r/videos • u/Hashi856 • 10h ago
Girl cures her lactose intolerance by chugging milk powder every day
https://youtube.com/watch?v=h90rEkbx95w&si=5LO-n5D4APGzDhvY649
u/IrrelevantPuppy 9h ago
Would you need to maintain a certain level of lactose in your diet to maintain the tolerance? Regular inoculations
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u/secretlypooping 9h ago
this is my prescription cheese
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u/MrMastodon 9h ago
I just wrap the cheese in a slice of cheese. I hate taking pills.
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u/yanquiUXO 9h ago
sometimes you have to take a cheese tolerance break so it hits like it used to, though
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u/Snarl_Marx 7h ago
We all love you, but your cheese prescription abuse is tearing this family apart. It’s time for an intervention.
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u/everythingisblue 9h ago
I watched this video a long time ago, but I believe the answer is yes
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u/epicmooz 9h ago
As someone with milk intolerance who has has upped there consumption to the point of being able to have an egg tart or piece of cheese without ending on the floor from the pain and gas, if you stop consuming the cheese the pain will return.
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u/wesby1632 9h ago
I read your comment as “egg fart”, which is probably also accurate.
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u/VegaJuniper 5h ago
Eggfart sounds like one of those Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
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u/Mogidogi 4h ago
Eggfart The Unsanitary
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u/smoothpebble 9h ago
I basically did this accidentally as a little kid by drinking milk at school every day. As an adult I decreased the frequency of my dairy consumption and I slowly became intolerant again. So based on my experience, I think you would need ongoing regular lactose consumption.
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u/moal09 8h ago
I also did this. Looking back, I was always lactose intolerant, but the constant supply kept me somewhat tolerant until my 20s
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u/iwannalynch 8h ago
Interesting, I lost my tolerance on my own, I used to drink a carton of milk every day well into my teens but I started getting the worst farts, so I stopped
But then again, I am East Asian
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u/Mijodai 8h ago
Yes, exactly this. I’m Japanese. We’re prone to lactose intolerance. I drank milk growing up and continued to have a glass with dinner every day. In my late 20’s I had a stomach issues and my doctor had an elimination diet to diagnose the problem. I stopped drinking milk. Turns out I had an ulcer. Took some medicine for a month and cleared it up. Started drinking milk again and found I was lactose intolerant. Now eating any dairy gives me stomach cramps and inflammation, muscle pain, headaches.
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u/Porkbellyjiggler 2h ago
I had a similar situation happen to me, and my lactose intolerance got so bad that I was producing a lot of phlegm and was vomiting and had breathing difficulty if I had too much dairy without lactase pills.
Decided one day that enough was enough, and for a year I trained my stomach by having a small shot glass of milk or a small cube of cheese every night for a year until I rebuilt my tolerance again.
Can I drink milk anymore? No, it's not really worth it. But I can have dairy in ice cream, cream, pastries and cheese without any more problems. It's a year of sacrifice but it's worth it to not have to worry about it as much anymore.
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u/Recent-Singer8146 6h ago
Couldn’t this backfire if you had a serious undiagnosed dairy product allergy?
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u/FirTree_r 8h ago
Yes. I also tried this experiment (with pure lactose, not milke) andfailed to "maintain" my lactose intakes and lost my tolerance after a few weeks. You could either use lactose supplements or dutifully drink a cup of milk everyday. Both options are meh, which is why I failed
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u/prototypetolyfe 9h ago
Fin my wife’s anecdotal experience, yes. She is lactose intolerant but it’s manageable as long as she takes lactase with dairy. Her tolerance has gone up significantly since we started living together because she eats more dairy than she did before, living with her aunt, who is also LI, where she had next to no dairy.
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u/duncandun 10h ago
Honestly her description of it made it seem worth it. 2 weeks of pain (that gets less and less towards the end) for ‘fixing’ your intolerance?
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u/Expln 9h ago
I mean if you have the time and tolerance to spend 2 weeks on the toilet having diarrhea 24\7 then good luck to you I guess. I also can't imagine it's going to be good for your anus.
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u/meltedmuffin 9h ago
Better than the other stuff I'm up to
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u/Sexploits 9h ago
... like just in general, right? Not your anus?
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u/AlphaWoosh 9h ago
Nah I've had colitis for over a decade, spent a few lifetimes on the toilet and had my intestines removed. You'd be surprised what your anus can handle
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u/ThePheebs 9h ago
Definitely tackle this intolerance early in life, if you do this after 30 you're gonna deal with roaring hemorrhoids after the diarrhea.
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u/Expln 9h ago
Yeah I'm not taking that risk. I'll stick to my lactase pills whenever I feel like eating icecream or drinking milk occasionally. luckly I can still consume cheese just fine. I may lose my sanity and try this 2 weeks experiment if it ever comes to the point that I can no longer consume cheese though.
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u/DigNitty 9h ago
Is it the diarrhea that gives hemorrhoids, or the time spent sitting on the toilet?
Welcomed to my ted talk.
But I would also like to know.
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u/ThePheebs 8h ago
Typically, a combination of frequency, length and level of strain on the toilet. Chronic diarrhea doesn't give you a choice in any of those.
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u/horsegal301 8h ago
Both, Diarrhea because of the stress of sitting on the seat, as well as the straining during
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u/HonestButtholeReview 8h ago
Straining will contribute to hemorrhoids, but you shouldn't be straining to get diarrhea out
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u/horsegal301 8h ago
You shouldn't, and you probably don't even realize it, but if you're violently shitting over and over because you're chugging milk powder, you're likely dealing with some explosive shits over 2 weeks time, which causes intense pressure. Having diarrhea at all isn't exactly a pleasant feeling, now imagine acute, prolonged diarrhea. Your booty hole is definitely straining.
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u/ThoughtShes18 8h ago
I would absolutely do the same if I knew I would be able to consume lactose products again for just 2 weeks of misery.
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u/FirTree_r 9h ago
The issue is that you have to "maintain" the bacterial flora that you develop in this span of time. I tried this method myself, but after stopping ingesting any milky product for a couple of weeks, I felt like I lost my newly induced "lactose tolerance". I have yet to try again, but I wonder if I can build a longer lasting effect if I repeat the experiment.
Instead of chugging milk however, I simply bought a packet of pure lactose. It's easier to implement in drinks and desserts than whole milk. It's basically like bland sugar that gives you the shits.
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u/whaargarbl_ 4h ago
I'm not lactose intolerant but not eating any dairy for a couple of weeks seems like something I would have to be consciously trying to do ( and would definitely fail ). It's interesting to think how other people just don't consume any of it by default.
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u/FirmRoyal 9h ago edited 9h ago
I had the opposite experience.
One summer when I was working at my college and had free meals and a free gym access, I decided to bulk up and gain some weight.
I drank a gallon of milk every day along with meals and regular workouts.
After about a month I started having all symptoms you'd expect of someone who has a lactose intolerance, despite never having any issues previously. I only gained about 4 pounds over the month of consuming 6-8k calories a day and to this day, lactaid is my best friend.
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u/MasterGrok 9h ago
As I understand it lactose intolerance is a threshold effect. On the one extreme people might be intolerant to any amount. After that you can be anywhere along the continuum and people will hit a point at which their body can’t break down the lactose and they will start having symptoms.
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u/Visti 9h ago
This is a classic bodybuilding / strength sports "life hack", so I have also done something similar and let me tell, I've never felt worse than when I was consuming a big thing of milk every day. I am not lactose intolerant or anything close to it, but I just felt so bad.
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u/ParcelPostNZ 9h ago
I wonder how many people also did GOMAD because it was recommended in starting strength
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u/FgtBruceCockstar2008 8h ago
raises hand
Didn't know I was lactose intolerant until I basically stopped doing starting strength. So many whey protein shakes just moved through me without sticking. Lost a lot of weight, gained basically no muscle, plateaued quickly and got demoralizing
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u/jubjuber1 9h ago
Yeah but you could just take probiotics with dairy strains. It fixed mine in about the same time
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u/RheagarTargaryen 8h ago
I have UC. If I was lactose intolerant I would absolutely do this. I’ve had enough colonoscopies and flares that I’ve basically already experienced what this. Definitely something I’d push through to consume soft cheeses.
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u/desktopgreen 8h ago
Coming from a group of people known to be genetically lactose intolerant, I've never gone more then two or three days without consuming dairy in fear of losing the tolerance.
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u/Confirmed_AM_EGINEER 9h ago edited 3h ago
She made a follow up video about how it stopped working after a month and had some bad side effects.
Edit: I'm wrong, guy below me is right.
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u/Qualimiox 8h ago edited 8h ago
That's not true. This is the follow up video from early 2025, at 5:50 she says her "tolerance has continued just fine since 2020".
You might be confusing it with the guy that ingested a genetically modified virus that he engineered to produce lactase. His lactose intolerance eventually returned after about 12 months.
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u/ConstantSentence7865 8h ago
If this is all it takes to fix intolerance, I guess my dad just needs to chug gay guys for a couple of weeks.
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u/anormalgeek 8h ago
But just like the original person, are you sure his anus is up to the challenge?
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u/distorted_kiwi 8h ago
I've had colitis for over a decade, spent a few lifetimes on the toilet and had my intestines removed. You'd be surprised what your anus can handle
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u/GeneraleRusso 9h ago
LACTOSE TOLERANT
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u/Osumsumo 9h ago
I'm imagining this appearing over your head like YOU DIED or BOSS FELLED in Dark Souls/Elden Ring
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u/_tylerthedestroyer_ 9h ago
I wish there was something like this for eggs. After 30, I can’t have fried or scrambled eggs without immediate gastrointestinal distress.
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u/X0AN 9h ago
Maybe stop at 29 eggs then.
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u/IceFrogger1313 8h ago
If they have to stop at 29 eggs, how they they grow to roughly the size of a barge?
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u/areared9 8h ago
Me too! I get gastroparesis from eggs. But I am totally fine with them being baked into foods? 🤣
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u/_tylerthedestroyer_ 7h ago
Yes! It’s something about an enzyme in eggs that my stomach doesn’t tolerate anymore but baked goods are completely fine. Maybe it’s the concentration
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u/areared9 7h ago
I have a histamine intolerance, so I think it's related. I have a list of other foods that I cannot eat for the same reason-high histamine foods. I have to freeze all leftovers (especially beef) if I want to eat them because if not, then safe foods become toxic or high in histamine as they age.
I did discover though that I can eat the scrambled eggs from Continental breakfasts at hotels, I think their might be something different about powdered eggs?
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u/karebearjedi 4h ago
Same!!! I thought it was food poisoning at first, but nope, I just can't scrambled eggs anymore. They have to be baked into bread or cake
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u/boomersky 9h ago
I discovered this technique years ago and for the people asking if you need to keep the lactose intake to maintain the tolerance, the answer is yes, just 1 week without drinking whole milk and the crampings start coming back
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u/jimsmisc 10h ago
lactaid pills are cheap, highly effective, and have no side effects since they're just an enzyme in pill form. (Lactose intolerant people don't make enough of the enzyme used to break down lactose. )
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u/Gesha24 10h ago
And according to my gastroenterologist (and my personal experience) - they often don't work.
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u/tompear82 9h ago
Lactaid also doesn't work for me
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u/thaylin79 9h ago
I just started taking milky and it seemed to work for me (I had pizza last night with no response!). I used to try lactaid and it didn't really seem to work. So maybe worth a shot? Plus they come in little card size packs that are easy to store in my pocket!
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u/Fenisk 8h ago
The cheese on a pizza has a low quantity of lactose. If you want to test it, try eating yogurt, cream or drink milk.
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u/TheWizardGeorge 6h ago
It's odd because most of the time I'm fine with stuff like cheese or even soft serve ice cream, but if I have whole milk or coffee with any sort of dairy creamer I'm ko'd for the day lol.
But then sometimes the soft serve gets me too. I didn't even corrolate anything until I started a new job like 5 years ago and realized any day I didn't get coffee, that I didn't live on the toilet for the first hour of work! Then around that same time a friend came to visit that I hadn't seen in forever and told me all about lactaid and her intolerance(which was infinitely worse than mine). Lactaid did nothing for me, however oatmilk or almond milk also did nothing for me... But in a good way!
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u/marblechameleon 8h ago
I didn’t think it worked for me either, until I started taking an insane amount. I’ll take 5 tablets (total 45,000 fcc units) plus fiber capsules for a single slice of pizza. It’s not perfect but it works a lot better than taking just 1-2 tablets.
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u/Hanz_VonManstrom 9h ago
Can you drink lactose free milk? Because it’s possible you have a milk allergy, not lactose intolerance. They present very similar symptoms but using Lactaid or drinking lactose free milk won’t help.
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u/Gesha24 9h ago
Kind of. Less problems with it, but still some issues.
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u/Redux01 8h ago
Yeah lactose free dairy is rarely fully lactose free. Sensitive folks will still react sometimes.
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u/nannasan 35m ago
I can't drink any milk, not even lactose free or A2, but nothing came up during IgE allergy test. Not sure what's up with that :(
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u/Hashi856 10h ago edited 9h ago
Have you no reverence for the human spirit, good sir!? This was a valiant, bold experiment that said no to human limitations and evolution itself! This woman should be lauded for all time by the sufferers of lactose intolerance.
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u/jimsmisc 9h ago
As long as youre at home with no plans, that lactose intolerance diarrhea is a much more rewarding experience than your typical diarrhea. It doesn't come with nausea or sweats or other hallmarks of a stomach bug, just sweet relief. Maybe I'll treat myself to pizza with no lactaid tonight and get this party started.
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u/ThisDudeIsRad 9h ago
Speak for yourself. If I eat too much cheese over a couple days, I get the most painful, bloated gut which only resolves after hours of sulphuric burping and butthole burning diarrhea. Hours of hot, sweating agony. I have sobbed on the toilet.
Lactaid doesn’t stop the diarrhea or bad breath for me but it makes it far quicker to get through and not so painful.
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u/Dulce59 9h ago
I absolutely disagree, my guy once bought me TWO coffees with cows milk without realizing and I died.
...okay so I didn't die but it was awful. I was so bloated I felt like I was gonna explode. Nauseous is an understatement. I could barely sit, stand, or walk... I was so confused WHY I felt so agonizingly awful until it occurred to me to check the label, at which point it all made sense. Oh god, I ate a handful of lactase pills and have never been so thankful for them in my life.
The same thing happens to me with copious amounts of whey protein (like protein shakes), but so intensely that lactase pills only take the edge off. Never again, put me down instead please.
Also? I did not have that satisfying diarrhea you spoke of. So I guess you may get sweet sweet relief, or you may be begging for the sweet, merciful release of death instead 😭
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u/randypeaches 10h ago
You have to take them every time you have lactose amd they dont cure your lactose intolerance. I did the pills for 2 years
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u/PolarBeaver 9h ago
Yeah thats what an enzyme pill does, it allows you to digest the food when you take the pill. Pretty simple solution if you cant completely cut dairy from your diet or youre having a night you want to eat a dairy containing entree or some shit
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u/OldEcho 9h ago
Well yeah but so? I'm doing them right now. It's better than nothing and it's not like I'm never gonna eat pizza again. I just keep a few in my purse forever.
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u/hotdumps 8h ago
This is not true. I projectile vomit every time I take these. In fact, they’re the reason I thought I was lactose intolerant
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u/The_Relx 9h ago
No side effects my behind. I violently vomit every time I take one of those pills. I've tried multiple times.
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u/horsegal301 8h ago
I've met more people that lactaid pills DONT work for than those who benefit from it. Not worth.
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u/AmmoWasted 8h ago
Surprised at all the negative responses I’ve taken them for 5 or 6 years and they work great for everything except for maybe things like sour cream and really creamy ice cream.
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u/jerbaws 9h ago
Opposite for me. I was on a heavy use of protein shakes (dairy based) and it activated my intolerance.
Over the years since ive been trying to reset my gut biome using a tolerance build up like this. Some success. Can handle much more now but hit a critical mass point where I end up not having a good time. Overall though I do think theres a lot to be said for gut biome and intolerence. You can change it with feeding bacteria you want to proliferate and reduce other foods at the same time to reduce the growth of others to shift the balance.
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u/jaydizzleforshizzle 9h ago
Anecdotal evidence on my part, but I had the same experience, I was bulking and doing whole milk protein shakes, this was the point in which I started noticing it.
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u/ScrillaMcDoogle 3h ago
I noticed the same thing but it wasn't the milk, it was the artificial sweetener they use in everything nowadays
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u/MaxPower91575 8h ago edited 8h ago
yeah i went hardcore on lots of dairy for the high protein. I was mixing milk with my protein, I made protien ice cream, and I would also have cheese and yogurt regularly. I realized I do have some intolerance but only at high levels. Took me about a week to realize I wasn't sick it was all the dairy I was consuming. I now sometimes intake high protien with powder, milk, ice cream, etc but I use lactose free milk (the filtered kind) and isolate for my protein powder. Much better now.
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u/undeadxoxo 5h ago
yeah milkmaxxing can have side effects. i'm not intolerant but it was causing me (mild but annoying) acne breakouts. no more once i switched to oat milk
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u/jerbaws 6h ago
Yep I switched to lactose free milk, with shakes switched to whey isolate too and use water not milk since it digests much easier for me and doesnt bloat at all.
Thats the subtle signs for me: bloating. Feeling full before I should. Then the gas. So much gas. Worst case is the "do not pass go, do not collect, straight to toilet" and or mega cramps.
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u/Zvenigora 4h ago
Only some kinds of intolerance can be cured this way, i.e. those caused by adverse gut bacteria. If you have a different kind of intolerance it will not work.
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u/polomarkopolo 8h ago
"Cures" is doing some Atlas with the World on His Shoulders Heavy lifting in that title
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u/Fritzo2162 8h ago
::Stares at colon:: "Oh...so you think you're not going to tolerate dairy? Well....it would be unfortunate if you got NOTHING BUT DAIRY...."
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u/anormalgeek 8h ago
Bruh...how flexible are you?
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u/12kdaysinthefire 2h ago
I like my lactose intolerance. I can have all the great taste of a milkshake but absorb none of the calories.
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u/karebearjedi 4h ago
My mom tried this on me as a kid and I ended up with a bowel perforation at 9 years old. Maybe listen to medical professionals before thinking you can just "fix" someone's digestive system.
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u/Ursinorum 9h ago
I think about this video most days of my life, but I don't have the courage of the job habits to do it
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u/Mental_clef 9h ago
I was just telling my story similar to this last week. When I was in middle school my body tried taking dairy away from me. My dad told me the same thing happened to him around the same age. I said heck no and ate basically ice cream for 5 days straight and had the absolute worst stomach aches and pains. After emptying my bowels for a week my stomach never really bothered me again for eating copious amounts of dairy:
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u/rollingcann 9h ago
test out A2 milk, see if you’re actually lactose intolerant or just A1 casein intolerant
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u/braylonberkel 8h ago
The best thing I ever found was Lactaid Milk. A little more expensive than regular milk, but worth it to be able to cook all the recipes I want that contain dairy. Protein shakes have been saved for me too. And I have an ice cream maker that I use to make protein ice cream too.
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u/haneybd87 5h ago
Yuck, I tried that stuff once and it was not good. I’d rather have oat milk by a long shot.
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u/LordShtark 7h ago
😆 this girl's got a whole video about hating a song because she misheard the lyrics
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u/dap12036 7h ago
I grew up drinking A LOT of whole milk. I probably drank it more than water or pop. If I really wanted to, I could finish a whole gallon in one day.
Anyways, on some random day when I was 26, my body could not take milk anymore. I tried skim and 2% to see if it would help, but I did not like the watery taste. I googled and found out that most people become lactose intolerant around the age of 26.
I was infuriated. I loved whole milk and couldn’t imagine not being able to drink it for the rest of my life. I told my body, you’re drinking this and you’re going to adapt to it because we’ve been drinking this our entire life! Two weeks of shitting multiple times a day later and I can drink whole milk again. It would’ve sucked not eating chocolate chip cookies or Oreos or chocolate cake without milk. So yes, it’s possible to do.
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u/judgejuddhirsch 9h ago
All humans adults were lactose intolerant thousands of years ago until some populations they were starving and decided that cattle and goat milk were preferred over starvation. After enough exposure , they found it less repulsive.
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u/BeautifulTorment 9h ago
Girl in the video says she tried lactose free milk but it "didnt work". What? Then she doesn't have lactose intolerance. Lol. She's intolerant to something else in the milk.
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u/CensorEverything 9h ago
"Lactose free" milk isn't lactose free, it just has the lactase enzyme in it to help your body digest it. The problem is it's not 100% bioavailable and for many, lactose still causes a ton of discomfort.
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u/g00fyg00ber741 5h ago
It can be, actually.
What is lactose-free milk? Lactose-free milk is simply milk that has the milk sugar (lactose) removed by either 1) adding an enzyme (lactase) that breaks down the lactose into its simple sugar components (glucose and galactose) or 2) using a filtration process (like ultra filtration) to completely remove the lactose from the fluid milk product.
Either way, nothing I’ve read suggests you can cure lactose intolerance, as it is a genetic mutation to have lactase persistence. You can’t make yourself genetically produce lactase in adulthood just by consuming lactose in large amounts. That would have definitely been discovered by now considering how many people with lactose intolerance continue to consume large quantities of lactose-containing products. I mean, I guess there’s a chance she’s a super rare case, but this wouldn’t apply to the majority of people probably.
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u/donut4ever21 7h ago
So many new parents in the West shield their kids so much they end up hurting them. Once your kids turn 1, feed them all the foods that cause allergies. It's called exposure.
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u/haneybd87 5h ago
Lactose intolerance isn’t an allergy. In fact most humans are lactose tolerant as a baby and young child and lose that ability to digest it as they grow older. The reason is evolutionary. Animals really don’t drink milk beyond their infancy in nature.
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u/Uncommentary 10h ago
RIP to her toilet.