IÂ’ve been a total slacker with my personal to-do list as of late, so I made it a point this weekend to finally send in my saliva/DNA sample to 23andMe. Yep, this is the kit I bought in April. Shameful, I know.
I already knew from doing a Wegener’s DNA study that you shouldn’t eat or drink for at least 30-minutes prior to spitting into the kit — please see “how it works” if you have no idea what I’m talking about. So more than 3 hours after my treat of all-natural yogurt with “organic” chocolate cookies (hippy Oreos) and a tall glass of water to wash it down, I broke open the kit and starting spitting.
To my horror I noticed small black bits of cookie in the sample, immediately freaked out, and subsequently emailed 23andMeÂ’s customer service help-line. I explained my concern (and embarrassment) over the cookie incident and optimistically yet cautiously sealed up my sample and posted it.
I got an answer shortly after. After confirming that mine was not the strangest email they’d received (I asked) the super friendly customer liaison let me know that all was not lost and the test would not be affected by the remnants of my afternoon snack. They even assured me that my DNA results “would not come back as part female/part Oreo.”
I laughed out loud at my desk. I just fell in love with 23andMe a little bit more.
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