Milk Allergy or Lactose Intolerance? Here is How NAET Solves Your Dairy Sensitivities✨
- Megumi Uppena
- Sep 4
- 5 min read
Thursday, September 4, 2025
When people say they “can’t do dairy,” most assume it’s just lactose intolerance — that classic gas, bloating, and mad dash to the bathroom after ice cream. 🍦 But here’s the truth: dairy sensitivity is way more complicated than that.
Milk isn’t just one thing. It’s this cocktail of sugars, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, even bacteria. Your body has to use all sorts of tools — enzymes, organs, gut bacteria, immune defenses — to break it down. And if anything in that chain gets misaligned, your body can go, “Nope, not today.”
That’s where NAET comes in. In NAET theory, we believe you can be sensitive or allergic to literally anything involved in the digestion of dairy. That could mean:
The nutrients themselves, like calcium, lactose, or casein
The tools, like enzymes (lactase, protease, lipase)
Your own mucous membranes and tissues in the digestive system
Immune system players, like immunoglobulins
Or even byproducts made while your body digests dairy, like casomorphins
If there’s an energy misalignment with any of these? ⚡️ That’s when problems show up. But if you’re aligned with all the ingredients, tools, and processes, your body can handle dairy gracefully. And through NAET, that balance is totally possible. 🙌
Let’s break it down in plain English.
What’s Actually in Dairy? 🧀
Milk is like a complicated recipe. And every ingredient in that recipe could be the one giving you trouble.
Carbs (aka milk sugars)
Lactose – the sugar most people know. Needs the enzyme lactase to be broken down. Without it, hello gas and bloating.
Galactose – one half of lactose. Harder to process for some people.
Proteins (big immune system troublemakers)
Casein – the main milk protein. Different versions (like A1 vs A2 casein) affect people differently. Casein also breaks down into casomorphins, which act like little opioids in the brain. For some, they cause brain fog or mood shifts.
Whey proteins – including β-lactoglobulin and α-lactalbumin. Common culprits in kids with milk allergies.
Fats
Saturated fats, short-chain fatty acids, and CLA. Usually nourishing, but for some bodies, they trigger inflammation or sluggish digestion.
Vitamins & Minerals
Calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, vitamins A, D, B2, B12. These are “good for you” nutrients, but yes, people can even become sensitive to them.
How Your Body Digests Dairy 🧩
Picture this: you take a sip of milk. Your body launches a full-on operation.
Mouth → enzymes in saliva begin sugar breakdown.
Stomach → acid and pepsin start unraveling proteins.
Small intestine → this is where the magic (or chaos) happens.
Lactase breaks lactose into simple sugars.
Proteases tackle casein and whey.
Lipase + bile break down fats.
Large intestine → anything left over becomes food for gut bacteria, often creating gas, bloating, or diarrhea.
If any step misfires — say you don’t have enough lactase, or your pancreas is tired, or your gut lining is inflamed — dairy won’t get digested properly. Instead of nourishing you, it becomes a trigger.
And here’s the NAET view: if your body’s energy is misaligned with even one part of this process (like bile, or protease, or casein itself), your system reacts.
The Gut Bacteria Connection 🦠
Here’s where things get juicy. Your gut bacteria play a huge role in how you tolerate dairy.
Helpful bacteria like Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium make lactase for you. This is why yogurt or kefir is often easier to digest than plain milk.
Fermentation friends like Streptococcus thermophilus or certain yeasts help transform milk into cheese and cultured products.
The mysterious “Lactase E. coli” you may have heard me talk about. Some strains of E. coli are lactose-fermenting — meaning they make the enzyme that breaks down lactose. But here’s the twist: if your immune system becomes sensitive to these bacteria or their enzymes, you may react to dairy every time they’re involved.
I see this a lot in practice. When I treat people’s sensitivities to “Lactase E. coli” using NAET, their dairy reactions often improve dramatically. Why? Because the immune system finally stops attacking a helper that was supposed to make life easier.
Dairy + Your Immune System 🚨
Sometimes it’s not digestion — it’s your immune system running defense mode.
IgE allergy → the classic “milk allergy,” causing hives, swelling, wheezing, or in rare cases, anaphylaxis.
IgG sensitivity → delayed reactions like fatigue, skin rashes, joint pain, or brain fog.
IgA → immune cells in your gut lining that can cause local inflammation.
Histamine release → dairy can make mast cells spill histamine, leading to itching, congestion, or rashes.
Different people react in totally different ways: one gets stomach cramps, another gets migraines, another gets eczema. That’s the beauty (and frustration) of the immune system.
So… Why Does NAET Work Here? 🌿
Because in NAET, we zoom out. We don’t just look at “dairy” as one big bad wolf. Instead, we look at all the ingredients, tools, tissues, bacteria, and immune reactions involved in digesting dairy.
If you’re out of alignment with:
Calcium
Lactose
Casein
Your own digestive enzymes
Bacteria like Lactase E. coli
Or even your own mucous membranes
…then your body may react every time you try to eat dairy.
But here’s the good news: if we realign you energetically with each of these elements, one by one, your system stops reacting. Suddenly, milk isn’t the enemy anymore. 🥛💃
Bottom Line 💡
Dairy sensitivity isn’t one-size-fits-all. It can be about:
Missing enzymes
Troublemaker proteins like casein or whey
Bacteria in your gut
Nutrients your body misidentifies as invaders
Or immune system overreactions
In NAET, we see dairy as a puzzle. Once all the pieces — nutrients, enzymes, tissues, bacteria, antibodies — are energetically aligned, the puzzle fits. And when the puzzle fits, you can finally enjoy dairy again (or at least stop suffering when you accidentally have some).
Ready to Tackle Your Dairy Sensitivities? 📞
If dairy has been messing with you — whether it’s bloating, skin issues, brain fog, or just never knowing how your body will react — there’s hope. With NAET, we can identify and treat your unique sensitivities so your body feels safe again.
👉 Schedule your free phone consultation today. Let’s find out what’s behind your dairy sensitivity and whether NAET is the right fit for you.
Because life’s too short to be scared of cheese. 🧀💛
In health,
Megumi
Hi, I’m Megumi Uppena. I help you break free from the limitations of allergies by uncovering root causes and offering natural, holistic care so you can enjoy vibrant health and a fearless, happy life.
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