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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 w

New episodes: Monthly
Typical length: 15 min
Latest: 1 Oct 2026
Language: English

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1 Oct 2026 · 10 min

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, and the Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment for The Development of Chronic Liver Disease in Zhejiang Province, Wenzhou, China, on the paper "Colorectal cancer in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: an international Delphi consensus statement" published in paper copy in…

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E134 · 10 Sep 2026 · 30 min
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 and Nutrition, Digestive Disease Institute, Hepatology Section, Department of Inflammation and Immunity, Cleveland Clinic Research Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, on the paper "Dysbiotic microbiota trigger colitis-associated colorectal cancer and imprint a distinctive bile acid profile in a…
E133 · 7 Aug 2026 · 20 min
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 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…
E132 · 22 Jul 2026 · 18 min
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, 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…
E131 · 3 Jun 2026 · 17 min
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, 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…
E130 · 6 May 2026 · 15 min
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 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…
E129 · 16 Apr 2026 · 17 min
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 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…
E128 · 2 Mar 2026 · 20 min
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 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…
E127 · 2 Feb 2026 · 15 min
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 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…
E126 · 6 Jan 2026 · 15 min
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 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…
E125 · 1 Dec 2025 · 15 min
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 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…
E124 · 3 Nov 2025 · 22 min
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 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…
E122 · 1 Oct 2025 · 10 min
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: 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…
E121 · 5 Sep 2025 · 18 min
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 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…
E120 · 1 Aug 2025 · 20 min
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 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…
E119 · 1 Jul 2025 · 17 min
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 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…
E118 · 2 Jun 2025 · 13 min
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 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…
E117 · 1 May 2025 · 17 min
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, 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…
E116 · 1 Apr 2025 · 13 min
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 "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…
E115 · 3 Mar 2025 · 20 min
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, 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.
E114 · 4 Feb 2025 · 13 min
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 "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…
E113 · 6 Jan 2025 · 11 min
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 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…
E112 · 2 Dec 2024 · 12 min
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 paper "CD64+ fibroblast-targeted vilanterol and a STING agonist augment CLDN18.2 BiTEs efficacy against pancreatic cancer by reducing desmoplasia and enriching stem-like CD8+ T cells" published in paper copy in Gut in December 2024. A close transcript of this podcast is available at this link:…
E111 · 1 Nov 2024 · 12 min
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 Mar Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain and Professor Jose Manuel Fernández-Real from the Endocrinology, Nutrition, Eumetabolism & Health group, Hospital Trueta of Girona, University of Girona, Girona, Spain on the paper "Gut microbiota signatures of vulnerability to food addiction in mice and…
E110 · 1 Oct 2024 · 20 min
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, Porto, Portugal, on the paper "The road to a world-unified approach to the management of patients with gastric intestinal metaplasia: a review of current guidelines" published in paper copy in Gut in October 2024. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast…
E109 · 2 Sep 2024 · 14 min
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 Dr Anestis Tsakiridis from the School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK on the paper "Human enteric nervous system progenitor transplantation improves functional responses in Hirschsprung disease patient-derived tissue" published in paper copy in Gut in September 2024.Please…
E108 · 1 Aug 2024 · 8 min
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 "Protective function of sclerosing cholangitis on IBD" published in paper copy in Gut in August 2024.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…
E107 · 1 Jul 2024 · 14 min
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, China, on the paper "High-fat diet promotes liver tumorigenesis via palmitoylation and activation of AKT" published in paper copy in Gut in July 2024. A close transcript of this podcast is available at this link: https://bit.ly/3zlcoVF Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get…
E106 · 3 Jun 2024 · 20 min
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 "Serum biomarker signature is predictive of the risk of hepatocellular cancer in patients with cirrhosis" published in paper copy in Gut in June 2024. 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…
E105 · 1 May 2024 · 12 min
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 and Professor Philip Hansbro who is also a conjoint there and the Director of the Centenary Institute and University of Technology Sydney Centre for Inflammation, Sydney, NSW, Australia, on the paper "Faecal microbial transfer and complex carbohydrates mediate protection against COPD" published in…

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