Discover science
Why do Asians have a harder time absorbing milk than other races?
For most Asians, lactose intolerance (a component of milk) is a very common syndrome.
Lactase
Browse ScienceInfo articles and explainers related to Lactase.
Topic archive
Articles about Lactase
5 published items.
Discover science
10,000 years of human experience drinking cow's milk
Mankind is familiar with drinking cow's milk for millennia thanks to the biological evolution of the body and progress in animal domestication.
Medicine - Health
Do children necessarily have to drink milk?
We must have heard milk slogans, like: It is a good product for the human body, a drink from nature and helps us have stronger bones, etc. ...
Medicine - Health
The cause of drinking milk is abdominal pain
Lack of lactase or a body that does not produce the enzyme itself will lead to a non-hydrolyzed lactose, causing digestive disorders, abdominal pain when drinking milk.
Medicine - Health
In the past, people did not know how to drink milk
A new genetic analysis of ancient people has shown that before agriculture and dairy farms developed over the past 8,000 years, people could not digest milk. Although ev…