Can you digest milk okay? (Lactose Intolerance)

[Stefan_Dusan]

I never heard of anyone being lactose intolerant until I came to USA. Everyone in my house always drank Yogurt for breakfast. If you were sick, people believed yogurt (with garlic) is only thing you could eat until healthy. I cannot imagine how lactose intolerant person would survive in such culture

[Neon Knight]

I edited the poll for you. Is that ok?

Yeah, cool. I think the last time I tried to change categories in a poll I lost all the results, so that's why I didn't touch it.

[Sehnsucht]

I can digest milk probably better than anybody in my family, 23andme predicts that I'm likely tolerant and I'm homozygous for lactose tolerance (AA), but I don't drink it, not because I can't tolerate the lactose but because it is just outright disgusting. Just thinking about drinking milk makes me gag! I used to drink milk until I was about 5, then for some reason I must have developed an aversion to it.


My sister claims to be lactose intolerant and says she can't drink milk without getting sick. My mom can drink milk, but she says that she gets a stomach ache when she eats ice cream, so she claims to be "slightly lactose intolerant". Which makes sense because although 23andme says she is "likely tolerant", she is heterozygous (AG) which means she carries one lactose intolerant allele.

My paternal grandfather is lactose intolerant according to 23andme, he is homozygous for lactose intolerance (GG). That would mean my father was either AG or GG, though I don't think he is intolerant, so probably AG.

Maybe my sister was unfortunate enough to get the GG intolerant version from two AG (tolerant) parents!

[Smaug]

Of course I can. I am not a swarthy Southern European midget .

[Damião de Góis]

I don't consume that much milk but i do consume lots of cheese and yogurts. I don't have any problems with them.

[Neon Knight]

Here is a recent newspaper article on the subject: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...ant-genes.html

[Roy]

When I was younger I could drink it without fusss now I have problems with digesting it so I could be lactose intolerant (though unverified by medical test).

« Northern European - YES
Northern European - NO
Central/Mixed European - YES
Central/Mixed European - NO
Southern European - YES
Southern European - NO »

Europe isn't divided into a North and a South with an fuzzy, undefined, mixed Center.

This being said, I've had milk-based products everyday for most of my life and I digest it perfectly.

Strange divide indeed.

I never heard of anyone being lactose intolerant until I came to USA. Everyone in my house always drank Yogurt for breakfast. If you were sick, people believed yogurt (with garlic) is only thing you could eat until healthy. I cannot imagine how lactose intolerant person would survive in such culture

Oh well ... I can drink youghurt but milk from carton makes me sick if I drink more than one glass per day. I think that's because lactose (sugar in milk) gets partially fermented in it making those saccharides easier to digest.

[Insuperable]

Never heard of this intolerance until I came to this forum.

[wvwvw]

I accidentally voted No instead of yes

[Loki]

Yep. I can drink litres of fresh milk and just feel goood.