Current Events > How do you guys live with being lactose intolerant?

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I just pretty much always have a tummy ache, or worse. Lactase didn't work for me. I'd just abstain from dairy but cheese is literally a food group (also I love ice cream).

I figured out it was lactose intolerance after an embarrassingly long time where I'd just stay close to a bathroom all the time. American healthcare am I right?

Lactaid.

if you eat enough cheese in one sitting, you'll seal your rectum.

I keep eating dairy.

Oat Milk

Coconut milk is my best friend.

Mongolia is 95% lactose intolerant, and yet at Lake Khvsgl their diet is heavily diary (Yes, most are still lactose intolerant there), as is a lot of Mongolia.
How? Various strains of bacteria, specifically their Heirloom Microbe, which effects their Human microbiome to be able to digest Lactose.
https://www.popsci.com/story/science/lactose-intolerance-microbiome/

Disturbingly, it describes how, even though our diet is becoming more "Cosmopolitan", on a microbial level, the food we eat is pretty crap.

People have the feeling that they eat a much more diverse and global diet than their parents, and that might be true, Rest says, but when you look at these foods on a microbial level, theyre increasingly empty.

People eating commoditized cuisine lack an estimated 30 percent of the gut microbe species that are found in remote groups still eating traditional diets.

I ignore it. I like ice cream too much. Gotta pay to play. I just have my dessert before dinner since the soup comes later.

I don't understand how this is still acceptable when all other forms of intolerance are shunned in modern society.

yunalenne10 posted...

Lactaid.

Popped two of these bad boys before indulging in some corn chowder

thankfully, it hasn't progressed to the point where cheese bothers me. i don't drink much milk anyway, and i like almond milk enough that there's no big problem there.

ice cream, though... that's a risk/reward decision every time.

I was eating coldstone when I started tracking this topic.

Nosferatu_Zodd posted...

Popped two of these bad boys before indulging in some corn chowder

Yeah, life savers for real ice cream cravings.

yunalenne10 posted...

Yeah, life savers for real ice cream cravings.

I wish they worked for me

Unless I'm chugging milk, I'm usually fine. A man should be allowed to have gastric distress in the comfort of his own home.

Stick with strait black coffee and booze.

And cigarettes if you smoke.

I neither smoke nor drink, that's lost on me

Cheese and butter doesn't really get me. I mostly just avoid liquid dairy like milk, cream, yogurt, and ice cream.

Use ghee if you can't eat butter anymore, it's butter fat without milk solids.

I just enjoy farting.

Isn't there like OTC meds for lactose intolerant people?

I just got a glass bottle of chocolate milk.

I still consume dairy products
I love cold coffee

but with certain milks/cheese my gas fuel can out burn diesel lol
and I tried a little experiment with myself before scientists suggested try little at a time to make you not as lactose intolerant
that was it I gradually increased my lactose intake and now I guess I just dont get the runs idk

I had Dairy Queen tonight, I'm so sleepy now lol

I don't drink dairy milk often but love almond milk. Not lactose intolerant but the only dairy I really consume is cheese and yogurt.

I think my dad drinks at least a half gallon of milk a day. Hardly drinks water, just coffee and milk with a very occasional beer. Smokes two packs a day and has for the last sixty years. I think he'll live to be one hundred.

Only milk disagrees with me. And sometimes ice cream.

I don't care. Just glad I'm not one of those poor bastards that can't eat cheese... yet

If the time to make the choice about cheese comes up... I don't think I could make the choice