Skip to content
Gut Podcast podcast artwork

PODCAST · health

Gut Podcast

by BMJ Group

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.* The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice and it is not intended to function as a substitute for a healthcare practitioner’s judgement, patient care or treatment. The views expressed by contributors are those of the speakers. BMJ does not endorse any views or recommendations discussed or expressed on this podcast. Li

Publisher-supplied feed metadata · PodParley refreshed Oct 1, 2026 · Source feed

Episodes

  1. The risk of colorectal cancer with MASLD

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Ming-Hua Zheng from the MAFLD Research Center, Department of Hepatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University,...

  2. Dysbiosis drives PSC-UC-associated colorectal cancer

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Muyiwa Awoniyi, who is an Clinical Staff Transplant Hepatologist and Assistant Professor from the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology...

  3. Western diet-associated colorectal cancer

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Soeren Ocvirk, from the Research Group WESTGUT, ZIEL - Institute for Food & Health, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany and…

    more
  4. DPP-4 inhibitors and Parkinson’s disease

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Seong Ho Jeong, Assistant professor in the Department of Neurology, Yongin Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Healthcare System,...

  5. Defining a gut-peritoneum axis in endometriosis

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Wei Wang from the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou,...

  6. Eosinophilic oesophagitis: the therapeutic potential of FOXM1 inhibition

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Amanda Muir from the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and…

    more
  7. Long-term prognosis of lean MASLD: evidence from three population-based prospective cohorts

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Shanshan Wu from the Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, State Key Laboratory of...

  8. Managing type 2 diabetes patients with MASLD

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Xiaolong Qi from Centre of Liver Disease, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China on the paper "Two-step clinical care...

  9. Targeting MASLD with new nanoparticles

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Zhi-Gang She from the State Key Laboratory of New Targets Discovery and Drug Development for Major Diseases, Gannan Innovation and...

  10. Performance of the China-CLIF framework in acute-on-chronic liver failure

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Jun Li from the State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for...

  11. Predicting short-term liver transplant outcomes with graft microbial DNA signature

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Fernando Lucas-Ruiz from the Biomedical Research Institute of Murcia, Murcia, Spain on the paper "Intrahepatic donor microbiota-based...

  12. Screening and eradication of H pylori for gastric cancer prevention: Taipei Global Consensus II

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Jyh-Ming Liou from Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan on the paper "Screening and...

  13. Helicobacter pylori antibiotic resistance: a global challenge in search of solutions

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Christian Schulz from the Medical Department 2, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany on the paper "Helicobacter pylori antibiotic resistance…

    more
  14. Effective treatment of severe acute pancreatitis using COX-2 inhibitors

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Chengwei Tang and Associate Professor Zhiyin Huang from the Department of Gastroenterology, West China Hospital of Sichuan…

    more
  15. Protecting against Crohn's disease with dietary whey protein

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Tao Zuo from the Guangdong Institute of Gastroenterology, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Sun Yat-sen...

  16. Comparing diclofenac and indomethacin for prevention of post-ERCP pancreatitis

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Yanglin Pan from the State Key Laboratory of Holistic Integrative Management of Gastrointestinal Cancers and National Clinical…

    more
  17. Studying oat ingestion in coeliac disease with purified oat protein

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Tye-Din from the Immunology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, and Department of Gastroenterology, The...

  18. Predicting sensitivity to dietary emulsifiers using an in-vitro microbiota model

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Benoit Chassaing and Dr Héloïse Rytter from Microbiome-Host Interactions, INSERM, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris,...

  19. Antiviral treatment of chronic Hepatitis B

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Yao-Chun (Holden) Hsu from School of Medicine and Graduate Institute of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on the paper...

  20. Single-cell spatial profiling of immunotypes in hepatocellular carcinoma

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Bertram Bengsch and Dr Henrike Salie from the Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical Centre, University of Freiburg, Freiburg,...

  21. Understanding the gut-adipose-liver axis and its impact on insulin action

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Jordi Mayneris-Perxachs and Dr Anna Castells-Nobau from the Girona Biomedical Research Centre (IDIBGI), Girona, Spain, on the paper...

  22. Linking breastfeeding and atopic dermatitis in infants

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Suhua Jiang from the Department of Paediatrics, The First People's Hospital of Foshan, Foshan, People's Republic of China and…

    more
  23. Improving CLDN18.2 BiTEs efficacy against pancreatic cancer

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK, interviews Professor Jihui Hao from the Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China, on the...

  24. Gut microbiota signatures of vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Elena Martín-García and Professor Rafael Maldonado from the Laboratory of Neuropharmacology, Pompeu Fabra University and Hospital del...

  25. Gastric intestinal metaplasia: reviewing current guidelines

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Mario Dinis-Ribeiro from the Department of Gastroenterology at Porto Comprehensive Cancer Center & RISE—Health Research Network…

    more
  26. Exploring stem cell therapy for Hirschsprung disease

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Conor McCann from the Department of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK and…

    more
  27. Protective function of sclerosing cholangitis on IBD

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Samuel Huber, from the Department of Medicine, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, on the paper…

    more
  28. Linking high-fat diet and liver tumorigenesis

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Jianping Guo from Institute of Precision Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong…

    more
  29. Hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with liver cirrhosis

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Hashem El-Serag from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA, on the paper...

  30. Microbiome interventions for COPD protection

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Kurtis Budden, from the Immune Health Program, The University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, NSW, Australia...

  31. MASLD: a systemic metabolic disorder with cardiovascular and malignant complications

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Herbert Tilg who is the Head of Department of Internal Medicine I, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Medical...

  32. RE.GA.IN: the Real-world Gastritis Initiative

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Massimo Rugge who is a Honorary Professor of Pathology at the Padova University and Adjunct Professor of Medicine and…

    more
  33. Prebiotic diet changes neural correlates of food decision-making in overweight adults

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Veronica Witte from the Department of Cognitive Neurology, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany, on the paper "Prebiotic...

  34. Lethal sepsis prevention with novel tripeptide RKH derived from Akkermansia muciniphila

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK, interviews Professor Peng Chen, from the Department of Pathophysiology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, on the paper "Novel tripeptide RKH...

  35. Special Gut Podcast: Digestive health and climate change

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews a fantastic panel of guests from around the globe including: Professor Bishr Omary from Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA who was...

  36. Gastrointestinal origins for Parkinson’s disease

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Jay Pasricha, Chair of the Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Arizona, USA and Bo Konings, final year medical student and…

    more
  37. Consensus definition of sludge and microlithiasis as a possible cause of pancreatitis

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Julia Mayerle and Dr Simon Sirtl from the Department of Medicine II, LMU University Hospital, Munich, Germany, on the paper…

    more
  38. Rome consensus on gut microbiota and faecal microbiota transplantation in IBD

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, UK, interviews Professor Loris Lopetuso, Department of Medicine and Ageing Sciences, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, on the paper "The first international Rome...

  39. The therapeutic potential of fasting

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Thomas Marjot, Hepatology SpR from the Oxford Liver Unit in Oxford University Hospitals and also a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training...

  40. Helicobacter pylori promotes colorectal carcinogenesis

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Markus Gerhard from the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, School of Medicine, Technical University of…

    more
  41. Single-cell transcriptomics sheds new light on pancreas biology and disease

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Kathy DelGiorno, from the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, on the…

    more
  42. Counteracting the harm of dietary emulsifiers with Akkermansia muciniphila

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Benoit Chassaing, group leader from the “Mucosal microbiota in chronic inflammatory diseases” Team at INSERM and the Université Paris...

  43. Antibiotic use as a risk factor for IBD

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Tine Jess, from the Center for Molecular Prediction of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Department of Clinical Medicine, and Department of...

  44. Predicting disease progression in bridging fibrosis and cirrhosis with liver stiffness

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Rohit Loomba, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, and Adjunct Professor in the Division of Epidemiology at the...

  45. Assessing the impact of dietary fibre on bile acid transformation by gut bacteria in mice

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Fredrik Bäckhed, The Wallenberg Laboratory, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg…

    more
  46. Autoimmune gastritis: cancer risk in consistently tested H. pylori-negative patients

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut, and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK, interviews Professor Massimo Rugge, Pathologist at Padova University, Italy, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston…

    more
  47. FMT-AID trial shows effectiveness in inducing remission of ulcerative colitis

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Vineet Ahuja who is from the Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, on...

  48. Endoscopic pyloromyotomy for the treatment of severe and refractory gastroparesis

    Endoscopic pyloromyotomy (G-POEM) is a minimally invasive treatment option with promising uncontrolled outcome results in patients with gastroparesis. Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut, interviews Professor Jan Martinek, from the Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Institute…

    more
  49. Climate change: a survey of global gastroenterology society leadership

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Desmond Leddin, who is from the Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the paper 'Climate change: a...

  50. Management of Helicobacter pylori infection — the Maastricht VI/Florence Consensus Report

    Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Peter Malfertheiner, Gastroenterologist, who is senior Professor of Medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany…

    more

Type above to search every episode's transcript for a word or phrase. Matches are scoped to this podcast.

Searching…

We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.

No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.

Showing of matches

No topics indexed yet for this podcast.

Loading reviews...

ABOUT THIS SHOW

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.* The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice and it is not intended to function as a substitute for a healthcare practitioner’s judgement, patient care or treatment. The views expressed by contributors are those of the speakers. BMJ does not endorse any views or recommendations discussed or expressed on this podcast. Li

HOSTED BY

BMJ Group

CATEGORIES

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does Gut Podcast have?

Gut Podcast currently has 134 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.

What is Gut Podcast about?

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...

How often does Gut Podcast release new episodes?

Gut Podcast publishes regularly with 134 episodes available. Check the episode list for the typical release schedule.

Where can I listen to Gut Podcast?

You can listen to Gut Podcast on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.

Who hosts Gut Podcast?

Gut Podcast is created and hosted by BMJ Group.
URL copied to clipboard!