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[Greddleok]

I don't think I've met someone who has a problem with milk.

 

[FPS murderer]

Being born with c-section doesn't change your DNA.
Who the fuck makes a documentary like that??

Did you read the rest of the post? No DNA shenanigans there. It's about our body and its relation to bacteria and shit. You should watch it, if only I could find the name. It also explores about our more and more antiseptic society and our declining capacity of having good bacteria and our relationship with them. You do know we are full of them and we need them to digest food, combat other bad bacteria etc. It's a very good documentary, it thinks it was from the science channel. Look it up.


Edit: found it, http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/gut-reaction/

 

[Greddleok]

Being born with c-section doesn't change your DNA.
Who the fuck makes a documentary like that??

Of course it can. And by change, I don't mean the sequence, I mean the modifications. Your DNA sequence isn't the only part that defines who you are. There are tons of small chemical modifications to the DNA and the DNA carriers which affect how the DNA is read - which genes in which cells and how much.

While I couldn't possibly tell you the mechanism of how vaginal compared to surgical birth affects DNA modifications, it's not outside the realm of possibility that it does (as evidenced by the paper associating asthma in girls with c-sections).

 

[Engell]

Did you read the rest of the post? No DNA shenanigans there. It's about our body and its relation to bacteria and shit.

And all that has nothing to do with lactose... Remember being intolerant is the normal

 

[FPS murderer]

And all that has nothing to do with lactose... Remember being intolerant is the normal

Well, watch the documentary. Link is above. It increases the incidence because the lack of bacteria in our body that helps process it. The baby lacks the firts exposure to all those bacteria to jump start its firts contact with bacteria and shit. You do know we have bacteria in our intestines that help digest, process and defense. Very interesting documentary. Also more incidence of asthma, allergies etc. Link above.

Edit: link doesn't contain the whole video, but kind is a Synopsys. You can find the whole thing online I guess.

 

[pswii60]

Drinking the milk of the cow tit is unnatural.

But eating the cow is natural?

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Well, watch the documentary. Link is above. It increases the incidence because the lack of bacteria in our body that helps process it. The baby lacks the firts exposure to all those bacteria to jump start its firts contact with bacteria and shit. You do know we have bacteria in our intestines that help digest, process and defense. Very interesting documentary. Also more incidence of asthma, allergies etc. Link above.

Edit: link doesn't contain the whole video, but kind is a Synopsys. You can find the whole thing online I guess.

Gut bacteria and immune/disease relationship is still early science. I'll give the doc a watch, but I've seen so many pop science news just butcher the relationship and I posted the original study on which some of the claims are made. It's behind a paywall, so I don't know the exact details until I get on campus.

 

[Fulminator]

im lactose intolerant but i consume dairy products anyways (all about that almond milk life tho)

symptoms aren't terrible in my case, just some excess gas really lol

i used to get pretty bad stomachaches when i was a kid though, don't really know why they got better

 

[PdotMichael]

Aother white people privilege.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Aother white people privilege.

It emerged in the Middle East and North Africa...

 

[How About No]

Aother very mild, white ppl privilege.

fix'd

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Wow. This is fascinating.

 

[balohna]

I still eat/drink dairy, but I get gas from it. It's rarely like... Day ruining. But occasionally it ruins my asshole. I usually buy almond milk for day to day usage, but I'll eat cheese and ice cream and whatever else without really thinking about it. Then later, the poots cometh.

I'm white by the way.

 

[Timedog]

Think I might be. Makes me feel slightly sick sometimes, makes me farts like mad, and make my poop rock hard missiles that cut my butthole to shreds.

 

[Agent_ShortBus]

I miss cheese so much no more pizza or nachos, quesadillas, and no more cereal. Ive avoided dairy the last two years. I dont like almond milk and ive tried eating cocoa pebbles with water but its not the same.

 

[FPS murderer]

fix'd

Hahaha.

 

[bobbytkc]

But eating the cow is natural?

Yes?

 

[Rembrandt]

All those things other than water are gross. Avoid orange juice, unless if you're fine having same amount of sugar as a soda.

bro chill all the way 95% out with that.

 

[BizzyBum]

I love dairy but it makes me break out for some reason which sucks.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

I had a phase where milk would give me gas. That stopped happening and milk hasn't given me any issues in years.

Strangest thing.

 

[phxxBullet]

Dairy is so fucking good. I've been trying to cut down on the amount of beef I eat for climate reasons but milk and cheese are too important to me.

My best friend is allergic to milk, as in he'll start puking and might die without proper medical response, which always sucked. Everyone always assumes that he's just intolerant and makes fun of him for it too. I'm not sure I could handle that.

Got a friend who's allergic to the protein of cow milk too. Has the same problems, puking his guts out half an hour after eating a small piece of chocolate or a sip of milk in a coffee.
But that's quite different to bein lact. intolerant.

I've been lact. intolerant since birth, but it somehow got better at the age of 16. I was able to drink some milk or eat chocolate without any problems. But before that I wasn't able to drink a cup of milk wirhout needing the toilet a few minutes after. Some years later, I switched to drinking soy milk & eating soy yoghurt, because it would still bug me a bit.

Guess what? I now get theese stomach cramps and stuff when I drink soy milk, but cow milk is fine for my body, like it never would've had any problem with it at all in the past.

 

[Kazuhira]

Where did you get those numbers op? that 65% came out nowhere.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Where did you get those numbers op? that 65% came out nowhere.

The NIH?

Lactose intolerance in infancy resulting from congenital lactase deficiency is a rare disorder. Its incidence is unknown. This condition is most common in Finland, where it affects an estimated 1 in 60,000 newborns.

Approximately 65 percent of the human population has a reduced ability to digest lactose after infancy. Lactose intolerance in adulthood is most prevalent in people of East Asian descent, affecting more than 90 percent of adults in some of these communities. Lactose intolerance is also very common in people of West African, Arab, Jewish, Greek, and Italian descent.

The prevalence of lactose intolerance is lowest in populations with a long history of dependence on unfermented milk products as an important food source. For example, only about 5 percent of people of Northern European descent are lactose intolerant.

https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/lactose-intolerance

 

[Bold One]

I am superior to 65% of the planet, thought as much

 

[Orniletter]

The ability to digest lactose as an adult is more or less a gene defect, adult Homo sapiens wasn't supposed to for the longest time.

It became a handy trait when our ancestors (mostly Europeans) settled down and started cultivating cows.

Evolution, yay !

 

[NintendoGal]

For those who are lactose intolerant, try hard cheeses. Much of the lactose is converted to lactic acid which is easier to digest, depending on how long the cheese has aged.

 

[Zaru]

How usual are family differences in lactose tolerance?
I've probably consumed an average of 300ml of unprocessed milk daily (raw milk for the first two decades of my life) and got no notable issues, while my sister found out she's got an intolerance in her teens.

 

[Laieon]

Drinking the milk of the cow tit is unnatural.

I think I remember reading that lactose tolerance is a rather new trait being developed by humans through the proliferation of selective breeding with those that exhibit those tolerances.

Basically, you're a mutant if you are lactose tolerant.

I'm okay with being a mutant. Milk (whole though, not that other shit) is literally my favorite drink in the world. I easily drink 2.5-3 gallons a week.

 

[Zepp Twofist]

I'm not lactose intolerant, but I don't drink milk either so I guess it's wasted on me.

 

[Sakujou]

have become lactose intolerant with 24.my life went down the litter because i ate since i can remember cornflakes for breakfast. since then i stopped having milk and cornflakes... instead i have bread and wurstaufschnitt

 

[Simplet]

I'm a vegan whose transition was made a hell of a lot easier by being lactose intolerant. I was a late bloomer with my intolerance and it's shocking how few people realize that dairy doesn't typically work well with their system. It took me violently shitting after drinking a milkshake to realize that milk/dairy wasn't really that important in my life.

Damn. If I suddenly became lactose intolerant I think I would off myself. Maybe take out my whole family with me...

 

[Herne]

I'm Irish, and I grew up eating lots of dairy. My grandfather was a dairy farmer and so are two of my uncles. We drank milk with every meal (and a lot in-between) and we'd eat a lot of cheese and yoghurt... still do all of that to this day. Don't know what it's like to live without dairy, and I don't want to find out!

I know one person who doesn't like milk but I don't know anyone who is lactose intolerant...

 

[John Kowalski]

I just want to say

Cheese is literally the best food

 

[marimorimo]

I'm lactose intolerant but I love dairy. I buy lactose-free milk but it doesn't taste the same...

I still drink regular milk sometimes but it's on days when I know I can handle the constant passing of gas....

 

[JimmyRustler]

I wonder where those numbers are from. Probably tales from my ass.

 

[phxxBullet]

I wonder where those numbers are from. Probably tales from my ass.

seriously?

The NIH?

https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/lactose-intolerance

 

[McLovin]

I'm a fan of almond milk, but I'm not lactose intolerant. Too much sugar/carbs in regular milk.

 

[Sambrez_]

Unsurprising, cow's milk is for veals.

 

[RumblingRosco]

I wonder where those numbers are from. Probably tales from my ass.

This is an amazing example of scientific illiteracy.

 

[lazygecko]

Never, the milk must flow.

If it weren't for milk, I bet we'd drink beer all day long here in Finland.

What's funny about this is that Finland had a much higher degree of lactose intolerance than the rest of Europe, due to their homogenous genetics and being more separated from the typical European gene pool.

Living in Sweden and being lactose intolerant, it's very difficult for me to find lactose free products that don't taste like crap. It's actually Finnish lactose free dairy that tastes the best, being virtually indistinguishable from regular dairy. Makes sense since Finnish companies actually have to care about the lactose intolerant demographic.

Finland is also the world's #1 consumer of coffee. They are more than likely correlated.

 

[hello_my_name_is_cookie]

But eating the cow is natural?

Why wouldn't it be natural ?
That's how homo sapiens managed to survive during ages...the ability to eat meat and vegetables.

 

[Chuckie]

Why wouldn't it be natural ?
That's how homo sapiens managed to survive during ages...the ability to eat meat and vegetables.

That was a reply to someone saying drinking cows milk is 'unnatural'. How do we decide what is natural and what is somehow unnatural? If drinking cows milk is 'unnatural' why is grilling a steak natural? Or baking a bread? Or making a cheese (etcetera)

Personally I consider it all natural.

 

[wumster3000]

so that idea that drinking milk is an neo nazi stuff ..... it is a characteristic of like 40% of the world ?

35%. Don't move that number up. I am lactose intolerant as well as my son. My wife who's family is from Amsterdam is not. Most people of color are lactos intolerant. I hate milk and most dairy products. They taste and smell nasty.

 

[Nabbis]

That was a reply to someone saying drinking cows milk is 'unnatural'. How do we decide what is natural and what is somehow unnatural? If drinking cows milk is 'unnatural' why is grilling a steak natural? Or baking a bread? Or making a cheese (etcetera)

Personally I consider it all natural.

Natural is a smokescreen for "I don't like that thing you do". The whole concept is contradictory.

 

[Octavianus]

I'm pretty sure I would die.

That was a reply to someone saying drinking cows milk is 'unnatural'. How do we decide what is natural and what is somehow unnatural? If drinking cows milk is 'unnatural' why is grilling a steak natural? Or baking a bread? Or making a cheese (etcetera)

Personally I consider it all natural.

If it was 'unnatural' it wouldn't exist.

 

[StayDead]

I didn't know that statistic, is it higher or lower than the people who are lack toast and tolerant?

 

[i-Lo]

Lactose intolerance really only affects your ability to drink liquid milk. Other things like cheese and yogurt are fine. So yeah, they just don't drink it.

This is false, period. I am lactose intolerant and I can't have milk and yogurt on an empty stomach and not ideal even when full. Cream and cheese are absolute no no. Failing to abide by them results in severe allergic reaction in the form of hives, swelling and acute and severe drop in blood pressure.

Also, I developed the intolerance only 5 years ago.

 

[Kyzon]

Maybe we're just not baby cows.

 

[PillarEN]

Sometimes the majority gets the short end of the stick.

Strawberry milk, chocolate chip gelato, stracciatella yogurt all over my face please.

 

[OverBlood 3]

I think I've developed a lactose intolerance, I hardly ever have dairy but started eating skyr once a day and I've had stomach pains ever since, made sure I ate no dairy yesterday and I already feel better.

I didn't wake up feel like my stomach was trying to kill me in my sleep.

Being born with c-section doesn't change your DNA.
Who the fuck makes a documentary like that??

It's nothing to do with DNA :/ I was talking to a nurse who deals with allergy tests (I was in the middle of an airborne allergy test) and she was talking about C sections effecting allergies that people have and that it's only a ~fairly~ recent discovery. I was born by C section so I wouldn't be shocked if I had something wrong with me.