Mongolians have almost the lowest tolerance for milk among human populations, and the absolute highest rate of dairy in the diet. They developed cooking techniques that overcome the intolerance to achieve this feat.
Another confounder in this area is much more modern: most claimed incidences of “lactose intolerance” are actually intolerance of protein changes from the machine homogenization process and flash pasteurizing process
The key research was on people who can drink goat milk which has higher lactose levels than cow, and people who can drink raw milk.
Not saying the consumption of milk in Europe is a coincidence, just saying seek larger amounts of evidence than you might initially expect to need. This area has a lot of noise hiding the signal.
Mongolians have almost the lowest tolerance for milk among human populations, and the absolute highest rate of dairy in the diet. They developed cooking techniques that overcome the intolerance to achieve this feat.
Another confounder in this area is much more modern: most claimed incidences of “lactose intolerance” are actually intolerance of protein changes from the machine homogenization process and flash pasteurizing process
The key research was on people who can drink goat milk which has higher lactose levels than cow, and people who can drink raw milk.
Not saying the consumption of milk in Europe is a coincidence, just saying seek larger amounts of evidence than you might initially expect to need. This area has a lot of noise hiding the signal.