Dr. David Katz is a board-certified specialist in Preventive Medicine/Public Health.

He is on the show to talk about the paper is was author on, titled, "A multiscale inflammatory map: linking individual stress to societal dysfunction".

We talk about what stress and inflammation are, and the dynamics between them; how and why inflammation becomes chronic; how inflammation compromises perception and behaviour; how it can spread through a population like a contagion; how these spreading patterns of inflammation degrade our social systems, institutions, and leadership; how social media works as s supercharged networks for spreading inflammation; and what we can do about it, right here and now, starting within ourselves.

Enjoy.

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Episode Breakdown

• (00:00) Opening
• (06:31) Interview Begins
• (08:22) The limits of reductionism and the value of multidisciplinary collaboration
• (13:45) Inflammation, Stress, and the dynamic between them within the individual
• (24:59) The primitive value of relationships with non-human beings for our wellbeing
• (26:23) How and why inflammation between chronic
• (35:10) The brain as the master regulator of our response to stressors
• (46:28) The brain as a driver of inflammation
• (49:52) Correcting the degenerative cascade of poor sleep on mental and physical health through inflammatory processes
• (51:51) How inflammation spreads between people
• (55:46) Social media as a supercharged network for spreading inflammation
• (1:03:15) Patreon Thanks
• (1:05:39) How stress and inflammation can change a whole society
• (1:09:16) Stress as a virus, each of us could be the cure
• (1:13:24) How runaway feed forward processes of inflammation can degrade an entirely society, our society
• (1:23:07) What we can do about it, entering the upward spiral towards personal vitality
• (1:31:45) How choosing the cultivate our own wellbeing can positively effect others
• (1:34:15) A hopeful note to end off on
• (1:36:22) Follow up links
• (1:37:54) Outro