Aug 7, 2020
Guest Name and Bio:
Dr. David Geary
Dr. David C. Geary is a Curators’ Distinguished
Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences and the
Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program. His work spans a broad
range of topics from children’s mathematical cognition and
development to the evolution of sex differences. He’s written four
sole authored books, Children’s Mathematical Development (1994),
Male, Female (1998, 3nd edition release August, 2020), Origin of
Mind (2005), and Evolution of Vulnerability (2015), one co-authored
book, Sex Differences (2008), and co-edited a five-volume series on
Mathematical Cognition and Learning. In addition, he has published
about 325 journal articles and chapters and has had extensive
funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National
Science Foundation for his empirical research. He served on the
President’s National Mathematics Advisory Panel from 2006 to 2008
and chaired the learning processes task group, and was appointed by
President G. W. Bush to the National Board of Advisors for the
Institute of Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
(2007 to 2010).
His current sex differences work is focused on sex-specific
deficits associated with chronic exposure to stressors, using
Darwin’s sexual selection and the evolution of condition-dependent
traits. These traits, such as the peacock’s tail, have been
exaggerated over evolutionary time based on competition for mates
and mate choices. Condition-dependence means that they are the
first to deteriorate when exposed to stressors, such as poor
nutrition, chronic disease, and toxins. At the most fundamental
level, condition-dependent expression of these traits might be
dependent on the efficiency of mitochondrial energy production.
What you will learn from this episode:
1) What are mitochondria, where do they come from, and why are they
important to health
2) What are some of the things we can do to optimize mitochondrial
health
3) The link between cognition and mitochondrial health
4) The link between aging and mitochondrial health
5) How to reduce oxidative stress in order to improve your
longevity
How to learn more about our guest:
http://faculty.missouri.edu/~gearyd/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/male-female
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30211573
Please enjoy, share, rate and review our podcast and help us bring the message about precision health care to the world!