Dr. Lihua Yao, is a professor at the Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang, China, Ph.D. in Physiology (jointly trained by South China Normal University and Illinois State University, USA), master’s tutor, national licensed traditional Chinese pharmacist, and national registered nutritionist. From July 2009 to August 2012, he worked as a visiting scholar and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). In 2017, he was selected into Jiangxi Province’s Outstanding Young Talent Training Program, and in 2020, he was selected into Jiangxi Province’s “Thousand Talents Plan”. He has used modern patch clamp technology combined with modern molecular biology technology to research neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, exercise physiology, diabetes pathology, and pharmacology. In particular, relatively systematic research has been conducted on the natural product Cordyceps militaris and its main active ingredient cordycepin in terms of its anti-ischemia, anti-Alzheimer’s disease, anti-exercise fatigue, and anti-tumor effects.