A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in the real world.
Peanut allergies began to decline in the U.S. after guidance first issued in 2015 upended medical practice by recommending introducing the allergen to infants starting as early as 4 months. The rate of peanut allergies in children ages 0 to 3 fell by more than 27% after guidance for high-risk kids was first issued in 2015, and by more than 40% after the recommendations were expanded in 2017.
Obviously nowhere near that extreme, but I know a shockingly large number of millennials (and not just the Asian babies) who, for one reason or another, had soy or nut milk as a baby, dairy milk almost our entire lives, and then realized we were lactose intolerant like late 20s/early 30s.
It, again, is obviously not that extreme. But there is very much the idea that being gassy and having “weird poops” was normal because… it was. In the sense we were constantly poisoning our bodies.
It always makes me wonder about a friend who talks about how peanut butter “makes me puffy”. Is it just a body reaction to the high fat content or is it a mild allergic reaction?
That’s how lactose intolerance works. You start out getting milk from your mother, you don’t become intolerant usually until the end of puberty.
you can gain lactose intolerance later in life, or produce less galactase to be able to break it down.
its not inherently what youre born with.
Im definitely of the group whose tolerance has decreased overtime.
I mean literally noone is born lactose intolerant. You’d just starve.
Genetic lactose intolerance develops some time later through a variation in gene expression. But the effects of lactose intolerance also vary more than that, because if you continue to consume milk your gut biome changes to reflect the abundance of nutrients.
It’s also possible for lactose intolerance to get worse as you get older - I say, as a 40+ year old who has had to cut milk out of his regular diet to have normal poops again.