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Interesting analogy because: if you consume no lactose, your internal biome loses the ability to metabolize it and therefore you become "lactose intolerant." If you do start consuming lactose again, sooner or later you should also regain the ability to metabolize it (this isn't something that's encoded in your genome, it's encoded in the genome of all the things that live in your gut - a colony with more cells (albeit smaller cells) than your own body.)
Define "real." I have frequently thought "holy shit! This thing has produced a result that would have taken me hours, and it appears to be correct, and like an "NP hard" problem now that I have the proposed solution it's relatively trivial to verify if it is correct or not (and it tends to be correct more than 80% of the time lately.)
Some people get that way about Magic 8 Balls and Ouija boards.