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 holds incredibly meaningful information that could change everything.
Speaker 1: And I'm not just talking about your family treat Hi.
Speaker 1: I'm barretton Day Thurston and on this season of Spit
Speaker 1: and I Heart Radio podcast with twenty three and Me,
Speaker 1: we explore how DNA isn't just about ancestry, it can
Speaker 1: also be key to understanding your health. Hi again, We're bad.
Speaker 1: Oscar Ramirez, host of The Daily Dive, is all about
Speaker 1: the facts. Each day, his podcast explores the most interesting
Speaker 1: news of the day with the writers, the analysts of
Speaker 1: reporters who know the real story. So when Oscar took
Speaker 1: his twenty three and Me test, you know he had questions.
Speaker 1: In this episode, Oscar sits down with twenty three and
Speaker 1: Me's Stacy Dettweiler and the Lisa Layman to get to
Speaker 1: the bottom of his test results. As an Hispanic man,
Speaker 1: diabetes in high blood pressure run in his family. So
Speaker 1: what can his twenty three and me results to Oscar
Speaker 1: about his own health. It's a fascinating conversation and the
Speaker 1: must listen for anyone interested in unlocking the knowledge contained
Speaker 1: in their own DNA. Oscar takes a deep dive into
Speaker 1: his variance and tries to get to the bottom of
Speaker 1: some things that just don't add up. For example, Oscar
Speaker 1: loves cilantro, but according to his test results, he's supposed
Speaker 1: to hate it. So what's going on. Let's listen in
Speaker 1: and learn more about the awesome power of DNA when
Speaker 1: it comes to understanding your health. I'm Oscar Emiress and
Speaker 1: this is the Daily Dive. This episode is something special
Speaker 1: I did in conjunction with me in the Spit podcast,
Speaker 1: which you can hear and I heart Radio. I took
Speaker 1: a look into what my DNA says about me, beyond
Speaker 1: what my ancestry says and with a focus on my health.
Speaker 1: Throughout this process, I learned about two genetic variants that
Speaker 1: could impact myself for my family, and also that I
Speaker 1: have a typical likelihood of developing type two diabetes, which
Speaker 1: has always been a concern since it runs in my family.
Speaker 1: There is also some fun stuff I learned about my
Speaker 1: d N a I won't be losing my hair anytime soon,
Speaker 1: and why I experienced itchyr mosquito bites. Stacy Dettweiler and
Speaker 1: at Lisa Lehman from the twenty three and Me team
Speaker 1: both joined me to go over some of my results
Speaker 1: and help me understand more about my DNA. Next, I
Speaker 1: go a little deeper into what the results I got
Speaker 1: specifically mean to me, things I've experienced with my family
Speaker 1: and in my past, and why this process has been
Speaker 1: eye opening. In some cases, the best thing to come
Speaker 1: out of this has been the information learned and knowing
Speaker 1: what to do next to improve my health. It's news
Speaker 1: without the noise. Let's dive in the good thing is
Speaker 1: for you. It sounds like there was just one variant identified,
Speaker 1: and something that's really interesting is these variants are actually
Speaker 1: very common, and so a lot of people are walking
Speaker 1: around with these variants, and so really just having one
Speaker 1: variant doesn't increase your risk compared to the general population
Speaker 1: because most people do have these variants. Joining us now
Speaker 1: is Stacy Dettweiler, a genetic counselor and manager on the
Speaker 1: Medical Affairs team at twenty three and Me, and the
Speaker 1: Lisa Lehman, a senior manager on the product science team
Speaker 1: at twenty three and Me. Thank you for joining me, ladies,
Speaker 1: Thank you all, Thanks for having us. All right, So
Speaker 1: this whole thing special episode of The Daily Dive done
Speaker 1: in partnership with twenty three and Me and the Spit podcast.
Speaker 1: You can hear that on I Heart Radio. Uh I,
Speaker 1: this was the first time doing one of these DNA
Speaker 1: test genetic tests and all that. It was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. You know, you sign up on the app,
Speaker 1: you spitting a little tube, send it off, get a
Speaker 1: bunch of results. For this we're specifically focusing on what
Speaker 1: your DNA, what your genes can tell you about your
Speaker 1: health things, diseases, illnesses, things that you can be predisposed
Speaker 1: to because of your genet X and uh you know,
Speaker 1: going into it, you kind of have this little worry
Speaker 1: you know what am I going to be flagged for?
Speaker 1: What's going to happen? Even as you opt into certain
Speaker 1: reports it tells you, like for Alzheimer's, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: be very conscious of what you're gonna get into on
Speaker 1: this because it could be unnerving what you get. Uh
Speaker 1: So I I kind of experienced all that stuff going
Speaker 1: into this, so I opted into for all of that.
Speaker 1: I wanted to know what, uh my genes, my DNA
Speaker 1: could tell me as much as possible and Thankfully, it
Speaker 1: came back with just a few things. Some of the
Speaker 1: scary things, right, a lot of people are concerned with
Speaker 1: their health didn't come through. But I was flagged for
Speaker 1: two variants for certain things and likelihood for developing type
Speaker 1: two diabetes. So we'll get into all of this right now.
Speaker 1: I want to bring you, ladies on to talk about
Speaker 1: the science of how this stuff works. The first thing
Speaker 1: I was flagged for was age related macular degeneration. So
Speaker 1: this is uh, one of the most common causes of
Speaker 1: irreversible vision losses. Happens in older adults. Usually I have
Speaker 1: one variant. It's the A six nine S variant in
Speaker 1: the A r M two gene. So very little complicated
Speaker 1: right now. But a lot of people don't really have
Speaker 1: a basis for understanding some of these things. So ladies,
Speaker 1: if you can help me explain, help explain what does
Speaker 1: this mean in particular. You know, I think the main
Speaker 1: aspect is genetics is part of the story, right, and
Speaker 1: so for this condition, usually macularity generation, I'm going to
Speaker 1: say a m D for short. Um, we know that
Speaker 1: there are some genetic variants that do increase your risk
Speaker 1: of developing this, right, But luckily there's a lot of
Speaker 1: other factors that play a role. Lifestyle smoking is a
Speaker 1: big one, right, So there's a lot of action ability
Speaker 1: within these results that you can do to reduce your chances.
Speaker 1: The good thing is for you, it sounds like there
Speaker 1: was just one variant identified. And something that's really interesting
Speaker 1: is these variants are actually very common, and so a
Speaker 1: lot of people are walking around with these variants and
Speaker 1: so really just having one variant doesn't increase your risk
Speaker 1: compared to the general population because most people do have
Speaker 1: these variants. UM. It's when you start getting multiple that's
Speaker 1: when that risk can really increase. Yeah, and when you
Speaker 1: get to results through the app or on your online it,
Speaker 1: it did tell me that I'm not at a particularly
Speaker 1: likelihood for developing this UM. But you know, obviously one
Speaker 1: of the things that happens is the vision loss, and
Speaker 1: this figures into kind of my personal overall story. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of themes running with vision, whether it be
Speaker 1: through diabetes and other things. So I open it right,
Speaker 1: and a lot of this we're using these things to
Speaker 1: kind of empower ourselves to learn more about ourselves. You know.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people don't obviously go to
Speaker 1: the doctor all the time, and you know, you go
Speaker 1: when something's wrong and you don't really know what's happening
Speaker 1: in your body until it's too late. Sometimes I have
Speaker 1: to admit I'm kind of guilty of that myself. And
Speaker 1: so these things are eye opening. So as we kind
Speaker 1: of go through, I'll connect the dots on some of
Speaker 1: these things. Another one that I was flagged for, So
Speaker 1: this is hereditary emo chromatosis. Basically it's something that could
Speaker 1: lead to iron overload. Again, it flagged me for one
Speaker 1: of these genes. It said that I'm not at particular
Speaker 1: risk for this, but still this is another They're one
Speaker 1: of those genes that I carry around. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: probably again another one that you've never heard of before,
Speaker 1: you twenty three and me. And that's very common for
Speaker 1: a lot of these genetic conditions that have it where
Speaker 1: you know, it's one gene that can really be impacted
Speaker 1: that can cause these conditions. Um, and this one is
Speaker 1: kind of more considered an autosomal recessive and so having
Speaker 1: just one variant, we typically think of you as being
Speaker 1: a carrier. You carry a variant, but you really don't
Speaker 1: have the condition in terms of expressing symptoms unless you
Speaker 1: have kind of a combination two copies of a of
Speaker 1: a particular variant. And the interesting thing with this condition
Speaker 1: too is that again genetics is still not the full story.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that have two copies of
Speaker 1: a variant or two different variants um and they don't
Speaker 1: still develop the iron overloads. So there's you know, again,
Speaker 1: genetics is a huge aspect of it when we're talking
Speaker 1: about health, but there's a lot of other things that
Speaker 1: go along to like lifestyle that can play a big all.
Speaker 1: But I think the main thing for you is, you know,
Speaker 1: it might not be an indication for concern for your help,
Speaker 1: but it could be for family members or your offspring,
Speaker 1: because that's when you can actually have that chance. That's
Speaker 1: exactly That's exactly my next point right there. So when
Speaker 1: you read some of these reports either on the app
Speaker 1: or or online and everything, they're very detailed, very thorough,
Speaker 1: really help you kind of navigate what the the information
Speaker 1: that you're being given, right, it will help you on
Speaker 1: the other end of things, let's create a health plan.
Speaker 1: So I very much appreciate that, but it did say,
Speaker 1: you know, it says in that there's a concern right
Speaker 1: that you can pass this variant onto your children. So
Speaker 1: if my wife has one of the other variants, then
Speaker 1: these things started kind of start compounding on each other.
Speaker 1: Um So it feels like, now I need to have
Speaker 1: my wife take one of these DNA tests just so
Speaker 1: we can start checking all this stuff out and then
Speaker 1: some of the signs and symptoms of iron overload, not
Speaker 1: that I have it or will develop it, but heart disease, diabetes,
Speaker 1: these are things that run in my family. So now
Speaker 1: to the big one, the diabetes. With this DNA test,
Speaker 1: it said I have a typical likelihood of developing type
Speaker 1: two diabetes. To your point, Stacy, right, you've been making
Speaker 1: the point that there's a lot of other factors that
Speaker 1: weigh in on this. It's not just your genetics. It
Speaker 1: is your lifestyle. And you know, we know people that
Speaker 1: are overweight, unhealthy lifestyle. You can turn around diabetes in
Speaker 1: a lot of cases when you adjust that lifestyle. But
Speaker 1: I was talking to my mom for some of this stuff,
Speaker 1: and she's like, man, some of this stuff is depressing
Speaker 1: to kind of go through because this does run in
Speaker 1: my family all over the place, on both sides. My grandpa,
Speaker 1: his brothers and sisters, my grandma, my mom has pre diabetes.
Speaker 1: My sister had gestational diabetes and it went away after
Speaker 1: the kids came. And uh, you know, on my dad's side,
Speaker 1: high blood pressure, all of this stuff. But on this one,
Speaker 1: it tells me, uh, you know, I'm Latino, my family
Speaker 1: mostly comes from Mexico. My genetics say, I'm an estimated
Speaker 1: fort chance of developing type two diabetes. Yeah. So, Lisa,
Speaker 1: do you want to talk a little bit about how
Speaker 1: this report differs compared to the other ones and the
Speaker 1: science behind it. Yeah. So for the other two continents
Speaker 1: that you were talking about, right, it was really about
Speaker 1: that like the one variant where you have this one
Speaker 1: variant UM, and again if you had a combination of
Speaker 1: a couple of these variants, that would you know, increase
Speaker 1: your your likelihood of developing those conditions. But as you know,
Speaker 1: type two diabetes it's really common. And actually there's not
Speaker 1: just one variant or one gene that's involved in UM
Speaker 1: potentially developing this condition. So for this report, what we
Speaker 1: look at is actually over a thousand different places in
Speaker 1: your in your DNA, and we add up the effect
Speaker 1: of all of those different places UM to give you
Speaker 1: that sort of score, that percent chance of developing type
Speaker 1: of diabetes. And in your case, we're saying you have
Speaker 1: like this typical likelihood, but as you noted, that typical
Speaker 1: likelihood is still pretty high, you know, chance is still
Speaker 1: a pretty high chance of developing um T t D.
Speaker 1: But again, there's all those other factors that Stacy was
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, your way to your lifestyle, your diet,
Speaker 1: your family history. All of that goes into whether you
Speaker 1: actually go on to develop diabetes. So there's definitely other
Speaker 1: things you can do besides just knowing about your genetics. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: And you know, in my own personal health, right, I
Speaker 1: used to be a lot heavier when I was younger.
Speaker 1: More recently I began to lose a little bit of weight,
Speaker 1: and but you look at some of these symptoms that
Speaker 1: you can get, you know, increased thirst, frequent urination, fatigue,
Speaker 1: blurred vision again one of these other common things that
Speaker 1: I've noticed, Right, I feel like I remember having some
Speaker 1: of these things maybe and then going away a little
Speaker 1: bit once I lost some weight. Uh. You know, I'll
Speaker 1: get a little bit into more personal details of this,
Speaker 1: uh in the next segment when I continue to talk
Speaker 1: about all this. But it's it's interesting and it's one
Speaker 1: of the things that affects a lot of people in
Speaker 1: the country. Across the general US population around people are
Speaker 1: expected to develop type two diabetes during their lifetime. It's
Speaker 1: it's a big thing, and it impacts people's health in
Speaker 1: in so many ways. So it's important to kind of
Speaker 1: know these things and start looking into your own health
Speaker 1: to to hopefully mitigate some of these things. And and
Speaker 1: I'm very appreciative of this whole process because sometimes a
Speaker 1: lot of people put their health on the back burner
Speaker 1: and these things kind of open your eyes. And again
Speaker 1: to the credit of twenty three me and the apps
Speaker 1: and everything, it really helps you with the follow through.
Speaker 1: Why don't you speak to a doctor that will give
Speaker 1: you tips and tricks on what to help with all
Speaker 1: of it. So, uh, it's it has been eye opening
Speaker 1: for me and conversations I've had with my mom, like
Speaker 1: I said, and just looking at my own personal health. Um,
Speaker 1: so I appreciate that and it's you know, it's making
Speaker 1: me want to to really start changing things again in
Speaker 1: my lifestyle. Thank you for walking me through some of this.
Speaker 1: Is there are important things I didn't want to talk about,
Speaker 1: some fun things as well that you get to look at.
Speaker 1: There's so many things in here. One of the main
Speaker 1: things I tell people when I did the twenty three
Speaker 1: and me thing, everybody starts talking about Neanderthal DNA right away,
Speaker 1: and so what's with the neanderthal dna? It told me
Speaker 1: I have more Neanderthal DNA than of other twenty three
Speaker 1: and me customers. I think it's about two percent of
Speaker 1: my total DNA. But man, I feel like a caveman
Speaker 1: after that. Definitely don't feel like a caveman. I think,
Speaker 1: UM hopefully that's one of the things that comes across
Speaker 1: the in that report is actually, you know, we all
Speaker 1: share a little bit of me anitholo DNA, so UM
Speaker 1: some history about that. UM scientists not at three and
Speaker 1: UM actually sequenced in the ornitholo genome and so when
Speaker 1: they did that, you can compare that to you know,
Speaker 1: the human genome, and you can say, oh, look there's
Speaker 1: overlap here. So some of our ancestors were, you know,
Speaker 1: enjoying each other back, you know, fifty plus years ago.
Speaker 1: As we spread across the across the globe, and our
Speaker 1: DNA sort of carries that signature UM in all of us,
Speaker 1: and so it tells us that that DNA can influence
Speaker 1: certain traits and I look through and some of these
Speaker 1: things were like spot on. It tells me I have
Speaker 1: a variant associated with experiencing more itchy mosquito bites and
Speaker 1: that man, I hate that I get bit up more
Speaker 1: than the other people I'm around, and then I am
Speaker 1: like constantly scratching. You know, it's like the itch goes
Speaker 1: away and you don't want to touch you more for
Speaker 1: fear of activating the itch all over again. Um, I
Speaker 1: have two variants associated with being less likely to have
Speaker 1: a fear of heights. Totally true. I am unafraid of that.
Speaker 1: This one is a little iffy. It told me I
Speaker 1: could be a better sprinter than a distance runner. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how how much that one pans out, but
Speaker 1: apparently these things come from from that side of our
Speaker 1: DNA at least. Yeah, Well we've what twas found looking
Speaker 1: at that portion of Neanderthal DNA is we can find
Speaker 1: those associations. So between a trait um like you know,
Speaker 1: each mosquito bites, and that's the specific genetic variance that
Speaker 1: came from our nan and Paul ancestors. So that's what
Speaker 1: you know. That part of the report is telling you,
Speaker 1: you know, where did you inherit? Thatsquito bite from. Some
Speaker 1: of the physical traits that were also fun. You know,
Speaker 1: we all have our things that we're concerned about, our looks,
Speaker 1: our appearances. Uh. These ones, I was very happy to
Speaker 1: see bald spot and early hair loss. I'm not likely
Speaker 1: to develop that stuff. My dad had a great head
Speaker 1: of hair. Although gray's gray hairs are like crazy and
Speaker 1: they're coming up on me and my beard and everything. Um.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to talk about some of the things
Speaker 1: that don't add up though, because I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people look at these ancestry reports, these DNA reports
Speaker 1: and all that, and they say, well, this doesn't match up.
Speaker 1: So if you could help explain why some of that
Speaker 1: doesn't come through. Some of these things that didn't add
Speaker 1: up for me. Where says I'm not likely to be
Speaker 1: an especially deep sleeper. I sleep like a rock. I
Speaker 1: get in there and fall asleep right away, and I
Speaker 1: fall asleep. And uh, the last one, the main one
Speaker 1: I think for me, was it says I'm slightly higher
Speaker 1: odds of disliking cilantro. A lot of people say it's
Speaker 1: associated with like a soapy taste. That one is not
Speaker 1: me either. I love Cilantro, So how come some of
Speaker 1: these don't match up? Sometimes we'll take Cilantro as as
Speaker 1: the example. I think, Um, you know, one thing is
Speaker 1: your DNA might nudge you in one direction or the other.
Speaker 1: So right in your case, it's saying, oh, you're you're
Speaker 1: more likely than the average person or the average ty
Speaker 1: three and the research participant um to dislike Cilantro. If
Speaker 1: you dig a little bit deeper into the report, we
Speaker 1: tell you, you you know only about people tell us that
Speaker 1: they dislike Cilantro. So you being a little bit more
Speaker 1: likely doesn't mean that you have a hundred percent chance
Speaker 1: of disliking Cilantro. Right, So you might just be in
Speaker 1: that in that other um, you know, chunk of people
Speaker 1: who like Cilantro but have that same genetic background. So again,
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's culture, there's the food that you
Speaker 1: eat growing up. There's probably other parts of your taste
Speaker 1: and smell that that influenced this. But that you know,
Speaker 1: the one variant that we found, you know that did
Speaker 1: you a little bit um in the dislike. And that's
Speaker 1: so true. Uh, in my diet growing up, you know,
Speaker 1: I grew up in a Mexican household, a lot of
Speaker 1: GUACAMOLEI a lot of other things. We put it in everything,
Speaker 1: so probably I just developed the taste for it and
Speaker 1: just never turned back. A lot, a lot of fun stuff,
Speaker 1: a lot of information. Again, going through this process has
Speaker 1: been eye opening in a lot of ways on the
Speaker 1: health side of things, on some of this fun stuff
Speaker 1: that just kind of you know, I sat back and
Speaker 1: got my results and I was clicking through that for
Speaker 1: like an hour. You know, you just kind of keep going.
Speaker 1: There's so many reports and updated surveys and things that
Speaker 1: you can participate in. It kind of keep that information rolling.
Speaker 1: So I appreciate all of that, and thank you to
Speaker 1: you ladies as well for joining me and helping me
Speaker 1: walk through my results. Stacy debt Wiler, genetic counselor and
Speaker 1: manager at the Medical Affairs Team A Lisa Lehman, senior
Speaker 1: manager on the Product science team at ME. Thank you
Speaker 1: both for joining me. Thank you, thank you for this report.
Speaker 1: What we look at is actually over a thousand different
Speaker 1: places in your in your DNA, and we add up
Speaker 1: the effect of all of those different places um to
Speaker 1: give you that sort of score, that percent chance of
Speaker 1: developing type of diabetes. For this segment, I wanted to
Speaker 1: delve a little bit more into my personal health. I
Speaker 1: wanted to connect the dots for my results. I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about what it means to
Speaker 1: me and what it means for my health. You know,
Speaker 1: the whole point of this is to get more knowledge,
Speaker 1: to know what our DNA says about us, and then
Speaker 1: use that knowledge to to act on things to protect
Speaker 1: our health, to make the right steps in our lives
Speaker 1: to make sure that we're as healthy as long as
Speaker 1: we can be. And thank you to the folks at
Speaker 1: twenty three and me for going over my results in
Speaker 1: the previous segment. But just as far as these two
Speaker 1: variants are concerned, these two variant genes that I have
Speaker 1: and the typical likelihood of developing type two diabetes, this
Speaker 1: really speaks to me for in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 1: So connecting the dots age related macular degeneration deals with
Speaker 1: vision loss. Hereditary hemochromatosis can lead to diabetes, and then
Speaker 1: type two diabetes is in extreme complications, you can develop
Speaker 1: vision loss, heart disease, kidney damage, and so this theme
Speaker 1: of vision loss has been something that I've been thinking
Speaker 1: a lot about through this process. Now, to be clear,
Speaker 1: my results aren't diagnosing me with anything specific or I
Speaker 1: am not at a particularly higher risk of developing some
Speaker 1: of those things. But it gets you thinking about your
Speaker 1: health and that's what's important here. Sharing personal story. When
Speaker 1: I was much younger, I was out with some friends
Speaker 1: and we were assaulted. Somebody hit me on the side
Speaker 1: of the head with with a broomstick. I had to
Speaker 1: go to the emergency room and what happened after that
Speaker 1: was a detachment of my iris. If you look very
Speaker 1: closely into my eye, you can see it. Since then, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I've had experienced a little bit of vision
Speaker 1: loss in that I I have developed a cataract. In
Speaker 1: that I there will be things down the road that
Speaker 1: I will need to take care of my vision. This
Speaker 1: is specifically in my right eye. My left eye, I
Speaker 1: wear glasses normally. My left eye is experiencing normal vision.
Speaker 1: I still need the glasses to see better, but this
Speaker 1: is something that I really do need to take care
Speaker 1: of in my life. I need to make sure that
Speaker 1: I can keep my vision intact as much as possible.
Speaker 1: So going through some of these results and seeing what
Speaker 1: these variant genes can do and the typical likelihood of
Speaker 1: diabetes type two diabetes. It makes you think, It makes
Speaker 1: you think of the future, makes you think of your
Speaker 1: loved ones. You know. I spoke to my mom for
Speaker 1: this process as well, just wanted to get a little
Speaker 1: bit more of the family history, and she was describing
Speaker 1: a lot of things to me I mentioned in the
Speaker 1: previous segment, you know, she said it was kind of
Speaker 1: bumming her out. I don't necessarily feel that way. I
Speaker 1: feel like I have the tools, I have the knowledge,
Speaker 1: especially throughout this process to learning a little bit more
Speaker 1: about my jeans and myself, and I feel like I
Speaker 1: am empowered to make those uh good health choices. But
Speaker 1: a lot of this also leads me to think a
Speaker 1: lot about my grandpa. You know, the diabetes thing is
Speaker 1: one of the things that really strikes me and my grandpa.
Speaker 1: Growing up, I got to see some of the worst
Speaker 1: effects of how diabetes treated a person. At one point,
Speaker 1: had both of his legs amputated, He lost vision in
Speaker 1: one eye. I remember, you know, as a family, we
Speaker 1: had to take him to dialysis. He was a very
Speaker 1: stubborn man. You know, I loved him, obviously, but he
Speaker 1: was a very stubborn man. He refused to go to
Speaker 1: treatment sometimes and and really can see the degeneration that
Speaker 1: happened in a person for for not following their health,
Speaker 1: for not listening to their doctors. And obviously that's not
Speaker 1: something that I want to go down through. I don't
Speaker 1: want to have that happen in my life. And I'm
Speaker 1: happy to know about these things ahead of time. It
Speaker 1: leads me to appreciate a lot of things about going
Speaker 1: through the process, about learning about my DNA with twenty
Speaker 1: three and me and the follow through right the the app,
Speaker 1: it really gives you a lot of help with that
Speaker 1: follow through. Staying on the notion of type two diabetes.
Speaker 1: You know, you click through, you can see what's going on.
Speaker 1: It tells you things to help avoid it. Maintain a
Speaker 1: healthy weight, get active, eat healthy, don't smoke. That's a
Speaker 1: big one all over the place. Talk to a healthcare
Speaker 1: professional and consider diabetes prevention program. There's a click through
Speaker 1: you can get to a c d C prevention program,
Speaker 1: which is great. You know, find other people in your
Speaker 1: position take charge in handling your health. An important one
Speaker 1: also that I saw on the side. Get a health
Speaker 1: action plan. There's a big checklist of things to do
Speaker 1: to know more about your variants, to know more about
Speaker 1: your typical likelihood for developing certain things, and it really
Speaker 1: gives you a lot of information, and I think that's
Speaker 1: the most important part, that information. You want to know
Speaker 1: as much as you can. A lot of people tend
Speaker 1: to put their health on the backburner. You feel, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's nothing to check out, but there's always something on
Speaker 1: the horizon. Uh. You know myself, I'm close to forty
Speaker 1: years old. I'm thirty nine right now, and it's, you know,
Speaker 1: time to take these things a little more seriously. It's
Speaker 1: been an eye opening experience when you get to examine
Speaker 1: a little bit closer your health. You know, we've all
Speaker 1: seen those memes about how you can party in your
Speaker 1: twenties and rebound like nothing, and then once you hit
Speaker 1: your thirties and now you're taking pepto bismol and three
Speaker 1: advils before you go out just so you don't get
Speaker 1: to add hangover um. And you know, that's just kind
Speaker 1: of a silly example, but these things can be a
Speaker 1: lot more serious. And that's just some of it, right.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that you can explore on
Speaker 1: the app and explore in your results. It tells you
Speaker 1: things about your physical traits. It tells you about how
Speaker 1: your DNA may pick your body's reaction to diet, exercise,
Speaker 1: and sleep, you know, one of my favorite things. And
Speaker 1: here it talks about muscle composition. It says by both
Speaker 1: muscle composition is common and elite power athletes. Now I
Speaker 1: don't know how true that is, but even still, it's
Speaker 1: just fun to explore a lot of it. So for
Speaker 1: myself personally thinking about my health, I'm at that part
Speaker 1: right now. I encourage others to, you know, obviously, in
Speaker 1: consultation with your doctors, to learn more about your health,
Speaker 1: learn what your DNA can can enlighten you with and
Speaker 1: and let you know more about and use that knowledge,
Speaker 1: use that knowledge to act. You know, a big part
Speaker 1: of this obviously when you think of twenty three and me,
Speaker 1: you think of that ancestry and where you came from,
Speaker 1: who your family could possibly be, and that's really important.
Speaker 1: But this is that other side right there, learning about
Speaker 1: your DNA, learning how you can impact your your future family,
Speaker 1: your children. Right if I have a variant of one
Speaker 1: and my wife has a variant of another thing, and
Speaker 1: we put us together, you know, our children could have
Speaker 1: a few more problems. So it's just something very interesting
Speaker 1: to look through. And I've had a really good time
Speaker 1: taking a look into what my DNA says about me.
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Speaker 1: Did this episode inspire you to take a closer look
Speaker 1: at your health history, your genetic makeup. Who knew DNA
Speaker 1: could reveal so much about our past while also holding
Speaker 1: the keys to certain health insights that may impact our future.
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