Beat Your Genes Podcast — Start Here
380+ episodes of evolutionary psychology with Dr. Doug Lisle and Nathan Gershfeld — helping you understand why you think, feel, and behave the way you do.
What this show is
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. Doug 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., brings 14 years of clinical experience to every conversation.
Together they explore why you do what you do — and what, if anything, you can actually do about it.
Dr. Lisle’s core frameworks
Your hosts
Dr. Lisle has spent decades building these frameworks. This show is what happens when he explains them.
The architect of the frameworks behind Beat Your Genes. Dr. Lisle’s work starts from a simple premise: you cannot understand human behavior without understanding the environment it evolved in.
Nathan trained first as an electrical engineer, then spent 14 years as a Doctor of Chiropractic. He brings a systems thinker’s curiosity to every conversation — a natural fit for a framework as precise as Dr. Lisle’s. He mostly lets Dr. Lisle talk.
Where to start
These are the episodes that explain Dr. Lisle’s core frameworks — the ones that make everything else click. New listener? Start anywhere in this list.