Was thinking the same thing. I even used Lactaid milk, but I still have digestive problems.
All these studies and expert bloviating...they don’t know what the h*** they are talking about.
“I even used Lactaid milk, but I still have digestive problems.”
It’s my understanding that if you are still having problems, then it’s not the Lactose in the milk that’s upsetting your digestion it’s other sugars in the milk? I can’t drink milk or the lactose free milk either. I switched to almond milk which is even better than soy milk in my opinion.
Could you not have a problem with some other component of milk? I think a true allergy would be a reaction to a protein, but I don’t think the issues would be digestive, but rather more like hay fever type symptoms.
You might be able to solve your problem with acidophilous and/or digestive enzymes.
Not all the lactose gets converted at once. There is a local dairy that sell lactase-treated milk. The day you buy it, it tastes like regular milk. If you keep it for 12 days, (it’s super-fresh so you can) it is intolerably, weirdly sweet as all the lactose has been converted by then. Probably would be okay to drink then, but who would want to.
I have intermittant lactose intolerance and I can not handle a cup of milk when it’s bad. My brother has it bad all the time. These scientists would not want to be in the same room with my brother if he drank milk.