Linking Individual Stress To Societal Dysfunction | Dr. David Katz ~ ATTMind 204

2026-01-09

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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, ...

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.

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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