I'm adopted. It's been a complete non-issue my entire life--I don't even remember being told or even remember a point where I didn't know. My parents are the people who raised me from birth. I've had no interest at all in my biological parentage.
But since hitting 30, I've started to wonder about what my future holds from a health standpoint. Finding bio-mom is out of the question (and might be pointless anyway, since one of the few things we do know is that she herself was adopted--and that she probably had bunions and/or gallstones if my experience is any indication).
So would it be Mustachian in the long run to get some sort of genetic screening done? Spend some money now to find out if I might be at risk for something that could be preventable now through lifestyle changes? What tests are even available? Are they even accurate? Has anybody here actually done any testing for medical reasons (as opposed to ancestry)?
I'd like to have some sort of warning if I might have something lurking in my genes--but I suspect in the real world, it doesn't work that way. Regardless, I just keep hearing people who say, "My mom, grandma, and cousin all have x, so I'm doing z today to reduce my chances of it," and it's hard that I don't have any sort of family history to act on. I don't like not knowing and having no ability to act on that knowledge.
Then again, I'm also a hypochondriac, so knowing might backfire.