Talk:Lactagen

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Symptoms may include a painful combination of digestive discomfort, including gas, cramping, bloating or diarrhea due to inefficient metabolism of undigested lactose by normal gut bacteria. Beyond the unpleasant and embarrassing gastrointestinal consequences, the disease can also increase one’s long-term health risk for developing osteoporosis, hypertension, and certain cancers, such as colon or breast cancer.

Yet according to Lactose intolerance, "Since lactose intolerance poses no further threat to a person's health, managing the condition consists of minimizing the occurrence and severity of symptoms."

In other words, this article suggests a host of related health risks, but that article says that there are no such risks. Furthermore, that article cites a source (Hargrove, James L.; Berdanier, Carolyn D. (1993). Nutrition and gene expression. Boca Raton: CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-6961-4.); this article does not. I have therefore commented-out the controversial claim.

Again according to Lactose intolerance, "Lactose intolerance is the inability to metabolize lactose, because of a lack of the required enzyme lactase in the digestive system." Similarly, this article states, "Lactose intolerance is caused by a lack of the naturally produced enzyme lactase in the stomach." Both of these suggestions seems to contradict with the now commented-out claim that symptoms are "due to inefficient metabolism of undigested lactose by normal gut bacteria."

Please either add reliable sources or remove these claims. Cnilep (talk) 16:49, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edits require discussion

User:NDunk43 added a mixture of well-sourced and unsourced information with this edit. The edit also moved criticisms of the product from the top of the page to the bottom, at the end of a series of relatively positive descriptions of the product. I am troubled by the borderline promotional tone of some of these additions, especially when they are unsourced. I'm also concerned that changes to section headers (particularly the section "How Lactagen Works") move this page's style further from Wikipedia style and toward a promotional appearance.

To date, NDunk43 has made no edits to pages other than Lactagen. Cnilep (talk) 17:56, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored some of the earlier language and added primary sources from the Ritter Pharmaceuticals web site. Please edit the page (remembering to use an edit summary) or comment here if you feel the page does not display neutral point of view. Ideally we should cite third-party sources, especially those describing Lactagen as a product and not Ritter's business practices. Cnilep (talk) 16:24, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Discontinued

The product Lactagen has been discontinued apparently (according to the website lactagen.com), the article should be changed to reflect this — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.237.244.194 (talk) 07:04, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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