Title: Can You Become Lactose Intolerant As An Adult? - Lactose Intolerance
Headings: True Or False: You Can Become Lactose Intolerant As An Adult
True Or False: You Can Become Lactose Intolerant As An Adult
Please, please let it not be true...
Remind me...what is lactose intolerance?
When can you become lactose intolerant?
What causes lactose intolerance in adults?
How do I know I’m lactose intolerant?
Can I prevent lactose intolerance?
What should I do if I’m diagnosed with lactose intolerance?

Content: As we get older, for many of us that potential diminishes and parts of the intestine that secrete lactase stop working,” says Robin Foroutan, R.D., a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and a health coach at The Morrison Center who specializes in food sensitivities. This content is imported from Giphy. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Though lactose intolerance most often starts by your teens or early twenties, “it’s pretty common for people to become lactose intolerant as adults,” says Foroutan. In fact, some research suggests as many as 75 percent of the world’s population loses the ability to digest milk at some point. What causes lactose intolerance in adults? Foroutan says there are a lot of triggers that can mess up your body's ability to digest lactose, such as: Food poisoning
Stomach bug
Small-intestine diseases (like Crohn's)
Extreme stress
“Lactase enzymes live on the brush border, or the tippy-top of edge of the small intestine. If there’s irritation to the digestive tract, that section of the brush border is the first to be affected, so those enzymes are often the first to go,” explains Foroutan. Other people find they simply “age out” of their ability to digest lactose. “