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Dr. Patricia Huston is an interdisciplinary scientist exploring public health, cellular biology, and our culture. She studies how all these influence healthy behaviours like being physically active. Today, we have an INCREDIBLY insightful conversation on the many layers of factors that affect your health!
To learn more about Dr. Huston's work, visit: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=KuQUs9MAAAAJ&hl=en. Also, you can read the paper of hers we discussed here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4048238
Timeline:
00:00 Introduction
02:02 Physical Inactivity & Disease
04:44 Networks & Your Health
10:50 Disease & Your Body
18:55 Pros of Network Analysis
23:40 Future Innovations
P.S. Some fancy words Dr. Huston used:
- Chronic Disease: A disease that's present over a long time. Ex: Diabetes
- Chronic low-grade inflammation: A persistent, but non-extreme inflammation in the body.
- Network analysis: studying how groups of things interact together.
- Macroenvironmental influences: Global phenomena out of our control that influence our lives. Ex: A pandemic.
- Sympathetic response: our body's 'alert mode'. It involves us being stressed.
- Macrophages: cells in our immune system that destroy harmful substances.
- Coagulate: When blood clots (ex: to form a scar that seals a cut)
- Adrenaline: a chemical that is released into our blood when we prepare to deal with threats.
- Rube Goldsberg Machine: an overly complex machine to perform a simple task.
- Longevity/life span: In common terms, how long your life is.
- Microenvironment: in the context of this podcast, factors happening inside your body compared to outside your body.
- Heart rate variability: How much change there is in your heart rate over time.
- Electronic medical health records: government documents that collect all your health information in one place online.
