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Kumar: Human lactase enzyme production can be easily revived

Shashi Kumar · Heartbreaking Truth: The REAL REASON Indian Farmers Struggle - Akshayakalpa Founder on The Neon Show · Nov 17, 2023 · at 59:11

Shashi Kumar, founder of Akshayakalpa Organic, argues that lactose intolerance stems from modern lifestyle and diet rather than an innate permanent inability to digest dairy.

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“By design, we have a lactase enzyme. Ok, it can be revived. Ok, it can be easily revived.”

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The claim, plainly

The human gut's lactase enzyme can easily be revived in lactose-intolerant individuals through gradual dietary adjustments.

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Assessment

Scientific and gastroenterological consensus establishes that human small intestinal lactase enzyme (lactase-phlorizin hydrolase) expression is genetically and epigenetically programmed to downregulate post-weaning in individuals with adult-type hypolactasia. Mucosal biopsy studies and systematic reviews (such as Forsgård, AJCN 2019) confirm that human mucosal lactase is constitutive rather than substrate-inducible; dietary lactose exposure does not upregulate or revive endogenous small intestinal lactase production. While gradual dietary reintroduction can improve lactose tolerance by altering the colonic microbiome (increasing bacterial beta-galactosidase activity in the large intestine), this bacterial adaptation does not restore or revive the human host's own lactase enzyme.

A 2019 review in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition by R. A. Forsgård concluded that human small intestinal lactase expression is constitutive rather than substrate-inducible, and lactose feeding trials do not increase mucosal lactase activity in lactase-deficient adults.
Multiple clinical biopsy studies (e.g., Gilat et al., Gastroenterology 1972; Keusch et al., Am J Clin Nutr 1969) have shown that prolonged lactose feeding does not revive small intestinal mucosal lactase in lactase-deficient human subjects.
Clinical consensus (Misselwitz et al., Gut 2019; StatPearls 2025) confirms that dairy tolerance acquired through gradual exposure is mediated entirely by colonic microbiota adaptation, not by reactivation of endogenous mucosal lactase.

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[1] yogurtinnutrition.com [2] milkdigestion.com [3] practicalgastro.com [4] nih.gov [5] indiana.edu [6] nih.gov [7] bmj.com [8] nih.gov

can lactase be induced in humans adult hypolactasia small intestine lactase enzyme mucosal activity adult hypolactasia inducible dietary colonic adaptation lactose intolerance mucosal lactase activity

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