The answer might be actually very surprising to you.

Let me tell you about a strapping young lad that was and still is a dreamer.

Now this young lad at the tender age of 16 went to a restaurant with his friend for a pre workout meal. He had a cheeseburger, fries, and a large chocolate milk shake. YUMMY!!! And for story telling sake let’s call our main character…oh I don’t know…oh I know…let’s call him John, and his friend…Scott, and his other friends I’ll come up with when I go on. Back to the story.

Now John had his questions and weird theories on why milk products never really agreed with him and that day he was certain that he was lactose intolerant, because after telling my friend…oh I mean…after telling his friend that he’s going to the pooper and spending 45 minutes in there he pretty much knew he was. So he booked a doctors appointment and told his doctor.

Now the day of the test…so much fun. Now if any of you have done this test and you are lactose intolerant, or have a gluten intolerance you know how agonizing this test is. The nurse gave him a vial that has some fluid in it (lactase enzyme I believe), he drank it and he was told by the nurse that he was  not allowed to go to the bathroom for 1 hour. If you are lactose/gluten intolerant (you’ll see later why I put those together) you are going to have an “interesting” visit while they are taking blood, just like Johnny boy. If not,then  this will be a walk in the park.

Needless to say John was, as his GP told him that he was a part of the 1% of Canadians that are lactose intolerant. He was 99.9% lactose intolerant to be exact. He was also told by Dr. Jefferson that there was no cure for this and most likely he (John) was born like this and would have it for the rest of his life. All that could go through John’s head was “WHAT NO MORE PIZZA!!!!!!”

So fast forward to 6 years ago…

John signs up at a martial arts school because he likes it, and met another friend who became a mentor for him later on (now). Daryl was his name. Daryl told John that he (John) may be gluten intolerant and to try to cut out gluten (or most of it) for a little while. Well John was like “Yeah but my doctor told me there was no cure and I’m L.A.C.T.O.S.E. intolerant not gluten intolerant.”. Daryl told me…I mean John “What do you have to lose?” So needless to say John tried it and…

Fast forward a year John ate his first medium pizza all on his own and guess what? No problems. No more lactose intolerant. Seems like John was gluten intolerant not lactose intolerant.

So my question stands:

If you have a problem with dairy, are you truly lactose intolerant? or are you gluten intolerant?

If you want to try this, and you should, I say why not? What do YOU have to lose?  Try it and then we can talk about how to get you on the right foot and start eating according to you. That’s for another blog.

I’M OUT