So do you like to drink milk? Hope you are not lactose intolerant!
If you are then you are actually more ‘human!’
Yes! Our ancestors were like you or rather you are more similar to them! Now I am not calling you ‘old’ but being lactose intolerant is actually more ‘normal’!
This is not milk allergy though! The lactose intolerance is due to the carb while the allergy is due to the protein!
Remember how your mother always told you to drink that ‘milk’ everyday!? The ancient humans also did that to get more calcium!
In the book called Humans are not from Earth (or something like that!) by Dr Ellis Silver he states that our workaround for getting more calcium is to drink cow’s milk and eat dairy products!
Since cow’s milk isn’t part of our natural diet, there was a time when none of us could even tolerate it. We were all lactose intolerant, and it would have given us stomach cramps and made us feel ill.
Even so, our ancestors persevered – the pain and nausea were still somehow better than the alternatives! Thanks to them, we evolved the ability to tolerate lactose, and most of us can now consume it without any problems!
But the fact remained that being lactose intolerant was normal for ancient humans, as it is the ancestral human state. The vast majority of people were lactose intolerant before the evolution of a genetic mutation called lactase persistence, which arose in populations that domesticated dairy animals around 10,000 years ago!
For most of human history, all humans stopped producing the enzyme lactase after weaning, making them unable to digest the lactose in milk.
In fact lactose tolerance is a relatively recent evolutionary development that emerged in some populations as an adaptation to a diet that included dairy products.
The genetic mutation for lactase persistence became common relatively quickly in some regions, likely driven by extreme conditions like famines and epidemics that made dairy a valuable source of nutrition.
This was also the reasons for the ancient people to process the milk to curd or other milk products which are more easy to digest!
Of course, there’s still a significant number who can’t. We tend to call them “lactose intolerant” as if there was something wrong with them, but really, they’re just normal!
So it’s the rest of us who are strange and not the other way around! So remember that all were brothers once! Lactose or not!
The original lactose intolerant ones are the real descendants of the ancient humans while the ‘tolerant’ ones are the genetically ‘modified’ hybrids! Remember that the next time you are ‘intolerant’ to the ‘intolerants!’
Of course you can tolerate legendary freedom fighters like Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna!
Shubh ratri…
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