Dr. Jay Lombard, a thought leader in the fields of integrative and functional medicine, has been a practicing neurologist for more than two decades. We got Dr. Lombard on the phone to talk about stress and inflammation, particularly how stress leads to problems with anxiety and ultimately complicates underlying inflammation. Dr. Lombard discusses the idea of conceptualizing stress as both biological and experiential, something that we all encounter. Dr. Lombard is one of the original faculty members of the Institute for Functional Medicine, co-founder and Chief Innovation Office of Genomind, and founder and medical director Mindful DNA.