How to Use lactase in a Sentence

lactase

noun

• For instance, Lactaid pills contain the enzyme lactase, which helps break down milk sugar in people who are lactose intolerant.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2024
• Over time, your body produces less of the enzyme lactase.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
• The spread of that culture had the effect of spreading the lactase persistence gene.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2017
• Drinking milk after your lactase gene is turned off is no fun.
  — Bob Gathany, AL.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• However, once the infants are weaned, the lactase-producing gene is turned off.
  — Bob Gathany, AL.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• By some measures, most adults do not produce the enzyme lactase, which is necessary to break down lactose sugars in milk.
  — Rob Dunn, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2013
• This happens if the small intestine doesn't make enough lactase, the enzyme that helps with dairy digestion by breaking down lactose.
  — Melissa Matthews, SELF, 5 Jan. 2021
• The strongest signal of selection was a region on Chromosome 2 that contained the LCT gene producing lactase, the enzyme that breaks down the lactose in milk.
  — Aatish Bhatia, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2012
• The enzymes lactase and sucrase, made in the small intestine, break down dairy sugar and sugar, respectively.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
• These individuals lack the enzyme lactase (to varying degrees) that allows them to break down lactose, the sugar in milk.
  — Sara Chodosh, Popular Science, 7 Jan. 2019
• To digest lactose requires an enzyme called lactase, which infants of all mammals produce.
  — Bob Gathany, AL.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• Famous enzymes include lactase, which breaks down milk sugars in those who are lactose tolerant.
  — Ian Haydon, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2017
• In drinking a full gallon of milk, most people burn through their available lactase and then become lactose intolerant during the challenge....
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 1 Oct. 2018
• The widespread ability for humans to process lactase into adulthood is an example of such a mutation.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
• If your body doesn’t produce enough lactase, the enzyme that breaks down the sugar in dairy, drinking a gallon of milk is probably going to lead to bloating, nausea, and some serious farts, at minimum.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 21 Sep. 2022
• The fact that your weight stabilized with proper treatment of your lactase deficiency suggests that there are no other worrisome causes in your case.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 19 May 2022
• This is one cause of lactase deficiency and lactose intolerance.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 14 Dec. 2017
• Limiting or completely avoiding foods and drinks containing lactose is one way to try to manage the intolerance, as is using products like Lactaid that contain lactase.
  — Melissa Matthews, SELF, 5 Jan. 2021
• Drinking a domestic animal's milk must have given these populations a serious evolutionary advantage in order for the lactase-keeping trait to spread so well.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2011
• The study also can’t account for the separate development of lactase-persistence alleles in other areas of the world, most notably in Africa, another continent where early evidence of milk consumption has been found.
  — Haley Weiss, The Atlantic, 27 July 2022
• Lactobacillus acidophilus produces lactic acid by producing the enzyme lactase.
  — Larry Carroll, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
• What’s more, studies of ancient human DNA have shown that the genetic mutation that enabled European lactase persistence doesn’t look like something that conferred a marginal nutritional advantage.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2022
• Lola’s genome also contained alleles that are usually associated with the inability to produce lactase—an enzyme that’s important in digesting milk—as an adult.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2020
• During fermentation, bacteria break down milk sugars including lactase, turning them into acids and easing digestion for those with lactose intolerance.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 7 May 2016
• Celiac disease and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth are malabsorption syndromes that can sometimes mimic pure lactase deficiency.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 19 May 2022
• Additionally, there is a strong correlation between pastoralism and lactase persistence.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2011
• The firm won an Accelerator grant to develop a subcutaneous sensor to simultaneously monitor glucose, ketones, and lactase in diabetic patients.
  — Nicholas Wallace, Science | AAAS, 8 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024