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it's monday august first 22 I'm Jackson Bird today. The first major study of its kind sheds new light on the evolution of all you mutants who can digest dairy. Plus, engineers at MIT have developed a wearable sticker that can see inside your body. And was George

Jetson born over the weekend? Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. I am lactose intolerant.

Like my brother and several of my cousins, I somehow developed this trait in early

adulthood. We all grew up knowing the joys of ice cream and soft cheeses, of dipping cookies

into milk and eating entire pizza pies and one sitting like unhinged ninja turtles. And then

those simple joys were ripped away from us.

Fortunately, milk has been going out of style for about a decade or so.

Alternative milks and plant-based food options are all the rage,

which means I can have a slightly worse or sometimes surprisingly better version of most dairy indulgences at an elevated cost. Because of that fad, however, it can be tough to

find any real science and data on lactose intolerance. Searches for answers are bloated with

pseudoscientific blogs and trendy diet pages, and part of the glut of hard science, it turns out,

is not just that fads have taken over the

algorithms, but that there are actually a lot of questions about lactose intolerance still

remaining in the scientific community.

And my basic understanding for years has been that humans are naturally lactose intolerant.

Lactase persistence, or the ability to digest lactose,

developed around the time people in Europe started dairy farming, about 10,000 years ago.

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