Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about how incredibly complex I spit is.
Speaker 1: It may only be water, but just aliva isn't simple.
Speaker 1: That remaining one percent holds incredibly meaningful information that could
Speaker 1: change everything. And I'm not just talking about your family
Speaker 1: treat Hi, I'm barret to day Thurston and on this
Speaker 1: season of Spit and I Heart Radio podcast with twenty
Speaker 1: three and me, we explore how DNA isn't just about ancestry,
Speaker 1: it can also be key to understanding your health. Hello
Speaker 1: you and welcome back. I've said this before, but what
Speaker 1: I love about this season of Spit is that we
Speaker 1: get to hear from all kinds of different people with
Speaker 1: different perspectives, and this episode is another great example of that. Now,
Speaker 1: today's episode features an important discussion from Waiting on Reparations,
Speaker 1: a podcast about hip hop and politics. Every week, host
Speaker 1: Dope Knife and Lingua Franca explore the history of public
Speaker 1: policy and its impacts on the hip hop community and
Speaker 1: its culture. In this episode, Dope Knife and Lingwood discussed
Speaker 1: the reality of health risks and the unfortunate disparities that
Speaker 1: are often found in marginalized communities. The two discuss their
Speaker 1: own health plus the experiences of family and friends who
Speaker 1: could have benefited from knowing more about their own health
Speaker 1: backgrounds the types of information found in the results of
Speaker 1: a twenty three and me test. The two explore how
Speaker 1: there's much more to learn from DNA than just your ancestry,
Speaker 1: and how important that knowledge can be. Let's listen in
Speaker 1: as these two share their unique perspective, including their thoughts
Speaker 1: on how the vital information provided in DNA testing can
Speaker 1: aid us in dealing with an unequal health care system.
Speaker 1: You are listening waiting on reparations production of I R Radio.
Speaker 1: What's up all this? Dope nighte franca. We are waiting
Speaker 1: on reparations. Hurry up, yo. We are the show rich
Speaker 1: in the gap between him pomp and politics. You know
Speaker 1: it's been a long time left you left you without it, dope?
Speaker 1: How know you? I've been good. I've been good. I mean,
Speaker 1: we haven't seen each other since that show that we did.
Speaker 1: We did have an excellent show down in Savannah to
Speaker 1: go that. I was seeing the highlights of your tour.
Speaker 1: I've been well since then and been while I'm wrestled
Speaker 1: because I've just gotten off the tour when you were
Speaker 1: getting ready either treasure. Yeah, so I'm wrestling. I'm actually
Speaker 1: you know, you know how it goes when you're on
Speaker 1: the road and then you're like, man, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to get home, And then you're back home you're like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm tired of looking at all this. I want to
Speaker 1: go back out there. And yeah, yeah, yeah, what about
Speaker 1: you PhD Yes, I defended my dissertation a week ago.
Speaker 1: It feels like it was months ago because probably I
Speaker 1: just blacked out the entire experience because it's terrifying. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so I am a doctor now, so that's crazy. But yeah,
Speaker 1: and then been tor in Birmingham, BC, Asheville, Savana obviously, um,
Speaker 1: and I just had a West coast tour announced like yesterday,
Speaker 1: I'm going out with a band called Holy f Word
Speaker 1: doesn't really dope, but yeah, we're going from like Vancouver
Speaker 1: down to San Diego. How many dates? Ten? You said
Speaker 1: next week? Yeah, oh say you just get at it that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's what's up. Well, it is election day
Speaker 1: today in Georgia all across the state, and we are
Speaker 1: having some decent voter turnout from what I hear, we are, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so there's been a lot of conversations and go oh,
Speaker 1: voters Untian wasn't that bad. But it's like one, people
Speaker 1: are livid that their votes are trying to be taken
Speaker 1: away from them, and so they're coming out in greater numbers. UM.
Speaker 1: One survey showed that Georgians believed their vote matters, like
Speaker 1: to a degree that is higher than anywhere else in
Speaker 1: the country. Like Georgians really believed. Yeah, like folks in
Speaker 1: the state really believe their vote matters. Like I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And so we got people who are like really motivated
Speaker 1: to vote because they really feel like it counts and
Speaker 1: it matters more so than anywhere else in the country.
Speaker 1: And then we've had tons of organizers, people like the
Speaker 1: New Georgia Project and Fair Fight and Black Voters Matter, etcetera,
Speaker 1: registering tons of vote and I mean like we got
Speaker 1: obviously everyone were Stacy A. Baron's running for governor. We
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to expand medicaid under her governorship. Um,
Speaker 1: there's like tons of tons and tons of uninsured Georgians.
Speaker 1: We have like one of the lowest insured rates in
Speaker 1: the country and then of the highest maternal mortality rates too,
Speaker 1: and so like, um, that alone, I mean that alone
Speaker 1: could be world altering for so many people. But yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of folks getting out the vote today, feeling excited,
Speaker 1: feeling empowered, cool so on the topic of Medicaid and
Speaker 1: health insurance and our health generally. In this episode, we've
Speaker 1: teamed up with twenty three and me for a conversation,
Speaker 1: for a conversation about DNA testing. Now you're twenty three,
Speaker 1: here's a DNA testing you think it. But guys, we
Speaker 1: already heard you do that episode about ancestry and things
Speaker 1: like that. That's not really what we're talking about today. See,
Speaker 1: it's it's not necessarily limited to your ancestry. Like, DNA
Speaker 1: testing can be used to gain insight on one's own health,
Speaker 1: certain things that you may be at risk for, and
Speaker 1: it can equip you with the information that you need,
Speaker 1: and it can equip you with the information that you
Speaker 1: need to make the necessary changes and live your best life.
Speaker 1: You know. So we're can alert you to your risk
Speaker 1: of type two diabetes, maculate generation, trying to keep your
Speaker 1: eye health good, sailiac disease UM, if you might be
Speaker 1: a high risk for chronic kidney disease um later onset
Speaker 1: Alzheimer's um, which definitely something I'm thinking about having you know,
Speaker 1: multiple incidences of it in my family, but then you
Speaker 1: can see if you're at higher risk of Morkinson's a
Speaker 1: trial defig relation, which is kind of like irregular heartbeat. Um,
Speaker 1: there's all kinds of of exema. Like, there's all sorts
Speaker 1: of things that you can discover. To kick it off,
Speaker 1: we're gonna start by recapping the story and legendary hip
Speaker 1: hop producer Ja Dilla for visiting some of J Dilla's
Speaker 1: story UM with his own health UM as well as
Speaker 1: preventative healthcare broadly and the power of knowing about the DNA. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now we've definitely mentioned j BLA on the show before.
Speaker 1: Just to recap you. So, J Dilla was diagnosed with
Speaker 1: an incurable blood disease around two thousand two, two thousand five.
Speaker 1: He underwent intensive treatment. I do believe he was misdiagnosed
Speaker 1: a couple of times, and twenty nine out of thirty
Speaker 1: one tracks from Dyla's uh last album Donuts were actually
Speaker 1: recorded in his hospital bed. He using the Boss SP
Speaker 1: three or three sampler and a small forty five record
Speaker 1: player as those friends bottom And it was released on
Speaker 1: his thirty second birthday. And I mean you catch up.
Speaker 1: You can't overstate the importance of that j Kila album Donut.
Speaker 1: He can't remember the first time you heard that? I yeah,
Speaker 1: I was mind blowing. It was around the same time
Speaker 1: I was like a pretty young person because at the
Speaker 1: same time I discovered like m F Doom Cats like
Speaker 1: that that really expanded my idea of what hip hop
Speaker 1: can be. And you know, sonically um and also resonated
Speaker 1: with a lot of how I initially got into hip hop,
Speaker 1: like through like adult Swinton cartoons a night. They play
Speaker 1: like a lot of lo fi sort of um, like
Speaker 1: a lot of samples drawings from an earlier era, very
Speaker 1: nostal mix, founding and revolutionary with her And so yeah,
Speaker 1: when I heard Dona's Time, I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Like hip hop is can be so much. I mean
Speaker 1: he influenced. He influenced countless people like he pretty much
Speaker 1: like influenced hip hop producers, jazz musicians is partially responsible
Speaker 1: for like neo soul is a genre. And as far
Speaker 1: as the people that he's worked with me, you're talking
Speaker 1: tribe called quest q Tive comment Erica bad Quest Love
Speaker 1: from the Ruth like everybody. So J Dill is like
Speaker 1: a prolific, prolific producer, but we lost some early on
Speaker 1: thirty two years old. So Dillah was uninsured at the
Speaker 1: time and he didn't seek care until he was sick.
Speaker 1: And there's disproportionate rates of heart disease, cancer diabetes in
Speaker 1: the black community that could be mitigated to folks knew
Speaker 1: that they are risks and they felt, you know, in
Speaker 1: charge of their own health. Yeah, I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: so many people, even if you have insurance, you know,
Speaker 1: just don't go to a doctor until they're thick. And
Speaker 1: especially in the hip hop community in the black community,
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely like an issue. I mean, there's like
Speaker 1: a laundry list of preventative cares that you can take
Speaker 1: right Like you can eat, you can change your diet,
Speaker 1: and you can change your lifestyle and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, the more information
Speaker 1: that you have about you get your health, the more
Speaker 1: a quiff you are when you do when misfortune does
Speaker 1: arrive and you do have to go into the healthcare
Speaker 1: system or you know, even unfortunate time to think about
Speaker 1: like I had multiple hospitalizations last year while I was pregnant,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, that's a very exciting thing, a
Speaker 1: little scary, but you know it's going through something that
Speaker 1: you're really stoked about. But even you know, when you're
Speaker 1: in the hospital my experience, I feel like it's also
Speaker 1: the same for a lot of people. Um. It feels
Speaker 1: like choices are just made for you. Like you go
Speaker 1: in and they're like, we gotta these tests and we're
Speaker 1: gonna do this treatment and this and that. This is
Speaker 1: the plan. Um. And so I think it's important for
Speaker 1: people to feel empowered to say like, hey, I wanted
Speaker 1: information about this. I know I'm a rich for X,
Speaker 1: Y and Z. Let's talk about that. So they can
Speaker 1: really take control of those conversations where you know, the
Speaker 1: power dynamics feel very imbalanced. Were like they're talking to
Speaker 1: these medical experts who are like, you know, they got
Speaker 1: the game plan versus you that it's just like you're
Speaker 1: just there because you care about your health and you
Speaker 1: want to be well. Um, But coming into that conversation
Speaker 1: like yo, I know what I'm gonna ask about, I
Speaker 1: know what my concerns are. I'm gonna speak up for myself.
Speaker 1: It is an important part of really taking advantage of
Speaker 1: like preventative health care and getting the health outcomes like
Speaker 1: you want you want to see so having Yeah, definitely, Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: now I was just gonna add like I I also
Speaker 1: have like a personal experience with that. My father is
Speaker 1: similar to Jo's situation where he got diagnosed with a
Speaker 1: kidney condition and we found it out too late and
Speaker 1: he didn't really act on it until he was sick.
Speaker 1: And I remember the ins and outs of the hospital
Speaker 1: and the testing and trying to figure out what was
Speaker 1: wrong with them. You know, by the time we even
Speaker 1: you know, they can kinpoint what the actual issue was,
Speaker 1: it was almost too late. Yeah, But I mean, thankfully
Speaker 1: there are opportunities to for certain conditions, have insight into
Speaker 1: how your DNA can affect your likelihood for developing those conditions,
Speaker 1: and then you can you know, be more empowered to
Speaker 1: make healthier choices that can improve the you can improve
Speaker 1: your quality of life. Um, I think learning those lessons
Speaker 1: from our experiences and your experience with your dad and
Speaker 1: my experience in the hospital a bunch of times last
Speaker 1: year definitely a test um how important is to take
Speaker 1: that pro racket staff and like, if you can learn
Speaker 1: all something about yourself, something about your likelihood for different
Speaker 1: um conditions, you can like, you know, make more informed
Speaker 1: and empowered choice at itself. Sure, I mean like I
Speaker 1: had another personal experience as well. You know, my father
Speaker 1: lost my grandmother, his mother, to Alzheimer's. He was her
Speaker 1: he was her primary caregiver at that time, and it's
Speaker 1: currently the primary care giver, primary caregiver for his partner,
Speaker 1: my stepmom, who also has Alzheimer's, and I've seen him
Speaker 1: close the way this impacts the family, having dealt with
Speaker 1: like really strong emotions observing you know, my stepmother's mental
Speaker 1: state evolved in the years since their diagnosis. But luckily
Speaker 1: my parents are runners, and being physically activist is really
Speaker 1: central to their lives, which has been found to help
Speaker 1: prevent and slow cognition impacts. So knowing that early, knowing
Speaker 1: that you have an increased likelihood of developing something like Alzheimer's,
Speaker 1: you can start off early on, you know, running, being
Speaker 1: this lee active and making those lifestyle changes that can
Speaker 1: actually you know, completely change the course of your life,
Speaker 1: you know, if you if you just have that info
Speaker 1: early on. So same thing with knowing if you're at
Speaker 1: risk with breast cancer, getting regular checkups and screenings and
Speaker 1: you know, get adjusting your diet to know that you're
Speaker 1: at risk of heart disease. Now it is, you know,
Speaker 1: important that we remind you, Like DNA testing, isn't in
Speaker 1: itself like recommending a treatment. Yeah. So. On the topic
Speaker 1: of breast cancer, the TTY three and met dr C
Speaker 1: A one and b r C A two Genetic Health
Speaker 1: Risk Report is intended for use with adults to report
Speaker 1: three genetic variants in the b r C A one
Speaker 1: and b r C A two genes associated with the
Speaker 1: higher risk of developing breasted or variant and prostate cancer.
Speaker 1: The report doesn't include variants and other genes linked to
Speaker 1: hereditary cancer, so it's not intended to diagnose any disease
Speaker 1: or tell you about your overall risk of developing disease.
Speaker 1: It's not intended to determine any treatments, and of course
Speaker 1: you know your results should be confirmed in a critical
Speaker 1: setting before taking any medical up, you know, any medical actions.
Speaker 1: So it's not a substitute for visits to healthcare professionals
Speaker 1: for recommended screenings are appropriate follow up UM. It can
Speaker 1: this kind of prompt you to consider UM lifestyle changes,
Speaker 1: what you want to talk about with your doctor, but
Speaker 1: ultimately you know it's important to go see a doctor
Speaker 1: and talk to them about, you know, very soon as
Speaker 1: you concerned about speaking of these twenty three in ME
Speaker 1: reports and DNA testing in general as a topic, like
Speaker 1: what are your general thoughts about that? I mean, like,
Speaker 1: bring me back to pregnancy once again. If I had
Speaker 1: known that I was at increased risk for just gestational
Speaker 1: diabetes while pregnant, um, that would at least have unsettled
Speaker 1: or at least would have settled some of the uncertainty
Speaker 1: of like simply not knowing when I went in to
Speaker 1: get my you know, blood tests, and I was like
Speaker 1: really nervous, like, um, that uncertainty was almost as bad
Speaker 1: as a lot of the other health stuff I was
Speaker 1: going through. But but again, I'm sorry. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he caught the yelling at doctor, But again, like
Speaker 1: having that knowledge and feeling empowered like okay, like I
Speaker 1: could kind of imagine some different potentialities here and be
Speaker 1: able to have frank conversations with my doctor around that,
Speaker 1: I would have felt great. But you know, I got
Speaker 1: through it, So I hope other people don't have to
Speaker 1: deal with that same thing. But let's be frank about it.
Speaker 1: You know, we're we're both sitting here and we haven't
Speaker 1: taken the town ourselves for this episode's sake. Um, it
Speaker 1: was something that we both needed more data and more
Speaker 1: information on. And you know, everyone has their reasons of
Speaker 1: being skin intregity with giving you know, just being frank
Speaker 1: with you handing over your DNA to a big company
Speaker 1: or something like that. So that's generally is my hesitation
Speaker 1: in doing it, is the fear of that, and then
Speaker 1: the fear of my privacy and the fear of you know,
Speaker 1: like we talked about finding out our data, and it's
Speaker 1: just like wanting to make sure that your data is
Speaker 1: in the right hands, you know, that it actually is
Speaker 1: data that that's like a personal fear or that I've
Speaker 1: had that was an obstacle in doing this because you know,
Speaker 1: like when we when we were approached for this, we
Speaker 1: were asked if we wanted to take the test. I
Speaker 1: didn't take it for that reason. And I got to
Speaker 1: say that through the course of of everything that we've
Speaker 1: read and everything that we've been looking at, I actually
Speaker 1: feel more comfortable with it now, and I actually do
Speaker 1: think I'm going to go get the report done after this.
Speaker 1: For all of the reasons that we've talked about them
Speaker 1: not a spring chicken of an m C. You know,
Speaker 1: like the whole thing would being like a rapper and
Speaker 1: m C and being in the hip hop. This this
Speaker 1: sense of invulnerability, you know, because it's such a youthful thing,
Speaker 1: you can kind of get slept up in thinking that
Speaker 1: you're going to be young forever and that you know
Speaker 1: you're gonna be fine and nothing's gonna hurt you, and
Speaker 1: not not taking your health seriously. And again, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not something you should just think about when you're
Speaker 1: getting older. But like we've been saying, this is all
Speaker 1: about preventative measure and preventative care. So the suitor that
Speaker 1: you start looking into things like that, even even if
Speaker 1: you don't go in the route of finding out your DNA,
Speaker 1: but if you take a proactive step in your health
Speaker 1: and maintaining it and making sure that you're in the
Speaker 1: you know, the best condition that you possibly could be in,
Speaker 1: that's always important. Yeah, you know, like people tell you
Speaker 1: all the time, Oh, you need to eat right, Oh
Speaker 1: you need to exercise, Oh you need to keep your
Speaker 1: blood pressure down and limit your sugar. But when you
Speaker 1: have like a concrete reason, like oh, I met, I
Speaker 1: know I'm at to increase risk for this, like that
Speaker 1: can really get you going, like, Okay, I really do
Speaker 1: need to hit the gym. I I do need to
Speaker 1: be I don't know, I'm drinking more water or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. Because it's not just this abstract you know,
Speaker 1: just people bombarding you with advice you didn't ask for.
Speaker 1: It's like really tied to your personal life. And so
Speaker 1: I mean I think that's a big benefit, and I
Speaker 1: definitely understand why, particularly within you know, the circles where
Speaker 1: we move, there's a lot of just medical hesitancy generally, um,
Speaker 1: you know, just given the legacy of things like just
Speaker 1: there's been there's I don't even want to to do
Speaker 1: it because like there's mad crazy things that have happened
Speaker 1: in our history, in our past and make people like
Speaker 1: I don't know about doctors though, but you know, putting
Speaker 1: that information directly into your hands, um, so you can
Speaker 1: decide what to do with it. It's not necessarily like,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever you gotta do with your doctor. If
Speaker 1: you don't like going to see doctor, I get it,
Speaker 1: you should go. But if you take the information and
Speaker 1: at least start making different choices in your personal life
Speaker 1: with regards to your diet, with the cards your exercise,
Speaker 1: Like there you go. You know, that's that's empowerment right there.
Speaker 1: But I definitely drove a little bit of my you know,
Speaker 1: concerned the first like I don't know doctor's medicine. I
Speaker 1: just like, you know, like I was saying about being
Speaker 1: the hospital, it's just been so nerve wracking to like
Speaker 1: and overwhelming to like take control of my health. But
Speaker 1: I kind of get it now, you know. Like no,
Speaker 1: I was gonna add on to that, like for people
Speaker 1: who haven't been in the like healthcare system and haven't
Speaker 1: had to deal with it yet, it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where it's like like you don't you don't know
Speaker 1: until you know, you know what I'm saying, Like, once
Speaker 1: you're in it, Shoot, the more information that you're armed with,
Speaker 1: the the easier it is to get through. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's easy at all, but it's like the more
Speaker 1: that you know about your own health that can save
Speaker 1: you so much time and money and like, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, heartache, you know. Yeah. I mean, like
Speaker 1: for like I think it's probably like nine percent of
Speaker 1: the time being in the hospital. It is like one
Speaker 1: of the lower points of a person's life. Right, Like,
Speaker 1: nobody wants to be there unless you're like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: having a baby, it's outside it. But think about the
Speaker 1: fact that that medical head to dude that you know,
Speaker 1: people don't want to go to the people don't want
Speaker 1: to get these you know, blood tests and things. If
Speaker 1: you are proactive about lifestyle choices, you can avoid that
Speaker 1: larger unpleasantness of being in the hospital. Um because you
Speaker 1: you know, had the condition that ran unchecked and now
Speaker 1: it's really really adversely impacting you. Um. So on the
Speaker 1: flip side, it's like, you know, I didn't really I
Speaker 1: was like no, no about this because like of like
Speaker 1: skepticism about doctors and hospitals. But having this information can
Speaker 1: help you avoid deep intentions with it. Um. If you
Speaker 1: if you really want to like, all right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get my life right, I'm gonna do what I need
Speaker 1: to for myself and my health, for my family who
Speaker 1: wants me to live a happy and full life. Right,
Speaker 1: So that's kind cool. So yeah, I mean, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, everybody has to do what's right
Speaker 1: for them, and everybody has to do what's comfortable for them.
Speaker 1: This is just one of different avenues that you can
Speaker 1: look into um on this particular issue of your health.
Speaker 1: DNA testing. It's not the be all and end all.
Speaker 1: And also, you know, you might even be thrown off
Speaker 1: because we're talking about twenty three and me and you're
Speaker 1: thinking that I thought that was ancestry and whatnot, and
Speaker 1: it's you know that you can do more with the
Speaker 1: knowledge of your DNA than just find out who you know,
Speaker 1: what your ancestry is. And that's part of what this
Speaker 1: is all about. It's just a tool. Black people are
Speaker 1: at a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, sickle cell cancer.
Speaker 1: I mean, these are all reasons to be proactive about it.
Speaker 1: And also, and I'm sure Mariah agree with me on this,
Speaker 1: we're advocates of mental health and in our communities, we
Speaker 1: have a laundry list of things that we're stressing about
Speaker 1: and that we're worried about from day to day, and
Speaker 1: don't think for a second that your health concerns aren't
Speaker 1: adding on to that. So it's important also to consider
Speaker 1: I think the relationship between our physical health and our
Speaker 1: overall well being, inclusive of mental health, and so being
Speaker 1: able to like go in and have that empowered conversation
Speaker 1: can have you know, I don't know, like a sense
Speaker 1: of self esteem. I don't ways say building, but you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like you you feel a little
Speaker 1: more empowered, you feel a little more confident because you're
Speaker 1: armed with information. I feel like, you know, I think
Speaker 1: that's like a universal principle if you're going into something like,
Speaker 1: all right, I got this information to draw off of,
Speaker 1: like preparation itself for whatever it is that you have
Speaker 1: to deal with. Um. I think I'm definitely you know,
Speaker 1: going back to the example of pregnancy, there's so so
Speaker 1: much uncertainty, so many things they're just not and it's
Speaker 1: it's not just like the physical toll of my knees
Speaker 1: are aching or whatever. It's alway's like mentally it takes
Speaker 1: a lot out of you. But you know, it's always
Speaker 1: it's always easier to talk about things when you wrap them,
Speaker 1: at least for me. What do we mean? What about you? Mariety?
Speaker 1: You feel you feel like we could, you feel like
Speaker 1: we could bring this home. I suppose I am a rapper,
Speaker 1: but I guess this is the big test of time.
Speaker 1: If I can wrap about uh DNA knowledge, I can
Speaker 1: wrap at anything. So let's get it. Um um we
Speaker 1: over here waiting, no reparations. I'm tired of taking all
Speaker 1: of these little adventures. I'm trying to take a week off.
Speaker 1: Visit mccardi out the just my dentist, get my blood
Speaker 1: pressure check, get them a perfect Sure. The uncertainty is
Speaker 1: a pretty quirky thing. But lot love, long and prosperous
Speaker 1: of arn injury. I'm gonna drinking too much PBO. Should
Speaker 1: I compare to how's my blood sugar? Should I stop
Speaker 1: eating burger cake? But now we're doing the story is
Speaker 1: going in to getherety, But never ever need to be scared,
Speaker 1: because see a little bit knowledge getting out for you
Speaker 1: to prepare to eat your carrots to some lamps, would
Speaker 1: ever takes stay up. It is in faith. But there's
Speaker 1: some indicators there from take one, a lot of information
Speaker 1: hidden right under the radar to mark a conversation, some
Speaker 1: contemplations and lift changes. I don't know. It's up to you.
Speaker 1: So what you're gonna, what you're gonna, What you're gonna,
Speaker 1: what you're gonna do? All right? Yeoh yoh, yoh, wait,
Speaker 1: you know reparations. It's obviously freend actual podcast with hip
Speaker 1: hop and politics. Can nack? I know everybody talk and
Speaker 1: they be in on their chat. But don't worry bout
Speaker 1: your health. You better go get you with chat, get
Speaker 1: some p s A, al shimis and diabetes being play,
Speaker 1: But don't be afraid to go and let them check
Speaker 1: your d n A. If you dive deep, you find
Speaker 1: the factors that you need to change so you can
Speaker 1: see a doctor. Just cut back off the e J.
Speaker 1: I don't even play. I'm about to go with. Just
Speaker 1: be selfish, get me your report and see just if
Speaker 1: I got a health risk, because when they'd be creeping up,
Speaker 1: they're moving on the stealth tip and with the knowledge,
Speaker 1: I can see somebody who can help it. But make
Speaker 1: your own decision with whatever you choose. I understand the
Speaker 1: reservations I was hesitant to, but when I look into
Speaker 1: the subject that I learned what they do and made
Speaker 1: me comfortable enough to go and learn me the truth shuts.
Speaker 1: We gotta leave this as fun as it could be.
Speaker 1: And that's why we did a team up with twenty
Speaker 1: three and b don't Knife and lane with Franko or
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