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**Peptobismol** · 06-08-2012, 04:13 PM

On the subject of milching mammals, I have learned that man is the only mammal that drinks milk, or partakes of dairy products in adulthood.

This is quite unnatural, and no doubt is the source of the widely prevalent lactose intolerance.

Lactose intolerance is NOT caused by consumption of milk by adults. If one continues to eat or drink a food item they should get used to that food and there should not be any problem is handling it. The enzyme (lactase) that digests lactose depletes as we age and that is the reason we develop lactose intolerance. Northern Europeans and especially Scandinavians use lot of dairy products and they don't have lactose intolerance problem. So it appears lactose intolerance is part genetic and part environmental (ethnicity). The gene to make lactase may have been silenced or mutated as a function of age in specific populations.

Our body does not make vitamin C because we were eating fruits (source of vitamin C) regularly and hence there is no need to make it ourselves. However the gene(s) to make vitamin C is in us but it/they are silenced because of external consumption.

06-08-2012, 04:13 PM	#15
Peptobismol Join Date Oct 2005 Age 58 Posts 4,386 Senior Member	On the subject of milching mammals, I have learned that man is the only mammal that drinks milk, or partakes of dairy products in adulthood. This is quite unnatural, and no doubt is the source of the widely prevalent lactose intolerance. Lactose intolerance is NOT caused by consumption of milk by adults. If one continues to eat or drink a food item they should get used to that food and there should not be any problem is handling it. The enzyme (lactase) that digests lactose depletes as we age and that is the reason we develop lactose intolerance. Northern Europeans and especially Scandinavians use lot of dairy products and they don't have lactose intolerance problem. So it appears lactose intolerance is part genetic and part environmental (ethnicity). The gene to make lactase may have been silenced or mutated as a function of age in specific populations. Our body does not make vitamin C because we were eating fruits (source of vitamin C) regularly and hence there is no need to make it ourselves. However the gene(s) to make vitamin C is in us but it/they are silenced because of external consumption.
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