In functional medicine, we spend a lot of time talking about inflammation - as a common factor in many disease processes. Chronic inflammation tends to generalize, to move beyond the bounds of a cell, a tissue, an organ, or an individual body to travel amongst families, groups of people, and communities.

How might we expand the work done by the Functional Medicine Model, applying its system and analysis not just to the complex stories of the antecedents, triggers, and mediators of individual disease but to the story of societal dis-ease and dysregulation? To tell a motivating story that activates and inspires action...