October 13, 2022 • 17 mins
FOX Sports personality and co-host of ‘The Herd with Colin Cowherd’, Jason McIntyre, knows the most valuable commodity for sports gamblers is good information. You can’t make smart decisions on games without all the information, and the same holds true when it comes to your health. Jason is constantly looking for an edge, and that’s precisely why he decided to take a 23andMe test.
Teaming up with 23AndMe, J-Mac discusses how learning about his ancestry and genetic history has given him the knowledge to help make sure he’ll be running around with his kids and dominating rec sports leagues for years to come.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Have you ever thought about how incredibly complex I spit is.
It may only be water, but just aliva isn't simple.
That remaining one percent holds incredibly meaningful information that could
change everything. And I'm not just talking about your family
treat Hi. I'm barretton Day Thurston and on this season
(00:24):
of Spit and I Heart Radio podcast with twenty three
and Me, we explore how DNA isn't just about ancestry,
it can also be key to understanding your health. What's
up you and Welcome back. Jason McIntyre, host of the
Straight Fire podcast, is the go to person for bold
(00:45):
opinions on the biggest stories in sports today, including the
day's biggest sports betting topics. As an avid sports gambler,
Jason knows the most valuable commodity for someone placing bets
is information. You can't make decisions on games without knowing
all the proper intel, and he believes the same is
true for his health. As a weekend warrior, it's important
(01:07):
for Jason to have as much information as possible to
keep him active, healthy, and competing in the sports he loves.
So Jason decided to take a twenty three in me
test to see what his DNA could tell him about
his health and using that knowledge how he could make
the right bet on his future. Jason learns his biggest
challenge might be changing his diet. As active as he is,
(01:29):
the information contained in his health insights might make him
think twice about his stay active, eat what I want lifestyle.
Let's listen in as Jason breaks it down and maybe
you two will be inspired to see what you can
parlay from twenty three and me. This is Straight Fire
(01:54):
with Jason McIntyre. What is up Straight Fire? Our fam
We have a special episode of the podcast today stepping
out of our comfort zone, trying something new. We partnered
with twenty three and me two kind of get some
information on my health. Um, you guys know I play
(02:19):
a lot of sports. I'm very active. I like to
think of myself as a weekend warrior. And you really
have to know what your body is about and know
your background and what you made of and where you
come from if you want to optimize fully your body
and your health as you age out of your twenties
and thirties and get into uh I'm leally even say
(02:41):
middle age. But um, you guys, when we do a
lot of sports gambling on the podcast, obviously, and the
most valuable commodity you can have is information. I talk
all the time on the podcast about how you know,
look at a injury reports, you look at weather reports,
everything throughout the week, every day, and the lines are
moving and you gotta jump on it and take advantage
(03:02):
to get the best number. And you can't just make
decisions all willy nilly if you want to be successful
in gambling without getting all the information. And I feel
like the same is true for my health. Um, and
you guys know, listen, I am trying to live my
best dad life playing tennis. I joined the tennis ladder
one of my first match, which was nice. I played
in the basketball league in the summer one a championship.
(03:23):
Little humble black brag the humble brag flex for you
right there. Um. I've played in some more soccer tournaments
in the last three years than I had geez in
the last twenty. I did play competitive sports growing up,
and I think I've talked about it a little bit
on the podcast. So as I was growing up, I
(03:44):
was like a pretty good youth athlete, more soccer than anything,
because I had the speed and kind of the the
will and the desire to just want to get to
the ball and raise up ahead and score. And soccer
was my best sport. I loved basketball the most. My
parents would not let me play football for understandable reasons,
you know, concern over injuries and what have you. And
(04:07):
I realized pretty quickly soccer was my best. So I
did some club soccer, and I was pretty crushed. As
everybody started to mature and you know, hit puberty. I
was like a late bloomer and you go to try
out for the high school sports teams and you don't
make the teams, and you're kind of stunned because you've
been playing sports all these years growing up and excelling
(04:28):
in some of them. I mean, I wish I had
been a better basketball player, but what could I do.
I was a small guy. I couldn't really um. I
didn't have the handle to be a point guard, and
I was too small to be a shooting guard. But
I loved hoops, so I kept playing and you know,
doing sports or what have you. Um, But it was recreationally.
And my parents knew I always had loved sports, and
(04:49):
they could see that I was ticked to tell my
friends made the team and I didn't, and so they
were like, well, you still like sports, why don't you
like go work for the local newspaper. This was when
newspapers mattered way back when and they were relevant. So
I like called up the local newspaper. It was like
a weekly, and I was like, hey, you guys need
me to do anything, and they're like, sure, you can
come take calls for high school sports games. And that's
(05:10):
kind of how my career got started in sports media.
And you know, went from the newspapers to college and
I majored in Media Arts and Design, I think was
the exact name. Local newspaper got out, went to a newspaper,
saw newspapers at that time, we're starting to crumble, pivoted
to magazine, started a website, sold the website. Get scooped
(05:31):
up by fox In and I come west and I
had played in some basketball leagues in New York, but
I was never like a healthy eater, and so I
was always like in shape because I would work out
and run. I'll never forget me. And my wife moved,
well girlfriend at the time, moved to Brooklyn and we
were close enough to the Brooklyn Bridge that Saturday mornings,
(05:54):
we would wake up, go to the gym, and then
after the gym, she would add home and I'd run
across the Brooklyn Bridge and back and it was just incredible.
You know, the weather is amazing, and I wanted to
be healthy again. The diet was always an issue for me,
and you you can only go so far when you're
just doing one and not the other. Right, And played
(06:15):
in some basketball leagues in New York that we moved
out of Pennsylvania, played in some basketball leagues, and I
it was it was basically a better athlete late into
my you know, twenties and thirties than I was as
a kid, because I'm just in better shape. And eventually
I did, you know, run a little track, well not track.
(06:37):
I read a couple of races like mile and five k,
and I started to realize my strength is in the
short term, like a one mile sprint as opposed to
a five k, which I think is six point two
or three miles whatever it was. And all this is
leading up to, you know, how do I optimize what
I've got going whatever that is, How do I optimize that?
(06:57):
And which enters twenty three and me and what they're
able to do is provide like a deep dive into
my health background, my traits, my wellness, and it can
be a pretty instrumental factor in giving me an edge
and staying fit and healthy. UM as I age, and
(07:18):
again I hate using the word as I age, because
I still feel like I'm in my twenties. Like I
can guard young guys playing pick up basketball, I can
outrun guys in soccer on the field. You know, Like
I come West, and it's weird because everybody's in ridiculously
good shape out here in California. You know, I'm not
gonna say I got into all the hippie dippy avocado
toast stuff. Um, I've dabbled. I've dabbled, but by and large,
(07:42):
diet has been my big weakness. And in twenty three
and Me, you're able to dive into your health and
wellness to a level that I just couldn't get researching
myself online. And one of the things UM, in terms
of uh, the in depth profile three and Me provided was,
you know, they do look at genetic muscle composition. And
(08:05):
I know that's going to sound like a weird phrase
to some people, but once you do the twenty three
and me deep dive and you look at it, You're like,
holy cow. And of course at the same time, I
start telling my parents and siblings, my brother that yeah,
I'm doing twenty three and me and obviously I have
I'm sure you guys know. My background is mixed. Um My,
(08:25):
my mom and dad come from the Caribbean. Long story short.
My mom's from Guyana in South America, and so she's
mixed with mostly Indian, but a bunch of other stuff.
And then my dad is from a tiny island Dominica
and the Caribbean. It's not one of these built up
um tourist traps if you will, in the Caribbean. It's
(08:47):
one of the greener spots in the Caribbean. They don't
have a lot of cruise ships pulling up pretty cool
island that I've never been to. Actually, my dad's told
me a lot about it. And given that background, you know,
my brother and I growing up, we were like, well,
we we kind of hang out with a lot of
my mom's family. We called them Indian jams. And then
(09:08):
of course, you know, we had other stuff in us.
So twenty three and me is able to give us
the detailed background. Hey, you are this percent Indian and
this percent African American and this percent European, and it's
a pretty cool breakdown and that, and that's like the
starter for knowing your background. But when it comes to
the health and wellness, like, you can't really get that
(09:31):
until you jump into twenty three and me and when
I told my Dada that that I looked into it.
I'm like, hey, I've got this weird muscle composition. It's
actually pretty good for athletes. He's like, well, yeah, you
know about your grandfather, And of course I knew a
little bit about it, but you know, it's not like
Dominica and Guyana are similar to America, where you can
just look back at several generations fairly easily, and it's documented.
(09:54):
This is the Caribbean different speed. So it turns out
my dad puts me onto a book which is written
about soccer in Dominica and generally the islands over there,
and it turns out my grandfather was like an amazing
soccer player in the in a book that chronicles the
history of soccer in Dominica and largely the Caribbean. It
(10:16):
talks about my grandfather being like one of the best
scoring forwards of his generation back in like the nineteen
twenties and one of his siblings was also on the
team and just incredible. And so after going into twenty
three me, I go into you know, my dad with
this and he sends me the book and it's like
just kind of mind blowing stuff, like, wow, this is
(10:38):
kind of where you know, I like to find out
where I came from. And I don't know if a
lot of you guys have that. Um, I know some
friends I've talked to, you know, they look into their
parents background and their parents parents and just the idea
as you get older and now there's probably some twenty
year olds thinking about this like I don't know, I
don't really care about where I came from, because you know,
when you're in your twenties, you're living for them. Now
(10:59):
when you get a little older, you get some perspective
and want to maybe look back a little more. And
just knowing that, you know, my grandfather was an awesome
soccer player kind of spurred me. And that actually had
me bring it to my kids and say, guys, just
so you know, your dad's not some whack job who
just talks about sports on TV and on podcasts. He
(11:20):
likes to play sports. And oh, by the way, where
do I get this from? Because my parents, you know,
they came to America, um, mostly the fifties and sixties,
and they were not huge sports fans. They were more
into cricket, which is not an American sport. And how
does Jason end up loving sports and talking about NBA
all the time in NFL constantly. Well, it's sports are
(11:44):
clearly in my background and playing sports obviously more than
talking about on television or whatever. But you're able to
look into thanks to twenty three and your entire health background,
which is actually pretty cool because, um, you know it
can help me. Now, I don't know that it's gonna
help everybody, but it can help you kind of focus
(12:08):
in to a to an extent, play to some of
your strengths. But that's just like one aspect of it. Um.
And I talked about diet being like a major issue
for me. I'm definitely the kind of guy who at
dinner will slow play the main course because I need
to save room for dessert, whether it's uros. I'm not
(12:30):
huge on ice cream, um, but whether it's Churo's like
chocolate lava cake, doughnuts, all that stuff. I just love it.
And eventually I go into twenty three and me and
I'm I'm looking and I'm like, well, wait a minute,
all the sugar cheez um? Am I eating? Am I
eating right? And you figure out you're not really eating right?
(12:52):
And then it's like, oh, wait, I have I am
predisposed for one variant of chronic kidney disease, which is
a little bit scary, but then you read it and say, well,
you're not really in trouble unless there are two uh
two variants detected. So not that I'm in the clear,
(13:12):
but it actually got me thinking more about my diet. Um.
I for a while there, I had totally cut out caffeine.
Twenty three and me has a whether or not I'm
likely to be a large caffeine user or not. I
I promise you this. I never had a first cup
of Starbucks until I was like maybe like thirty years old.
(13:35):
Just never been a coffee guy. My parents obviously, I
mentioned their background. Tea was a big factor for them.
So I had been like a tea drinker, but not
regularly or anything. Um. And then I started to try
coffee and got into it, and then I again twenty
three and Me has a coffee breakdown. Um whether or
not that's something that you can kind of get into, uh,
(13:58):
I don't know, you'll have to try it on your own.
But I also looked at the aspect of sleep. Now.
I don't know about you guys, but as someone who
is on a screen a lot, unfortunately and constantly busy
too young kids. We now have a dog, You're juggling
a lot of stuff, and sleep for me has been
a massive issue, um, especially you know in the last
(14:22):
like fifteen years. So just you know, there's just a
lot going on. And falling asleep not a problem. Staying
asleep is a struggle. And you know, you wake up
in the middle of the night, go to the bathroom
and next thing you know, it's like, oh damn, I
gotta do this, that and the other tomorrow should I
opened my phone and put this in a note to
our mind myself. But if you look at the phone,
(14:44):
you know it's game over. You can't really go back
to sleep for a while. And they have a section
UM called sleep quality in twenty three and Me that
says that I am less likely to be a deep sleeper,
so to me thought it was me. It was my
issue that I just could not stay asleep. Well, twenty
(15:06):
three and Me kind of cleared that up a little bit,
a little bit, just a little and no, no, fully
definitive one cent. But it's pretty clear that this is
like a problem that's kind of genetic, not I don't
want to say a problem that might be too strong,
but this is something genetic in me that I'm just
gonna have to deal with. UM And you know, twenty
(15:27):
three and Me has a section on sleep, which is
kind of cool. They have a wellness section on gaining weight. UM. Fortunately,
I'm predisposed to weigh about average, which is always nice
to hear. UM And I gotta say it was just
a great experience to be able to dive into the
health and wellness and UM kind of helped me try
(15:49):
to be the best version of me that I can
from a health perspective. You guys already know I'm gonna
be prepared for sports and to talk about Aaron Rodgers
and the Packers and Tom Brady and the crumbling Bucks
and Ken Lebron win one more title in the Lakers.
I'm going to be able to do all the homework
on that but to do the homework on my health
and background and wellness, I needed twenty three and me.
(16:11):
So it's it kind of was an invaluable tool that
helped me diet, exercise, sleep. Um, it was really an
outstanding decision. And uh, I think if you guys are
interested in trying to be the best you, I would
give the recommendation to twenty three and me and that's it.
(16:35):
On another dope show, did this episode inspire you to
take a closer look at your health history, your genetic makeup.
Who new DNA could reveal so much about our past
while also holding the keys to certain health insights that
may impact our future. I continue to be inspired by
these stories, and I hope you do as well. Catch
you next time. Listen to Spit, an original podcast from
(17:00):
Art Radio and twenty three in the on the I
Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.
Yeah h
Have you ever thought about how incredibly complex I spit is.
It may only be water, but just aliva isn't simple.
That remaining one percent holds incredibly meaningful information that could
change everything. And I'm not just talking about your family
treat Hi. I'm barretton Day Thurston and on this season
(00:24):
of Spit and I Heart Radio podcast with twenty three
and Me, we explore how DNA isn't just about ancestry,
it can also be key to understanding your health. What's
up you and Welcome back. Jason McIntyre, host of the
Straight Fire podcast, is the go to person for bold
(00:45):
opinions on the biggest stories in sports today, including the
day's biggest sports betting topics. As an avid sports gambler,
Jason knows the most valuable commodity for someone placing bets
is information. You can't make decisions on games without knowing
all the proper intel, and he believes the same is
true for his health. As a weekend warrior, it's important
(01:07):
for Jason to have as much information as possible to
keep him active, healthy, and competing in the sports he loves.
So Jason decided to take a twenty three in me
test to see what his DNA could tell him about
his health and using that knowledge how he could make
the right bet on his future. Jason learns his biggest
challenge might be changing his diet. As active as he is,
(01:29):
the information contained in his health insights might make him
think twice about his stay active, eat what I want lifestyle.
Let's listen in as Jason breaks it down and maybe
you two will be inspired to see what you can
parlay from twenty three and me. This is Straight Fire
(01:54):
with Jason McIntyre. What is up Straight Fire? Our fam
We have a special episode of the podcast today stepping
out of our comfort zone, trying something new. We partnered
with twenty three and me two kind of get some
information on my health. Um, you guys know I play
(02:19):
a lot of sports. I'm very active. I like to
think of myself as a weekend warrior. And you really
have to know what your body is about and know
your background and what you made of and where you
come from if you want to optimize fully your body
and your health as you age out of your twenties
and thirties and get into uh I'm leally even say
(02:41):
middle age. But um, you guys, when we do a
lot of sports gambling on the podcast, obviously, and the
most valuable commodity you can have is information. I talk
all the time on the podcast about how you know,
look at a injury reports, you look at weather reports,
everything throughout the week, every day, and the lines are
moving and you gotta jump on it and take advantage
(03:02):
to get the best number. And you can't just make
decisions all willy nilly if you want to be successful
in gambling without getting all the information. And I feel
like the same is true for my health. Um, and
you guys know, listen, I am trying to live my
best dad life playing tennis. I joined the tennis ladder
one of my first match, which was nice. I played
in the basketball league in the summer one a championship.
(03:23):
Little humble black brag the humble brag flex for you
right there. Um. I've played in some more soccer tournaments
in the last three years than I had geez in
the last twenty. I did play competitive sports growing up,
and I think I've talked about it a little bit
on the podcast. So as I was growing up, I
(03:44):
was like a pretty good youth athlete, more soccer than anything,
because I had the speed and kind of the the
will and the desire to just want to get to
the ball and raise up ahead and score. And soccer
was my best sport. I loved basketball the most. My
parents would not let me play football for understandable reasons,
you know, concern over injuries and what have you. And
(04:07):
I realized pretty quickly soccer was my best. So I
did some club soccer, and I was pretty crushed. As
everybody started to mature and you know, hit puberty. I
was like a late bloomer and you go to try
out for the high school sports teams and you don't
make the teams, and you're kind of stunned because you've
been playing sports all these years growing up and excelling
(04:28):
in some of them. I mean, I wish I had
been a better basketball player, but what could I do.
I was a small guy. I couldn't really um. I
didn't have the handle to be a point guard, and
I was too small to be a shooting guard. But
I loved hoops, so I kept playing and you know,
doing sports or what have you. Um, But it was recreationally.
And my parents knew I always had loved sports, and
(04:49):
they could see that I was ticked to tell my
friends made the team and I didn't, and so they
were like, well, you still like sports, why don't you
like go work for the local newspaper. This was when
newspapers mattered way back when and they were relevant. So
I like called up the local newspaper. It was like
a weekly, and I was like, hey, you guys need
me to do anything, and they're like, sure, you can
come take calls for high school sports games. And that's
(05:10):
kind of how my career got started in sports media.
And you know, went from the newspapers to college and
I majored in Media Arts and Design, I think was
the exact name. Local newspaper got out, went to a newspaper,
saw newspapers at that time, we're starting to crumble, pivoted
to magazine, started a website, sold the website. Get scooped
(05:31):
up by fox In and I come west and I
had played in some basketball leagues in New York, but
I was never like a healthy eater, and so I
was always like in shape because I would work out
and run. I'll never forget me. And my wife moved,
well girlfriend at the time, moved to Brooklyn and we
were close enough to the Brooklyn Bridge that Saturday mornings,
(05:54):
we would wake up, go to the gym, and then
after the gym, she would add home and I'd run
across the Brooklyn Bridge and back and it was just incredible.
You know, the weather is amazing, and I wanted to
be healthy again. The diet was always an issue for me,
and you you can only go so far when you're
just doing one and not the other. Right, And played
(06:15):
in some basketball leagues in New York that we moved
out of Pennsylvania, played in some basketball leagues, and I
it was it was basically a better athlete late into
my you know, twenties and thirties than I was as
a kid, because I'm just in better shape. And eventually
I did, you know, run a little track, well not track.
(06:37):
I read a couple of races like mile and five k,
and I started to realize my strength is in the
short term, like a one mile sprint as opposed to
a five k, which I think is six point two
or three miles whatever it was. And all this is
leading up to, you know, how do I optimize what
I've got going whatever that is, How do I optimize that?
(06:57):
And which enters twenty three and me and what they're
able to do is provide like a deep dive into
my health background, my traits, my wellness, and it can
be a pretty instrumental factor in giving me an edge
and staying fit and healthy. UM as I age, and
(07:18):
again I hate using the word as I age, because
I still feel like I'm in my twenties. Like I
can guard young guys playing pick up basketball, I can
outrun guys in soccer on the field. You know, Like
I come West, and it's weird because everybody's in ridiculously
good shape out here in California. You know, I'm not
gonna say I got into all the hippie dippy avocado
toast stuff. Um, I've dabbled. I've dabbled, but by and large,
(07:42):
diet has been my big weakness. And in twenty three
and Me, you're able to dive into your health and
wellness to a level that I just couldn't get researching
myself online. And one of the things UM, in terms
of uh, the in depth profile three and Me provided was,
you know, they do look at genetic muscle composition. And
(08:05):
I know that's going to sound like a weird phrase
to some people, but once you do the twenty three
and me deep dive and you look at it, You're like,
holy cow. And of course at the same time, I
start telling my parents and siblings, my brother that yeah,
I'm doing twenty three and me and obviously I have
I'm sure you guys know. My background is mixed. Um My,
(08:25):
my mom and dad come from the Caribbean. Long story short.
My mom's from Guyana in South America, and so she's
mixed with mostly Indian, but a bunch of other stuff.
And then my dad is from a tiny island Dominica
and the Caribbean. It's not one of these built up
um tourist traps if you will, in the Caribbean. It's
(08:47):
one of the greener spots in the Caribbean. They don't
have a lot of cruise ships pulling up pretty cool
island that I've never been to. Actually, my dad's told
me a lot about it. And given that background, you know,
my brother and I growing up, we were like, well,
we we kind of hang out with a lot of
my mom's family. We called them Indian jams. And then
(09:08):
of course, you know, we had other stuff in us.
So twenty three and me is able to give us
the detailed background. Hey, you are this percent Indian and
this percent African American and this percent European, and it's
a pretty cool breakdown and that, and that's like the
starter for knowing your background. But when it comes to
the health and wellness, like, you can't really get that
(09:31):
until you jump into twenty three and me and when
I told my Dada that that I looked into it.
I'm like, hey, I've got this weird muscle composition. It's
actually pretty good for athletes. He's like, well, yeah, you
know about your grandfather, And of course I knew a
little bit about it, but you know, it's not like
Dominica and Guyana are similar to America, where you can
just look back at several generations fairly easily, and it's documented.
(09:54):
This is the Caribbean different speed. So it turns out
my dad puts me onto a book which is written
about soccer in Dominica and generally the islands over there,
and it turns out my grandfather was like an amazing
soccer player in the in a book that chronicles the
history of soccer in Dominica and largely the Caribbean. It
(10:16):
talks about my grandfather being like one of the best
scoring forwards of his generation back in like the nineteen
twenties and one of his siblings was also on the
team and just incredible. And so after going into twenty
three me, I go into you know, my dad with
this and he sends me the book and it's like
just kind of mind blowing stuff, like, wow, this is
(10:38):
kind of where you know, I like to find out
where I came from. And I don't know if a
lot of you guys have that. Um, I know some
friends I've talked to, you know, they look into their
parents background and their parents parents and just the idea
as you get older and now there's probably some twenty
year olds thinking about this like I don't know, I
don't really care about where I came from, because you know,
when you're in your twenties, you're living for them. Now
(10:59):
when you get a little older, you get some perspective
and want to maybe look back a little more. And
just knowing that, you know, my grandfather was an awesome
soccer player kind of spurred me. And that actually had
me bring it to my kids and say, guys, just
so you know, your dad's not some whack job who
just talks about sports on TV and on podcasts. He
(11:20):
likes to play sports. And oh, by the way, where
do I get this from? Because my parents, you know,
they came to America, um, mostly the fifties and sixties,
and they were not huge sports fans. They were more
into cricket, which is not an American sport. And how
does Jason end up loving sports and talking about NBA
all the time in NFL constantly. Well, it's sports are
(11:44):
clearly in my background and playing sports obviously more than
talking about on television or whatever. But you're able to
look into thanks to twenty three and your entire health background,
which is actually pretty cool because, um, you know it
can help me. Now, I don't know that it's gonna
help everybody, but it can help you kind of focus
(12:08):
in to a to an extent, play to some of
your strengths. But that's just like one aspect of it. Um.
And I talked about diet being like a major issue
for me. I'm definitely the kind of guy who at
dinner will slow play the main course because I need
to save room for dessert, whether it's uros. I'm not
(12:30):
huge on ice cream, um, but whether it's Churo's like
chocolate lava cake, doughnuts, all that stuff. I just love it.
And eventually I go into twenty three and me and
I'm I'm looking and I'm like, well, wait a minute,
all the sugar cheez um? Am I eating? Am I
eating right? And you figure out you're not really eating right?
(12:52):
And then it's like, oh, wait, I have I am
predisposed for one variant of chronic kidney disease, which is
a little bit scary, but then you read it and say, well,
you're not really in trouble unless there are two uh
two variants detected. So not that I'm in the clear,
(13:12):
but it actually got me thinking more about my diet. Um.
I for a while there, I had totally cut out caffeine.
Twenty three and me has a whether or not I'm
likely to be a large caffeine user or not. I
I promise you this. I never had a first cup
of Starbucks until I was like maybe like thirty years old.
(13:35):
Just never been a coffee guy. My parents obviously, I
mentioned their background. Tea was a big factor for them.
So I had been like a tea drinker, but not
regularly or anything. Um. And then I started to try
coffee and got into it, and then I again twenty
three and Me has a coffee breakdown. Um whether or
not that's something that you can kind of get into, uh,
(13:58):
I don't know, you'll have to try it on your own.
But I also looked at the aspect of sleep. Now.
I don't know about you guys, but as someone who
is on a screen a lot, unfortunately and constantly busy
too young kids. We now have a dog, You're juggling
a lot of stuff, and sleep for me has been
a massive issue, um, especially you know in the last
(14:22):
like fifteen years. So just you know, there's just a
lot going on. And falling asleep not a problem. Staying
asleep is a struggle. And you know, you wake up
in the middle of the night, go to the bathroom
and next thing you know, it's like, oh damn, I
gotta do this, that and the other tomorrow should I
opened my phone and put this in a note to
our mind myself. But if you look at the phone,
(14:44):
you know it's game over. You can't really go back
to sleep for a while. And they have a section
UM called sleep quality in twenty three and Me that
says that I am less likely to be a deep sleeper,
so to me thought it was me. It was my
issue that I just could not stay asleep. Well, twenty
(15:06):
three and Me kind of cleared that up a little bit,
a little bit, just a little and no, no, fully
definitive one cent. But it's pretty clear that this is
like a problem that's kind of genetic, not I don't
want to say a problem that might be too strong,
but this is something genetic in me that I'm just
gonna have to deal with. UM And you know, twenty
(15:27):
three and Me has a section on sleep, which is
kind of cool. They have a wellness section on gaining weight. UM. Fortunately,
I'm predisposed to weigh about average, which is always nice
to hear. UM And I gotta say it was just
a great experience to be able to dive into the
health and wellness and UM kind of helped me try
(15:49):
to be the best version of me that I can
from a health perspective. You guys already know I'm gonna
be prepared for sports and to talk about Aaron Rodgers
and the Packers and Tom Brady and the crumbling Bucks
and Ken Lebron win one more title in the Lakers.
I'm going to be able to do all the homework
on that but to do the homework on my health
and background and wellness, I needed twenty three and me.
(16:11):
So it's it kind of was an invaluable tool that
helped me diet, exercise, sleep. Um, it was really an
outstanding decision. And uh, I think if you guys are
interested in trying to be the best you, I would
give the recommendation to twenty three and me and that's it.
(16:35):
On another dope show, did this episode inspire you to
take a closer look at your health history, your genetic makeup.
Who new DNA could reveal so much about our past
while also holding the keys to certain health insights that
may impact our future. I continue to be inspired by
these stories, and I hope you do as well. Catch
you next time. Listen to Spit, an original podcast from
(17:00):
Art Radio and twenty three in the on the I
Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.
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