BeatYourGenes

Beat Your Genes Podcast is a health podcast hosted by BeatYourGenes. It has 396 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

Evolutionary psychology with Dr. Doug Lisle, PhD and Nathan Gershfeld, D.C.Most psychology advice treats your brain like a broken machine. Beat Your Genes starts somewhere different: your instincts aren't broken. They're just optimized for a Stone Age environment that no longer exists.Dr. Lisle - Evolutionary psychologist, former Stanford lecturer, and co-author of The Pleasure Trap - has spent decades developing frameworks that explain human behavior from the ground up. Nathan Gershfeld, D.C. - trained first as an electrical engineer and then spent 14 years as a Doctor of Chiropractic. He brings a systems thinker's curiosity to every conversation. He mostly lets Dr. Lisle talk.Topics include relationships and attraction, self-esteem, personality, depression and anxiety, willpower, the ego trap, and how pushy people exploit agreeable ones.380+ episodes. New episodes every other week.New here? Start at beatyourgenes.org/start-here

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