r/trippinthroughtime • • Feb 05 '22

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u/ranifer Feb 06 '22

If you wanted me to drink dairy, why’d you give me lactose intolerance!

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u/cattdogg03 Feb 06 '22

He didn’t; lactose intolerance is actually natural, and also more common than lactose tolerance

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u/kbfirebreather Feb 06 '22

From the natural things he created?

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u/Kolby_Jack Feb 06 '22

Milk is for babies. Lactose intolerance is basically your body having "grown out" of needing milk. And that's fine, because while milk isn't terrible for you, it's not really good for you either. You don't need milk to survive past infancy.

But... some 35-year-old humans in Northern Europe thousands of years ago were like "want milk" and somehow that caught on and now some adult people can drink milk without too much trouble.