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 Barrett 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, what's good and
Speaker 1: welcome that. If you're a bachelor or a pop culture fan,
Speaker 1: We've got a very fun episode for you today. If
Speaker 1: you're part of Bachelor Nation, then you might be familiar
Speaker 1: with Becca Tilly and her podcast Scrubbing, in which she
Speaker 1: co hosts with a real life bff, Tanya rat. In
Speaker 1: each episode, you can hear these friends fan girling over
Speaker 1: their favorite shows, working through boy troubles, and hanging out
Speaker 1: with the biggest celebrity guests. Becca and Tanya often discuss
Speaker 1: the importance of being true to yourself, being who you
Speaker 1: are and being proud of that, and in order to
Speaker 1: make confident choices in your life, it's important to arm
Speaker 1: yourself with knowledge before taking action. And that's where twenty
Speaker 1: three and Me comes in. Tanya recently took a twenty
Speaker 1: three ME test and is excited to receive her reports.
Speaker 1: She believes the health information contained in a twenty three
Speaker 1: ME test can be empowering, especially when it comes to
Speaker 1: learning more about your health and family history. After discussing
Speaker 1: what their producer Mark learned from his own twenty three
Speaker 1: and me reports, the ladies sit down with representatives from
Speaker 1: twenty three and Me to learn more about what Tanya
Speaker 1: can expect to learn from hers. Let's listen in as
Speaker 1: Becca and Tanya dive deeper and learn how the information
Speaker 1: contained in twenty three test reports can inspire you to
Speaker 1: take action in your own life. Scrubbing In with Becca
Speaker 1: Tilly and Tanya Wrath and I Heart Radio Punk. Hello everybody,
Speaker 1: we are scrubbing in scrub a dub dub um. How's
Speaker 1: it going so good? So? I have been cleaning out
Speaker 1: my apartment and I got rid of two trash bags
Speaker 1: of just like old spices that are expired and just
Speaker 1: kind of like all that kind of stuff, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I found my journal that I used when I did
Speaker 1: the calling in the one, Yeah, which remind listeners that
Speaker 1: what year was that, So I believe I started it
Speaker 1: in uh and into nineteen, so this was I don't
Speaker 1: even know, a couple of years before the pandemic. And
Speaker 1: basically it's a it's a seven week program where every
Speaker 1: day you have homework and you do this thing, and
Speaker 1: you have like a journal that you write every You
Speaker 1: have like one journal that you do all your homework in, right,
Speaker 1: and a lot of the homework involves cutting and pasting
Speaker 1: and kind of making these like collages. So my journal
Speaker 1: has several different collages. But I was looking through and
Speaker 1: I found this one and it is so like specific
Speaker 1: and crazy because this is before I met Red Star
Speaker 1: and I literally like found him, like I brought him
Speaker 1: to me, like I called in the one. So for
Speaker 1: the listeners described for the listeners who can't hear or
Speaker 1: can't see, sorry, um, it's a it's a like a
Speaker 1: picture of a little a little kid and a man
Speaker 1: and they're like in a lake or something right in
Speaker 1: the background, and then there's the words Mr Sunshine across
Speaker 1: the lake and then there's a picture of Gabrielle Union
Speaker 1: and Dwayne Wade. So I love the relationship between Gabrielle
Speaker 1: Union and Dwyane Wade. I've always loved them. I think
Speaker 1: they're just like a really good team. Um, they are
Speaker 1: true partners and I feel like they treat each other
Speaker 1: like king and queen, right, So I love their relationship.
Speaker 1: What I didn't realize at the time Gabrielle union. And
Speaker 1: they have their own kids as well. But she is
Speaker 1: also a step mom. Wow. And Mr Sunshine describes my
Speaker 1: boyfriend to a t like he is just like this,
Speaker 1: like happy positive man. Mark's grimacing, but it's true. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of with Mark, Okay. So he is like a
Speaker 1: ball of sunshine. That guy is happy as a clam.
Speaker 1: I think you are. I think you are missed Sunshine,
Speaker 1: which would then would make Robbie Mr Suntime. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think you've ever called him Mr Sunshine, but
Speaker 1: I think people refer to you as Sunshine all the time. Okay.
Speaker 1: And we have a dog together named Sunny Sunshine. That's
Speaker 1: more significant than any of the other things. So with Sunshine,
Speaker 1: this is the name is Sunny Sunshine. Her name is
Speaker 1: Her name is Sunny Sunshine, Radha. Since when was her
Speaker 1: middle name Sunshine? Talk? It is Sunshine? Okay. When you
Speaker 1: found imagining Tanya like going to her head house. She's
Speaker 1: going to bring this all together, and she's like, Sunny
Speaker 1: doesn't have a middle name. It's Sunshine. No, it is
Speaker 1: Sunshine because we wanted to name her Sunshine, but we
Speaker 1: thought Sunny was cuter. Prove this somewhere anywhere. We might
Speaker 1: need a text from Robbie. Robbie's kids who play with
Speaker 1: Sunny of the time at least know that her middle
Speaker 1: name is Sunny and her last name is rad. Wait. Wait,
Speaker 1: please wait, Tanya, please don't text him. Can I text
Speaker 1: him and ask what her middle name is? Yeah? Please
Speaker 1: don't promise. I'll leave it here and I'll put my
Speaker 1: hands up like this, Hi, what is Sunny's middle name?
Speaker 1: Or maybe you can say full name. No, that's good,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say middle name because that feels like my me.
Speaker 1: I'm like doing something where I'm doing something with Phoebe. Okay,
Speaker 1: So anyways, I think it's really cool and I a
Speaker 1: lot of those things I think you put on there,
Speaker 1: and I think this is really cool about manifesting and
Speaker 1: vision boards and stuff. Is that you put it on there,
Speaker 1: not actually knowing exactly what it's gonna look like, but
Speaker 1: being able to look back and go like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: who would have known? And I haven't still touched that
Speaker 1: journal in years. I like literally found it because I've
Speaker 1: been kind of cleaning out and going through stuff in
Speaker 1: my kitchen. It was like in my sadly it was
Speaker 1: in my junk drawer, but um, I started flipping through
Speaker 1: it and so I was like, really kind of taken
Speaker 1: aback by that. Well, Um, I can't believe that was
Speaker 1: in two thousand eighteen, Like my mind is blown up.
Speaker 1: Feels like last year we were talking about calling him
Speaker 1: the Wind, but it's a seven week program and I
Speaker 1: didn't really I didn't do it every single day for
Speaker 1: the seven weeks. I think it took me a little
Speaker 1: bit longer. So one time him, you've really put in
Speaker 1: the work. You really couldn't. Amongst us, I will have
Speaker 1: to say that it is possible that when you do
Speaker 1: these vision boards, you are then free to retroactively justify
Speaker 1: everything that's on them, and you've done this in the past.
Speaker 1: Was on one and then like three years ago he
Speaker 1: was a guest on the show and you're like, holy crap,
Speaker 1: my vision board came true. I think that's a stretch
Speaker 1: because John Legend and my boyfriend went to the same college. Okay, again,
Speaker 1: if if you would, if you hadn't met somebody totally
Speaker 1: different than Robbie, you would find ways to make that book. Guy,
Speaker 1: That's not true. Mark, Listen, sometimes it is easy to
Speaker 1: do this. And then I had the vision board with
Speaker 1: this cabin that I literally ended up staying in. But
Speaker 1: that was more like a direct, Like that really was
Speaker 1: a direct. I'm gonna put my hands on just to
Speaker 1: show you, guys, one more photo. I'm not texting him,
Speaker 1: I swear I already got a respond to this, so
Speaker 1: funny hold on. And so there's also this picture that
Speaker 1: I put of this couple kissing on a bed and
Speaker 1: the words right above it say in the right love,
Speaker 1: we will discover new love for ourselves. And he's done
Speaker 1: that for me. Okay, but I think this is what
Speaker 1: Mark saying that anyone that was not so specific get
Speaker 1: thank you. But I I think that the key here
Speaker 1: is that you manifested a love that you cherished and
Speaker 1: who loved you, and it was what you were looking
Speaker 1: for and you found that. And I think that's the
Speaker 1: main focus of finding this journal is not so much
Speaker 1: the specifics, but more about you calling in the one. Guys,
Speaker 1: it was pretty exciting for me. Okay, but if you
Speaker 1: had met a different guy, totally different, who doesn't have kids,
Speaker 1: and like, look at this. Look he's right there with
Speaker 1: a little boy. He was with his nephew last weekend,
Speaker 1: and he's so great with kids. I totally see how
Speaker 1: this comes together. And Mr Sunshine on our first date,
Speaker 1: he had to get his sunglasses out of the glove
Speaker 1: comparment because the sun was in his eyes so brightly.
Speaker 1: I mean, you, guys, how perfect is this? Okay explained
Speaker 1: the Dwyanne Wade and Gabrielle Union connection. I still can't
Speaker 1: explain that with Robbie. Oh my gosh, you just don't
Speaker 1: get it. Mark, you just fell in fact that she
Speaker 1: is a step mom. You would have found a way
Speaker 1: you have said. Oh my god, you guys, he loves
Speaker 1: basketball and I put Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union on
Speaker 1: my vision bar I can't believe it. Guess what, I
Speaker 1: didn't even know he was an athlete. And by the way,
Speaker 1: Robbie does love basketball. There's another tie in there. It
Speaker 1: is what team did he play for? I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I don't like basketball. Okay, wait, you guys, this mess,
Speaker 1: this thread is the funniest thing. So I just said, Hi,
Speaker 1: what is Sunny's middle name? And he says l L
Speaker 1: hi dot dot dot Not sure. She has many middle names,
Speaker 1: not sure if anything official. I think it's Randy Moss
Speaker 1: Sonny Randy Moss, yeah, rad, but it has changed several times.
Speaker 1: So I said, like the dead EMERGI and he goes.
Speaker 1: I just asked the kids. They also said Randy Moss,
Speaker 1: Randy Moss. There you go. That is not that is
Speaker 1: not that is not her official middle name. He said it.
Speaker 1: He said what is Tanya saying? And I said Sunshine
Speaker 1: and he goes, l O L. I mean that has
Speaker 1: been tossed around. No, Randy Moss, shiner. I'm calling her
Speaker 1: Sonny Randy Moss from now on, you guys. There's no
Speaker 1: official birth certificate for a dog, so there's not like
Speaker 1: Tanya Tanya. This is this is actually important. Randy Moss
Speaker 1: is an professional athlete, as is Dwayne Way. Bring it on, Becca,
Speaker 1: bring it on. I'm telling you, I'm I'm trying to
Speaker 1: bring out your bachelor journals and see what you manifested.
Speaker 1: I literally have life in general organized my place so
Speaker 1: well that I have no idea where it is, but
Speaker 1: I will locate it and find because I do want
Speaker 1: to read some of those excerpts because they're pretty funny.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, we'll just stick with with yours today.
Speaker 1: But when you said that, I was immediately like, I
Speaker 1: need to find the journal, and then I was like,
Speaker 1: where would that be. It's in a nicely labeled ben somewhere.
Speaker 1: I do know that. I'm just so happy I didn't
Speaker 1: throw in my journal. My gosh, I mean, that is
Speaker 1: some gold right there. I would never think you'd throw
Speaker 1: away your journal. Like that feels so off Brandford. I
Speaker 1: gave my book, My Calling in the One Book to
Speaker 1: somebody else, Well, that makes sense, like you're passing it on,
Speaker 1: but like a journal feels like so I imagine your
Speaker 1: your you know, excerpts are very um in depth and
Speaker 1: something that you want to keep for your wedding one day. Honestly,
Speaker 1: they're kind of embarrassing. No, I I'm so shocked at
Speaker 1: the way I wrote as a twenty six year old, Like,
Speaker 1: that's what talked to me the most. Reading the Bachelor Journal,
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, sounded like a high school or two.
Speaker 1: That's how mine sound, like, I'm like I hope that
Speaker 1: and like my fear is that, like yeah, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: with you there. Um. Today we're actually going to be
Speaker 1: talking about twenty three and me and it's kind of
Speaker 1: like just switching gear as a tad, you know, like
Speaker 1: from manifestation to like actual DNA yes, um, And we're
Speaker 1: going to be talking about like kind of how important
Speaker 1: it is to know your background for you know, multiple reasons.
Speaker 1: But Tanya sent hers in, you haven't gotten your results
Speaker 1: right now. I haven't. But we're going to kind of
Speaker 1: talk through like what are you're like, what are you
Speaker 1: hoping for from the results and what are you looking for?
Speaker 1: Are you nervous about anything? You expecting anything? Are you
Speaker 1: nervous about anything? I don't know. Doesn't it tell you
Speaker 1: like health stuff? It's yeah's health stuff. And I'm like
Speaker 1: pretty sure that I'm a hundred percent serbian because it's
Speaker 1: like both my parents and their parents are and their
Speaker 1: parents are, so I feel like I'm hand to handle
Speaker 1: p What if you were what what would you be
Speaker 1: if you were? I don't know, but then I would
Speaker 1: look at my grandparents differently. What if you had something
Speaker 1: totally different? Would that totally shake you up? It would
Speaker 1: be kind of interesting. Well, that's such everything. I've heard
Speaker 1: so many crazy stories about it, of like people thinking
Speaker 1: one thing their whole life and then just innocently doing
Speaker 1: this test and getting the results and being like, but
Speaker 1: there's a lot of health befits to like you can
Speaker 1: kind of see if you're predisposed, predisposed, pre preconditioned thinn
Speaker 1: don't second pre disposed to certain like illnesses and ailments
Speaker 1: and diabetes and things like that. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of also health benefits as well. Mark, you did it right,
Speaker 1: I did it. I'm looking at my ancestry results right now.
Speaker 1: I'm nine point seven percent European, mostly Northwestern European, about
Speaker 1: a quarter of Ashca Nazi Jewish. I'm primarily from Norway, Sweden, Germany, England, Ireland,
Speaker 1: which none of that is terribly surprising, but it's still
Speaker 1: fun to look at, fun to check out, and then yes,
Speaker 1: you do the health stuff on here, nothing alarming, that
Speaker 1: was nice. It's really fun to dig into. Plus they
Speaker 1: have all kinds of like i don't know what you
Speaker 1: call them, like cute little quirks about you, like you know, um,
Speaker 1: you are more disposed to like um butterflies, but no,
Speaker 1: more like foods more like sto as opposed to sweet foods,
Speaker 1: or like asparagus really makes your piece smell like stuff
Speaker 1: like that, I'm not I'm not kidding. That was actually
Speaker 1: in the But doesn't asparagus make everybody's piece smell? Can
Speaker 1: they tell us how? I've never I've never had that
Speaker 1: with asparagus, Like I'm never like, oh my god, like
Speaker 1: people described, I've never experienced that. I'd like to smell
Speaker 1: you your p after you have asparagus. Okay, we'll set
Speaker 1: that up. Okay, we'll have to do that on another day.
Speaker 1: As Asparagus order detection likely can smell the asparagus order
Speaker 1: in your urine, and I can't. They nailed that one.
Speaker 1: Kind of vague no, kind of but they say they
Speaker 1: say you're more likely or not as likely, like, for example,
Speaker 1: in caase bitterness, you're likely to have a cleft chin.
Speaker 1: I do, You're likely to have to tach your lobes.
Speaker 1: I do? You know that sort of thing? Wow? All right,
Speaker 1: so yeah, we're gonna get back into this with reps
Speaker 1: from twenty three and me, so we'll be right back
Speaker 1: with them. All right, you guys, so we're bad. Can
Speaker 1: we have a Lisa and Stacy here from twenty three
Speaker 1: and me, and they're here to answer all of our
Speaker 1: questions that we have about the twenty three in the process,
Speaker 1: so please welcome them in to the scrubbing in oh R.
Speaker 1: So I want you to kind of talk about you know,
Speaker 1: when you when people here twenty three and me, they
Speaker 1: think that it's like just ancestry they're going to see
Speaker 1: like where they came from. But there's so much more
Speaker 1: to it than that, right, Yes, I'll take this on UM.
Speaker 1: So there is a whole world of health information within
Speaker 1: twenty three and me that is super exciting. I'm a
Speaker 1: genetic counselor, so my background is all about genetics and
Speaker 1: thinking through health UM. Overall our Healthless Ancestry service, there's
Speaker 1: over sixty five health report and they touch upon you know,
Speaker 1: your potential chances to have a genetic um increased likelihood
Speaker 1: for a different conditions. They also write information about genetic
Speaker 1: variants you might pass on to your children and just
Speaker 1: neural wellness, exercise, weight, diet, all sorts of things UM.
Speaker 1: And then there's even the Way Through Plus membership that
Speaker 1: adds another twenty plus reports and ongoing features throughout the year,
Speaker 1: So a lot of health information. I have a question
Speaker 1: about it, like, when you get information about health, is
Speaker 1: it kind of is it specific like percentages or what
Speaker 1: does that look like for people when they get it?
Speaker 1: Is it just like this is something you're likely to
Speaker 1: maybe uh experience, or how does it work? So it
Speaker 1: can vary. So there's two different ways of thinking about
Speaker 1: genetics and your health. So one is you may have
Speaker 1: like one or two genetic variants, and those are just
Speaker 1: like the DNA differences between people, we just call those
Speaker 1: genetic variants. Um, you may have one or two that
Speaker 1: like really might impact a certain condition. Um, where you
Speaker 1: if you have that variant, your your chances of developing
Speaker 1: that condition, you know, maybe like three times or four
Speaker 1: times higher than the average person. And so in those conditions,
Speaker 1: we might tell you you have this genetic variant. Here
Speaker 1: is how it it potentially impacts your health. How many
Speaker 1: people with that variant go on to develop that condition? Um.
Speaker 1: There's a whole another side of this, which is conditions
Speaker 1: that you might be more familiar with, like type two diabetes,
Speaker 1: migrating things like that, where there's not just one smoking gun,
Speaker 1: there's not just one or two genetic variants, but it
Speaker 1: might be thousands or tens of thousands of genetic variants
Speaker 1: that all have this like tiny little effect. And what
Speaker 1: we do then is we add all that up to
Speaker 1: sort of give you this overall predisposition where we tell
Speaker 1: you might be at increased likelihood and in those cases
Speaker 1: then we can give you like a percent chance, right,
Speaker 1: how many people like you? What percentage of people like
Speaker 1: you actually have that condition? And so you can kind
Speaker 1: of get that like, um exact number on it for yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's really helpful. Have you all had I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's so many stories of people who maybe never
Speaker 1: even considered something specific about their health being a chance
Speaker 1: for them, and then they do this test and get
Speaker 1: it back and get the results, and maybe they go
Speaker 1: in for a check up and catch something that they
Speaker 1: wouldn't have caught sooner had they not seen that possibility.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm worrying this right, but have
Speaker 1: you all had any stories like that or seen anything
Speaker 1: where people like it literally could save a life if
Speaker 1: they caught something early. We do. We actually get a
Speaker 1: lot of customers writing in and we have a whole
Speaker 1: team that works on these amazing customers stories to get
Speaker 1: them out there. And you know, the ones that I
Speaker 1: think come most of mind that come up a lot
Speaker 1: are associated with brc UM. So this is if you
Speaker 1: have a variant, it greatly increases your chance for breast
Speaker 1: and a varian cancer and women there's also other certain
Speaker 1: cancers as well, and it cannot big effect for meals too. UM.
Speaker 1: And this is something that a lot of people have
Speaker 1: no idea they have these variants. We only test for
Speaker 1: a selectree and we're not diagnosing cancer right there. Stuffining
Speaker 1: limitations testing right, UM. But if you have this very
Speaker 1: and UM, it's really important to get it confirmed right
Speaker 1: You need to get confirmatory testing. But it is such
Speaker 1: that you there's a lot of different actions that you
Speaker 1: can take. The greatly reduced your risk for cancer because
Speaker 1: we're talking about very high numbers here, UM. And the
Speaker 1: very tests for a really common people that have Oscepanazi
Speaker 1: Jewish ancestry to one in forty. So so many people
Speaker 1: don't know that. And ultimately we have these amazing stories
Speaker 1: of women who have found out um, some were adopted
Speaker 1: and had no idea they had Osponazey Jewish ancestry. UM.
Speaker 1: Somewhere conceived via sperm donor and had no idea, right,
Speaker 1: or some knew that had Ashtonaze Jewish ancestry, but had
Speaker 1: no idea that there were these you know, increased likelihood
Speaker 1: that they could have these variants. Um. And so just
Speaker 1: incredible stories of the actions people are able to take
Speaker 1: and this empowerment. Um. So we've seen it from you know,
Speaker 1: the v r A type two diabetes. We get a
Speaker 1: lot of stories that people saying, this makes me realize
Speaker 1: I need to take action. Right, there's some things that
Speaker 1: I can do just living that healthy lifestyle that can
Speaker 1: really have a big impact on reducing your chances. So
Speaker 1: we get a lot of these stories. Um. It's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite parts of what I do because I
Speaker 1: get to hear these stories and so you really get
Speaker 1: that feeling of Okay, it's there's there's a reason of
Speaker 1: what we're doing behind this, Right, we're actually impacting people
Speaker 1: live And I know the test is is I did it?
Speaker 1: So it's easy, Like you get the test and you
Speaker 1: fill up a tube to like a certain line with
Speaker 1: like your spits you just like spit in it or whatever,
Speaker 1: but is there like it Let's just say you didn't
Speaker 1: spit to the line or if there is like would
Speaker 1: you send it back to somebody else, like to somebody
Speaker 1: and say like do it again or like does that
Speaker 1: ever happen? Yeah, So we have some quality control measures.
Speaker 1: So when you send that too off to the lab,
Speaker 1: they're going to check to make sure that we can
Speaker 1: you know, get enough DNA so you know your your spit. Basically,
Speaker 1: what we're looking at is like the cheek cells that
Speaker 1: sort of come along for the ride in your spit.
Speaker 1: So sometimes there's not enough cells in there, so we
Speaker 1: can't get enough DNA out, so the lab will do
Speaker 1: those like sort of quality controls, or there's not enough
Speaker 1: spit or you know that it doesn't run really and
Speaker 1: so if any of that happens, that sort of gets
Speaker 1: kicked back and generally, well said a replacement kit so
Speaker 1: you can give it a second try, um, you know,
Speaker 1: to to to get that full experience. We do whatever
Speaker 1: we can. I was happy that it was I was
Speaker 1: happy that it was spit because I don't know why
Speaker 1: I thought DNA testing was like blood or like, you know,
Speaker 1: so I was like, I don't know what you're gonna say,
Speaker 1: is just like I'm not I don't know about pricky,
Speaker 1: like sending the blood and then they're like, no, no,
Speaker 1: just spin. I was like, oh, great, three it is.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of spit. But yes, it's a way
Speaker 1: better collecting than than blood in my opinion, way easier,
Speaker 1: way less dramatic. Um. Tanya and I were talking about
Speaker 1: so Tanya, both of her parents are Serbian and her
Speaker 1: their parents are Serbian, and she was like, I feel
Speaker 1: like I would be a Serbian and I was. I
Speaker 1: was saying, like, what if your results came back and
Speaker 1: it was totally different than what you expected. Do you
Speaker 1: see a lot of those stories And I'm assuming people
Speaker 1: who maybe aren't familiar if they were adopted and weren't familiar,
Speaker 1: you know, with biological parents. But um, I imagine that
Speaker 1: can be kind of overwhelming for people sometimes to get
Speaker 1: these results and get answers that maybe they didn't even
Speaker 1: realize they had questions about. Yeah, I think what the
Speaker 1: ancestry side. Um, you know, one thing to always keep
Speaker 1: in mind is what we're good looking at is like
Speaker 1: what your DNA says, and that's not the same as
Speaker 1: like culture and the like how you grew up and
Speaker 1: all of that, right, and so a lot of times
Speaker 1: you know, political borders change and you know, maybe the
Speaker 1: border has has shifted, and so you're getting a result
Speaker 1: of saying like, hey, I'm from this other place, but
Speaker 1: I know my family is you know, is from here.
Speaker 1: And sometimes the DNA doesn't reflect what we know that
Speaker 1: happened happened in history. So, um, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: a start. The ancestry is sort of a start of
Speaker 1: a journey to like look into maybe hey, maybe your
Speaker 1: family moved and it was you know, my great great
Speaker 1: great grandparents that we didn't know about came from somewhere else.
Speaker 1: So that sometimes what happens with those results. Um, but
Speaker 1: I think what's interesting is hearing people talk about like, oh,
Speaker 1: it was exactly what I like thought I was and
Speaker 1: it was great, or it was exactly what I thought
Speaker 1: it was and I wish I had found something different.
Speaker 1: So either way, for the extended one that you were
Speaker 1: saying like that, the um, what were you saying earlier
Speaker 1: that there was like a second layer of it that
Speaker 1: you can kind of follow up and get more information. Plus, yeah,
Speaker 1: can you get like food allergies with that or is
Speaker 1: that totally different? So we don't have food allergies right now?
Speaker 1: We do have a couple things that touch on food. UM.
Speaker 1: So we have like lactose intolerance or predisposition to things
Speaker 1: like celiac disease, but not specific food allergies. UM. Foods
Speaker 1: a little tough because it's um both you know you
Speaker 1: how you react, but you know we have we're all
Speaker 1: we all have this gut microbiome UM. And so it's
Speaker 1: also how like all your little colonizers are reacting to
Speaker 1: the food you eat as well. So it's a little
Speaker 1: tough to do food allergies with just with just your genetics.
Speaker 1: We do have to other allergies though, like dog and
Speaker 1: cat allergies, which is really interesting. Yes, thank you, Stacy.
Speaker 1: I always wonder if maybe I'm like mildly allergic to dogs,
Speaker 1: like my dog sitting right here. I would I don't,
Speaker 1: I would never care, like I would never do anything
Speaker 1: about it, but I've always wondered that and with cats.
Speaker 1: But I think I think even just the basic of
Speaker 1: something like celiac disease or lactose intolerant is really helpful
Speaker 1: for people because I don't think a lot of people
Speaker 1: realize how much if it's affecting your body, how much
Speaker 1: it affects like everything. It can affect your mental health,
Speaker 1: Like the gut is so powerful. Let me tell you,
Speaker 1: I never officially been told that I'm lactose intolerant, but
Speaker 1: like the way that dairy makes me feel, I'm like
Speaker 1: diagnosed myself. So I'm curious to see what my twenty
Speaker 1: three in me says about my lactose tolerance. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and at least you might be able to help me
Speaker 1: out here. But lactose intolerance is really interesting me because actually,
Speaker 1: you know, the way human I've eolution was everyone was
Speaker 1: lacked of intolerant, and there was actually a genetic variant
Speaker 1: that occurred that made it so that you could actually
Speaker 1: stay lack of toler So it's much more likely for
Speaker 1: people to actually be lacked of intolerant in a lot
Speaker 1: of the world. So um, it's something a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't think about the Really it's very common. So uh,
Speaker 1: we're actually looking at a very lactive tolerant that you know,
Speaker 1: it's something that came about later on in evolution. That's
Speaker 1: really cool. And I also think, like I was, I
Speaker 1: really like that people can get the results and they
Speaker 1: don't have to be a scientists store a doctor to
Speaker 1: read them and understand them because sometimes I mean when
Speaker 1: you get your labs done at the doctor and they're
Speaker 1: like if we sing you the labs and you look
Speaker 1: at it and you're like, um, no idea. And so
Speaker 1: I think um Mark was reading his earlier and talking.
Speaker 1: He was reading it as he was, you know, talking
Speaker 1: to us about it, and it was so just like straightforward.
Speaker 1: There was no moment of me like what in the
Speaker 1: heck does that mean? Like it's all very yeah, So
Speaker 1: I wanted to acknowledge that, and like how important was
Speaker 1: that for you all? Because people are doing these at
Speaker 1: home tests and making it really accessible and easy to
Speaker 1: get the results without feeling confused. I guess, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's top of mind as we're creating these reports, is right.
Speaker 1: We're always thinking about not just how can we make it,
Speaker 1: you know, easy for someone to understand, but also like
Speaker 1: who is the person that's going to be receiving this result,
Speaker 1: and like really thinking about what what do they need
Speaker 1: when they're receiving these different results. You know, some are
Speaker 1: super fun and friendly and some are more serious and
Speaker 1: and really thinking through and keeping that person in mind
Speaker 1: is like as a core part of how we do
Speaker 1: our work. Yeah, I love that part about it. Um.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else that we didn't touch on that
Speaker 1: you would want people to know about twenty three me
Speaker 1: that maybe haven't done it or haven't heard about it,
Speaker 1: or this is their first time hearing about it. You know.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we really feel that knowledge is empowerment, right, Um.
Speaker 1: But it is something that you know, you can't undo knowing.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of things that people find you
Speaker 1: touched upon this before, things that you never thought about
Speaker 1: that you discover about yourself. And so I always say
Speaker 1: the genetic counselor inside of me just as really, you know,
Speaker 1: think about it, but go into it with a very
Speaker 1: open mind. We have all these education tutorials, take a
Speaker 1: look at, um, all the information that's out there. Um.
Speaker 1: But I really feel very strongly that knowledge is power
Speaker 1: and there is so much knowledge that you can find
Speaker 1: out about yourself from this. Well, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining and thank you so people. Where can people
Speaker 1: get the test and get it sent to them? Is
Speaker 1: there a great question? Thank you? Yeah? I mean I
Speaker 1: think the main is just this pointing career a new website. UM,
Speaker 1: I go there almost every day, so we definitely have
Speaker 1: prom dot com is the main aspect of how you
Speaker 1: can access it and kind of see all the different
Speaker 1: operations that are out there. Right, we talked about the
Speaker 1: different Healthless ancestry membership, so there's a lot for everyone.
Speaker 1: It's nationwide, right, yes, amazing. Well, thank you all so
Speaker 1: much for coming on and um chatting with us about
Speaker 1: it and chatting so that everyone could listen. We really
Speaker 1: appreciate all for scrubbing in. Thanks for having us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you guys. All right, you guys, we are back
Speaker 1: and Mark is back to read emails as I really
Speaker 1: struggled last week. Thank god, so you struggle. It was
Speaker 1: just like hard to follow you like I was, just
Speaker 1: like Tony was like miss something, I miss Mark. This
Speaker 1: is really hard. Thank you and thank you Becka. And
Speaker 1: here we go. This is from Amanda. I've been I
Speaker 1: don't know, offdating a man off because of me who
Speaker 1: is so loving, cares about me, tells me, shows me
Speaker 1: all the time, but not in an annoying way. When
Speaker 1: we first started dating, I was fresh out of a
Speaker 1: three year relationship. That was my excuse, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to see what else was out there. He's the best
Speaker 1: one I've found for sure. However, I have a masters
Speaker 1: in nursing and he works at a brewery, and I
Speaker 1: know it shouldn't bother me, but it does, not the
Speaker 1: brewery part, but the educational financial part. He pays his
Speaker 1: own bills and can afford enough, but I've never seen
Speaker 1: myself being the money maker. Is that a deal breaker?
Speaker 1: Or am I throwing away true love over something stupid?
Speaker 1: So here's my my knee jerk reaction is if you're
Speaker 1: if you found this man that's like everything that you've wanted,
Speaker 1: and it's like has all the qualities that you're looking for.
Speaker 1: Circumstances change, and to me, it's more it's not like
Speaker 1: what he does professionally, but what his dreams and his
Speaker 1: ambitions are, because we don't know, like maybe he's a
Speaker 1: bartender right now, but one day he wants to own
Speaker 1: his own bar. Or some people bartend and do you
Speaker 1: know their other worker, are you know, starting their business
Speaker 1: on the side, And that's you know, so I feel
Speaker 1: like we don't have quite the information to see what
Speaker 1: his dreams and aspirations are. If he doesn't have dreams,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have aspirations, and he doesn't really have goals,
Speaker 1: and that's bothering you. Then that's always going to bother
Speaker 1: you and that's not going to go away. So I
Speaker 1: feel like ultimately it will be a deal breaker, but
Speaker 1: I feel like on the surface level, it's not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think this is just based on who you are,
Speaker 1: what you what's important to you, because like for me personally,
Speaker 1: I don't think this would be a deal breaker, but
Speaker 1: I do think I do think it's valid if it's
Speaker 1: a deal breaker, Like, I don't think you're a bad
Speaker 1: person for wanting someone who has like career drive and
Speaker 1: like Tanya said, dreams. But granted, we don't know much
Speaker 1: about him, but what I'm gathering from her email is
Speaker 1: that he's very content working at the bar, and you know,
Speaker 1: there's hasn't been much movement or he hasn't shown progress
Speaker 1: in that area of like going to the next level.
Speaker 1: It is totally personal preference, you're right, yeah, And I
Speaker 1: just think like, if that's something that's important to you,
Speaker 1: and you're always gonna make him feel bad about his decision,
Speaker 1: because like, for someone to feel content in something, especially
Speaker 1: when it's work and they and they're still able to
Speaker 1: pull their part and pay their part, then it's not
Speaker 1: fair for you to make him feel less than because
Speaker 1: that is something that you care about more than he does.
Speaker 1: So I think if you can look past it and realize, like, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe I do make more, maybe I'm a little more
Speaker 1: driven than him, and maybe you know that's how it's
Speaker 1: always gonna be. And I love him and he's wonderful.
Speaker 1: I can look past it, then I think you stay
Speaker 1: in it. But I think that if you're always going
Speaker 1: to worry about that, and also it's going to lead
Speaker 1: into you making him feel less than I think maybe
Speaker 1: you find someone who's more on the level that you're
Speaker 1: looking for. You can't control how you feel, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: how many times have you heard from people who are
Speaker 1: dating somebody who checks every box. There's just something missing.
Speaker 1: There's just it's not tickling your pickle, to use your phrase,
Speaker 1: it's not sparking you. For whatever reason. He's hot, he
Speaker 1: he treats me great, he's so friendly, he's so sweet,
Speaker 1: but for some reason, it's just not happening. That's okay,
Speaker 1: And the sometimes we can't put our finger on that
Speaker 1: and what it is. And maybe this is because of
Speaker 1: his his ambitions, and maybe it's not. Whatever, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if it is or not, it's not happening for you,
Speaker 1: And so I think, yeah, I think you probably have
Speaker 1: to move on no matter what the reason is, it's
Speaker 1: just not happening for you. You know what's interesting though
Speaker 1: that I think about because like back in the you know,
Speaker 1: olden days, when like it was like the man works,
Speaker 1: the woman stays home and raises the kids, and like
Speaker 1: that was just the dynamic of what it was like.
Speaker 1: Did men back then feel that way about their partner?
Speaker 1: Because it's like, when you have two people in a relationship,
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like odds are more likely that
Speaker 1: somebody's going to make more than the other. Whether it's now,
Speaker 1: whether it's the man or the woman, or or in
Speaker 1: any sort of relationship there's two people and somebody's going
Speaker 1: to make more than the other. It's just it is
Speaker 1: what it is. So it's like I wonder back in
Speaker 1: the day if men felt like why didn't men feel
Speaker 1: that way about their wives? Do you know what I mean? Well,
Speaker 1: I think I don't think this answer your question. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of men are bothered by women who
Speaker 1: make more than them. They find it emasculating. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: but like it's so funny because as women, like, we've
Speaker 1: come so far from that now in terms of the
Speaker 1: money and the equality in the house and relationships and stuff.
Speaker 1: But you know when she says she makes more than him,
Speaker 1: it is there is this thing still with a woman
Speaker 1: making more than her male partner. Well, it's like what
Speaker 1: we're almost like trained by society to think what it's
Speaker 1: supposed to, what the dynamic is supposed to look like
Speaker 1: that's changing. So it's like it is, but it's just
Speaker 1: like everything that's ingrained in us, you have to unlearn it,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it takes a lot of work to do
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's like I also think deal breakers are
Speaker 1: so personal, like someone else's deal breaker. I might be like, really,
Speaker 1: like you're gonna end something with someone because of that,
Speaker 1: But I might have a deal breaker that someone else
Speaker 1: is like, really, you're going to add something with that.
Speaker 1: So I think if if it's constantly bothering you, and
Speaker 1: I agree with Tania, like, if this is a this
Speaker 1: is one of those things that's the society expectation that's
Speaker 1: ingrained in you and that's what you're main focus is on,
Speaker 1: then maybe there's a way that you try to work
Speaker 1: through that. But I also think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: fishing to see and if I don't know, I mean
Speaker 1: to own that bar one day, or at least kind
Speaker 1: of move off the ladder in the restaurant industry. And
Speaker 1: if you sits around playing video games all day, then
Speaker 1: I can see why, Oh for sure. I mean I
Speaker 1: would be the same way even if it wasn't like
Speaker 1: a bartender. Let's just say, I don't even know. I
Speaker 1: don't want to like, you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: stereotype it any job where you're not moving. Yeah, go,
Speaker 1: Like I I love the thought of like somebody that
Speaker 1: wants to move forward or push more or you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, like not be so like I just
Speaker 1: I don't think I could ever have a partner that's complacent.
Speaker 1: And that's just me personally. That might not somebody else
Speaker 1: might not care about that. Somebody else might love the
Speaker 1: day to day the same routine and and that that
Speaker 1: stability in that consistency. So it's just like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: kind of preference. Well, I think specifically America really focuses
Speaker 1: on work, you know, like and I think other countries
Speaker 1: like I. I've just learned this through TikTok, where people
Speaker 1: like in other countries get like breaks during during the
Speaker 1: day and they don't have to like always of work
Speaker 1: like we do in America, like our mindset. So I, um,
Speaker 1: I think it's just different, different strokes for different Speaking
Speaker 1: of TikTok, I found out the other day this is
Speaker 1: totally off topic, but that like, um, you know when
Speaker 1: you take your dog for a walk and they like
Speaker 1: stop to like smell that this and the smell that that,
Speaker 1: and kind of like good for them. No, that's like
Speaker 1: their TikTok. Like that's they're like social media. That's they're
Speaker 1: kind of like thing. Well I saw I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is the same thing, but I saw something similar,
Speaker 1: and I used to get so annoyed because Phoebe sniffs everything.
Speaker 1: Now I take her out and I'm like sniff away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh, it's like your Instagram time,
Speaker 1: like you go, girl. So our advice to her is,
Speaker 1: either it's okay, if it's a deal breaker, get out
Speaker 1: and it's always gonna get out now, it's not fair
Speaker 1: to either of you. And if it's something that you
Speaker 1: want to kind of unlearn, if it's a society thing,
Speaker 1: then work on that too. But you deserve to be happy,
Speaker 1: and so does he all right, you guys, So we're
Speaker 1: done for the day. I hope you have a great week,
Speaker 1: and I promise you. I am trying to book Hailey Kiyoko,
Speaker 1: but she is a busy girl and she really wants
Speaker 1: to come on the podcast. I think it'd be really
Speaker 1: fun to do like a game with with Robbie and
Speaker 1: Me and Haley and you. Yeah, but we need Haley
Speaker 1: in studio, like, I don't want her to do like
Speaker 1: a zoom Okay, I'll be sure when we book her
Speaker 1: that she needs to know it will be in studio interview. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because like when she comes, it's gonna be like an
Speaker 1: Oprah sit down interview, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be this quick zoom link bye bye situation.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. We really need to get
Speaker 1: to know her, Like yeah, alright, Well until then, have
Speaker 1: a great week. We love you, and bye bye, and
Speaker 1: that's it. On another Dope show. Did this episode inspire
Speaker 1: you to take a closer look at your health history,
Speaker 1: your genetic makeup? Who new DNA could reveal so much
Speaker 1: about our past while also holding the keys to certain
Speaker 1: health insights that may impact our future. I continue to
Speaker 1: be inspired by these stories, and I hope you do
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