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 "Consensus definition of sludge and microlithiasis as a possible cause of pancreatitis" published in paper copy in Gut in October 2023 and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/10/1919  Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

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 consensus conference on gut microbiota and faecal microbiota transplantation in inflammatory bowel disease", published in paper copy in Gut in September 2023, and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/9/1642  Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

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 Fellow at the University of Oxford based at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, UK, on the paper "Timing of energy intake and the therapeutic potential of intermittent fasting and time-restricted eating in NAFLD" published in paper copy in Gut in August 2023 and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/8/1607 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

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 Munich, Germany, on the paper "Helicobacter pylori promotes colorectal carcinogenesis by deregulating intestinal immunity and inducing a mucus-degrading microbiota signature" published in paper copy in Gut in July 2023 and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/7/1258   Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

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 paper 'It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness: single-cell transcriptomics sheds new light on pancreas biology and disease' published in paper copy in Gut in June 2023 and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/6/1211 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

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 Cité, Paris, France, on the paper 'Akkermansia muciniphila counteracts the deleterious effects of dietary emulsifiers on microbiota and host metabolism' published in paper copy in Gut in May 2023 and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/5/906 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

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 Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, and Dr Adam S Faye, from the Department of Medicine and Population Health, New York University Langone Health, New York, USA, on the paper 'Antibiotic use as a risk factor for inflammatory bowel disease across the ages: a population-based cohort study' published in paper copy in Gut in April 2023 and published online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/4/663 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

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 University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA on the paper 'Liver stiffness thresholds to predict disease progression and clinical outcomes in bridging fibrosis and cirrhosis' published in paper copy in Gut in March 2023 and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/3/581 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

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, Sweden on the paper '6α-hydroxylated bile acids mediate TGR5 signalling to improve glucose metabolism upon dietary fiber supplementation in mice' published in paper copy in Gut in February 2023, and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/2/314 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

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, Texas, USA; and Ms Ludovica Bricca, a student at Padova University, and the youngest researcher involved in the study. They are interviewed on the paper 'Autoimmune gastritis: long-term natural history in naïve Helicobacter pylori-negative patients' published in paper copy in Gut in January 2023. Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

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 the paper 'Faecal microbiota transplantation with anti-inflammatory diet (FMT-AID) followed by anti-inflammatory diet alone is effective in inducing and maintaining remission over 1 year in mild to moderate ulcerative colitis: a randomised controlled trial' published in paper copy in Gut in December 2022 and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/71/12/2401 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

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 of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, about his paper on this topic. The article titled 'Endoscopic pyloromyotomy for the treatment of severe and refractory gastroparesis: a pilot, randomised, sham-controlled trial' is published in paper copy in Gut in November 2022 and available online at: https://gut.bmj.com/content/71/11/2170 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

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 survey of global gastroenterology society leadership' published in paper copy in Gut in October 2022 and available online at: https://gut.bmj.com/content/71/10/1929 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

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, on the paper 'Management of Helicobacter pylori infection—the Maastricht VI/Florence Consensus Report' published in paper copy in Gut in September 2022 and online at: https://gut.bmj.com/content/71/9/1724 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Sugano, Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan, about the paper 'Kyoto international consensus report on anatomy, pathophysiology and clinical significance of the gastro-oesophageal junction'. The article is published in paper copy in Gut in August 2022, and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/71/8/1488. Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK, interviews Professor Peer Bork, Director of the Heidelberg site of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Baden, Germany on the paper 'A faecal microbiota signature with high specificity for pancreatic cancer' published in paper copy in Gut in July 2022, and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/71/7/1359 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK, interviews Dr Marietta Iacucci, Associate Professor in Gastroenterology, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham and Consultant Gastroenterologist, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom, on the paper "‘PICaSSO Histologic Remission Index (PHRI) in ulcerative colitis: development of a novel simplified histological score for monitoring mucosal healing and predicting clinical outcomes and its applicability in an artificial intelligence system" published in paper copy in Gut in May 2022, and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/71/5/889 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK, interviews Dr Maria Arechederra, young researcher at the Hepatology Program in the Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA) from the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, on the paper "Next-generation sequencing of bile cell-free DNA for the early detection of patients with malignant biliary strictures" which is published in paper copy in Gut in June 2022, and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/71/6/1141 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Rakesh Kalapala, Senior Consultant Gastroenterologist & Therapeutic Endoscopist, Head of GI Motility Lab, Director of Endoscopy at the Center for Obesity & Metabolic Therapy, Member of the International Bariatric and Metabolic Endoscopy Committee, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology Hospitals, Hyderabad, India on the paper 'Endoscopic full-thickness plication for the treatment of PPI-dependent GERD: results from a randomised, sham controlled trial' which is published in paper copy in Gut in April 2022, and is available here: https://gut.bmj.com/content/71/4/686 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital interviews Professor Patrice Cani, Louvain Drug Research Institute, WELBIO, Metabolism and Nutrition, UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium and Emilie Moens de Hase a PhD student in the same institution. This Gut podcast is focused on the paper "Dysosmobacter welbionis is a newly isolated human commensal bacterium preventing diet-induced obesity and metabolic disorders in mice" which is published in paper copy in Gut in March 2022, and is available here: https://gut.bmj.com/content/71/3/534 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).