• owsei@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      IIRC the biologist that runs the YT channel Though Emporium did this some years ago regarding his lactose intolerance and he had to get more after some years because his body didn’t naturally produce them

      But I hope this is different

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          5 months ago

          This is blatantly incorrect to a degree that i’d call it an outright lie, spending 30 seconds looking it up would show you that his video is literally titled “I Genetically Engineered MYSELF to Fix Lactose Intolerance”.

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          5 months ago

          Oohh. It’s been a while since I saw the video and I just remembered that he needed to do it again because it stopped working over time.

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        5 months ago

        lactose intolerance is a very very different thing from diabetes.
        Insulin is a fundamental part of keeping you alive, and if you fuck up the balance you can die which is why diabetes is such a big deal.

        Lactose intolerance is just the inability to digest a specific kind of sugar, which means bacteria in your digestive system can gorge themselves and give you an absurd amount of gas and other very unpleasant but ultimately not particularly dangerous consequences.