Re: Lactose Intolerance and lactose-containing HC, other pills.

[Guest guest]

Hi Jim, I thought the same thing when I was taking Isocort - also why

did they put echinecea in it. I assumed that I would be in the clear

with HC until I got it and saw that they put lactose in that too.

Then I saw the movie American Gangster last weekend and saw that they

mixed the heroin with lactose too so it must be an extremely cheap

filler ingredient. I bet that the heroin junkies don't care as much

about the GI upset I'm taking lactase and/or enzymes with lactase

in them with every dose of HC and food and I believe that it is helping.

Why the h3!! do they put lactose in HC tablets? They seem to put

> it in a lot of other pills too - where you wouldn't expect it.. If it

> s in enough things, you'd expect that intolerant individuals would be

> up in arms about it.

[Guest guest]

Val,

This posting explains a lot to me.... ever since I started HC (within a

few weeks, anyway) I started getting stomach bloating. I also have

RT3 issues and this week (after starting switching completely over to

T3), feel like the light is finally on in my head and I can think

clearly!! But the bloating is still so much and it increases when I

stress dose-- DUH! It must be the lactose in the HC! I'm going to get

some good lactose enzyme!!

-

[Guest guest]

Unfortunately taking lactose may solve the immediate GI effects of

lactose intolerance, but it also creates its own set of problems it seems.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uids=680419\

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> Among peoples who have consumed milk in lactose-rich forms over a long

> historical period, there seems to have been a mutation for persistence

> of high lactase activity throughout life (PHLA), which distinguishes

> them from human populations of nonmilking tradition and from most land

> mammals. PHLA permits greater intestinal hydrolysis of lactose and

> absorption of galactose by adults. The mutation for PHLA, however, was

> not accompanied by a second one raising galactokinase activity to high

> levels through life. The result may be that adults who consume large

> quantities of milk, who have high lactase activity, lactose

> hydrolysis, and galactose absorption, suffer repeated small galactose

> challenges, accumulation of galactitol in the lens, and a greater

> likelihood of developing senile cataracts.

http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/123/8/1370

> We conclude that the cataractogenic action of milk lactose is

> dependent on the disturbance of galactose metabolism in elderly

> subjects and that yogurt is not cataractogenic, although the mechanism

> of the protective effect of yogurt remains unknown.

http://www.granbywilderness.org/cataract-review-1.php

> In this review, the relationship between lactose and human cataract is

> examined from the presently available biochemical, metabolic, and

> epidemiological data. The exceptional cases of homozygous enzyme

> deficiency being excluded, fragmentary data give reason to believe

> that a risk of cataract secondary to lactose and galactose ingestion

> is present in certain subpopulations. In these population groups, the

> size of which is unknown, the lens could be exposed to intermittent

> episodes of hypergalactosemia due to the presence of a partial enzyme

> deficiency in the galactose metabolic pathway, and/or the persistence

> of a high adult jejunal lactase activity, and/or to a large and

> repeated consumption of either whole lactose or easily absorbed

> lactose (hydrolyzed forms and nonpasteurized yogurt).

There is apparently some controversy (I didn't post links to opposing

articles). Just pointing out there is no such thing as a free lunch.

Everything we eat and everything we take comes with its own burden of at

least potentially adverse effects.

sol

jasrich wrote:

> I'm taking lactase and/or enzymes with lactase

> in them with every dose of HC and food and I believe that it is helping.

>

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