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Oh this is marvelous. I'm going to send you an email at the one in your profile, though I won't be upset if you share here. I suppose there's some Barnum Effect risk with this stuff (and of course singular variants don't immediately mean everything as our GCs have pointed out before), so I'll just answer everything as I can here and maybe you and others will find it interesting.

Licorice - no I don't like it

Lower body weight - until 3 years ago, now 84.5 kg / 183 cm

Anxiety - haha, I suppose that's true

Acne - yes

Dizziness upon standing - yes

Salt cravings - yes

Difficulty with sleep / Insomnia - used to be the case, solved in the last few years, strongest in teenage

Pots/Aldosteronism - not that I know of, just tested and sitting 60 bpm, stand up highest is 77 bpm with a continuous monitor on

Vit D - funny, blood tests which I took for the first time two years ago showed 12 ng / mL (low)

Mg - didn't test, but supplements did not change anything when I tried them in isolation so can't be too bad

Spinach - yes

TMJ - no issue here

Myopia - yes with astigmatism (-4.75 spherical -2.5 cylindrical)

Sour gummy candy - not much of a fan

Caffeine/Melatonin - Yes. Caffeine I always get half-caf. Melatonin I take 200-300 ug when I use it.

Acetaminophen - Can't tell, I suppose

Handedness - Right hand dominant, no ambidextrousness

Geeky - Described as so

Synesthesia - probably not, if weak very weak. I used to think I did, but I think that's because when I learned about it as a kid I really wanted to.

Strategy Board Game - you betcha

Hair Loss - Male Pattern Baldness in teenage years haha!

Alzheimer's - how interesting, I am curious

Smoking - Oops, smoked two years in college. Quit hard.

ADHD - I can't imagine this could be likely, but I suppose I had the excitability, impulsiveness, and talking over people things, but it hasn't really caused any real lasting trouble in my life so I can't label it a disorder really. I have previously received a prescription for this condition as an adult, but I did not take the medication for any appreciable amount of time.

Salt - this is very entertaining to my wife, because yes I do often add salt post-cooking to my portion of the meal and frequently complain about undersalting

Sweet Tooth - Yes (heavily dominating my behaviour), however, blood sugar is normal any time I check it 90 - 100 mg / dL . I could wear a continuous monitor and see what it says.

Now, for the intelligence thing. The various Jonathan-Anomaly-related companies these days are definitely trying to move the Overton window on this front. Herasight is the most well known, but I know of a few that are coming up as well. Of course, I'd like to believe this is true, but I suppose the one massive caveat is that (if you run me through peddy, you'll see) I'm South Asian and I know that South Asians have poor presence in most mainstream genomic datasets - a problem I am hoping to either fix or see fixed in my lifetime.

Your standard disclaimer acknowledged.



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