Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.

I am your host, Danny Lennon, and this is episode 412 of the podcast.

Thank you for everyone who's been sending in kind feedback about our recent episodes.

And most recently, last week in episode 411, we covered the topic of nutrition and bone health.

And we covered a lot of ground in there. And a lot of you seem to really enjoy that episode. So both Alan I are very thankful for that. And so if you

haven't had a chance to go and listen, maybe make a note that 411 is an episode you might want

to check out. In today's episode, I am delighted that I'm going to be

joined by Dr. Arini Damedi, who is a lecturer at the Department of Nutritional Sciences at

King's College, London. And in addition to be a registered dietitian, a nutritionist,

she is also a researcher publishing in a number of different areas that we're

going to look at, as well as her lecturing position. And the completion of her PhD was at King's

College, London, where she investigated the use and effectiveness of probiotics in people with

chronic constipation, a topic that we're going to revisit a lot in today's

particular discussion. And then in 2016, she was appointed as a research associate at the college,

where she has undertaken several different research projects that relate to various aspects of

dietary interventions in gut function and dysfunction. So she has looked at

nutrition-based interventions that include fiber, plant foods, pre-biotics, probiotics, low phodemap diets,

all these and how they relate to gastrointestinal health, and in particular related to certain

functional bowel disorders, including chronic constipation

and irritable bowel syndrome. We're going to focus in a lot on chronic constipation in today's

episode as it's an area, as you'll see where we really need more answers and is obviously

a particularly challenging issue for many people. So that is all within this episode.

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