Most of my readers here at littlecrunchy.com are smart busy moms who I am sure know all about Groupon. So telling you that Groupon is amazing isn’t a shock. I am writing today though to tell you about one of the coupons I that has actually been life changing for me because I don’t want you to miss it.
A while back I was lucky enough to get a great price on 23andme, and groupon has coupons and sales on them so be on the look out. Why would seeing DNA ancestry be important though? Well, for me, it is the health side of my DNA that changed things for me. For someone I know though, she found her “birth” family, and in an incredible story, found siblings that had been looking for her for decades. When private investigators failed, 23andMe succeeded. What they didn’t know, is throughout their lives, they had been so near to meeting each other. It is a fantastic tale and I don’t have near the details to do it justice. So far for me, I have hundreds of possible DNA family cousins I have never met!
What was so life changing was what my DNA told me about my MTHFR mutation, my weight, my cancer risks, the mutations that could account for how I think and feel and learn. I can’t take normal vitamins, they could even do me more harm than good. I am not always short on vitamin D because of lack of sunlight, there is so much more too it. All the symptoms I feel with so many things I can actually try to correct as I know the root issues now. This is something doctors never suggested, they treat symptoms, cover them up, not get the root issues. I am FINALLY losing weight and I think I stand a good change of feeling normal.
While this probably makes no sense to you, it is a bit of the DNA results gotten from the raw DNA I got from 23andMe and put on another site that specializes in telling you if you have these kinds of mutations. The yellow ones are not good, the read ones are a real issue! But you can work with them, once you know what the issues are!
My Dad died of pancreatic cancer a year ago, and now I know more about my genetic risks! I also know that I am not likely to respond favorably to certain chemo! Crazy what our DNA can tell us! One of the very cool things about 23andMe is that you get your raw data and every so often the site releases more information about YOU based on it as they do the research for their database as whole. You can though take the raw data to other sites and plug it in and it can give you results based on their research and find different things 23andMe hasn’t focused on yet. It is all fascinating and exciting! I know I will be gifting 23andMe to others next time I see a great groupon coupon for it!
