Gut Podcast

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 the Gnotobiology Research Unit, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam, Nuthetal, Germany, on the paper " Secondary bile acid production by gut bacteria promotes Western diet-associated colorectal cancer " published in paper copy in Gut in August 2026 Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://bit.ly/4rRJeUI ).

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, Yongin-si, and the Department of Neurology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, The Republic of Korea, on the paper " DPP-4 inhibitor alleviates gut-brain axis pathology in Parkinson’s disease " published in paper copy in Gut in July 2026 ( https://gut.bmj.com/content/75/7/1307 ). Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://bit.ly/4rRJeUI ).

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, Guangdong, China and the Department of Gynaecology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Maternal Foetal Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Maternal-Foetal Medicine and Gynaecologic Oncology, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, on the paper " Intraperitoneal translocation of gut microbiota induces NETosis and promotes endometriosis " published in paper copy in Gut in June 2026. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://bit.ly/4rRJeUI ).

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 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on the paper " FOXM1 inhibition reduces IL-13-induced epithelial remodelling and inflammation in eosinophilic oesophagitis " published in paper copy in Gut in May 2026. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://bit.ly/4rRJeUI ).

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 Digestive Health, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease, Beijing, China, and Professor Yuanjie Pang from Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China, on the paper " Long-term prognosis of lean MASLD: evidence from three population-based prospective cohorts " published in paper copy in Gut in April 2026. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://bit.ly/4rRJeUI ).

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 pathway to predict MASLD-related advanced fibrosis and long-term outcomes in type 2 diabetes " published in paper copy in Gut in March 2026. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://bit.ly/4rRJeUI ).

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 Translational Medicine Research Institute; School of Pharmacy; First Affiliated Hospital, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China. Professor She is also the Deputy Director of the Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University. Professor She is interviewed on the paper " Discovery of a carboxyl fullerene derivative as a new lipid droplet regulator inhibiting MASLD " published in paper copy in Gut in February 2026. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://spoti.fi/3Ifxq9p ).

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 Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China on the paper " Performance of the China-CLIF framework in acute-on-chronic liver failure: a multicohort study across all aetiologies " published in paper copy in Gut in January 2026. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://spoti.fi/3Ifxq9p ).

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 metataxonomic signature detected in organ preservation solution enables prediction of short-term liver transplant outcomes " published in paper copy in Gut in December 2025. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://spoti.fi/3Ifxq9p ).

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 eradication of Helicobacter pylori for gastric cancer prevention: Taipei Global Consensus II" published in paper copy in Gut in November 2025. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://spoti.fi/3Ifxq9p ).

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: a global challenge in search of solutions " published in paper copy in Gut in October 2025. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://spoti.fi/3Ifxq9p ).

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 University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China on the paper " Parecoxib sequential with imrecoxib for occurrence and remission of severe acute pancreatitis: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial " published in paper copy in Gut in September 2025. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://spoti.fi/3Ifxq9p ).

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 University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, on the paper " Dietary whey protein protects against Crohn’s disease by orchestrating cross-kingdom interaction between the gut phageome and bacteriome " published in paper copy in Gut in August 2025. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://spoti.fi/3Ifxq9p ).

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 Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China, on the paper " Rectal diclofenac versus indomethacin for prevention of post-ERCP pancreatitis (DIPPP): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, controlled trial " published in paper copy in Gut in July 2025. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://spoti.fi/3Ifxq9p ).

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 Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on the paper " Purified oat protein can trigger acute symptoms linked to immune activation in coeliac disease patients but not histological deterioration " published in paper copy in Gut in June 2025. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://spoti.fi/3Ifxq9p ).

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, France, on the paper " In vitro microbiota model recapitulates and predicts individualised sensitivity to dietary emulsifier " published in paper copy in Gut in May 2025. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://spoti.fi/3Ifxq9p ).

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 " Effects of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate on intrahepatic viral burden and liver immune microenvironment in patients with chronic hepatitis B " published in paper copy in Gut in April 2025. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://spoti.fi/3Ifxq9p ).

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, Germany, on the paper " Spatial single-cell profiling and neighbourhood analysis reveal the determinants of immune architecture connected to checkpoint inhibitor therapy outcome in hepatocellular carcinoma " published in paper copy in Gut in March 2025.

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 " Multiomics of the intestine-liver-adipose axis in multiple studies unveils a consistent link of the gut microbiota and the antiviral response with systemic glucose metabolism " published in paper copy in Gut in February 2025. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://spoti.fi/3Ifxq9p ).

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 Professor Lin Zhang, Assistant Professor from Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and Lead Scientist, Microbiota I-Center (MagIC) in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, on the paper " Association of breast milk-derived arachidonic acid-induced infant gut dysbiosis with the onset of atopic dermatitis " published in paper copy in Gut in January 2025. A close transcript of this podcast is available at this link: https://bit.ly/40jF5xo Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts ( https://apple.co/3UOTwqS ) or Spotify ( https://spoti.fi/3Ifxq9p ).