Microbiome Expert: Daily Habits That Are Destroying Your Gut Health

In this episode of The Referral, Dr Karan welcomes Dr Blair Merrick, Clinical Research Fellow in the Faecel Microbiota Transplantation (or FMT) unit based at Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust. Listen closely, as the two doctors discuss poo transplants, YES POO TRANSPLANTS, and give YOU the take home’s for your healthiest gut, yet!

Karan also brings you ‘What The Health’, the latest in health and science in the news, and he answers YOUR questions in ‘Crowd Science’.

Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
01:42 What The Health
05:15 Interview
24:02 If it Ducks like a Quack
28:21 Crowd Science

A Sony Music Entertainment production.

[Darbedarr]

This dude has the best content out there. No bs. 🙌🏽

[Wednesday__]

I never thought about gut health until I was diagnosed Celiac. After years of being ignored by doctors, losing 40 lbs and being 98 lbs soaking wet, the mental effects as well as physical.. made me realize how important these gut buddies are!

[justinfowler]

Wow a podcast that actually gets to the point immediately. Keep up the good work Doctor.

[ramz]

This was a fantastic episode! The guest was great too, very articulate and straightforward. I never thought I would enjoy listening to 2 doctors talking about feces and gut health, but you make it very interesting and fun! ❤

[WickedRibbon]

Great chat! Would love an episode tangentially related to this, discussing how IBS sufferers who struggle with fibre and veggies can still diversify their microbiome.

I often find myself struggling to find a balance between too little fibre (obviously bad) and too much fibre (my bowel doing backflips).

[LadyCoyKoi]

When I went into the field of medicine... I wanted to be a medical biller and coder for gastroenterology, because I find that the brain in your stomach to be more powerful than the one in the skull. People truly underestimate the power and will that gut bacteria has in the overall health of the entire body, especially the health of the brain. I find it so fascinating how you can alter the body and brain based on the health of that gut bacteria and gut biodome. Thank you for this segment. 🥰

[lukemiller]

Dr. Karan you are living inspiration on truly being in spirit of what you want to do and serving others with such great value.

The empathy and awareness of Patch Adams without being a clown 🌼

[suryadevthakur]

I think this is the most favourite Topic of Dr Karan 😁

[ndxa]

Really appreciate you putting your time into making this podcast ❤ I love how you relay all this info without it feeling so overwhelming 🙌😅

[pickelsvonbrine]

The best doc, author, surgeon and YouTube has a podcast? 😲

On poop my sister had a poop transplant to solve a severe c dif infection. Worked wonders!

[JoshuaHill]

Literally just commented saying you should put it in video form on youtube. turns out, you already did. Nice bro. Glad to see you get your spotlight. You make great content and its actually informative

[skippy]

Please do sleep. My trouble is not getting to sleep but waking up at 3am and struggling to get back to sleep. Also how can I improve my bladder to stop nighttime wees. Really looking forward to hearing more podcasts.

[JeonJungkook-znkk]

First episode I've ever watched and I loved it to say the least! Incredibly interesting, informative and fun! Thank you Dr Karan

[catherineosborne]

Thanks DrKaran. Always informative & humorous. Keep up the good work within the NHS & wider education x

[Mazzaaaaman]

It's my first time listening to your longer form content Dr Karan. Very interesting and informative as always.

[ArathiJNair]

Erm... Wouldn't it be nice if Dr said the topic of the podcast few days before and the people can ask their questions to doctors through your referral email regarding the topic ?

[denis_]

Wonderful Podcast, very much looking forward to the future of the podcast.

[Respectable_Username]

It would be awesome if there was a way to store a sample of your own gut microbiome so that if you ever have to take antibiotics orally, you can more easily restore your gut to its former state. I used to have a gut of steel but it got messed up through a gut infection and then never fully recovered afterwards, and I'm sure the antibiotics used to treat the infection didn't exactly help the overall microbiome diversity. Would be so good if I could have taken a capsule with a sample from my _old_ microbiome to re-seed it after the infection + antibiotics

[meenakothari]

Pleasure listening to You. Straight talk

[SDWife]

Fascinating episode. I know we have been using FMT for animals for quite some time. I've struggled with bowel incontinence since birth and at age 40, still have no answers why.