Do you get gas, bloating, or even diarrhea after you eat dairy foods? You may be lactose intolerant. This is when you can’t digest lactose, the type of sugar found in dairy products. Lactose ...

Milk may do a body good, but not if you’re one of the millions of people who are lactose intolerant. If you are, you can’t digest the natural sugar (called lactose) found in milk and milk products.

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a 78-year-old retired medical oncologist. While in residency in New York, I got a gastrointestinal virus that left me with lactose intolerance. After a while, it improved somewhat.

The ability of humans to digest the milk component lactose after weaning requires persistent production of the lactose-converting enzyme lactase. Genetic variation in the promoter of the lactase gene ...

Scientists have brought to light the spread of dairy farming in Europe and the development of milk tolerance in adult humans. It was after the transition from a hunter-gatherer society to that of a ...

Intestinal lactase phlorizin hydrolase is the brush border disaccharidase responsible for the digestion of dietary lactose. In the majority of the world’s population lactase activity does not persist ...

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Researchers have found that drinking more milk may help to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes in people who do not produce lactase. Lactase is an enzyme which breaks down lactose, the sugar found in ...

A new class of high-powered, slickly branded lactose intolerance treatments is targeting consumers. But do they actually work? Tony Cenicola/The New York TimesCredit... Supported by By T.M. Brown When ...

Generally, there are no limits to Lactaid pills. A person can take them as needed when they eat dairy. According to the manufacturer, a Lactaid pill will typically work for between 30–45 minutes.