Dr. Christopher Gardner

And on the soy milk, you won't react at all. There's no lactose. So it'll just be this question between the cow milk, the commercial one, and the raw milk. So the first part of this study was recruiting. And so we had to say, to be eligible for this study, you have to fail the hydrogen breath test, and you have to complain about symptoms.

So you have to be intolerant and objectively, not subjectively, fail this thing. And so we ended up with 16 people in the study. It wasn't a big deal. They did all three arms. And 50% of the people who swore they were lactose intolerant failed the breath test. Like their hydrogen didn't go up after they drank 16 ounces of milk. But did any of them feel lousy? Yes.

So you have to be intolerant and objectively, not subjectively, fail this thing. And so we ended up with 16 people in the study. It wasn't a big deal. They did all three arms. And 50% of the people who swore they were lactose intolerant failed the breath test. Like their hydrogen didn't go up after they drank 16 ounces of milk. But did any of them feel lousy? Yes.

So you have to be intolerant and objectively, not subjectively, fail this thing. And so we ended up with 16 people in the study. It wasn't a big deal. They did all three arms. And 50% of the people who swore they were lactose intolerant failed the breath test. Like their hydrogen didn't go up after they drank 16 ounces of milk. But did any of them feel lousy? Yes.

And so I couldn't look at them and say, sorry, you're not lactose intolerant. You're lying to me. I had to say, you have failed our test. Our inclusion-exclusion criteria meant that you have to feel these symptoms and you have to have this response. Interestingly, so we had Asian, black, Hispanic, white. It was all the Caucasians that failed the test that said they had symptoms.

And so I couldn't look at them and say, sorry, you're not lactose intolerant. You're lying to me. I had to say, you have failed our test. Our inclusion-exclusion criteria meant that you have to feel these symptoms and you have to have this response. Interestingly, so we had Asian, black, Hispanic, white. It was all the Caucasians that failed the test that said they had symptoms.

And so I couldn't look at them and say, sorry, you're not lactose intolerant. You're lying to me. I had to say, you have failed our test. Our inclusion-exclusion criteria meant that you have to feel these symptoms and you have to have this response. Interestingly, so we had Asian, black, Hispanic, white. It was all the Caucasians that failed the test that said they had symptoms.

and didn't pass the hydrogen breath test and show that they're hydrogen winch up, which pretty much parallels lactose intolerance is usually in non-Caucasians. So I'm sort of leading up to this point of they had symptoms. They complained. They attributed it to lactose intolerance. But technically, they weren't. Something else was bothering them.

and didn't pass the hydrogen breath test and show that they're hydrogen winch up, which pretty much parallels lactose intolerance is usually in non-Caucasians. So I'm sort of leading up to this point of they had symptoms. They complained. They attributed it to lactose intolerance. But technically, they weren't. Something else was bothering them.

and didn't pass the hydrogen breath test and show that they're hydrogen winch up, which pretty much parallels lactose intolerance is usually in non-Caucasians. So I'm sort of leading up to this point of they had symptoms. They complained. They attributed it to lactose intolerance. But technically, they weren't. Something else was bothering them.

Maybe it was small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, the SIBO. Now flip that to wheat.

Maybe it was small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, the SIBO. Now flip that to wheat.

Maybe it was small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, the SIBO. Now flip that to wheat.

Oh, oh.

Oh, oh.

Oh, oh.

That's not fair. No, not at all. So they had the same exact symptoms on the raw milk as the conventional milk. Sorry, that was like the punchline of the whole story is it didn't help. At all. It was absolutely identical. But it was a really easy test to study definitively.

That's not fair. No, not at all. So they had the same exact symptoms on the raw milk as the conventional milk. Sorry, that was like the punchline of the whole story is it didn't help. At all. It was absolutely identical. But it was a really easy test to study definitively.

That's not fair. No, not at all. So they had the same exact symptoms on the raw milk as the conventional milk. Sorry, that was like the punchline of the whole story is it didn't help. At all. It was absolutely identical. But it was a really easy test to study definitively.

16 people might not seem like a lot of people, but because GI disorder is so easy to detect, you either had diarrhea and gas or not. We're very proud of that tiny little paper, tiny little study we did. Although this raw milk company still, on their website, says they cure lactose intolerance.