S5 E9: IBS, Probiotics and Prebiotics

The Food Medic

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In this week's episode Hazel is joined by Dr Eirini Dimidi, a registered dietitian and Lecturer in Nutritional Sciences at KCL. Dr Dimidi is undertaking research on nutrition-based interventions, including fibre, plant foods, prebiotics, probiotics, and the low FODMAP diet, in gastrointestinal health. Topics include:* What is gut health?* How do we know if we have a healthy gut microbiota?* IBS: diagnosis, management, and dietary advice* The Low FODMAP diet * Probiotics and their role in IBS and in healthy individuals* Evidence for probiotic food and drink in gut healthn* IBS and a plant-based diet* Food and Mood: the gut-brain axis.If you loved this episode make sure to give it a review, rating (hopefully 5 stars) and share it with your friends and family. @thefoodmedic/www.thefoodmedic.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:04.2	Not much to it, is there?
0:06.2	Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:10.9	Mmm, that is good.
0:12.9	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:15.8	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:19.0	Delicious.
0:20.8	Hey everyone and welcome back to the FoodMedic podcast.
0:24.4	I'm your host, as always, Dr. Hazel Wallace.
0:28.2	On this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Arene DiMidi, a registered dietitian and lecturer
0:33.4	in nutritional sciences at King's College London.
0:36.7	In 2016, she was awarded a PhD from
0:39.6	King's College London where she investigated the symptomatic, physiological and
0:43.5	microbiological impact of probiotics in constipation. Dr. Demedi is undertaking research on
0:50.1	nutrition-based interventions including fibre, plant-based foods, prebiotics, probiotics,
0:55.8	and the low Fodmap diet in gastrointestinal health. While we talk about gut health a lot on this
1:02.0	podcast, I wanted to dive a little deeper into the research and science on IBS, probiotics and
1:07.8	prebiotics. And I know this is a topic that many of you are interested in,
1:12.0	so I hope you enjoy it just as much as I enjoyed recording it.
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