Lactose Intolerance

The antidote to lactose intolerance is to drink milk.

But there is a mystery to milk drinking. Most of it escapes us for the moment. Unless somebody out there has something, but could be that lactose intolerance is a form of weaning the youngling away from the feeder, etc. etc. It could be a range of other things than just lactose, such as additives or how long the milk is left standing.

What is milk? Well, it's very much like soap holding a lot of grease. Often ingestion of small amounts of soap, usually by accident, can cause similar effects to the symptoms of lactose intolerance.

It is natural in the instinct of the young mammals to get to the point where injection of milk is associated with debilitating gastrointestinal distress. The mammal must then become preoccupied with the activity associated with ingestion of masticated solid food: From soap to soup in one easy lesson.

What is it, then, if our working theory is doable, that the young mammal has that the toddler and infant grows out of? Perhaps the saliva changes after a certain time passes in the nursing cycle of the baby. Perhaps the introduction of alkaline saliva to the milk acts somewhat like industrial de-greasers do in commercial applications when introduced to a substance that must subsequently perform a certain industrial function or task.

Perhaps it also performs as a regulator, in that threatening injestionations can be caused to quickly pass through the alimentary canal due to the irritation of the untreated lactata which also as a side effect, contains the lactose that so long has been portrayed as the culprit. As is so often the case with symptoms, perhaps this could even be a side effect in that certain catalytic agents are denied the substance during ingestion whitest their sister substances in the same complex mixture of saliva or something else is all missing that would otherwise have affected a broad spectrum of the substance.

However, because of the nature of the domestication of livestock and our urban lifestyle, the production of dairy products is far more preferable and manageable than the abattoir of culled beasts. So, in each of our genetic dispositions, the argument continues as to the priority of the substance ingested as an ideal nourishment.

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