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Lactose in enough quantities gets my tummy rumbling in a bad way so I'm trying out alternatives.

Oat milk in hipster coffee drinks is pretty good.

Soy milk as a protein and calcium beverage is fine. Tastes OK.

There is lactose-free milk too but that is still suspect. Either it's not all the way lactose free or too much of any kind of dairy quakes my intestines.

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[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 days ago (5 children)

For me I found it wasn't the lactose, but the amount of fat in the milk that gave me the rumblies. Eating certain dishes with a lots of fat gave me the same sort of feeling.

[–] ODGreen@slrpnk.net 10 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I'll keep an eye out for that. I am trying to put on weight so I do end up eating a lot of fat. Maybe I switch them out for more carbs.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Best of luck to you!

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I've tried a few different diets for the opposite reason.

Fat alone makes me feel stuffed and not wanting to eat enough.

Carbs+fat makes it really easy for me to eat too much.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Nice. Good luck!

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I seem to recall that fat intake is not as "fattening" as carb intake. Both the carbs and fat you eat are used for energy first, which means that your body has to process the fats into carbs first - which takes energy itself. The surplus of either is converted and stored as fat.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Carbs also have to be broken down in to sugars. It's just a lot easier to do than with fat. Ketosis is a bit more complicated than just lopping off glucose from large chains.

The problem with too much fat in a diet is that is screws with your cardio system by gunking it up. (greatly simplifying of course but meh, lazy today)

[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Look into bile acid malabsorption (BAM). It's surprisingly common. In the U.S. you don't commonly use the SeHCAT machines so they prescribe cholestyramine and see if it helps. Give it a go. Very few side effects and you have a lot to gain if it works. Plus if you take it long term you actually reduce your cholesterol levels.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Yes, I was going to say generally milk labeled as lactose-free really shouldn’t have any noticeable amounts of lactose in it, so if someone’s still having trouble then lactose might not be the cause. I have heard relatively recently about something called A2 milk that doesn’t have an A1 protein which is found primarily in cow’s milk but not in as many other mammalian milk, including not in human milk. It looks like it might help some people for whom lactose-free cow’s milk still doesn’t solve digestion issues, but the evidence might not be very conclusive. I haven’t tried it myself; lactose-free works for me.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

i have ibs so it makes those things more intense for me, i get the same thing with milk, plus i think im mildly lactose intolerant. something like "flavoured" milk doesnt cause a reaction though,

[–] ascallion@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

High fat diets can help facilitate LPS (a bad, fat-soluble, inflammatory molecule) from gram negative bacteria in the gut into the bloodstream which can heighten systemic inflammation (endotoxemia). I feel as though that's a common issue these days that not many people may know about.