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Talking Gut with Dr Jim Kantidakis

33 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings

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Ep 29 Prof Marc Benninga on Paediatric Abdominal Pain, Constipation and Incontinence

July 11, 2022 02:51 - 1 hour - 124 MB

Paediatric gastroenterologist Professor Marc Benninga. Prof Benninga or Marc as he prefers to be called, studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After receiving his Medical degree he worked as a research fellow at the department of paediatric gastroenterology and nutrition at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam. He performed extensive research on constipation and faecal incontinence in childhood. Subsequently he was trained in paediatrics at the Wilhelmina Chil...

Ep 28 Jackie Berryman & Renuka Clarke on Stoma Therapy

June 27, 2022 07:25 - 1 hour - 146 MB

Welcome to another Episode of Talking Gut. Todays talk is about Entero-stomal Therapy. My two guests today are both Stomal therapy nurses at the Epworth Hospital in Richmond  Melbourne.   Jackie Berryman is one of two Stomal Therapy Nurses at Epworth Richmond. Jackie came to nursing later in life after many years within the corporate world. She utilized her Arts Degree to enter a Masters of Nursing Science which is a 2 year entry to practice course. In 2011, at the age of 48, Jackie did ...

Ep 27 Prof Lin Chang on Stress and the Gut

June 13, 2022 09:06 - 1 hour - 113 MB

Welcome to another Episode of Talking Gut, and today I have the honour of presenting someone a person I deeply respect, Prof Lin Chang. I met prof Chang many years ago while she was visiting Melbourne to present at ANGMA, The Australasian  Neurogastroenterolgy and Motility Association conference, and again during DDW conference in Chicago and San Diego. Please allow me to introduce Prof Chang Lin Chang, MD is a Professor of Medicine and Vice-Chief of the Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Divisi...

Ep 26 Dr Helen Burton Murray on Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

May 30, 2022 13:00 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MB

Welcome to Season 4, of The Talking Gut Podcast show. Wow, It’s been a long time and a lot has happened in the world since my last post, but I am excited to say I am back!, Back with new and truly fascinating episodes about the gut. Todays topic is Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder or ARFID. Its an episode that has been in the making for some time, and Id like to thank todays guest Dr Helen Burton Murray for her time and patience in bringing this to you. Just alittle background...

Ep 25 Assoc Prof Tiffany Taft on Stigma in Coeliac Disease

August 02, 2021 01:30 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MB

Welcome to another episode of Talking Gut Todays episode is slightly different, It specifically created for Coeliac Australia as part of their 2020 Gluten Free Expo which unfortunately did not going head as an in person. Hopefully this year it will back to somewhat normal The team at Coeliac Australia do a fantastic job in supporting their members and individuals diagnosed with Coeliac disease and I was excited help out by providing them with a useful episode on stigma in Coeliac disease...

Ep 24 Dr Zina Valaydon on Hepatology and the Liver

July 05, 2021 02:09 - 1 hour - 107 MB

Thank you for tuning into another episode of Talking Gut! In today’s episode I sat down and talked to Dr Zina Valaydon on Hepatology and the Liver. Dr Zina Valaydon is a consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist. She is the head of the Hepatology service at the Western Hospital in Melbourne Australia.  Zina graduated from The University of Melbourne with a double degree in Medicine and Surgery and Biomedical Science. She completed her physician training at the Royal Melbourne Hosp...

Ep 23 Dr Linda Nguyen on Gastroparesis

June 21, 2021 01:02 - 1 hour - 140 MB

Welcome to another episode of talking gut, where I get the opportunity to interview leading expert in the fascinating area of the gut and related Systems. In today’s interview, I had the wonderful pleasure to sit and talk to Dr Linda Nguyen, Neurogastroenterologist and motility specialist in California USA     Dr Nguyen is the Clinical Director of Stanford University’s Digestive Health Center and Director of the Neurogastroenterology and Motility Section. She has performed translat...

Ep 22 Dr Britt Christensen on Everything Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

May 19, 2021 06:05 - 2 hours - 167 MB

Hello everyone, and welcome back to The Talking Gut Podcast. Its been a long long time since our last episode and Im excited to be back for season 3. Season 3 is jam packed full of some really exciting and interesting talks with leading health professionals in the area of Gastroenterology and related systems . Topics covered include gastroparesis ARFID, hepatology or the liver, and, as always a whole lot more. Today, to highlight world IBD day, I excited to introduce to you Dr Britt Ch...

Ep 21 Assoc Prof Antonina Mikocka-Walus on IBD & The Gut-Brain Connection

June 22, 2020 01:09 - 1 hour - 102 MB

In todays episode I have the wonderful pleasure to talk to Dr Antonina Mikocka-Walus. Dr Antonina Mikocka-Walus is a registered psychologist and Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at Deakin University in Melbourne. She completed her PhD in Psycho-gastroenterology at the University of Adelaide and has since worked at Monash University, University of South Australia, University of York (UK), and has been at Deakin University since 2016. Antonina is an active researcher, with o...

Ep 20 Tina Aswani Omprakash from Own Your Crohns, a story of resilience and GRITT

May 20, 2020 10:26 - 1 hour - 118 MB

In todays episode I had the pleasure to talk to Tina Aswani Omprakash from Own your Own Crohns. Tina is someone who was diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease 13 years ago and has gone on to become an IBD Blogger and patient advocate. Not only has Tina needed to deal with Crohns disease, but also an additional 22 diagnoses including gastroparesis, post-surgical irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), vestibular migraines, vertigo, inflammatory arthrit...

Ep 19 Dr Rachael Coakley on Paediatric Pain Management and The Comfort Ability Program

March 09, 2020 05:01 - 1 hour - 88.7 MB

  Dr Rachael Coakley, Ph.D., is the Director of Clinical Innovation and Outreach in Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is also an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Coakley specializes in teaching children, adolescents and parents effective strategies to cope with pediatric chronic pain and pain-related stress using relaxation, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioral skills. She has published n...

Ep 18 Prof Douglas Drossman on Effective Communication Skills to Optimize the Provider Patient Relationship

December 04, 2019 04:32 - 1 hour - 110 MB

A big welcome back to Prof Douglas Drossman, worlds leading Gastroenterologist in Functional Digestive Disorders/Disorders of Gut Brain Interaction!  In todays episode we talked about What is patient centred care? Should the patient be the judge of patient centred care and why? What are the key definitions relating to communication? How and why effective communication is important to the patient and the doctor? How effective communication builds a therapeutic relationship and how ...

Ep 17 Assoc Prof Jason Tye-Din on Coeliac Disease

July 28, 2019 11:35 - 1 hour - 83.8 MB

Dr Tye-Din is a gastroenterologist with a clinical and research interest in Coeliac disease. He heads the Coeliac Research Lab at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, runs a Coeliac clinic at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. His PhD employed feeding studies to characterise gluten immunity that underpinned development of a novel immunotherapy for Coeliac disease, Nexvax2. His research interests include understandin...

Ep 16 Prof Peter Gibson creator of Low FODMAP diet

May 07, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 153 MB

Welcome to another Episode of Talking Gut, where I get to interview leading specialists in the area of gastroenterology and related systems. Living and working in Melbourne Australia, I am very fortunate to know and work alongside many amazing Gastroenterologists. Leaders in their field. I am very fortunate to know and today interview, Prof peter Gibson. To those who might not know, Prof Gibson was the gastroenterologist who created, or as he might say, oversaw the development of the Low F...

Ep 15 Prof John Pandolfino on GERD and Esophageal Disorders

May 02, 2019 12:27 - 1 hour - 125 MB

Welcome to another Episode of Talking Gut, where I get to interview leading specialists in the area of gastroenterology and related systems. In today's episode I had the honour to interview the Worlds leading expert on Esophageal Disorders, Prof John Pandalfino. Prof Pandolfino is a Hans Popper Professor of Medicine and chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at  Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and was also the director at the Esophageal Center at Northwestern Medici...

Ep 14 Mrs Johannah Ruddy on IBS, The Patients Perspective

January 02, 2019 05:02 - 1 hour - 96 MB

In todays episode, I spoke with Mrs Johannah Ruddy. Johanna is Executive Director of the Rome Foundation and has recently published an article titled: From Pretending to Truly Being OK: A journey from illness to health with post infection IBS: The patients perspective. This episode covers Johannah’s very personal journey including her early childhood trauma, childhood conditioning and being diagnosed with IBS and the suffering that resulted from a poor Doctor Patient relationship. Joha...

Ep 13 Prof Douglas Drossman on The Biopsychosocial care of patients with Functional Gut Disorders

December 03, 2018 11:19 - 1 hour - 142 MB

Welcome to another episode of Talking Gut, and you have just been listening to the Fabulous Chalets, with the bass player being the one and only Dr Douglas Drossman, gastroenterologist and functional gut extraordinaire. I am so super excited to have Dr Drossman as a guest here today. I have been wanting to interview him for over 1 year and here it is.` A little background about Dr Drossman and I mean alittle, There is simply not enough time to go through his jaw dropping 124 page 10 font...

Ep 12 Prof Nick Haslam on 'Psychology in the Bathroom'

November 19, 2018 07:25 - 1 hour - 83.6 MB

In the talk we touched the surface on a number of topics including: - Reasons behind what made him decide to write about the    Psychology in the Bathroom? - The psychology of excretion and disgust. And why there is so much    taboo surrounding the gut? - We also talked about the anal character with the earliest discussion    going as far back Freud and psychoanalysis. - How earlier anal traits or definitions correlate with more recent      psychological condition, like OCD, ...

Ep 11 Dr Adam Testro on Intestinal Transplantation

November 06, 2018 05:37 - 1 hour - 86.5 MB

In todays episode I talk to Dr Adam Testro, head of the Intestinal Transplantation and Rehabilitation Unit at Austin Health in Melbourne Australia. What a fascinating talk ! We discussed everything from - What Intestinal Transplantation is - its origins - what and who it involve? - The size of the medical team involved - the duration of the surgery -who gets to have the transplant i.e prerequisites for intestinal   transplantation -the different types of intestinal  tra...

Ep 10 Dr Chamara Basnayake on Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth or SIBO

October 14, 2018 10:50 - 1 hour - 92.1 MB

In todays episode I talk to Dr Chamara Basnayake about  Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth or SIBO. We discuss everything from -what is Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), - the likely causes, - suggested associations, - diagnostic testing and their limitations - available treatments, and   a whole lot more. Please enjoy

Episode 9 Dr Lani Prideaux on Pregnancy in IBD

October 01, 2018 10:00 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MB

In this episode we discussed - Female and Male fertility in IBD -Fears about medication effect on pregnancy -Pre-conception Care -When should a potential mother to be contact their  Gastroenterologist if planning to get pregnant? - When should they not consider trying to get pregnant. - What effect does active disease have on the unborn baby/foetus? - What is the risk of flare during pregnancy ? and how this differs in   Ulcerative Colitis versus Crohns Disease - At what ...

Ep 9 Dr Lani Prideaux on Pregnancy in IBD

October 01, 2018 10:00 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MB

In this episode we discussed - Female and Male fertility in IBD -Fears about medication effect on pregnancy -Pre-conception Care -When should a potential mother to be contact their  Gastroenterologist if planning to get pregnant? - When should they not consider trying to get pregnant. - What effect does active disease have on the unborn baby/foetus? - What is the risk of flare during pregnancy ? and how this differs in   Ulcerative Colitis versus Crohns Disease - At what ...

Ep 8 Dr Laurie Keefer on Brain Gut Psychogastroenterology

September 17, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 145 MB

In today’s episode we covered: The Brain Gut connection The emerging area of Psychogastroenterology The Biopsychosocial model of functional digestive disorders like Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Neuroimaging studies looking at functional digestive disorders The Gut microbiome The Psychological therapies shown to be helpful in managing Digestive disorders/diseases and the research behind them. Dr Keefer’s work in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and the great work she is doing ...

Ep 7 Isabella Trinca & Angela Khera on Biofeedback & Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy

September 02, 2018 09:25 - 58 minutes - 80 MB

In this episode I sat down and spoke with Isabella Trinca and Angela Khera, Pelvic Floor Physiotherapists, about Biofeedback therapy and how Physiotherapy is used to treat constipation and other Pelvic floor dysfunctions, from constipation to pelvic floor dyssynergia.   We also discussed what to expect from seeing a pelvic floor physio, how to sit on the toilet and how physiotherapy may be helpful with individuals diagnosed with IBD and a whole lot more.

Ep 6 Dr Tiffany Taft on The Psychosocial impact in IBD

August 20, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 142 MB

In this episode I talk with Dr Taft about the psychosocial impact of living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) from a professional and personal perspective. In our talk we also discussed the complications of IBD, mental health and psychological treatments, and a whole lot more.

Ep 5 Prof Peter Whorwell on Gut Directed Hypnotherapy

August 20, 2018 03:59 - 55 minutes - 76.8 MB

Here it is, the interview I have been wanting to do for a long time. For me, Prof Peter Whorwell and his research played a significant role in my area of interest in Gastrointestinal Psychology. Prof peter Whorwell is one of the nicest people I have met ! Be prepared for my once again, really really long questions…get to the point Jimbo !  Our friend ‘obviously’ shows up again from time to time haha   I had a relaxed and wonderful chat with Prof Whowell We discussed Origins of g...

Ep 4 Dr Peter DeCruz Microbiota and IBD

August 20, 2018 03:59 - 56 minutes - 77.7 MB

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Ep 3 Dr Jaci Barrett, IBS and Diet (Part 2)

August 20, 2018 03:59 - 44 minutes - 61.1 MB

Jaci and I delve deeper into the discussion about how diet affects the digestive tract, including the stomach, small intestine and Colon We also touched on diary and how research is looking at increasing diary tolerance, The negative effects of staying on a strict low FODMAP diet for too long Prebiotics, wheat and gluten sensitivity and a whole more…  

Ep 3 Dr Jaci Barrett, IBS and Diet (Part 2)

August 20, 2018 03:59 - 44 minutes - 61.1 MB

Jaci and I delve deeper into the discussion about how diet affects the digestive tract,   including the stomach, small intestine and Colon We also touched on diary and how research is looking at increasing diary tolerance, The negative effects of staying on a strict low FODMAD diet for too long Prebiotics, wheat and gluten sensitivity and a whole more…  

Ep 2 Dr Jaci Barrett, IBS and Diet (Part 1)

August 20, 2018 03:59 - 30 minutes - 42 MB

Jaci is an accredited practising dietitian who graduated in 2001 with a Masters of Nutrition & Dietetics. She spent the following five years working as a clinical dietitian in various metropolitan Melbourne hospitals and 12 months in the UK. This included experience in oncology, renal, gastroenterology, nutrition support and cardiac units. On her return, Jaci commenced her PhD at Monash University, Box Hill Hospital, with scholarship support from the Menzies Foundation. Her thesis, entitle...

Ep 2 Dr jaci barrett, IBS and Diet (Part 1)

August 20, 2018 03:59 - 30 minutes - 42 MB

Jaci is an accredited practising dietitian who graduated in 2001 with a Masters of Nutrition & Dietetics. She spent the following five years working as a clinical dietitian in various metropolitan Melbourne hospitals and 12 months in the UK. This included experience in oncology, renal, gastroenterology, nutrition support and cardiac units. On her return, Jaci commenced her PhD at Monash University, Box Hill Hospital, with scholarship support from the Menzies Foundation. Her thesis, entitle...

Ep 2 Dr jaci barrett, IBS and Diet (Part 1)

August 20, 2018 03:59 - 30 minutes - 42 MB

Jaci is an accredited practising dietitian who graduated in 2001 with a Masters of Nutrition & Dietetics. She spent the following five years working as a clinical dietitian in various metropolitan Melbourne hospitals and 12 months in the UK. This included experience in oncology, renal, gastroenterology, nutrition support and cardiac units. On her return, Jaci commenced her PhD at Monash University, Box Hill Hospital, with scholarship support from the Menzies Foundation. Her thesis, entitle...

Ep 1 A/Prof Geoff Hebbard, IBS and Functional Digestive,Gut Disorders

August 20, 2018 03:58 - 1 hour - 96.4 MB

Geoff graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1985 and completed his residency years/Gastroenterology training at The Royal Melbourne and Austin Hospitals, followed by a PhD in Neurogastroenterology in Adelaide supervised by Prof Michael Horowitz and Prof John Dent and then a postdoctoral position in Zurich Switzerland. He returned from Zurich and was appointed as a Gastroenterologist at the Repatriation General Hospital in Adelaide prior to his current appointment as Director of Gastr...