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Alcohol-flush reaction... ...bitter taste...
-Muscle performance... -...Huntington's...
-...skin cancer... -...psoriasis...
...colorectal cancer, glaucoma, high blood pressure, lupus...
...spondylitis... ...cluster headaches...
...asthma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...
This holds the key to all the answers
of if I have any more genetic surprises.
I'm sure you do.
I want to ask you about broccoli.
I love broccoli.
-Cabbage? -I love cabbage.
Dark beer?
I don't like beer at all, but if I had to drink beer,
I wouldn't mind a couple sips of Guinness.
This is very odd, actually,
because I would have guessed, from your profile,
that you wouldn't like these sorts of things.
The reason why is you can taste the bitterness
in all the foods that I just mentioned,
and, nevertheless, you like them.
Most people who love broccoli
love it because they've got a mutation
and they can't taste the full spectrum of what they're tasting.
They think broccoli is delicious
because they don't taste that, you know, that bite.
I really like the fact that the genetics didn't predict what you like.
So I'm very passionate about these.
No, it's fantastic.
I mean, for me that's very reassuring
that we can't learn everything from science.
But it's interesting.
I mean, why would you-- Some people be able to and some not?
And we don't really know why exactly, but back in the olden days
when women were going around sampling things,
very small amounts of leaves and berries,
and if it made them-- if it was bitter,
they would just spit it out and not eat it,
because bitterness is often associated with poison.
So it's very, very important
to be able to tell bitterness, and you've got that gene.
I like that I evolved from the women who didn't eat poison.
But I'd be the one who loved the poison.
I'd be, like,
"These berries are delicious! Everybody, have some."
I know I won't have Alzheimer's.
-Why? -Because.
-Did we shoot this part already? -Yeah.
As much as people in my family
have drinking problems and skin cancer,
everybody dies with their mind intact.
And that will be me.
And I know that genes can, like, pop up places
and not be what you expected,
but... I will not have Alzheimer's. Just watch.
...pretty much opt in to seeing your results
as filing a report of Parkinson's Disease.
See, it, like, makes you learn about it before you really...
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I saved for last the serious-disease aspects.
Thanks!
There's only three cut-and-dried tests for diseases
that really, I think, that are really reliable.
You do not carry the cystic fibrosis gene
and you don't have sickle-cell anemia
and you are not resistant to malaria.
If the baby has a thick neck or something
or, like, hot-dog fingers,
that means it might have Down's syndrome
or some other genetic diseases,
so it's more genetics coming at you.
It's creepy to know that they could, like, take a little sample
and tell you all these different things.
It's one thing when it's, like, your own genetics,
but when it's a baby,
it's scarier.
But I didn't see any serious problems
out of your whole profile here of reliable tests.
And the only thing that I saw that was slightly interesting
was the celiac disease.
-Do you know what that is? -I know what that is.
My little sister has celiac disease and my dad has celiac disease,
and on my mother's side, my uncle has celiac disease.
That's fascinating because you have a slight increased risk
of having it yourself, based on this marker,
and, wow, that is amazing it's running in your family.
On both sides.
I used to bake with my mother,
and my mom cooked a lot of things from scratch
because there's celiac disease in my family, too.
Another, like, little gift from the Irish.
My sister and my father both have celiac disease,
which is an intolerance to wheat, barley, rye, oats, flour.
They can't eat pizza, bread, cake, pasta.
I really expected, like, heart disease to be on there and Alzheimer's.
I think it's because there's not one gene involved,
and they don't know all the genes involved.
But you got typical risks for Type 2 diabetes,
Parkinson's, deep-vein thrombosis,
Type 1 diabetes, Crohn's disease, and psoriasis.
All of these diseases are you're absolutely average,
as far as I can see.
I'm very creepy actually. I've been to see her, like, five times, I think.
She's really, really good, really funny.
I think some people are very, like, kind of some things get nerves.
I'm not like that at all.
So I kind of really get what she does.
It's quite shocking, but that's why it's funny, isn't it?
I'm more nervous about trying to incorporate genetics
into a comedy act
than I am about receiving news that I'm gonna get Alzheimers.