Am I really Russian? DNA shows what I should eat. Really?

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Hello, my dear friends. I'm Xenia and you're watching St. Petersburg Meet Channel and today it will be a very interesting video, especially for me, because I made a DNA test.

[00:00:13]And the reason was I wanted to know if I'm really a Russian. And besides, I wanted to know more information about my health, about what I can eat, what I can't eat, like genetically, what illnesses I can have or not have, or any other information that the company will provide to me. And today I'm seeing this information for the first time together with you. So, let's go. So, my dear friends, let's look it up. I'm seeing it really for the first time. So, okay.

[00:00:57]Oh my god.

[00:00:58]>> [laughter] >> I'm 67% Russian. Um and 31% is people of Volga and Urals Ural region. That really, really seems like truth because what we know about our family is like really, really they come from those regions, like Volga and Urals.

[00:01:26]Okay, and 2% 2% of Belarusians. Yeah.

[00:01:31]I'm partly Belarusian. Okay, good.

[00:01:34]That's good. Okay.

[00:01:37]And this program, this company found 2,485 relatives of mine.

[00:01:47]Oh my god. That is really nice. I have so many relatives.

[00:01:54]Oh my god. And they also show the migration of my ancestors and I am the ancestor of or what do you call I'm I'm a relative of women from the Caucasia, like past the Caucasus.

[00:02:22]Yes.

[00:02:23]Okay.

[00:02:25]Good.

[00:02:26]Nice. And now let's switch to health, like which is seen by genetics. So, okay. I am I have pre-possession to overweight.

[00:02:41]I know that. I know. And you know, one of the reasons why I did the DNA test was also to see why um I have a pre-possession to being overweight because you know, I uh eat healthy, I uh do sports, I I like you know, I take some action, I go for walks, and I don't smoke, I don't drink alcohol, but still I can't um lose weight.

[00:03:16]My weight doesn't go down. I don't know why and partially I ta- took a DNA test for that also. So, thank you. I know about this. Thank you. Yeah.

[00:03:29]So, also um I can uh damage my muscles by intensive sports.

[00:03:39]>> [laughter] >> Uh thank you. Yeah. I'm doing intensive sports just to >> [laughter] >> just to lose weight and I'm not allowed to do this. Okay.

[00:03:52]So, I have some uh uh hormones um very high uh not very high, but um a little bit high. So, I have um a preposition to acne.

[00:04:09]Mm, okay. Uh and I have a preposition to being allergic.

[00:04:14]Uh.

[00:04:15]Oh my god, I don't know. I don't want this. I don't want to have allergy.

[00:04:21]Uh and some other um illnesses like obesity.

[00:04:27]>> [laughter] >> Thank you. Now, information about uh eating eating habits.

[00:04:34]Okay, I have a deficiency in vitamin A, vitamin B9, uh deficiency in iron. I know that. It's uh whole my life. Um um Uh I should lower the um grease grease? I don't know how to call zhiri. Uh grease intake, uh cholesterol.

[00:05:02]Oh my god, it's a risky. It's a risk for me cholesterol cholesterol.

[00:05:08]Oh my god. Um Okay.

[00:05:12]Deficiency in vitamin B, D, E, calcium, selenium.

[00:05:20]Oh my god.

[00:05:22]>> [laughter] >> Um Oh, I have neperenosimost alkohola.

[00:05:28]That's why I don't drink. Yes, and you know, um I I noticed when I was like drinking um a glass of wine or something, um I got my nose blocked. It was very very hard to breathe. Yeah. And now to sports. So, what sports should I do? And what sports should I don't do? Should I Should I don't do?

[00:05:59]Okay.

[00:06:02]Um Oh, I should take some swimming for short distances and gondola.

[00:06:13]How do you say gondola in English?

[00:06:22]Handball. Handball.

[00:06:24]Whatever it is. Okay.

[00:06:27]How about volleyball?

[00:06:32]Nothing about volleyball.

[00:06:36]Oh my god. So, I have I just should take swimming and handball. Okay.

[00:06:45]Also, also there is information about the medicine's efficiency, but I don't think you're interested in that. And it's about my character and my abilities.

[00:06:59]Okay. What Um analysis. Analysis of digital and text information.

[00:07:13]I can be an analytic. Okay.

[00:07:16]Uh and my reaction is very high. Is very quick.

[00:07:21]Good.

[00:07:23]High level of of education. Yes. Yes.

[00:07:30]I have education.

[00:07:33]Oh my god, is this in in uh in DNA? How did they know that?

[00:07:44]So, um ability to be a mathe- mathematician.

[00:07:50]Oh, no. Mathematics is not my thing. No.

[00:07:55]But, maybe if I just took uh maybe more training, more mathematical problems, maybe But, I I I can count money. That's it.

[00:08:10]Really.

[00:08:13]Uh Oh, I have creativity. Yes.

[00:08:18]I'm very very um you know, I tend to paranoia.

[00:08:24]To be paranoid. Yes, sometimes that's true. Oh, and I uh also have uh the high high predisposition to be entrepreneur.

[00:08:37]I can be an entrepreneur. Okay.

[00:08:40]That's good.

[00:08:42]And also I have a very um good eye memory. That's true, by the way. And by the way, um I have this um like like more than 75% of this company clients.

[00:09:00]Okay.

[00:09:03]Oh, singing.

[00:09:05]Singing, I'm good at singing.

[00:09:08]Okay, yeah.

[00:09:13]Oh, I'm good uh when I have to um learn for uh very um long time. Yes.

[00:09:26]I'm cynical.

[00:09:28]That's true. That That's true.

[00:09:33]Yes.

[00:09:35]Generation of new ideas. Yes.

[00:09:39]Um um the brass officeness.

[00:09:47]Um like being a good person.

[00:09:50]Um I don't know.

[00:10:00]Integrity.

[00:10:02]Okay.

[00:10:03]Integrity. Yeah. Okay. I'm an integrity tical person.

[00:10:10]Yes.

[00:10:12]Okay. Good.

[00:10:13]And also they give uh the recommendations of my way of life and eating habits. Okay. So, what I should do?

[00:10:24]Um lower the weight.

[00:10:27]I'm working on that.

[00:10:30]Um lower the uh level of stress.

[00:10:35]Yes.

[00:10:36]That is possible, of course, especially now.

[00:10:41]Okay.

[00:10:42]Don't smoke.

[00:10:44]You you, too.

[00:10:46]Um sleep well.

[00:10:49]That is a problem for me, too.

[00:10:51]Um you have to avoid um pollen.

[00:10:58]Okay.

[00:11:00]I will try.

[00:11:02]Um avoid passive smoking.

[00:11:05]Good.

[00:11:07]Um avoid moist in uh in the room.

[00:11:14]I'm trying. I live on the first on the ground floor, so it's not very easy.

[00:11:20]Uh clean your hands more.

[00:11:25]Okay. But yes, you know, I also I always always feel when my uh hands are not clean and I always clean them. Yeah.

[00:11:37]Yeah, I I see that what they are meaning.

[00:11:42]Be hygienic. I don't know.

[00:11:45]Um Um stick to hygiene when you have contacts with with animals.

[00:11:56]Okay. All right. I don't know how they How they are doing that? Only have in my DNA or maybe they just have such recommendations for everybody.

[00:12:09]I don't know.

[00:12:11]Uh protect your eyes of the light sunlight. Yes.

[00:12:18]System systematize your way of life.

[00:12:21]Yeah, sleeping.

[00:12:23]Um Uh stress maintenance and um eating.

[00:12:32]Yes.

[00:12:33]Um Yeah, that's okay. So and the recommendation about eating habits.

[00:12:40]Okay.

[00:12:41]Um Lower the level of um sat fat.

[00:12:51]Okay.

[00:12:52]Um Eat five portions of fruit and vegetables at minimum every day. Okay. So take vitamin A, vitamin B9, A, um C, omega-3, um yeah.

[00:13:14]Avoid trans fat.

[00:13:16]Yes.

[00:13:18]Um Um so so taking more vitamins, eating more healthy that I that I'm eating now and um yeah, maintain your stress level.

[00:13:35]Lessen it.

[00:13:37]Okay, so this is this is what they recommend to me and also I'm Russian. Yes, I'm almost I'm yes, 90 8% Russian and 2% Belarusian.

[00:13:59]Nice.

[00:14:01]I thought maybe I would be a Hungarian or Polish.

[00:14:06]But I'm Russian, really Russian.

[00:14:11]So my dear friends, thank you so much for watching. Thank you so much for having this information together with me. You can see how how joyful I am. This is a really really nice >> [laughter] >> um nice thing to do for yourself and I will try to memorize it and also I will just have a look at my relatives, 2,500 and somewhat relatives. Okay. So my dear friends, thank you so much for watching.

[00:14:45]Thank you so much for being with me today and for having this information together with me. It was fun, I think.