[TheRhinelander]

It’s good for people like me that were adopted and don’t know their genetic/family medical history.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

That’s a really interesting point. I just always pose the ?...”Who has this info”.

[KittenClaws]

I am adopted as well.

I had the fortune to meet the biological parent, cousins, aunts, etc., contact was not established by me.

Although fascinating in an “heredity vs environment” context, I fail to see the point of knowing grandma had high blood pressure, or mom had cps.

Im living my life. Having a predisposition to anything has no place in it. Many things are “ in the blood” live well, live right, see your doctor once a year.

If your predisposed your predisposed,. Knowing it does not make it so, it just creates unnecessary worry. I've waited over 20 years for that high bp that runs in the bio family....no sight of it yet.

[JSteff]

And like several studies have shown.. It does not matter in 99% of the situations in the world. And for most people knowing what their genes are as an absolute waste of the energy to even find out.

There are so many factors that affect a persons health and genes are but 1 in a million chance to be able to know what anyone might or might not have wrong. Besides genes there are switches that are different in everyone. Those switches can completely change what a gene may or may not do. Completely.

So just live your life and deal with what god gave you now. Make the best of today as you started it.