WEBVTT - Knowledge is Power 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:07.600 You are listening waiting on reparations production of I R Radio. Yo, Yo, 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:13.880 what's up y'all? This dope knife and we are waiting 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:19.439 on reparations? Hurry up, yo. We are the show rich 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.439 in the gap between hip, pomp and politics. You know 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:29.880 how it's been a long time left left you without it? Dope? 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:34.080 How know you? I've been good. I've been good. I mean, 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.040 we haven't seen each other since that show that we did. 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.600 We did have an exfluent show down in Savannah. You 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.159 have to go that. I was seeing the highlights of 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:44.599 your tour. I've been well. Since then, I've been well. 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:46.800 I'm wrestled for it's gotten off the tour when you 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:51.199 were getting READI yeah, so I'm wrestling. I'm actually you know, 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:52.760 you know how it goes when you're on the road 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:54.600 and then you're like, man, I can't wait to get home. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.240 And then you're back home you're like, man, I'm tire 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:57.400 of looking at all this. I want to go back 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:07.800 up and yeah, yeah, yeah, yes. I defended my dissertation 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:09.920 a week ago. It feels like it was months ago 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.600 because probably I just blacked out the entire experience because 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:16.640 it's terrifying, but yeah, so I am a doctor now, 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:22.440 so that's crazy. But yeah, and then been tor in Birmingham, BC, Asheville, 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:26.440 Savanna obviously. Um, and I just had a West coast 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:32.480 tour announced like yesterday, I'm going out with a band 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:40.319 called Holy f Word. Yeah they're really dope. But yeah, 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:46.000 we're going from like Vancouver down to San Diego. Dates ten. 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:51.160 You said next week, Yeah, oh say you just get 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:57.240 at it. Yeah. So yeah, that's what un Well, it 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:02.680 is election day today Georgia all across the state, and 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.160 we are having some decent voter turnout from what I hear, 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.400 we are, yeah, and so there's been a lot of 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.520 conversations and go, oh, voters depression, wasn't that bad when 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:15.960 it's like one, people are livid that their votes are 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.480 trying to be taken away from them, and so they're 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:22.720 coming out in greater numbers. UM. One survey showed that 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:27.520 Georgians believed their vote matters, like to a degree that 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.119 is higher than anywhere else in the country. Like Georgians 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.080 really believed. Yeah, like folks in the state really believe 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:38.600 their vote matters, Like I mean yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.119 And so we got people who were like really motivated 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.160 to vote because they really feel like it counts and 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.840 it matters more so than anywhere else in the country. 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.560 And then we have tons of organizers people like the 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:52.200 New Georgia Project and Fair Fight and Black Voters Matter, etcetera, 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.000 registering touns of voter. I mean, like we got obviously 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.760 everyone so were Stacy A. Baron's running for governor. We 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:02.160 have an opportunity to expand Medicaid under her governorship. Um, 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.680 there's like tons of tons and tons of uninsured Georgians. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.720 We have like one of the lowest insured rates in 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.280 the country and then one of the highest maternal mortality 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:15.040 rates too, and so like, um, that alone, I mean 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:19.560 that alone could be world altering for so many people. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.720 But yeah, a lot of folks getting out the vote today, 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:25.240 feeling excited, feeling empowered, cool. So on the topic of 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:30.120 Medicaid and health insurance and our health generally. In this episode, 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:31.880 we've teamed up with twenty three and me for a 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:36.120 conversation for a conversation about DNA testing. Now you have 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.920 twenty three, here is a DNA testing you think it? 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.920 The guys, we already heard you do that episode about 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.680 ancestry and things like that. That's not really what we're 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:49.200 talking about today. See it's it's not necessarily limited to 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:54.040 your ancestry. Like DNA testing can be used to gain 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.000 insight on one's own health, certain things that you may 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.640 be at risk for, and it can equip you with 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.640 the information that you need, and you can equip you 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.960 with the information that you need to make the necessary 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.320 changes live your best life. You know, So we're cann 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:13.040 alert you to your risk of type two diabetes, maculate generation, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:17.040 try to keep your eye health good, sailiac disease UM, 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.840 if you might be a higher risk for chronic kidney 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:26.479 disease UM late onset Alzheimer's UM, which definitely something I'm 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.960 thinking about having, you know, multiple incidences of it in 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.719 my family. But then you can see if you're at 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.760 higher risk of Parkinson's, a trial defibrilation, which is kind 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:41.080 of like a regular heartbeat. UM. There's all kinds of exema. Like, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.320 there's all sorts of things that you can discover. Nick 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.599 kick it off. We're gonna start by recapping the story 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.080 of legendary hip hop with user Jake Diller for visiting 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.960 stuff of j Dillas story UM with his own health 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.480 UM as well as preventative healthcare broadly and the power 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.679 of knowing about the DNA. Yeah, now we've definitely mentioned 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.920 j Blah on the show before. Just to recap you. So, 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.479 Ja Billa was diagnosed with an incurable blood disease around 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:12.800 two thousand two two thousand five. He underwent intensive treatment. 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.239 I do believe he was misdiagnosed a couple of times, 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.640 and twenty nine out of thirty one tracks from Dyla's 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.840 uh last album Donuts were actually recorded in his hospital bed. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.240 He using the Boss SP three or three sampler and 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.720 a small forty five record player as those friends bottom 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.800 And it was released on his thirty second birthday. And 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.760 I mean, you can't up you can't overstate the importance 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.320 of that j Bila album Donuts. He can remember the 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.200 first time you heard that? I yeah, I was mind blown. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.320 It's around the same time I was like a pretty 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.000 young persons all the same time I discovered like m 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.720 F Doom Cats like that that really expanded my idea 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.000 of what hip hop can be and you know, sonically 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.680 um and also resonated with a lot of how I 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.599 initially got into hip hop, like through like adult swing, 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.680 Cartoon of the Night, they play like a lot of 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:06.720 lo fi sort of um like a lot of samples 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:12.599 drawing from an earlier era, very nostalgic sounding and revolutionary 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.400 with her. And so yeah, when I heard Donas, I 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:19.280 was like, oh my god, like hip hop is can 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.640 can be so much. I mean he influenced. He influenced 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:28.520 countless people like he pretty much like influenced hip hop producers, 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:33.520 jazz musicians is partially responsible for, like neo soul is 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.920 a genre, and as far as the people that he's 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.080 worked with. When you're talking tribe called Quest Q Tip 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:44.400 comment everybody, Erica Vadu, Quest love from the roots like everybody. 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:48.479 So J Dilla is like a prolific, prolific producer, but 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.200 we lost them early on thirty two years old. So 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.040 Dilla was uninshort at the time and he didn't seek 0:06:56.040 --> 0:07:01.040 care until he was sacking. And there's disproportionate rates of disease, cancer, 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.840 diabetes in the black community that could be mitigated. It's 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.800 both new that they are risks and they felt, you know, 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.760 in charge of their own health. Yeah, I mean, I 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.320 mean so many people, even if you have insurance, you know, 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.640 just don't go to a doctor until they're thick, and 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.440 especially in the hip hop community and the black community, 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.560 it's it's definitely like an issue. I mean, there's like 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.240 a laundry list of preventative cares that you can take 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.080 right Like you can eat, you can change your diet, 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.960 and you can change your lifestyle and all that stuff. 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.680 But at the end of the day, it's the more 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.080 information that you have about, you knowin your health, the 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:41.840 more aquiff you are when you do when misfortune does 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.200 arise and you have to go into the healthcare system 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.720 or you know, even unfortunate time to think about, Like 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:52.360 I had multiple hospitalizations last year while I was pregnant, 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.040 and um, you know that's a very exciting thing, a 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.800 little scary, but you know it's going through something that 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.920 you're really stoked about. But even you know, when you're 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.160 in the hospital, my experience, I feel like it's also 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.400 the same for a lot of people. Um, it feels 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.720 like choices are just made for you. Like you go 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.600 in and they're like we gotta run these tests and 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.360 we're gonna do this treatment and this and that. This 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.440 is the plan. Um. And so I think it's important 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.640 for people to feel empowered to say, like, hey, I 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.640 want information about this. I know I'm at risk for X, 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.400 Y and Z. Let's talk about that. So they can 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:27.160 really take control of those conversations where you know, the 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:31.000 power dynamics feel very imbalanced. Were like you're talking to 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.480 these medical experts who are like, you know, they got 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.360 the game plan versus you that it's just like you're 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.080 just there because you care about your health and you 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.000 want to be well. Um, but coming into that conversation 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.160 like Yo, I know what I'm gonna ask about, I 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.760 know what my concerns are. I'm gonna speak up for myself. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.840 It's an important part of really taking advantage of like 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:53.199 preventative health care and getting the health outcomes like you want, 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:57.560 you want to see, so having yeah, sorry now I 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.680 was just gonna add like I I also have like 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.680 a from experience with that. My father is similar to 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:07.800 j B's situation where he got diagnosed with a kidney 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.360 condition and we found it out too late and he 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.880 didn't really act on it until he was sick. And 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.640 I remember the ins and outs of the hospital and 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.240 the testing and trying to figure out what was wrong 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.600 with them. You know, by the time we even you know, 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.679 they could pinpoint what the actual issue was it was 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.880 almost too late. Yeah, but I mean, thankfully there are 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.720 opportunities to but certain conditions have insight into how your 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:36.720 DNA can affect it likelihood for developing those conditions, and 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:38.480 then you can you know, be more empowered to make 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.160 healthier choices that can improve the you can improve your 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.240 quality of life. Um, I think learning those lessons from 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.240 our experiences and your experience with your dad and my 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.680 experience in the hospital a bunch of times last here 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.600 definitely a test um how important is to take that 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.760 for racket staff and like, if you're dont learn something 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:01.520 about yourself, something about your likelihood for different um conditions, 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.520 you can like you know, make more informed and empowered choices. 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.760 So pure, I mean, like I had another personal experience 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:12.040 as well. You know, my father lost my grandmother, his mother, 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.040 to Alzheimer's. He was just her. He was her primary 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.720 caregiver at that time and it's currently the primary carebra 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.600 faver primary caregiver for his partner, my stepmom, who also 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.120 has Alzheimer's. And I've seen him close the way this 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.520 impacts the family, having dealt with like really strong emotions 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:32.079 observing you know, my stepmother's mental state evolved in the 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.880 years since their diagnosis. But luckily my parents are runners 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.280 and being physically activists really central to their lives, which 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:43.200 has been found to help prevent and slow cognition impacts. 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:47.040 So knowing that early, knowing that you have an increased 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.600 likelihood of developing something like Alzheimer's, you can start off 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:54.280 early on, you know, running, being busily active and making 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.520 those lifestyle changes that can actually you know, completely change 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.760 the course of your life, you know, if you if 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:03.080 you've to have that info early on. So same thing 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.959 with knowing if you're at risk with breast cancer and 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.240 getting regular checkups and screenings and you know, get adjusting 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.400 your diets to know that you're at risk of heart disease. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.080 Now it is you know, important that we remind you, 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:20.280 Like DNA testing isn't in itself like recommending a treatment. Yeah. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.480 So on the topic of breast cancer, the TOTY three 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.640 and me r C A one and b r C 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:28.640 A two Genetic Health Risk Report is intended for use 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.800 with adults to report three genetic variants and the d 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:33.600 r C A one and b r C A two 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.040 genes associated with the higher risk of developing breast or 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:41.600 variant and prostate cancer. The report doesn't include variants and 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.679 other genes linked to hereditary cancer, so it's not intended 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.840 to diagnose any disease or tell you about your overall 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:52.360 risk of developing disease. It's not intended to determine any treatments, 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.520 and of course you know your results should be confirmed 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.840 in a clinical setting before taking any medical off any 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.040 medical actions, So it's not a sub institute for visits 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:05.840 to healthcare professionals for recommended screenings are appropriate follow up UM. 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.520 It can just kind of prompt you to consider UM 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.640 lifestyle changes, what you want to talk about with your doctor, 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.040 But ultimately you know it's important to go see a 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.079 doctor and talk to them about you know, very soon 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.240 as you concerned about now speaking of these twenty three 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.679 in ME reports and DNA testing in general as a topic, 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:26.320 like what are your general thoughts about that? I mean, 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.240 like bringing back to proposing once again, if I had 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:33.960 known that I was at increased risk for gestational diabetes 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:38.040 while pregnant UM, that would at least have unsettled or 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.720 at least would have settled some of the uncertainty of 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:42.720 like simply not knowing when I went in to get 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:48.520 my you know, blood tests, and I was like really nervous, Like, um, 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.000 that uncertainty was almost as bad as a lot of 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.920 the other health stuff I was going through. But but again, 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.079 I'm sorry, I don't know if he caught the yelling 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.640 at doctor, But again, like having that knowledge and feeling 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:04.520 empowered like okay, like I could kind of imagine some 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:09.199 different potentialities here and be able to have frank conversations 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.760 with my doctors around that, that would have felt great. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.920 But you know, I got through it, So I hope 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.480 other people don't have to deal with that same thing. 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:27.880 But let's be frank about it. You know, we're we're 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:32.280 both sitting here and we haven't taken the town ourselves 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.480 for this episode's sake. Um, it was something that we 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:40.120 both needed more data and more information on. And you know, 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.640 everyone has their reasons of being skin issuggery with giving 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.199 you know, just being frank with you handing over your 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:51.520 DNA to a big company or something like that. So 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:56.240 that's generally is my hesitation in doing it, is the 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.560 fear of that and in the fear of my privacy 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.720 and the fear of you know, like we talked about 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.560 finding out our data, and it's just like wanting to 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.480 make sure that your dad is in the right hands. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.000 You know that it actually is data that that's like 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.400 a personal fear that I've had that was an obstacle 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.640 in doing this because you know, like when we when 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.560 we were approached for this, we were asked if we 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.680 wanted to take the test. I didn't take it for 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.080 that reason. And I got to say that through the 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.120 course of of everything that we've read and everything that 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.400 we've been looking at, I actually feel more comfortable with 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:30.960 it now, and I actually do think I'm gonna go 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:35.160 get the report done after this for all of the 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.800 reasons that we've talked about them. Not a spring chicken 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.160 of an m C. You know, like the whole thing 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.440 would being like a rapper and m C and being 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:48.880 in hip hop. This this sense of invulnerability, you know, 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.560 because it's such a youthful thing. You can kind of 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.480 get swept up in thinking that you're gonna be young 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.440 forever and that you know you're gonna be fine and 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.440 nothing's gonna hurt you, and not not taking your health seriously. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.360 And again, you know, it's not something you should just 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:04.840 think about when you're getting older, but like we've been 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.520 saying the smell about preventative measure and preventative care. So 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.280 the suitor that you start looking into things like that, 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.880 even even if you don't go in the route of 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.560 finding out your DNA, but if you take a proactive 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.880 step in your health and maintaining it and making sure 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:21.760 that you're in the you know, the best condition that 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.520 you possibly could be in, that's always important. Yeah, you know, 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.760 like people tell you all the time, Oh, you need 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.720 to eat right, Oh you need to exercise, Oh you 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.440 need to keep your blood pressure down, and limit your sugar. 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.000 But when you have like a concrete reason, like oh 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.280 I met I know I'm at an increased risk for this, 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.480 like that can really get you going, like, Okay, I 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.520 really do need to hit the gym. I do need 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.200 to be I don't know, I'm drinking more water or 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.280 whatever it is. Because it's not just this abstract, you know, 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.800 just people bombarding you with advice you didn't ask for. 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.320 It's like really tied to your personal life. And so 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.040 I mean, I think that's a big benefit. And I 0:15:56.120 --> 0:16:00.600 totally understand why, particularly within you know, the circles where 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:06.280 we move, there's a lot of just medical hesitancy generally, um, 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:10.760 you know, just given the legacy of things like just 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:12.920 there's been there's I don't even working to do it 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.560 because like there's mad, crazy things that have happened in 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.600 our history, in our past and make people like I 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.960 don't know about doctors though, but you know, putting that 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.360 information directly into your hands, um, so you can decide 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.120 what to do with it. It's not necessarily like, you know, 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.160 whatever you gotta do with your doctor. If you don't 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.120 like go to see doctor, I get it, you should go. 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.760 But if you take the information and at least start 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.800 making different choices in your personal life with regards to 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.280 your diet, with the cards, your exercise, like there you go. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.960 You know, that's that's empowerment right there. But I definitely 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.480 drove a little bit of my opencerch at first, Like 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.720 I don't know doctor's medicine. I just like you know, 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:50.520 like I was saying about being the hospital, it's just 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:54.120 been so nerve wracking to like and overwhelming to like 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:55.960 take in frol of my health. But I kind of 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.240 get it now, you know. Like no, I was gonna 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.480 add on to that, like you for people who haven't 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:06.800 been in the like healthcare system and haven't had to 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.000 deal with it yet. It's one of those things where 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:14.000 it's like like you don't you don't know until you know, 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.040 you know what I'm saying, Like, once you're in it, Shoot, 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:22.480 the more information that you're arm going, the the easier 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.320 it is to get through. I'm not saying it's easy 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.280 at all, but it's like, the more that you know 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.680 about your own health, it can save you so much 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:32.840 time and money and like, to be honest with you, heartache, 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.600 you know. Yeah, I mean like for like I think 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.679 it probably like nine percent of the time being in 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:41.720 the hospital. It's like one of the lower points of 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.000 a person's life, right, Like nobody wants to be there 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.159 unless you're like, yeah, I'm having a maybe it's outside it. 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:48.920 But think about the fact that that medical head to 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:50.960 dude that you know, people don't want to go to 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.119 the people don't want to get these you know, blood 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:58.439 tests and things. If you are proactive about lifestyle choices, 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:03.960 you can avoid that larger unpleasantness of being in the hospital. 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:09.040 Um because you you know, had the condition that ran 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:13.080 unchecked and now it's really really at firstly impacting you. Um. 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:14.800 So on the flip side. It's like, you know, I 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.399 didn't really I was like no, no about this because 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:21.880 like of like skepticism about doctors and hospitals. But having 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:26.840 this information can help you avoid deep intentions with it, 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.399 UM if you if you really want to, like, all right, 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.280 I'm gonna get my life right, I'm gonna do what 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.040 I need to for myself and my health for my 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.600 family who wants me to live a happy and full life. Right. 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.360 So that's tackful. So yeah, I mean, at the end 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:43.320 of the day, everybody has to do with rank for 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.960 them and everybody has to do what's comfortable for them. 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:49.879 This is just one of different avenues that you can 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:54.840 look into UM on this particular issue of your health, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.560 DNA testing. It's not the be all and end all. 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:02.400 And also know you might even be thrown off because 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:04.960 we're talking about twenty three and me and you're thinking, man, 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.080 but I thought that was ancestry and whatnot. And it's 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.639 you know that you can do more with the knowledge 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.360 of your DNA than just find out who you know 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.040 what your ancestry is. And that's part of what this 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.679 is all about. It's just a cool Black people are 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:24.200 at higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, sickle cell cancer. 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.639 I mean, these are all reasons to be proactive about it. 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.800 And also, and I'm sure Mariah agree with me on this, 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:35.159 we're advocates of mental health, and in our communities we 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.280 have a laundry list of things that we're stressing about, 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:41.520 that we're worried about from day to day, and don't 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:45.600 think for a second that your health concerns aren't adding 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.840 onto that. So it's important also to consider I think 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:53.120 the relationship between our physical health and our overall well being, 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:56.320 inclusive of mental health, and so being able to like 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.600 go in and have that empowered conversation can have you know, 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.680 I don't know, like a sense of self esteem. I 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:04.360 don't always say building, but you know what I mean, 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:06.560 Like you you feel a little more power. Do you 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.840 feel a little more confident because you're armed with information? 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:11.879 I feel like, you know, I think that's like a 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:14.680 universal principle if you're going into something like all right, 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:18.800 I got this information to draw off of, like preparation 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:22.680 itself for whatever it is that you have to deal with. UM. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.119 I think I'm definitely you know, going back to the 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:28.080 example of pregnancy, there's so so much uncertainty, so many 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.840 things you're just not and it's it's not just like 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.440 the physical toll of my knees are aching or whatever. 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.919 It's always like mentally it takes a lot out of you. 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:40.440 But you know, it's always it's always easier to talk 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.120 about things when you wrap them, at least for me. 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.000 What do we mean? What about you? Mariety? You feel 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.320 you feel like we could, You feel like we could 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:52.359 bring this home. I suppose I am a rapper, but 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:54.320 I guess this is the big test of time. If 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:58.840 I can wrap about uh DNA knowledge, I can wrap 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:09.879 at anything. So let's get it. Ye oh uh uh 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:14.879 uh we over here waiting no reparations. I'm tired of 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:17.600 taking all of these little adventures. I'm trying to take 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.280 a week off. Visit mccardi out there, just my dentist, 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:23.040 get my blood pressure check and get them perfect. Sure, 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:26.480 the uncertainty is a pretty quirky thing, but love, love, long, 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:29.640 and prosperous offer an injury. I'm gonna drinking too much pobo? 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:32.560 Should I compare to to how's my blood sugar? Should 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:35.159 I stop eating the burger king for number? Knowing the 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:38.200 story is going, it's the getherty, but never ever need 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:41.400 to be scared because see a little bit knowledge getting 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:43.320 out for you to prepare to eat your carrots to 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.280 some lamps would ever take stay up. It is some faith, 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:48.720 but there's some indicators there from take point, A lot 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:52.360 of information hidden right under the radar. It's mark of conversation, 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:55.520 some contemplations and my though changes. I don't know. It's 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:58.920 up to you. So what you're gonna, what you're gonna, 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:07.000 what you gonna, what you're gonna do? All right, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:11.200 waiting our reparations. It's obviously fresh a podcast with hip 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:14.199 hop and politics, can nack. I know everybody tough and 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:16.360 they be in on their chat, but don't worry bout 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:18.480 your health. You better go get you with chat gets 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:21.359 some p s A, al shams and diabetes being play. 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:23.400