- Today is a potentially confusing day
but mostly it's exciting, why?
Because this video is being sponsored by 23andMe.
23andMe is named 23andMe because there are 23
pairs of chromosomes in every cell of your body.
And they contain all of the genetic information about you
like your eye color, your propensity
to cry at commercial with puppies.
And you can find out where your family is from
and all these things.
Why am I nervous?
I'm nervous because what if we find out I'm really a boy?
What if 23andMe informs me
that I can't lose weight after 40?
Then I can stop trying.
Let's look at the footage of what it looks like
to prepare your DNA, that's right,
it involves the most sexy thing you can imagine,
spitting into a very tiny tube for about three minutes.
Check it out.
Welcome to you.
I've been living in me for 42 years,
I wonder what I'm gonna learn.
(happy music)
Oh that's, okay, I can spit that much
right into there, I guess.
So I didn't realize that I needed to wait 30 minutes
after drinking my Thai Iced Tea.
(buzzer buzzes)
Before I could take my spit samples
so I'm gonna play a little piano.
(piano music)
Is it time yet?
(happy music)
Now here's the deal.
I know you watch a lot of YouTube videos,
you probably watch a lot of television too,
maybe you even watch reality television.
On those shows, they sometimes say things that are not true.
I'm gonna tell you something that's absolutely true.
I have not even logged into 23andMe
since I sent that sample in.
I have not seen these results.
I literally don't know what's gonna come up.
I'm very nervous.
If this even makes it to a video, that will be amazing
because maybe we'll find out horrible things
and I'll start crying and all of my makeup
will run down my face and now we will say
we can't make this video.
I'm so nervous!
I literally think it's gonna be like,
it's gonna pop up and be like, you're screwed!
I hope it doesn't tell me not to be vegan
'cause that's gonna be a hard day.
Hmm.
That's so weird!
I'm 99.7% Ashkenazi Jewish.
(man laughing)
I'm the Jewish-ist person anyone knows.
I mean whatever it is that Jews were chosen for,
I've got it.
Mostly it's heart disease and anxiety.
.2% British and Irish.
Hello!
I am .1% broadly European.
I'm gonna say that the broadest part of me is my hips
and I'm blaming Europe for that.
There is a way based on your DNA from your mom
that they can literally trace the migration patterns
of where your family went
and how many years ago they went there.
So we start in East Africa 180,000 years ago
and then it looks like my line branched out, wow,
to modern day Saudi Arabia, modern day Iran,
and then up into the Caspian Sea.
Oh my gosh, that's so cool!
Oh, hey now, I have fewer neanderthal
variants than 82% of y'all.
Neanderthals are ancient humans
who interbred with modern humans
and then they became extinct 40,000 years ago.
This is amazing.
Some of your traits may be influenced
by having neanderthal variants.
I'm a terribly messy eater and I hate washing my hands.
I feel like those are neanderthal variants.
You have one neanderthal variant associatedd
with the reduced tendency to sneeze
after eating dark chocolate.
Put that on a dating profile.
Whenever I eat dark chocolate with friends
they're all sneezing and I'm like what?
Why would you sneeze?
Now I know why, 'cause they don't have that variant.
Get ready for it folks!
I have one neanderthal variant
associated with having less back hair.
I am unlikely to flush after alcohol consumption.
I know you were thinking like unlikely to flush
after peeing in the toilet, that's also true
but that's not something that comes up at 23andMe,
why waste water if you don't need to?
But unlikely to have facial flushing
it's a blood vessel thing.
That is something I'm unlikely to do.
This is a wellness section that also tells me
I'm likely to consume less caffeine than other people.
I never knew that but I actually don't consume
a lot of caffeine and don't like caffeine.
I don't drink coffee, I rarely drink tea,
once in a while I'll have a soda.
I am not likely to be a deep sleeper.
Well gosh darn it 23andMe, you know me pretty well.
I'm sure it's because of my high anxiety genes
but we haven't gotten to that yet.
Here's something that's disappointing.
It's a good thing, predisposed to weigh less than average.
So why don't I, 23andMe?
My genetic muscle composition
is common in elite power athletes.
Do you understand what's happening right now?
I've missed my calling.
Oh, lifestyle and training factors
drive athletic performance though.
Guess I gotta step those up.
Genetics isn't everything, I know 23andMe, clearly.
Here's something I've also known my whole life.
Likely to have more than average movement during sleep.
I'm a person who has more than average movement
all the time and it is also true in sleep
and now whoever's lucky enough to sleep next to me
will just have to deal with it
because the evidence is right here folks, can't help it.
I bet what you're wondering right now
is if I ever got to go out with Mayim Bialik
and I ate asparagus,
would you be able to smell it in my pee?
Well folks, yes.
The chances are very good, I'm not even kidding.
The chances are very good
that I can smell asparagus in your urine.
Unlikely to have dimples, that's true, I don't.
Not on these cheeks, what?
That was a cellulite joke.
I have slightly higher odds of disliking cilantro.
Like there are some people who say that cilantro
tastes like soap to them, I happen to love cilantro so.
Slightly higher odds doesn't mean
that it's gonna be that way.
Yes, likely to have wet ear wax.
Likely blue or green eyes, true story.
Likely ring finger longer?
It's not long enough to put a ring on it.
Little freckling.
Hair texture: likely straight or wavy.
I mean there's not that many choices.
I mean, you know we call it a Ashkenazi Jew fro.
Less likely to have thick hair,
thanks 23andMe, already knew that.
There's some extensions in here right now.
One of my sons has a photic sneeze reflex,
one of them doesn't and I likely
have no photic sneeze reflex.
That means when you go out in the sun and you sneeze,
that's my kinds are right there.
Fred you didn't get it from me, got it from your dad.
Miles, right here, no sneezing when it's sunny.
- [Boy] But you also sneeze when it's sunny.
- I sneeze all the time, that's a different story.
Prefer sweet over salty, not true 23andMe.
I know that this is just a predisposition,
no, definitely more salty versus sweet.
Toe length ratio.
I won't show you my toes, it says likely big toe longer,
meaning than the other toes, that is true on one foot only.
Likely no unibrow, thank you 23andMe
'cause knowing the way this body works,
for all I know at 43, I'm gonna get a unibrow,
now I can say no, I won't.
One of the things that Jewish people all over the world
tend to reflect on as the Jewish holidays are now
is our connection to a larger Jewish identity
and what that means for our significance in the world.
And learning this information at a time of year
when I'm focusing so much on my spiritual identity
and my connection to the Jewish community,
even if I wasn't 99.7% Ashkenazi Jewish,
having concrete information and being able
to see that there's a whole world of people out there
that I'm connected to is really, really special.
And also just knowing that there's a place
where we can actually get this kind of information,
like this is where science has led us to in 2018.
We can have this kind of information
that keeps updating, the more people send in their DNA,
it's unbelievable and I'm just really glad
that I did this and I really wanna thank 23andMe
for encouraging me to take this leap
and find out more about what I'm made of and who I am.
Maybe it's time for you to learn more about your DNA.
Head over to 23andMe.com/Mayim
and enter your information and send in your spit in a tube
and you can get all of this amazing insight
into who you are and how you connect
with the rest of the world.
Thank you 23andMe and thank you everybody for watching.
Like this channel, subscribe, share this
and tell me your experiences.
If you've done a DNA screen or not,
what was it like for you, what did you learn?
And most importantly, is anyone more Jewish than me?
Let's find out.