Jan 9, 2026
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