Wow that's great if it helped you feel better!! I mostly notice that it helps my eyes (less/no eyestrain) and skin (softer).
Kefir's already fermented, so (assuming you didn't find some pasteurized kind, i don't know how that works but you CAN ferment pasteurized milk still so maybe it's fine) you don't actually have to store it in the fridge. It'll get more and more sour and split into liquid and whey, but you can just mix it back together and if it's too sour, eat it with fruit or something. Alternatively you can keep letting it go until it REALLY separates and you can press the solids together, and those solids will be cheese. So I'd just try buying some small amount of milk, plopping a spoonful of storebought kefir into it, letting the milk sit out overnight and see what happens. It's not the real way to make kefir and isn't so sustainable (as buying the "grains" and actually making it for real) but you should at least make yoghurt which is cheaper and more healthier than the storebought yoghurt. People might scare you about it getting moldy or going bad and stuff but i've never had a problem aside from when i actually mixed things i was going to ferment with utensils that i'd already eaten off of. And when making nattou, when i had the wrong temperature and too much air (it didn't go moldy, it just didn't work and was gross).
Yeah the reason why most people are lactose intolerant is due to the pasteurization of the lactose, not the actual lactose... hopefully that's the case for you too. I can tolerate kefir made from pasteurized milk way better than normal pasteurized milk, but it still got to be too irritating for me. If I had more money I'd definitely figure out a way to order unpasteurized milk from a farm and make kefir that way though.
From all my reading, it seems like birth problems, no matter what they are, always have to do with the mother (some people say both mother and father though the mother's more important obviously) having a lack of nutrition. Ignoring getting 100% of your daily recommendation, we're really supposed to be getting like ten times the amount --- not coming from supplements, but from real food. I think our standards of nutrition and what a "normal, healthy" mother and baby are have fallen so low that we don't know what's good anymore. I mean like, I read that there's actually no reason for you to get fat when pregnant. Your belly might get fat, sure, but there's no reason for the rest of you to get fat - that's due to your bad diet. I haven't looked up any more about it so I don't know if it's true or not, but it very well could be, and instead we're all like "becoming obese when you're pregnant and then never gaining the weight back is normal lol!".
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Date: 2017-06-17 07:40 am (UTC)Kefir's already fermented, so (assuming you didn't find some pasteurized kind, i don't know how that works but you CAN ferment pasteurized milk still so maybe it's fine) you don't actually have to store it in the fridge. It'll get more and more sour and split into liquid and whey, but you can just mix it back together and if it's too sour, eat it with fruit or something. Alternatively you can keep letting it go until it REALLY separates and you can press the solids together, and those solids will be cheese. So I'd just try buying some small amount of milk, plopping a spoonful of storebought kefir into it, letting the milk sit out overnight and see what happens. It's not the real way to make kefir and isn't so sustainable (as buying the "grains" and actually making it for real) but you should at least make yoghurt which is cheaper and more healthier than the storebought yoghurt. People might scare you about it getting moldy or going bad and stuff but i've never had a problem aside from when i actually mixed things i was going to ferment with utensils that i'd already eaten off of. And when making nattou, when i had the wrong temperature and too much air (it didn't go moldy, it just didn't work and was gross).
Yeah the reason why most people are lactose intolerant is due to the pasteurization of the lactose, not the actual lactose... hopefully that's the case for you too. I can tolerate kefir made from pasteurized milk way better than normal pasteurized milk, but it still got to be too irritating for me. If I had more money I'd definitely figure out a way to order unpasteurized milk from a farm and make kefir that way though.
From all my reading, it seems like birth problems, no matter what they are, always have to do with the mother (some people say both mother and father though the mother's more important obviously) having a lack of nutrition. Ignoring getting 100% of your daily recommendation, we're really supposed to be getting like ten times the amount --- not coming from supplements, but from real food. I think our standards of nutrition and what a "normal, healthy" mother and baby are have fallen so low that we don't know what's good anymore. I mean like, I read that there's actually no reason for you to get fat when pregnant. Your belly might get fat, sure, but there's no reason for the rest of you to get fat - that's due to your bad diet. I haven't looked up any more about it so I don't know if it's true or not, but it very well could be, and instead we're all like "becoming obese when you're pregnant and then never gaining the weight back is normal lol!".