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

January 9, 2026 · 1 h 42 min

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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, 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

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