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UnDisciplined: Consumer Genomics And Getting 'Good To Go'

This week on UnDisciplined, we're talking about the intersection of science and personal decision-making — and, of course, we're looking at it from two very different perspectives. 

First, we talked to a former geneticist who has tried out almost every consumer DNA test. 

Tina Hesman Saey has studied everything from tobacco to yeast in her days as a researcher, and today helps people better connect to science as the lead writer for Science News. We also chatted with a former lab researcher who has taken a deep dive into the science of exercise recovery. 

Christie Aschwanden is a former researcher, the lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight and the author of a new book, "Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery."

Matthew LaPlante has reported on ritual infanticide in Northern Africa, insurgent warfare in the Middle East, the legacy of genocide in Southeast Asia, and gang violence in Central America. But a few years back, something occurred to him: Maybe the news doesn't have to be so brutally depressing all the time. These days, he balances his continuing work on more heartbreaking subjects with his work on UnDisciplined — Utah Public Radio's weekly program on science and discovery.