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Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield and we've actually talked about DNA testing and the whole

world of genetic testing and gene research on the podcast before.

If you've been listening for a while, you may remember my interview with author Spencer

Wells who wrote this book called Pandora's Seed in the title of that podcast episode

was the unforeseen cost of civilization, what you can do about it.

We actually talked about genes from more of an ancestral standpoint and how the way that

we're living nowadays might actually influence our health based off of the way that our ancestors

lived.

But we've actually come a pretty long way since that episode, just a little over one

year ago, for example, the genetic testing service 23 and me is one thing that you may

have seen in the news quite a bit where you can get little salivary tests and for like

99 bucks, you send it off and it used to be that you could get your health results from

that and 23 me had a bit of a slap down from the FDA when it comes to releasing specific

health information.

So now if you were to test through something like 23 and me, you would have to export those

results to a different service to get fitness, nutrition, information, et cetera.

That's what we're going to be talking about today.

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