Beat Your Genes Podcast
Hosted by Nathan Gershfeld and Doug Lisle and Dr Doug Lisle and Dr Nathan Gershfeld · BeatYourGenes
4.5from 585 ratings
- 412
- Episodes
- 60
- Transcribed
- 585
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
- 125K
- YouTube views
About Beat Your Genes Podcast
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
- Publisher
- BeatYourGenes
- Category
- health & fitness · health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Feb 2016
- Latest episode
- 18 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
60 of 412 episodes have a transcript.
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395: Why Your Dating Odds Don't Matter
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394: Your Past Isn't Why You're Still Depressed
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393: Can You Talk Your Way Out of the Friend Zone? (Part 2)
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395: Why Your Dating Odds Don't Matter
Published 18 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Jesus, I mean, how often are you going to find somebody whose personality actually fits you that well? If you find out once in a lifetime, you are very fortunate. The odds that you've run into four human beings, that you would actually activate the love instincts inside of both nervous systems, impossible. It's not happening. So all we're really seeing is that you don't know these people well enough. OK, so what are you going to do? And the answer is, well, I'd be I'd be fishing around and trying to, you know, flirt with them, take them to lunch. You need hours. Let's see if that 30 percent or 75 percent is actually accurate, basically. […]
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- YouTube views
- 124,899
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 439 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 146 ratings
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- Quality
- 76
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 97
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Nathan Gershfeld and Doug Lisle and Dr Doug Lisle and Dr Nathan Gershfeld host the show. Published by BeatYourGenes.
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