Tag: #lactose

Food reactions girl with milk
Adverse Food Reactions

We’ve said it before, we all have reactions to food and food disturbances. Adverse food reactions had become one of the most common doctor’s office…

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Nutrigenetics: Lactose Intolerance and Genetic Expression

For those who have lactose intolerance, the LCT gene transcription is reduced, leading to a low level of lactase. To turn off LCT it involves blocking an activator or turning up a repressor. In fact, it is theorized that lactase persistence is a human evolutionary adaptation to drinking milk from domesticated animals. The mutation in the gene started to appear around the same time as the domestication of cattle.

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