February 18, 2020 • 17 mins
Murphy's 23 & me results 😯
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the after the show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm hanging out with us a little bit longer today
for a more in depth visit. Murphy got his twenty
three and Me.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
DNA results back.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I talked about it a lot this morning, about the
fact that it did not show that you're a Type
one diabetic at all.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Which I guess.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I guess that makes sense since it's so there's so
little known about Type one baby, so misunderstood for sure.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Is it gonna say you're a type one or is
it going to say you have tendency?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I think it would say tendency, correct, but it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I mean, on the list of things, that was what
I was gonna say. So the top takeaways for me
on this are, you've got the ancestry side and you
got the medical side. Now can you buy one or
the other? You gave me as a gift.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So yeah, I bought the most powerful deluxe edition you
could buy, which included ancestry and medical or health.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It was health.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You know, you could just do the ancestry one or
just I don't know if you could have just done anyway.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yes, but I can't I can't believe how fast it
came back because I literally mailed it off the day
after Super Bowl Sunday. You just bet yeah, right, and
it's and it's already back and so I don't know which.
I'm more intrigued by the ancestry side right now because
I do want to at least connect with this first
cousin to start the dialogue to see, Okay, wait, where's
that relationship? Because I want to know was it my
(01:23):
grandmother on my mother's side or my grandmother on my
father's side.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
And I know it.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Based on what I know about my grandmother on my
father's side, it's not likely, so I know less about
my mother's side of the family. You see, it gets
confusing when you're talking about one generation up when you
start looking at family trees.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, but our girls were both super interested in that too.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
They diagram it out for you though. And I guess
the more people that do twenty three and me, the
more they'll be able to connect or maybe they'll form
a You can actually link your ancestry dot Com account
to this if you want to ow and and and
you know, work both of them together, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You know what'll happen, Murphy, the longer that you will
with every passing day. If someone else gets a twenty
three and meis thing and fills it out and spits
and sends it off, and if they happen to also
be connected to you in some way, you'll get a
notification that there's someone new. Because when you sign up
for all this and you hit all the disclaimers, you
(02:17):
are in right.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, that's how that works.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You know. So there's so many aspects of this it's
almost overwhelming. That's why it was really distracting. When I
got the first email.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Oh we lost him for two hours.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I was two hours in and I still have only
scratched the service of all this because they also want
a bunch of research. You don't have to participate in it.
But I've already answered three hundred and nineteen questions and
apparently there are more.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, your questions before you spit or reason.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It didn't make me. I just was going through it
one night, and you know, I mean, it just it
just wants to know that you know it if you
can sent to be a part of the research project.
It wants to know about different traits. And I guess
it takes that data sure based on your word, and
then combines it. If you're genetic makeup is similar to
somebody else's and you your trades match, then maybe there's a.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Least your opinion is not that's not signed. Tit well,
not signed. I don't know what kind of question.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Well, I mean, so it got pretty in depth. It
actually did ask me the question on the type one diabetes,
which is why I thought I was going to get
it back as a result, because they would have known
it already. I'd already answered that question. It asked me
if I had type one, and it asked me if
I was insulin dependent, which I am. It asked me
how much insulin I take every day? And which type?
You know, so all those things I and I told
(03:31):
it that. So it's very in depth. If you know
what you're medical, and it gives you an option. If
you don't know, you just say you don't know. Yeah,
and you know they're only the only things that Well,
the type one diabetes doesn't run in my family, so
I have no idea where that came from, and so
clearly there are no answers for that.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You know what's interesting now that you're saying all this
and we're seeing this, you know what it really is
your brother and sister want to see it badly, Like
you need to have dinner with them this week and
show them all of your results because they they're having
a fit to know.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
But can I tell them, I'm all right, yours is
completely different.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
This would be a little different.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, I know ages and you know his sisters A girl,
I think it'd be a little different.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Similar but similar. So no, Like, let's just say that if.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
If you're someone and you were adopted and there's very
little history medical or ancestry type history on your birth parents,
this would be amazing for you.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, that would be incredible.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
If the two I get how the two work together,
if the health and the ancestry part do come together.
And I'm sure a lot of it is accurate, but
I started having the sam cynicism about it when I
first started reading, because well, when you go through the
tutorials and they explain basically that, look, it's going to
say that you may be predisposed because other people with
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the similar gene pool have experienced these things. But it
doesn't mean that you're going to excuse me, develop it.
In fact, it says that you're more prone to develop
things because of your lifestyle true in your environment, then
you actually are your own genetics question. Look for some things, right,
I mean, there are some real benefits. And I read
a couple of blogs before I got my results. There
(05:09):
was a woman who was in her mid thirties. I
guess she'd already had children, and I don't know. A
whole bunch of these genetic variants. That's b r C
A one and b r C A two, which are
sort of like cancer predictors. And they know that some
of these variants really do accurately predict especially with family members.
If if there's a history of cervical cancer or breast
(05:30):
cancer or something like that, then and if you have
both of these variants, you're extremely prone to and so
the risk factor goes way high. And so she wound
up having, you know, elective surgery to eliminate any possibility
of that.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Angela, we deleted the same thing, and that was just
an astronaut, like everybody knew about that.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
But they tell you to, I mean, consult with your
doctor before that. So there are some some of the
larger scale things that they know absolutely or tied to genetics.
They tell you that up front. But most of those
things I mean it says here I the lately increase
the increased risk for me for Alzheimer's but not for Parkinson's.
I mean that's great, but to see they even said
though doesn't don't get it the macular degeneration. Then we
(06:14):
talked about that earlier in the show. And it's some
of these other some of these and then typical you know,
likelihood for type two diabetes. The other thing that's really
fascinating to me are the traits. Though. Okay, I told
you that in my gene pool, most people like me
are not going to like the taste of cilantro.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Right, so at least that is so true, Like you
can't even stand the smell of cilantro.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah, but the traits are insane with them that they're tracking.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Is this your personality traits?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It's everything, Oh my gosh, say anything about.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Like conserting, obsessiveness.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Or like, well, I don't know, I mean, you're a
bulldog is something I don't know that it goes that
deep bitter taste. Likely can't take taste bitter, that's not
true for me. Bald spot likely, no bald spot, that's true,
No dimples, less likely to get dan driff. That's true.
Eye color is likely blue or green. I'm hazel. Yeah,
so I guess that's what yellow tints. Yeah, yeah, right.
(07:13):
Fear of heights, Oh wow, this actually I got that wrong.
I am more than likely than average would be afraid
of heights.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I know that's true.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I am.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
There's a fifty to fifty chance of having a fear
of public speaking.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Everybody has that.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
There's a fifty to fifty chance. Really, there's a fifty
to fifty chance you're going to wake up tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
See, that's the same part of it I'm telling you
is when I got into that, and it's on.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
His shoulder as the naysayer when he's reading all this.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
But but really, all they're saying there is jeans can't
predict that. That's really what they're saying. If it's a
fifty to fifty chance, and they're at the moment, there's
not enough science to back to say if your gene
pool looks like this, then you are going to be
that at the end of the day. And it also
I would well, no, that's right. I just it just
occurred to him. So I wonder if this is deep,
(08:03):
if this will also help to know what you're genetically
predisposed to or what actually develops as your personality. You
know what I'm saying. What environmentally makes your personality what
it is, and what genetically makes your personality with it?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Oh my god, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
We've all had this experience because we're all parents. You
think it's going to be environment and your kid's going
to respond in certain ways. But when you have children,
you understand, you learn they are who they are. Honestly,
you know, you think, well, my kid's going to be
this way, and my kid's going to do that and that,
and you have all these ideas until you have a
child and you realize, oh, it's ninety percent this is
(08:43):
who they are you And that's what taught me.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That was having children.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
You know, you can set up the environment this way,
and the environment's super super important, but their personality tendencies
are their personality tendencies.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
See my opinion.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
This is why I get the whole fascination about it now,
because now that I'm in it, I really do want
and I'm fascinating all of it. Sweet versus salty? Which
do you think I'm more likely to prefer?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I think you like sweet salty.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Well, it's funny, that's not how it's like both, not
how it seems at the house.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
That kind of stuff to me.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh yeah, you do.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I understand there's a need and a curiosity, and as
time goes on, it'll probably get better and better predicting. Well,
but right now it's almost like you really. I guess
that's why they had you read the tutorials ahead of time,
because you could take some of this and just like
a hypochondriac or yes, web MD and go, look, I
got Alzheimer's. I might as well stop now. It's like no, no, no, no,
(09:38):
you don't.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
It's not a good gift for a hypochondriac. Guess that's
all I wanted at the end of the day. That's
all I wanted was for you to have something that
you would be interested in learning and going oh wow.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
And I think it is that.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I'm likely that my big toes longer than the rest
of my toes. That's true. Yeah, likely to have at
least a little bit of a row, that's true. I
know you have to look close to see it.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
This is getting TICKI tacking.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Likely wake up time is seven to fourteen am.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
In this life, his career, and then apparently I'm less
likely to have stretch marks, less likely to have baby.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Good stuff, the real stuff like the Alzheimer's and macular degeneration,
and it gets down to unibrow.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, it's cool that it covers everything. Wait, did you
ever do anything like this, Sam?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Like this one? You should. I'm interested in doing it now. Honestly.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I'm seeing the ancestry side mainly, and also because like
you find your you know, you now know you have
a first cousin.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
He's also signed up.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, it's like I know my mom has done ancestry,
So if I do ancestry, I don't know. Samy's done twenty
three and me, oh okay, if I did either one
of those, it's going to link me with somebody.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I think you should do it and do the health
and the endtory, just so you get some curiosity answered.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I don't know if I want curiosity answered. That's the
thing too, It's like I understand that that will help
you be more hyper aware that alzheimer could, Alzheimer's could happen,
or macular degeneration.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
But then you don't want to know that stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Do you want to worry about that for the next
forty years, A worrier or not.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, I mean to me, if if that's going to happen,
it's going to happen. And some of these things, if
they evolve, you won't really know that you've you know,
once you hit to a point. Not that I ever
want to be a burden to anybody else, but I'm
saying it's not worth stressing about it. That's really what
I'm getting.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Well, you know, he told us a long time ago
this was going to happen. I total kids not to
touch that.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
The ancestry part you would love, Sam. You really, if
you just did it for that side of it, you
would probably think it's cool. So the British Irish thing,
I'm thirty one percent Northwestern European and then the rest.
I don't know how they.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Get any of those that are like, oh, wow, really.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I'm six point seven percent Italian, I am fifteen percent
Spanish and Portuguese.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Wow, I zero point four.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Percent Native American, zero point one percent Southeast Asian. But
they when they talk about the population, and this is
this is the part that really kind of really threw
me off. And this is what for some people, it's
going to be controversial because they talk about it.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's the conversation we had at the table with the girls.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Right when it talks about your ancient DNA and the
story of DNA. It says, and I'm going to get
the years wrong here because again I only read it once,
but it's like two hundred and fifty thousand years back
is where it goes, it says I, and this is
fifty But you know, setting aside that because this is
not an anti religious thing. Ma any means I'm a
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very religious person. But the way that they describe it,
if you do the mathematical calculation and you reverse the
family tree going back up, and I guess only a
computer is capable of generating this kind of it can
trace back to one female and it's two hundred and
fifty thousand years ago is the estimate on that. But
you know, just mathematical calculations. And they say that that
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basically that that person was located in Northeast Africa, North Africa,
so you know, and and and then as you see
you know, partial portions of the Middle East and all
the things that we know biblically where you know, population
was at the time of the writing and the Bible.
It all makes sense. It actually part of this science
actually backs up the migration of everybody into different you know,
different places, and it's just it's and that to me
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is just it's just fascinating. I don't know how much
stock to put in it, but it's just fascinating.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But I know there's a lot of documentaries, some of
which I've seen, but that puts the origin of man
in Ethiopia, I think, so, yeah, I mean that sense.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Right, Yeah, yeah, it was an interesting conversation after, you know,
you said that at the table with the girls, had
some really interesting conversation right before our pasta arrived.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah. Well yeah, Zo point four percent Italian's.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Six point.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
At least enjoyed, you know, one sixth of the meal.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
What's interesting is that you enjoyed one hundred and.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Ten percent of that meal.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
What's interesting about the two of you being so interested
in the ancestry part of it, not as much the medical.
I know for a fact that I would be more
interested in the medical and not as interested in the
ancestry part. I mean, I maybe I could be drawn in.
I don't know, because I've never looked at anything like that.
I just feel like I've I don't know of gone
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back as got him, gone back as far as I
have with what I've been told and taught by growing
up and how I've grown up and things I know
about my family and my origin, you know, my story.
I don't know that I want to go back any further,
and that's okay with me.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Murphy. I've always thought he's part German because he said
he's part German. That's what he's told. And when you
look at this, it's.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Zero one person can get something wrong and it become
a truth to twenty people and one hundred people.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
You know how that goes well?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
And I actually want to find a scientist friend or
somebody that kind of helped me walk through some of
this because it becomes really complex. They do the best
that they can to put it in layman's terms, but
some of the other information and stuff based on the
variance in genes, the types of genes. It also supposedly
will let you know what you're going to pass down.
So I mean it's going to say it's just a
way no no, no. In other words, the carrier status
(15:24):
are you carrying? Are you carrying a gene where you
don't have the condition, but you can pass that condition along.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Well.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And you know one thing that I would be super
curious to see if they would get completely right for me,
what's what's one of my weird genes the red the
redheaded genes? Oh yeah, it's both of the recessive I
know what it's called. It was my password a long
time ago. I can't remember it now, but it's like
two recessive genes to create a red head. It's a
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weird thing. That's why it's only five percent of the
population is natural redhead.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Okay, and so, and you know it's all that weird
that goes along with it.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I wonder if all of our unicorn stuff that goes
along with it, I would think would show up if
I did DNA testing.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Well, and I mean I would hope. So I don't
see anything in here that says anything about that.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Maybe I won't have a speck of red hair. That's why.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Well, no, I'm sure at some point it's going to
ask me that question, because I'm already three hundred and
seventeen questions in on the research. How many questions I
have no idea. It just seemed like every time I
had submitted, it pops up another round.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
That's what my friend keep.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
With you. When the report came out the other night,
I kept going and going and going. I couldn't go
to sleep. It was like one in the morning. It's like, okay,
I've got to stop this research project.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Now. That's my friend Sharon, who is the one I
had lunch with her last year and we were at
lunch and she got an email and she was like,
oh my gosh, I just found out something new about me.
And so that's and I was like, wait, you don't
do it one time and get a report and it's done.
She's like, no, it's ongoing research and more people who
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do it. You get more information all the time. And
she says it's so interesting. It's her favorite email to
get and hers was about depression.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Oh was it?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Hers was about how likely or.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Something about that she was to be depressed, and it
was super interesting.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I mean, I know that they've asked me some of
those questions already, but there's nothing that's been recommended back
to me.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I mean, it's it's missed the mark on a few things.
It says I'm less likely to consume caffeine. All right,
that's not true. That in the garbage right right, But
I I really I love it, Jodie. It's really turned
out to be a really cool gift. So I'll let
you know when I get the next alert on email.
I know you will, And well, if we can figure
out who this first cousin is.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Don't look at me missed any part of the show.
It All at Murphysamon Jody dot com.
This is the after the show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm hanging out with us a little bit longer today
for a more in depth visit. Murphy got his twenty
three and Me.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
DNA results back.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I talked about it a lot this morning, about the
fact that it did not show that you're a Type
one diabetic at all.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Which I guess.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I guess that makes sense since it's so there's so
little known about Type one baby, so misunderstood for sure.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Is it gonna say you're a type one or is
it going to say you have tendency?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I think it would say tendency, correct, but it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I mean, on the list of things, that was what
I was gonna say. So the top takeaways for me
on this are, you've got the ancestry side and you
got the medical side. Now can you buy one or
the other? You gave me as a gift.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So yeah, I bought the most powerful deluxe edition you
could buy, which included ancestry and medical or health.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It was health.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You know, you could just do the ancestry one or
just I don't know if you could have just done anyway.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yes, but I can't I can't believe how fast it
came back because I literally mailed it off the day
after Super Bowl Sunday. You just bet yeah, right, and
it's and it's already back and so I don't know which.
I'm more intrigued by the ancestry side right now because
I do want to at least connect with this first
cousin to start the dialogue to see, Okay, wait, where's
that relationship? Because I want to know was it my
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grandmother on my mother's side or my grandmother on my
father's side.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
And I know it.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Based on what I know about my grandmother on my
father's side, it's not likely, so I know less about
my mother's side of the family. You see, it gets
confusing when you're talking about one generation up when you
start looking at family trees.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, but our girls were both super interested in that too.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
They diagram it out for you though. And I guess
the more people that do twenty three and me, the
more they'll be able to connect or maybe they'll form
a You can actually link your ancestry dot Com account
to this if you want to ow and and and
you know, work both of them together, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You know what'll happen, Murphy, the longer that you will
with every passing day. If someone else gets a twenty
three and meis thing and fills it out and spits
and sends it off, and if they happen to also
be connected to you in some way, you'll get a
notification that there's someone new. Because when you sign up
for all this and you hit all the disclaimers, you
(02:17):
are in right.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, that's how that works.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You know. So there's so many aspects of this it's
almost overwhelming. That's why it was really distracting. When I
got the first email.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Oh we lost him for two hours.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I was two hours in and I still have only
scratched the service of all this because they also want
a bunch of research. You don't have to participate in it.
But I've already answered three hundred and nineteen questions and
apparently there are more.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, your questions before you spit or reason.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It didn't make me. I just was going through it
one night, and you know, I mean, it just it
just wants to know that you know it if you
can sent to be a part of the research project.
It wants to know about different traits. And I guess
it takes that data sure based on your word, and
then combines it. If you're genetic makeup is similar to
somebody else's and you your trades match, then maybe there's a.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Least your opinion is not that's not signed. Tit well,
not signed. I don't know what kind of question.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Well, I mean, so it got pretty in depth. It
actually did ask me the question on the type one diabetes,
which is why I thought I was going to get
it back as a result, because they would have known
it already. I'd already answered that question. It asked me
if I had type one, and it asked me if
I was insulin dependent, which I am. It asked me
how much insulin I take every day? And which type?
You know, so all those things I and I told
(03:31):
it that. So it's very in depth. If you know
what you're medical, and it gives you an option. If
you don't know, you just say you don't know. Yeah,
and you know they're only the only things that Well,
the type one diabetes doesn't run in my family, so
I have no idea where that came from, and so
clearly there are no answers for that.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You know what's interesting now that you're saying all this
and we're seeing this, you know what it really is
your brother and sister want to see it badly, Like
you need to have dinner with them this week and
show them all of your results because they they're having
a fit to know.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
But can I tell them, I'm all right, yours is
completely different.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
This would be a little different.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, I know ages and you know his sisters A girl,
I think it'd be a little different.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Similar but similar. So no, Like, let's just say that if.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
If you're someone and you were adopted and there's very
little history medical or ancestry type history on your birth parents,
this would be amazing for you.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, that would be incredible.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
If the two I get how the two work together,
if the health and the ancestry part do come together.
And I'm sure a lot of it is accurate, but
I started having the sam cynicism about it when I
first started reading, because well, when you go through the
tutorials and they explain basically that, look, it's going to
say that you may be predisposed because other people with
(04:49):
the similar gene pool have experienced these things. But it
doesn't mean that you're going to excuse me, develop it.
In fact, it says that you're more prone to develop
things because of your lifestyle true in your environment, then
you actually are your own genetics question. Look for some things, right,
I mean, there are some real benefits. And I read
a couple of blogs before I got my results. There
(05:09):
was a woman who was in her mid thirties. I
guess she'd already had children, and I don't know. A
whole bunch of these genetic variants. That's b r C
A one and b r C A two, which are
sort of like cancer predictors. And they know that some
of these variants really do accurately predict especially with family members.
If if there's a history of cervical cancer or breast
(05:30):
cancer or something like that, then and if you have
both of these variants, you're extremely prone to and so
the risk factor goes way high. And so she wound
up having, you know, elective surgery to eliminate any possibility
of that.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Angela, we deleted the same thing, and that was just
an astronaut, like everybody knew about that.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
But they tell you to, I mean, consult with your
doctor before that. So there are some some of the
larger scale things that they know absolutely or tied to genetics.
They tell you that up front. But most of those
things I mean it says here I the lately increase
the increased risk for me for Alzheimer's but not for Parkinson's.
I mean that's great, but to see they even said
though doesn't don't get it the macular degeneration. Then we
(06:14):
talked about that earlier in the show. And it's some
of these other some of these and then typical you know,
likelihood for type two diabetes. The other thing that's really
fascinating to me are the traits. Though. Okay, I told
you that in my gene pool, most people like me
are not going to like the taste of cilantro.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Right, so at least that is so true, Like you
can't even stand the smell of cilantro.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah, but the traits are insane with them that they're tracking.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Is this your personality traits?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It's everything, Oh my gosh, say anything about.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Like conserting, obsessiveness.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Or like, well, I don't know, I mean, you're a
bulldog is something I don't know that it goes that
deep bitter taste. Likely can't take taste bitter, that's not
true for me. Bald spot likely, no bald spot, that's true,
No dimples, less likely to get dan driff. That's true.
Eye color is likely blue or green. I'm hazel. Yeah,
so I guess that's what yellow tints. Yeah, yeah, right.
(07:13):
Fear of heights, Oh wow, this actually I got that wrong.
I am more than likely than average would be afraid
of heights.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I know that's true.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I am.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
There's a fifty to fifty chance of having a fear
of public speaking.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Everybody has that.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
There's a fifty to fifty chance. Really, there's a fifty
to fifty chance you're going to wake up tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
See, that's the same part of it I'm telling you
is when I got into that, and it's on.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
His shoulder as the naysayer when he's reading all this.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
But but really, all they're saying there is jeans can't
predict that. That's really what they're saying. If it's a
fifty to fifty chance, and they're at the moment, there's
not enough science to back to say if your gene
pool looks like this, then you are going to be
that at the end of the day. And it also
I would well, no, that's right. I just it just
occurred to him. So I wonder if this is deep,
(08:03):
if this will also help to know what you're genetically
predisposed to or what actually develops as your personality. You
know what I'm saying. What environmentally makes your personality what
it is, and what genetically makes your personality with it?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Oh my god, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
We've all had this experience because we're all parents. You
think it's going to be environment and your kid's going
to respond in certain ways. But when you have children,
you understand, you learn they are who they are. Honestly,
you know, you think, well, my kid's going to be
this way, and my kid's going to do that and that,
and you have all these ideas until you have a
child and you realize, oh, it's ninety percent this is
(08:43):
who they are you And that's what taught me.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That was having children.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
You know, you can set up the environment this way,
and the environment's super super important, but their personality tendencies
are their personality tendencies.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
See my opinion.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
This is why I get the whole fascination about it now,
because now that I'm in it, I really do want
and I'm fascinating all of it. Sweet versus salty? Which
do you think I'm more likely to prefer?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I think you like sweet salty.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Well, it's funny, that's not how it's like both, not
how it seems at the house.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
That kind of stuff to me.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh yeah, you do.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I understand there's a need and a curiosity, and as
time goes on, it'll probably get better and better predicting. Well,
but right now it's almost like you really. I guess
that's why they had you read the tutorials ahead of time,
because you could take some of this and just like
a hypochondriac or yes, web MD and go, look, I
got Alzheimer's. I might as well stop now. It's like no, no, no, no,
(09:38):
you don't.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
It's not a good gift for a hypochondriac. Guess that's
all I wanted at the end of the day. That's
all I wanted was for you to have something that
you would be interested in learning and going oh wow.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
And I think it is that.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I'm likely that my big toes longer than the rest
of my toes. That's true. Yeah, likely to have at
least a little bit of a row, that's true. I
know you have to look close to see it.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
This is getting TICKI tacking.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Likely wake up time is seven to fourteen am.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
In this life, his career, and then apparently I'm less
likely to have stretch marks, less likely to have baby.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Good stuff, the real stuff like the Alzheimer's and macular degeneration,
and it gets down to unibrow.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, it's cool that it covers everything. Wait, did you
ever do anything like this, Sam?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Like this one? You should. I'm interested in doing it now. Honestly.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I'm seeing the ancestry side mainly, and also because like
you find your you know, you now know you have
a first cousin.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
He's also signed up.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, it's like I know my mom has done ancestry,
So if I do ancestry, I don't know. Samy's done twenty
three and me, oh okay, if I did either one
of those, it's going to link me with somebody.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I think you should do it and do the health
and the endtory, just so you get some curiosity answered.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I don't know if I want curiosity answered. That's the
thing too, It's like I understand that that will help
you be more hyper aware that alzheimer could, Alzheimer's could happen,
or macular degeneration.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
But then you don't want to know that stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Do you want to worry about that for the next
forty years, A worrier or not.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, I mean to me, if if that's going to happen,
it's going to happen. And some of these things, if
they evolve, you won't really know that you've you know,
once you hit to a point. Not that I ever
want to be a burden to anybody else, but I'm
saying it's not worth stressing about it. That's really what
I'm getting.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Well, you know, he told us a long time ago
this was going to happen. I total kids not to
touch that.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
The ancestry part you would love, Sam. You really, if
you just did it for that side of it, you
would probably think it's cool. So the British Irish thing,
I'm thirty one percent Northwestern European and then the rest.
I don't know how they.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Get any of those that are like, oh, wow, really.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I'm six point seven percent Italian, I am fifteen percent
Spanish and Portuguese.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Wow, I zero point four.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Percent Native American, zero point one percent Southeast Asian. But
they when they talk about the population, and this is
this is the part that really kind of really threw
me off. And this is what for some people, it's
going to be controversial because they talk about it.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's the conversation we had at the table with the girls.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Right when it talks about your ancient DNA and the
story of DNA. It says, and I'm going to get
the years wrong here because again I only read it once,
but it's like two hundred and fifty thousand years back
is where it goes, it says I, and this is
fifty But you know, setting aside that because this is
not an anti religious thing. Ma any means I'm a
(12:50):
very religious person. But the way that they describe it,
if you do the mathematical calculation and you reverse the
family tree going back up, and I guess only a
computer is capable of generating this kind of it can
trace back to one female and it's two hundred and
fifty thousand years ago is the estimate on that. But
you know, just mathematical calculations. And they say that that
(13:14):
basically that that person was located in Northeast Africa, North Africa,
so you know, and and and then as you see
you know, partial portions of the Middle East and all
the things that we know biblically where you know, population
was at the time of the writing and the Bible.
It all makes sense. It actually part of this science
actually backs up the migration of everybody into different you know,
different places, and it's just it's and that to me
(13:36):
is just it's just fascinating. I don't know how much
stock to put in it, but it's just fascinating.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But I know there's a lot of documentaries, some of
which I've seen, but that puts the origin of man
in Ethiopia, I think, so, yeah, I mean that sense.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Right, Yeah, yeah, it was an interesting conversation after, you know,
you said that at the table with the girls, had
some really interesting conversation right before our pasta arrived.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah. Well yeah, Zo point four percent Italian's.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Six point.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
At least enjoyed, you know, one sixth of the meal.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
What's interesting is that you enjoyed one hundred and.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Ten percent of that meal.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
What's interesting about the two of you being so interested
in the ancestry part of it, not as much the medical.
I know for a fact that I would be more
interested in the medical and not as interested in the
ancestry part. I mean, I maybe I could be drawn in.
I don't know, because I've never looked at anything like that.
I just feel like I've I don't know of gone
(14:31):
back as got him, gone back as far as I
have with what I've been told and taught by growing
up and how I've grown up and things I know
about my family and my origin, you know, my story.
I don't know that I want to go back any further,
and that's okay with me.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Murphy. I've always thought he's part German because he said
he's part German. That's what he's told. And when you
look at this, it's.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Zero one person can get something wrong and it become
a truth to twenty people and one hundred people.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
You know how that goes well?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
And I actually want to find a scientist friend or
somebody that kind of helped me walk through some of
this because it becomes really complex. They do the best
that they can to put it in layman's terms, but
some of the other information and stuff based on the
variance in genes, the types of genes. It also supposedly
will let you know what you're going to pass down.
So I mean it's going to say it's just a
way no no, no. In other words, the carrier status
(15:24):
are you carrying? Are you carrying a gene where you
don't have the condition, but you can pass that condition along.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Well.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And you know one thing that I would be super
curious to see if they would get completely right for me,
what's what's one of my weird genes the red the
redheaded genes? Oh yeah, it's both of the recessive I
know what it's called. It was my password a long
time ago. I can't remember it now, but it's like
two recessive genes to create a red head. It's a
(15:53):
weird thing. That's why it's only five percent of the
population is natural redhead.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Okay, and so, and you know it's all that weird
that goes along with it.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I wonder if all of our unicorn stuff that goes
along with it, I would think would show up if
I did DNA testing.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Well, and I mean I would hope. So I don't
see anything in here that says anything about that.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Maybe I won't have a speck of red hair. That's why.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Well, no, I'm sure at some point it's going to
ask me that question, because I'm already three hundred and
seventeen questions in on the research. How many questions I
have no idea. It just seemed like every time I
had submitted, it pops up another round.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
That's what my friend keep.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
With you. When the report came out the other night,
I kept going and going and going. I couldn't go
to sleep. It was like one in the morning. It's like, okay,
I've got to stop this research project.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Now. That's my friend Sharon, who is the one I
had lunch with her last year and we were at
lunch and she got an email and she was like,
oh my gosh, I just found out something new about me.
And so that's and I was like, wait, you don't
do it one time and get a report and it's done.
She's like, no, it's ongoing research and more people who
(17:00):
do it. You get more information all the time. And
she says it's so interesting. It's her favorite email to
get and hers was about depression.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Oh was it?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Hers was about how likely or.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Something about that she was to be depressed, and it
was super interesting.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I mean, I know that they've asked me some of
those questions already, but there's nothing that's been recommended back
to me.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I mean, it's it's missed the mark on a few things.
It says I'm less likely to consume caffeine. All right,
that's not true. That in the garbage right right, But
I I really I love it, Jodie. It's really turned
out to be a really cool gift. So I'll let
you know when I get the next alert on email.
I know you will, And well, if we can figure
out who this first cousin is.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Don't look at me missed any part of the show.
It All at Murphysamon Jody dot com.
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