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submitted 9 months ago by to c/cat@lemmy.world
 
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[–] 17 points 9 months ago (1 child)

And then there are people like me, that ate yoghurt and curd for half a year on a nearly daily basis until I developed a tolerance. What a shitty time.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You can develop a tolerance to lactose by eating specific foods?? Neat!

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Over time as the lactose becomes a more reliable resource in the gut, bacteria which can process it will begin to grow and with sufficient resources can compete well enough to stabilize in the gut biome. HG Modernism on Youtube has a video on it if you're interested.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90rEkbx95w

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    That's kinda how the very small percentage of humans that aren't lactose intolerant became lactose tolerant. The only way you can be lactose tolerant, as over 80% of humans are lactose intolerant, is to be descended from mid-northern European ancestry. Basically the proto Germanic and proto Southern Nordic tribes force fed themselves so much cheese and milk that they became lactose tolerant.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    that aren't lactose intolerant became lactose tolerant

    they... stayed the same?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Intolerant ≠ tolerant. They weren't lactose tolerant originally. We can actually prove that with their remains and DNA.

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