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Lactose Digestion Kinetics: A 2D Gut-Tract Map

2D top-down gut-tract map: drag to pan and scroll to zoom along the small intestine and colon while a real Michaelis-Menten enzyme model decides, live, how much lactose is absorbed versus fermented into gas by colon bacteria as you tune lactase activity, dose and transit time.

Medicine & Biophysics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Milk tolerance is not a lifestyle choice — it is a single brush-border enzyme, lactase, whose activity is set genetically and varies enormously between individuals and across human populations. This 2D top-down map runs the same Michaelis-Menten hydrolysis model as the full 3D gut simulator along a schematic coiled small intestine and looping colon: dial lactase activity, lactose dose and small-intestine transit time and watch, live, how much sugar is absorbed before it reaches the colon versus how much is left for gut bacteria to ferment into gas. Drag to pan and scroll to zoom around the tract while the particle colours and gas bubbles update in real time.

⚙ Under the hood

digestionenzyme-kineticsgeneticsgut-microbiomephysiologypharmacology

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install