emointhekitchen not just from the TCM point of view These days there are a lot of scientific and less scientific studies on milk and other dairy products, many of them contradictory. However, let’s think of common sense. None of the other mammals except us normally consume milk after the end of the lactation period. Enzymes that help to digest breast milk gradually disappear from the body with age. Humans have developed a genetic exception to that rule a few millennia ago. Lactase persistence gene A gene called the “lactase persistence gene” which has evolved among people in Europe and Saharan Africa makes some of us able to keep making the…