23andMe

If you could discover how your genes influence your health, would you want to know? If you could find out you were prone to Alzheimers, or your child had a 75% chance of inheriting Multiple Sclerosis, would you want to? Well for $399, "The Invention of the Year", 23andMe, is able to provide you with such information. You order the kit, spit in a cup, and send it to a lab in California where your DNA is analyzed. In 4 to 6 weeks you log into your database and start exploring your genome. Personally, I'm unaware of my ancestry so to be able to pinpoint my maternal and paternal lineage is extremely intriguing. Is it better to just not know and live life unaware of something that will more than likely happen to you? Or, should you live life trying to find a way to fix a potential problem? I'm not really sure. I think for myself, with no family medical records, it might be a good thing. I'll let you know if I decide to take the big spit. If you want to check it out for yourself go to www.23andme.com