Gut Podcast

The Gut Podcast is your go-to source for the latest discussions in gastroenterology and hepatology. Each month Dr. Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, dives into key issues in the field by discussing articles with their authors. Gut - gut.bmj.com - is an international journal from BMJ Group and the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) publishing research and review articles in gastroenterology and hepatology. Stay up to date with the latest research in gastroenterology. Subscribe to the Gut podcast.

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Episodes

Thursday Nov 25, 2021

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, interviews Professor Cao, Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. This Gut podcast is focused on the paper "Sugar-sweetened beverage intake in adulthood and adolescence and risk of early-onset colorectal cancer among women", which is published in paper copy in Gut in December 2021, and is available here: https://gut.bmj.com/content/70/12/2330.

Friday Oct 29, 2021

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, interviews Professor Andrew Chan, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. This podcast is focused on the paper "Diet quality and risk and severity of COVID-19: a prospective cohort study", published in paper copy in Gut in November 2021. Link to the paper: https://gut.bmj.com/content/70/11/2096

Friday Oct 01, 2021

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, interviews Professor Megraud, University of Bordeaux, France. The podcast is focused on the paper "Helicobacter pylori resistance to antibiotics in Europe in 2018 and its relationship to antibiotic consumption in the community”, which is published in paper copy in Gut in October 2021.
Link to the paper: https://gut.bmj.com/content/70/10/1815

Wednesday Sep 08, 2021

In this podcast, we'll explore how eating a ‘blue’ muffin is an inexpensive and scalable technique allowing the measurement of transit time. The method was used to assess the relationship between gut transit time and the human gut microbiome, in a study published in paper copy in Gut, in September 2021.
"Blue poo: impact of gut transit time on the gut microbiome using a novel marker" is accessible here: https://gut.bmj.com/content/70/9/1665
Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, interviews Dr Sarah Berry, Department of Nutritional Sciences, King's College London, London.
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Thursday Jul 01, 2021

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital interviews Laura Bolte dietitian and PhD student from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Department of Genetics, University of Groningen and University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands and Professor Rinse Weersma from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Groningen and University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands. The Gut podcast is focussed on the paper "Long-term dietary patterns are associated with pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory features of the gut microbiome" which is published in paper copy in Gut in July 2021.
Related or relevant article: https://gut.bmj.com/content/70/7/1287

Tuesday Jun 01, 2021

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital interviews Professor Gunnar C. Hansson from the Mucin Biology Groups, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The Gut podcast is focussed on the paper "Association between Brachyspira and irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea" which is published in paper copy in Gut in June 2021.
Related or relevant article: https://gut.bmj.com/content/70/6/1117

Wednesday May 12, 2021

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital interviews Dr Ryan Ungaro, who is an Assistant Professor at Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA. The podcast is focussed on ‘Effect of IBD medications on COVID-19 outcomes: results from an international registry’ published in paper copy in Gut in April 2021.
Related or relevant article: https://gut.bmj.com/content/70/4/725

Friday Apr 23, 2021

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, interviews Dr Tariq Ahmad and Dr Nick Kennedy, both from the Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
This special Gut podcast is focused on ‘Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses are attenuated in patients with IBD treated with infliximab’ which is published in paper copy in Gut in May 2021 and the recently published paper ‘Infliximab is associated with attenuated immunogenicity to BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 SARS-CoV-2 vaccines’.
Acknowledgements: The CLARITY IBD team would like to thank the CLARITY IBD team in Exeter, all of the 92 CLARITY IBD sites and over 7000 participants in the study. We are grateful to support from the NIHR CRN, Crohn's & Colitis UK and our funders.
The related links:
https://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2021/04/25/gutjnl-2021-324789
https://gut.bmj.com/content/70/5/865

Tuesday Apr 06, 2021

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, interviews Dr Fabian Frost who is a clinical scientist, internal medicine specialist and gastroenterologist in training working at the Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany.
The podcast is focussed on ‘Long-term instability of the intestinal microbiome is associated with metabolic liver disease, low microbiota diversity, diabetes mellitus and impaired exocrine pancreatic function’, published in paper copy in Gut, in March 2021. Link to the paper: https://gut.bmj.com/content/70/3/522.

Wednesday Mar 10, 2021

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, UK, interviews Professor Nathanson, the Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology at Yale University and the Director of the Yale Liver Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. The podcast is focussed on "Neutrophils interact with cholangiocytes to cause cholestatic changes in alcoholic hepatitis", published in paper copy in Gut, in February 2021.
Read it on the Gut website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2020-322540

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