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Digestive enzymes in your stomach and intestines help digest the food you eat. If you are lactose intolerant and cannot digest milk

products, it is the result of a mutated message in your

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Lactose intolerance is when your body can't break down or digest lactose. Lactose is a sugar found in milk and milk products. Lactose intolerance happens when your small intestine does not make enough of a digestive enzyme called lactase. Lactase breaks down the lactose in food so your body can absorb it.

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It is the result of a mutated message in your chromosomes. Chromosomes do not just determine how you look but they control all the processes of the cells in an organism.

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