0:03

Have you ever thought about how incredibly complex

0:05

I spit is. It may only

0:07

be water, but just

0:10

aliva isn't simple. That remaining

0:12

one percent holds incredibly

0:14

meaningful information that could change

0:16

everything. And I'm not just talking about your

0:19

family treat Hi.

0:21

I'm Barrett to Day Thurston And on this

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season of Spit and I Heart Radio podcast

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with twenty three and Me, we explore

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how DNA isn't just about ancestry,

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it can also be key to understanding your health.

0:36

What's up, yo, Welcome back.

0:39

When Renee Paquette isn't backstage

0:41

interview on the Grapplers of All Elite

0:43

Wrestling, she's busy hosting her podcast,

0:46

The Sessions with Renee Paquette. Each

0:48

week, Renee presents unscripted and

0:51

uncensored interviews with the biggest

0:53

names and combat sports today.

0:55

She's channeling some of that same energy,

0:57

but this time she's going unscripted

0:59

and censored with her twenty three and Me reports.

1:02

If Renee wasn't busy enough already, she's

1:05

also a new mom. Alongside

1:07

taking care of her daughter and balancing a hectic work

1:09

schedule, taking care of her physical and

1:11

mental health are also at the top of her to do

1:13

list. So to help Renee better

1:15

understand her health, she decided

1:17

to take AYE and Me test. Today,

1:20

she's sharing what she learned from her reports and

1:23

what she plans to do with this new and valuable

1:25

information. Renee is blown

1:27

away by the depth of information contained

1:29

in her reports. There's so much

1:31

to learn from our genetics. There were

1:33

plenty of surprises with her ancestry, but

1:36

also incredible information

1:38

regarding her sleep health, her predisposition

1:40

for anxiety, and her amount

1:42

of Neanderthal DNA. But surprisingly,

1:45

with all that incredible info at her fingertips,

1:48

she's probably most happy with what her reports

1:50

had to say about her sense of smell

1:53

and in particular, her ability

1:55

to smell asparagus. Yeah,

1:57

she always thought she had a strong sense of smell and

2:00

hurts. Twenty three and Me reports just

2:02

help confirm what she likes to call

2:04

her X Men superpower. There's

2:06

a whole lot more to unpack and Renee's

2:08

reports, so let's listen in Okay,

2:14

guys, we're here talking twenty three in

2:16

me. I'm Renee Paquette. I am the host of

2:18

the Sessions podcast on the Volume podcast

2:21

Network. UM you can also see me as

2:23

a personality

2:25

a broadcaster, an interviewer at

2:28

all Elite Wrestling. But I

2:30

am here today doing a little debrief

2:33

on twenty three of Me. My producer extraordinary

2:35

Amilio Sparks, is here with me. What

2:38

we discuss what exactly

2:40

went down when finding out about

2:42

my ancestral roots while

2:44

doing twenty three and Me. Honestly some pretty

2:47

fascinating stuff. So I feel

2:49

like at this point everyone kind of knows what twenty

2:51

three and Me is. We've seen it, we've heard about

2:53

it, we've heard different ads about it. Whatever

2:56

I've now done it. I'm speaking from a first hand

2:58

experience. You get the kit to your

3:00

house, you get a little vile, You

3:02

spit in it, which, by the way, harder

3:04

than it maybe seems like it is. I don't

3:06

know if I just run a dry mouth, but

3:09

it like took me a secon cause you can't just like swish

3:11

water in your mouth and spit that out. It's got to be like

3:13

authentic, true spit. You definitely

3:15

got to work up a lather in your mouth. Do

3:18

all of a sudden you get like dry mouth. You're

3:20

like, oh gosh, what's happening? Did

3:22

you have spit performance anxiety? I

3:24

think I did I think I may have.

3:27

Yes, I think that's what happened. All of a sudden, I

3:29

was like, do

3:31

I need a drink um? Anyways,

3:33

if that's the most difficult aspect of this,

3:35

and so be it. But do you fill

3:38

up the spit cap, the thing pops

3:40

in, the medicine, the juice, the

3:42

thing that makes it all kind of be ready

3:44

to ship off and then you get your

3:46

results. That's the best part is

3:48

getting the results. Who am I? Where do I come

3:50

from? What am I comprised of? Got

3:53

my mom, I've got my dad. I know what I'm working with

3:55

with those two. But it's the beyond

3:58

that's interesting. Like, not only is like

4:00

it interesting for me, but

4:02

I have a daughter. I have a year

4:04

and a half old daughter. And

4:07

this is not new information to humankind,

4:10

but it's pretty cool when you breed with

4:12

another person and you're like, what's

4:14

this kid going to turn into? Is she him? Is

4:16

she me? What are we going to have? Right?

4:19

I always think the important thing too, because

4:21

when she does come of age, she's

4:23

going to want to know her genetic

4:25

makeup and all the things

4:27

that make you and your husband you and

4:29

your husband, and then in turn, what

4:32

does that make her. You know, the

4:34

test is the test is more about

4:36

you, but it's the

4:39

analytical data that you can explain

4:41

to her. So when she's ready to take the

4:43

test, she knows, Mom is

4:45

this, Dad is this, and here's their

4:48

data to prove both. Well. It's

4:50

really a trippy too, because, like when you're pregnant,

4:52

you really start to go like down

4:55

the family tree of like what are the

4:57

options? What do we have? Like John has some redheads

4:59

in his family. I was like, am I gonna there's

5:01

a chance I could have a redheaded baby?

5:04

That could happen? Nor is not a redhead.

5:06

She is like white, white, white hair. And

5:08

the reasoning for that is if we look at my ancestry

5:11

breakdown here Northern

5:15

European, British and Irish in

5:17

point six percent Scandinavian.

5:20

Maybe it's that Scandinavian side

5:22

that's giving her that creamy

5:25

white skin and that white blonde

5:27

hair. It's a nice look. So

5:29

you're just almost white across

5:32

the board. I am white,

5:34

white, white brother. I am whole

5:36

milk over here. But your

5:39

point Central Asian

5:41

and five percent Eastern Asian

5:43

who saw that on the Bingo card,

5:46

I didn't see that in the bloodline did

5:49

your mom know that

5:51

you have had some Asian ancestry.

5:54

I've not spoken to my mom about this, but I'm

5:56

I can nearly bet that her

5:59

Her answer is no, I don't

6:01

know where that comes from. I mean, obviously

6:03

this is like lines and lines

6:05

of great great great great great grandparents.

6:09

Um, but that's really interesting. I

6:11

love that. How how really

6:14

it's kind of interesting though, because like

6:16

the British stuff, the Scandinavian

6:18

even it's I'm like, I'm British, Irish

6:21

for the European for the most part, but like

6:23

even that little bit of Scandinavians, like, Okay,

6:26

I'll take it. I like it. And do

6:28

you know that I have more Neandrethal

6:31

d n A than forty

6:34

five per cent of other customers?

6:37

You know? So what we did was I I

6:39

reached out to the good folks at ME

6:42

and they kind of broke it down a little bit. So

6:44

they said that everyone who's mostly

6:47

euro Asian genetic ancestry

6:50

has somewhat about two percent of

6:52

that Neanderthal genome from

6:54

like a distant Neanderthal. I'm like in Cino

6:57

man over here, baby, you're like Brendan Frasier.

6:59

You know, you're just whizzing on the juice.

7:07

What does that even like really mean to

7:10

have like more neandretholic? Isn't

7:12

that what we all come from? I'm just

7:14

closer to it in bloodline than most

7:16

people are. I think we all come

7:18

from that. Yes, but let's see what they say.

7:21

So I guess from from how they broke it down from

7:23

me with all the science e text um,

7:25

with the email that I got, was that so if RENA is

7:27

about four hundred of the DNA

7:29

variants we test that are inherited

7:31

from Neanderthals, most people have less than

7:33

four hundred variants, So we'll let you know

7:35

that your percentile is on the higher side

7:38

than typical twenty three and

7:40

me users, I

7:42

feel thrilled by this. I am assault of the

7:44

earth gal. This is why

7:47

you really are so like when you think

7:49

of just like all across the world.

7:51

You have little bits and pieces of

7:53

that now. And the fun part about

7:56

this stuff is after you get this stuff now

7:58

you can go on a whole deep dive and do

8:00

your googles. Then you have these conversations

8:03

with your mom and your dad and be like, do you

8:05

know any of this stuff? And then they tell

8:08

you what that stuff is so when your

8:10

kid is of age, you can be like, you know, mom

8:12

is like a special part of being a

8:14

Neanderthal. Okay, so we

8:17

have some of those like part of that information

8:19

is laid out for us, just like the my descent,

8:21

where I'm from, etcetera. But you also

8:24

get your health predispositions

8:26

and some of the traits. Now, some of the ones that

8:28

I saw from here that I really wanted to focus on and

8:30

talk about that I think are really cool. This

8:32

one's actually wrong, I

8:35

will say, But it said that I had a sixty five

8:37

percent chance of having stretch

8:39

marks. So I'm actually

8:41

stretch mark list and so was my mom.

8:44

So when I got pregnant with Nora, I was the size

8:46

of a house. I had a huge belly,

8:48

and I just did not get stretch marks. Granted, I put

8:51

like the lotions on the lotions and the potions,

8:53

and I worked with it the best I could. But apparently

8:55

that doesn't really matter. You either get stretch marks

8:57

or you don't, which I had no idea,

9:00

but I actually didn't get any, and neither

9:02

did my mom. So take

9:04

that. I'm learning so much about your body

9:07

right now. Yeah, I mean, buckle up, there's

9:09

more but there's more um

9:11

that I'm I'm also likely to match

9:14

a pitch so that I can carry a

9:16

tune. This is one that I would happily

9:19

check off that I think I can rock

9:21

the ship out of a song. You listen,

9:23

you have musical notes and from

9:25

like the breakdown looad of the report gos, if you hear

9:28

a musical note, you can sing it back.

9:30

So like you being able to carry a tune

9:33

is knowing like like certain

9:35

chords, So you might not know what

9:38

a G flat is, but you

9:40

can hear it, but you can hit it so you

9:42

can match the pitch vocally. That's

9:44

really interesting that, like my genetics

9:47

would tell you that because I think my mom can

9:49

like sing, all right, I'm better

9:51

for sure. But

9:55

but it's the ability to to

9:57

hear somebody sing. You know. Let's

9:59

just say you like Jenny Lewis. So

10:01

if Jenny Lewis is singing in an octave

10:03

that you're comfortable with, you like, oh wait a minute, I think

10:05

I can match that. So yeah, us breaking

10:08

it down in a layman's term, I can carry

10:10

a tune is yeah, you could sing. But

10:12

how it breaks down for this thing is

10:14

is that you hear the pitch and you know the

10:16

octave. You might not be classically

10:19

trained to be like, oh that's an a sharp,

10:21

but you can hit it. That's really

10:23

interesting. How cool gosh?

10:27

Here? I mean that's when

10:29

I read that, I was like, oh, that's really interesting because

10:31

I really have always felt like when I hear something,

10:33

I can kind of like I know, I

10:35

can like feel where I know where it's got

10:37

to go. It's a

10:40

gift. I find it incredibly

10:42

fascinating that they can

10:45

figure this out through your saliva

10:47

and certain bio markers within

10:49

that. It's

10:52

crazy to me that they could that they

10:54

can do this. It's really cool. They

10:56

can even whittle it right down to

11:00

to kind of in and around what time

11:02

I wake up at, So my time

11:04

predictor of like my my rising

11:06

for the day is eight eighteen

11:09

am. Now, in a perfect world,

11:11

that would be beautiful. I have a child, so

11:13

usually it's a little bit before that. UM.

11:16

But yeah, that's it's really interesting. I

11:18

didn't know that we had like predispositions

11:21

to um two hours

11:23

of wakefulness. I did not know this.

11:26

What would yours be? Oh my gosh, you're like

11:28

l Vampiro over here. Well,

11:31

you sold me on this So now I'm gonna

11:33

get the test and I'm gonna do all the necessary

11:36

steps forward. I think I can easily spit

11:38

into this thing. I don't think i'll have don't get dry

11:40

mouth, No, I'm good on that. I won't have a spit performance

11:42

anxiety. You say that now, but I

11:45

don't know. Call a girl when it happens. We'll

11:47

see. There's a lot going on right now in my mouth,

11:49

so we'll see. But um, I

11:51

think I would like to know what

11:53

my specific like makeup would

11:55

be for sleeping because I'm curious about

11:58

that because sleep health is a thing and I'm

12:00

trying to get into and being better at. So I'm

12:02

I'm all in on the twenty three and me. This

12:06

is something that I found interesting. They

12:09

said, Renee, your generic results is

12:11

associated with a typical likelihood

12:13

of being diagnosed with anxiety,

12:15

and estimated sixty two out of one

12:18

people with genetic and

12:20

other factors like yours have been diagnosed

12:23

with their anxiety by their twenties.

12:25

This is within what is considered

12:27

typical, which can be anywhere

12:29

from fifty two to sixty

12:32

out of a hundred people. So, like, did

12:35

you ever get diagnosed with

12:37

anxiety by your early twenties. Because you've

12:39

mentioned on our program the Sessions, you

12:41

can download that Stitcher, Spotify,

12:44

Apple, wherever you get your podcast YouTube

12:47

that sometimes you do

12:50

you do suffer from anxiety

12:52

now, which is caused by or triggered by

12:54

claustophobia. So now did

12:56

you have that in your in your twenties?

12:59

It not have that in my twenties. This was more

13:02

of a thirties renee kick in.

13:05

Um. Yeah, you know, I really was not

13:07

an and like day to day I would

13:09

not classify myself as an anxious

13:11

person. I mean, like anybody, I think

13:13

we all at one point or another might have

13:16

like little bouts of anxiety. I think that's just

13:18

like our human nature. But yeah,

13:20

mine, mine definitely gets like kicked

13:22

into high gear if um

13:25

yeah, if it's a claustrophobic situation, an

13:27

elevator hell no. Uh sometimes

13:29

like you know, being stuck in a car, being

13:31

in a plane, Like there's certain little things that can trigger

13:33

it. But also kind

13:35

of a genetic thing. Because my mom's really

13:38

bad with it. I don't know when hers kicked in.

13:40

But it's funny because I used to laugh at

13:42

my mom because she was like so

13:45

massively claustrophobic. My mom

13:47

cannot wear a turtleneck without

13:49

freaking out. Like it's it's

13:51

actually quite comical, not

13:53

for her, but for anybody else around. It is like

13:55

literally one time we got in a cab and John was like, oh

13:58

my god, can you handle being at the very bad back

14:00

of this cab. We had to pull over because

14:02

she freaked out. She couldn't handle

14:04

it. But anyways, I used to always find that like

14:07

quite amusing and then lo and behold. I call

14:09

my mom one day, I'm like, Mom, Mike, I gotta get off this

14:11

plane. I'm freaking out. She was like, ha,

14:13

welcome to my world. Um

14:16

so yeah, I guess it was some kind of a predetermined

14:19

situation I would find myself and it's not fun.

14:22

I want to talk about the Bunyan's. I

14:24

want to talk about the Bunyans. But then I also seen

14:26

that Rene, your genetic results are also associated

14:28

with a typical likelihood of developing asthma,

14:31

and estimated of people

14:33

with the genetics and other factors like yours

14:36

have developed asthma by their

14:38

twenties. This is based on data from female

14:40

from twenty three research participants

14:43

of European descent so you're in that twenty

14:45

three, which is a typical range. They say,

14:48

I feel like when I was younger, and I don't even

14:50

know if this is true, but I feel

14:52

like my mom had me convinced that maybe I had ad

14:54

asthma. I had I had an inhaler for

14:57

a minute, but I think I was just maybe sick for

14:59

a period of time. I don't think I had asthma.

15:01

And the kind of same same now. I'm I got

15:03

like huge lungs on me. I'm like a silver

15:06

back gorilla over here. I got big old

15:08

lungs. It's because you're you're able

15:10

to just speak without taking a

15:12

breath. My my rib cage

15:15

is huge, huge rib cage,

15:17

massive massive. You got to see the rib cage

15:19

on this person I know and

15:21

can match match a pitch effortlessly.

15:24

You have the lungs of Pavarotti. Um.

15:27

Okay. So the bunyan one I find really interesting

15:30

because I John makes fun

15:32

of me, my husband, he makes fun of me for this all the time.

15:34

But I had bunyan surgery

15:37

when I was about eighteen, so

15:40

I supposed to I actually bunyans on both

15:42

my feet, but I according to

15:44

twenty three and me, I have a

15:46

likelihood to not develop bunyans, but I

15:48

actually have them on both feet so

15:51

bad that I had surgery on one of them. They

15:53

actually want to do surgery on both.

15:56

I didn't find the surgery to be that bad, but

15:58

everyone told me that it's like this hillacious

16:00

surgery. So I was like, I don't want to do both and be like out.

16:03

And I developed them because I played so many

16:05

sports growing up, so my feet were always in skates.

16:07

I was doing gymnastics, I was doing dance, I was doing

16:09

a bunch of different things and my feet got jacked

16:12

up. Um, so I I extra didn't

16:14

want to be out even longer than that by doing

16:16

both surgeries. I really wish I did now because

16:18

my one that I didn't do surgery on is calling

16:21

me up on the phone. It's not good. You

16:23

always make the joke about like your your

16:25

wicked feet. So does like the so

16:28

does the does the bus? Does

16:31

the bunyan get you more action? Uh?

16:33

There's got to There's got to be a

16:35

market for it. People like a hard

16:37

work and foot. This is not a

16:40

cushioned foot. This foot is put

16:42

in work and effort and it's

16:44

it's earned. Its scars, that's for sure. Oh

16:46

that's funny. Um.

16:49

I'm one of the people whose p would

16:52

not smell like asparagus.

16:54

I didn't. I thought everyone's piece smells like asparagus.

16:57

My piece smells like asparagus the second

16:59

I ingest it. Well. The

17:02

the report is your ability

17:04

to smell versus the p itself

17:07

smelling. Oh, I got a nose

17:09

like a bloodhound. I smell every

17:12

thing. The ability to smell

17:15

asparagus in your in is

17:17

your ability because of your nose, not

17:19

because your tinkle smells like a vegetable.

17:22

Got it? Can I

17:24

tell you this? Last night, I go to bed

17:26

ahead of John. I'm falling asleep, like

17:28

something stinks in our room? What is?

17:31

And he makes fun of me all the time. He's always like,

17:33

it stinks, that stinks, that smells

17:35

like He makes fun of me because I'm constantly saying things

17:37

stink. So I text him

17:39

because I'm up in bed and I didn't want to walk act

17:41

and something like can you come upstairs for a minute. He

17:44

comes, like sauntering upstairs. Ago, your shoes

17:46

are in this bedroom and they just woke me up because

17:48

I can smell them, like my nose

17:51

smells everything you cannot sneak

17:53

something past these nostrils. I smell at all,

17:56

all of it, which is troublesome considering

17:58

I have a bulldog who just like draw bombs

18:00

all day long. See, So it's your ability

18:03

to smell which is cool. So you can

18:05

you can really flush out some some interesting

18:07

stuff. I feel like my sense of

18:09

smell is like my super lame like

18:12

X Men trait. That's what I would be. I'd be the

18:14

superhero that smells everything

18:16

like I. I could be like a carbon

18:19

monoxide detector or something. I smell

18:21

everything. Since you

18:23

mentioned being an athlete, I'm

18:25

looking at muscle composition on your twenty

18:28

three and me and it says, Renee,

18:30

your genetic muscle composition

18:32

is common in elite power athletes.

18:36

It is true. We I mean, we have so many different

18:38

athletes on the sessions which you can listen to all the places

18:40

that Amelia rattle off earlier. We've got all these different

18:42

athletes on all the time. And it's

18:44

funny because I'm currently not

18:46

an athlete. I am a broadcaster. I

18:49

work in the sports space. However, so

18:51

when I hearken back to like the good old

18:53

days of when I was kicking ass and taking names.

18:55

And you know, whether I was running track and field,

18:58

playing ringette, I was doing high John, if I

19:00

was changing, I did everything. I was

19:02

pretty good at it. I guess I was like kind of

19:04

cut out for and I build muscle really

19:06

fast. Studies have

19:08

found that almost all elite

19:11

power athletes, including sprinters, throwers,

19:13

and jumpers, have a specific genetic variant

19:16

in gene related to muscle composition.

19:18

You have the same genetic variant as

19:21

these elite athletes. That's me.

19:23

I told you I was not playing. I

19:25

can jump very high and I can run very

19:27

fast. About your athletic endurance

19:30

and says with most elite power athletes

19:32

who have been studied have this genetic

19:35

variant that allows them to produce I

19:37

can't even pronounce that word twenty three and me, but

19:39

it's a protein in the muscle that

19:43

so so pretty much like you

19:46

are. You are a above average

19:48

because of this like specifics so cool.

19:51

Differences in genetic markers used

19:53

in this report may only explain about two

19:56

or three percent of the difference and muscle

19:59

performance between different people. In elite

20:01

athletes who work intensely to

20:04

reach upper limits of their potential, That

20:06

two or three percent may mean something

20:08

different, whether it's qualifying for the Olympics

20:10

and you're just missing to cut. But for the rest

20:12

of us, the choices that we make and how we

20:15

train will far outweigh our contribution

20:17

than our genetic marker. As a result, it's

20:20

really interesting. I mentioned

20:22

my daughter Nora at the very beginning of this,

20:24

and as she's coming into her

20:26

own she's walking, she's starting to pick up

20:29

the speed, She's developed a little power shuffle.

20:32

She is hall and asked this kid, But

20:34

I look at her and I'm like, is she going to have that

20:36

same kind of like athleticism

20:38

that I have? And what sport is she

20:41

going to gravitate towards? Like I can't wait to

20:43

see what she does with this little bod

20:45

when now I've combined with

20:48

another I'm not a super human,

20:50

but John is kind of a superhuman.

20:52

My husband is a professional wrestler. What

20:55

is our child going to be? Well,

20:57

you're also downplaying professional wrestler.

20:59

He is a multi time world

21:02

heavyweight champion in the world of professional

21:04

wrestling, and he's also as big as a house. Your

21:07

Your husband is very He's in very good shape.

21:09

He has a background in catch

21:11

wrestling and jiu jitsu. So he's a very

21:13

very strong man as well. And

21:16

what we have to do now is we have to get John

21:18

to spit into a cup so we

21:21

can see his results, and then maybe

21:23

we do something later on on our program

21:25

the sessions. You can download that wherever you get podcasts

21:27

and see what the results are, and then

21:29

we can combine those things and then when

21:31

Nora is ready to play a sport

21:34

now you know, like, hey, maybe the kid

21:36

can get a little something from column and column

21:38

by maybe she could be a relay

21:41

race runner, or a high jumper

21:43

or a pull vaulter like Alicia

21:46

Newman. Big shout us to Alicia

21:48

Newman. You can download that episode right now.

21:50

Um. So this is what I found interesting.

21:53

Because you are a dog person, Renee,

21:56

you are a genetic result is associated

21:59

with a typical likelihood of developing

22:01

a dog allergy, and estimated

22:04

six percent of people with your genetics

22:06

and other factors like yours have developed

22:08

a dog allergy by their forties.

22:11

Is based on data from females from twenty

22:13

three research with participants of your opinian

22:15

ESSENSI right now you are I didn't know it could

22:17

kick in that. Oh yeah, so you're in the

22:19

six percentile, which is the typical range

22:22

right now, and this is an estimate currently

22:24

based on the data that has been updated

22:26

at this time. Oh my goodness,

22:28

that's really sad news. I mean

22:30

it's I you know, both of my dogs

22:33

shed a ton. But hey, if

22:35

I've gotten to my forties, oh god, I'm

22:37

actually getting kind of close. So let's see

22:39

what happens. Buckle up. That

22:41

would suck. It even talks

22:43

about near sidedness, their seasonal

22:45

allergies, there's lactose intolerant

22:48

tests. What is your favorite fact

22:50

that you learned while scamming through

22:52

my results and you're like, wow, that's

22:54

interesting. I think you would probably

22:57

have to be that you are I

23:00

present Korean. I think that is I

23:03

think that is incredible because if you were too

23:05

google Renee Paquette, she

23:08

is as white as snow to see

23:10

that. I think that's incredibly cool because now

23:12

there's this entire history

23:14

to be learned about a culture that

23:16

now you are a part of, and to learn

23:19

that is fascinating to me.

23:21

So would that means that I would have like potentially

23:24

like a Korean great

23:27

great great great grandfather

23:29

or grandmother or something. Possibly?

23:31

Yes, I think it's interesting to

23:34

to now to go back and learn

23:36

where you come from, who you are, and

23:39

what that is. Let's

23:41

see. So, um, it's called the

23:43

Hollow group. This is shares DNA with

23:45

Viking warriors as well. Basically,

23:48

don't mess with me. I'm Neanderthal

23:50

Viking. I've got this athletic

23:53

gene that will kick your ass.

23:55

I've got it all. You get this from

23:58

your mom. Fathers cannot asked this DNA

24:01

to their offsprings. The Viking

24:03

I get from my mom. Wow,

24:06

how crazy is that? I actually buy

24:08

that. My mom's pretty fiery. I could see her doing

24:10

well in a Viking situation. She's small, but

24:12

she's mighty. You have Viking warrior

24:15

ancestry, so it's like you have a small piece

24:17

of mitochondrial DNA

24:20

that was passed down from mothers to their

24:22

children. So your great great great

24:24

great great grand nanny might

24:26

have been this badass Viking

24:29

warrior babe. Hell

24:31

yes she was. Oh my god, I can picture

24:33

her, this blonde hair, just blowing in the wind,

24:35

just taking taking hose

24:37

out. I allowed to swear on this podcast

24:40

is not our podcast or guests.

24:43

We're good. But the cool

24:45

part is now you have all this research right, you

24:47

can go back and you can always check your twenty three portal

24:50

and if there is something that you want to

24:53

investigate and deep dive into

24:55

and you find other family members on there. We know

24:57

that part, but that was really cool when I kind of

25:00

have a little brief glance and I was like, oh my god, these

25:02

cousins that are like really close in

25:04

like bloodlines. It's cool.

25:07

I advise anybody to go and

25:09

take a three and it's fun.

25:12

It is fun. If nothing else, it's just

25:14

like fun, Like, yeah, it's cool to

25:16

like, if you want to connect with family

25:19

members, you want to find people that you are related

25:21

to. Of course that prospect

25:23

is out there and that's really cool. But just

25:25

knowing who you are, where you come

25:28

from, what all is living

25:30

in your body and how it got there,

25:32

and you know medically things

25:34

that you could be predispositioned towards. So

25:37

really really cool stuff. I highly recommend

25:39

it. I'm really happy that I did it, and

25:42

um, there's just so much information there, so I'm

25:44

just going to continue to sift through it, learn

25:46

more about myself, try to convince my husband

25:48

to do one, um, so that we can kind of compare

25:51

notes since what we're really working with but

25:53

yeah, really a great time. Highly suggested.

25:56

Thank you guys for hanging out with me and Amelia

25:58

learning a little bit more about out about my

26:01

body and what what what I bring to the table

26:03

as a human being. So thank you Spit, Thank

26:05

you three and me Neanderthal

26:07

out and

26:10

that's it On another Dope show.

26:13

Did this episode inspire you to take a closer

26:15

look at your health history, your genetic makeup?

26:18

Who new DNA could reveal so much about our

26:20

past while also holding the keys to certain

26:22

health insights that may impact our future.

26:25

I continue to be inspired by these stories,

26:28

and I hope you do as well. Catch

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