004: The Gut Microbiome

Bowel Research UK’s Patient and Public Involvement Manager Sam Alexandra Rose is joined by Simon Carding, Professor of Mucosal Immunology at the University of East Anglia and head of the Food Microbiome and Health Research programme at Quadram Institute in Norwich, along with Adele Sayers, a consulting colorectal surgeon at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals with an interest in IBD. In this episode, they discuss the gut microbiome, explaining what it is, the impacts it has on our entire body and how it is involved in IBD, the potential benefits we get from having a healthy gut microbiome, and how to keep it healthy.

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