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If you suffer from galactosemy (a rare condition), you should on no account use Disolact. The conversion of lactose to glucose and galactose will aggravate your symptoms. Consult your doctor or dietician for suitable advice.
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Three probable reasons:
1. Something has interfered with your bowel function, decreasing or even eliminating your lactase production. This could have been the flu, gastric bypass surgery, antibiotics, chemotherapy, etc.
2. Your genetic make-up. If, for example, you are in these ethnic groups you are very likely to be lactose intolerant: native American, African, Asian, Mediterranean, Hispanic. Or, you may have inherited it from a family member. But evidence strongly supports that you didn’t arrive here on your own. Lactose Intolerance can definitely be in the genes.
3. You’re getting older. It is a normal part of aging that the gut produces fewer enzymes as we age, so we experience more digestive problems (hence the fond phrase, old fart.) If you could always eat cheese, drink milk, etc. with no problem and now you’re having more problems, then a supplement such as Disolact® could be a tummy saver for you.
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Lactase, the enzyme that helps us digest lactose (sugar found in milk) is made from yeasts and fungi. Although it is primarily used commercially in products to help people with lactose intolerance (e.g. Disolact®) it is also used to make ice cream.
Who knew, eh?
Seems that glucose and galactose (what lactose is converted into) is sweeter than lactose. So the efforts of lactase actually make ice cream sweeter and smoother. Some people with lactose intolerance seem to be able to digest ice cream easier than other dairy products and this is probably why.
Lactase is also used to convert whey into syrup.
What I want to know is who looked at a blob of fungi and thought, hummmm, let’s make something out of this for people who can’t digest milk.
Odd how things are discovered and invented. I’m just glad they did!
Don’t Let Dairy Be Scary!
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First of all what is lactose?
It’s a sugar found in milk. Just that simple. And sugars in general tend to be hard for the gut to digest. It needs an enzyme to increase the rate of the breakdown of the sugar. It’s like a key to a car’s engine. The enzyme gets it moving to do what it needs to do, that is, digest.
In the case of lactose the enzyme is lactase.
And the amount of lactase in our gut makes us able to digest this sugar or not.
Lactase, the enzyme in Disolact®, converts lactose to more digestible sugars.
It does not make the milk or dairy product sugar free, so Diabetics need to be aware they are still consuming sugar or carbohydrates.
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I'm Pat. I am the co-owner of Lactose Solutions and I wanted to tell you about my experience being lactose intolerant.
As a child I had a lot of tummy aches but I can't say anyone linked it to any particular food or circumstance.
The first time I remember getting really sick from a dairy product was when I was in my early twenties. I was a physical therapist working at an inner city school for kids with disabilites. I went to a health food store and bought a big container of frozen yogurt. I got diarrhea and had to actually go home. That was the first time I ever connected dairy to my "sensitive stomach."
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