Welcome to the Brain Health and Beyond podcast with your hosts, Aisha and Dean Sharesai.

This week's conversation is with someone we respect tremendously for his scientific

honesty, rigor, courage, and artful expression that can powerfully penetrate the minds of

millions of people. Yes, it is possible to embody all of those aspects of science in one person, and that person is Dr. David Katz,

who is the founder and former director of Yale University's Yale Griffin Prevention Research Center,

the past president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and president and founder

of the nonprofit True Health Initiative.

We love the fact that Dr. Katz's approach to science takes into consideration the long

arch of how everything we do affects not only our risk for disease, but also our environment

and ultimately our planet.

We're thrilled to have him as our guest again.

In this episode, we delved into the subject that has affected all of us over the last year and a half,

which is COVID-19.

It's effect on our personal lives, our communities,

and what we learned about the failings of our society in the face of such a formidable opponent, the failings of our system to adapt to such a novel

threat, about how such threat brought deep divisions into our society, and ultimately about

ourselves.

We hope you enjoy this in-depth and personal conversation with Dr. Katz.

Thank you, first of all, for joining us.

We started the conversation by speaking about how we lost a loved one,

our mother and Luddins' mother during this year,

and how painful that experience was

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