Its natural to stop making lactase, the enzyme that degrades lactose, and there are no enzymes in humans that can degrade cellulose. Cellulose is actually good for you and beneficial for your GI but milk is not.
I dont understand why cellulose is good for the GI despite humans not making the enzymes, and milk/dairy products upsets the GI despite being the same case.
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Cellulose forms much longer chains than lactose. Thing of it like a bowl of string. If you cut that string up it doesn’t get tangled. So the shorter lactose simply passes through. Secondly, the lactose that makes it into your intestines is the perfect food for the bacteria that lives there. So they will use as much of it as possible. In other words it begins to ferment. Producing gas and fluid as a byproduct. Where cellulose forms a net to grab other human waste, lactose is broken down into more fluids that won’t be absorbed by the body which creates looser stools.
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