produced by showing some sort of intolerance while receiving a rise in blood glucose levels. These people are the ones that usually suffer from gas and bloat, but they are not 100% lactose intolerant. This condition will continue to get worse for some individuals as they age....as is the case with A Creed and others who posted here. However, this will still not happen to everybody as adults.
"And no I am not part of PETA. Why, cause I don't drink milk, I am part of PETA?"
Well that's good to hear at least.
"You talk big, but you don't make a hell of a lot of sense."
I can't help it if you are slow or have trouble understanding things that are not spelled out to 2nd grade level intelligence. Again, pick up some Neurogenix and maybe it will help with your learning and cognitive skills. Maybe you should try reading PubMed, or at least some kind of high school level science book, instead of reading a bunch of pseudo-science BS.
"Ever hear of Beano? Do you know what that is? It's an enzyme we force into our bodies when we get gas from eating veggies. Why? Well b/c again, most of us do not have the enzymes to break down veggies like cauliflower."
This is only partially true. Beano is an alpha-galactosidase enzyme. It will not ensure 100% break down of all foods. It will only help with foods that need this enzyme to break it down. Try doing research on oligosaccharides....found in lentils, beans....frijoles. Most veggies have fiber that will still cause gas. However, in case you are wondering, I do use this product when needed...been there and done that for years already. This is nothing new.
"That is all I'm going to say of this subject. Thanks for your insightful jargon though
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Yeah, i'd probably end this discussion as well if I were you and try reading some real science. And of course, you are welcome sweetheart
BMJ
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