Visceral: Listen to Your Gut

Visceral: Listen to Your Gut

Visceral: Listen to Your Gut features the latest research updates and treatment options on specific digestive diseases. Episodes are presented by the physician-scientists and experts at the University of Chicago and feature compelling patient stories. Podcast episode topics include pediatric Crohn’s disease; risk and prevention of GI cancer; hepatology and liver disease; the microbiome and gut health; surgical treatments for ulcerative colitis, and the intersection of diet, nutrition, and GI health.

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February 12, 2026 12 mins

Featuring: Tenzin Choden, MD, University of Chicago Medicine

The GI Research Foundation produced this podcast with a sponsorship from Metro Infusion Center.

As we age, we naturally lose muscle mass — a condition known as sarcopenia. But for people living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), muscle loss can be more severe and may even impact treatment outcomes.

In this episode, we sit down with Tenzin Choden, MD, board-certified gast...

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Featuring: Tenzin Choden, MD, University of Chicago Medicine

The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from Metro Infusion Center.

In this episode, Tenzin Choden, MD, a board-certified gastroenterologist and clinical researcher at UChicago Medicine, shares her 2025 Annual Grant Cycle Award study investigating how IBD uniquely impacts older adults, who represent 30% of the overall IBD population ...

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December 4, 2025 17 mins

Featuring: Emma Levine, MD, University of Chicago Medicine

The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from Metro Infusion Center.

In this episode, Dr. Levine, a current fellow with The University of Chicago Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Fellowship training program, shares her 2025 GI Research Foundation Young Investigator Awards study on the reciprocal relationship between sleep and in...

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October 22, 2025 21 mins

Featuring: Candace Cham, PhD, University of Chicago Medicine

The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from Metro Infusion Center.

Dr. Cham is an immunologist and chief investigator for the Chang Lab at the University of Chicago. She received a 2025 Annual Grant Cycle award from the GI Research Foundation for a study testing whether adding a fiber supplement called inulin can improve gut health—eve...

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September 30, 2025 31 mins

Featuring: David T. Rubin, MD, University of Chicago Medicine

The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from Metro Infusion Center.

David T. Rubin, MD, Joseph B. Kirsner Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the University of Chicago Medicine, explores the top ten challenges faced by people with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. He shares how health ...

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September 29, 2025 31 mins

Featuring: David T. Rubin, MD, University of Chicago Medicine

The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from Metro Infusion Center.

David T. Rubin, MD, Joseph B. Kirsner Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the University of Chicago Medicine, explores the top ten challenges faced by people with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. He shares how health ...

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September 16, 2025 17 mins

Featuring: David T. Rubin, MD, University of Chicago Medicine

The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from Metro Infusion Center.

David T. Rubin, MD, Joseph B. Kirsner Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the University of Chicago Medicine, explores challenges 6-10 of the top ten faced by people with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. He explains...

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August 15, 2025 19 mins

Featuring: David T. Rubin, MD, University of Chicago Medicine

The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from Metro Infusion Center.

David T. Rubin, MD, Joseph B. Kirsner Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the University of Chicago Medicine, explores challenges 1–5 of the top ten faced by people with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. He shares ho...

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Featuring: Jeffrey Nathanson, M.D., Comprehensive Gastrointestinal Health

The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from AbbVie and Metro Infusion Center.

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Jeffrey Nathanson, partner and gastroenterologist at Comprehensive Gastrointestinal Health in Northbrook, Illinois. We explore bowel frequency—what is “normal” and when it may be time to consult a physician.

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The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from Metro Infusion Center.

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Noa Krugliak Cleveland, Director of the Intestinal Ultrasound Program, and Dr. Amelia Kellar, Director of Pediatric Intestinal Ultrasound, both at the University of Chicago Medicine Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center. We explore how a tried-and-true technology, intestinal ultrasound, is revo...

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The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from AbbVie and Metro Infusion Center.

In this compelling episode, host Anna Gomberg brings together four courageous individuals to share their personal journeys with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). They answer questions such as:

· What was it like to be diagnosed with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis?

· What important lessons have you l...

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The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from AbbVie and Metro Infusion Center.

With David T. Rubin, MD, Joseph B. Kirsner Professor of Medicine; and Ashley Sidebottom, PhD, Research Assistant Professor and Platform Director, Host-Microbe Metabolomics Facility, University of Chicago

Struggling with sleep and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)? You're not alone. This episode dives deep into the surpr...

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The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from AbbVie.

With Lalitha Sitaraman, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, the University of Chicago Medicine

Lalitha Sitaraman, MD, one of the newest members of the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, focuses her research on the connection between the nervous system and the lower intestinal tract. Disordered motility can contribute to constipa...

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The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from AbbVie.

Featuring Amelia Kellar, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, the University of Chicago Medicine

Join us for a candid conversation about pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Our guest, Amelia Kellar, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, specializes in the treatment of children with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Dr. Kellar is...

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The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from AbbVie.

Featuring Lori Rowell Welstead, MS, RD, LDN and Courtney Schuchmann, MS, RD, LDN

Registered Dietitians with the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center

"People might think that a registered dietitian is going to say, 'cut this out, cut that out,' where in reality, we focus on adding food back into to your diet to really optimize your nu...

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July 24, 2023 19 mins

Episode 5 of Visceral features Alyse Bedell, PhD, GI psychologist, who discusses the ways in which Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis can impact mental health and personal well-being. Dr. Bedell shares research to help patients understand how IBD relates to anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges, and how to harness the mind-body connection to help manage pain and symptoms.

Written and produced by Anna Gomberg. E...

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May 22, 2023 26 mins

Confusingly, similar acronyms describe two very different conditions of the lower GI tract: IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) and IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). IBD is often treated with biologic medical therapies that are infused, injected, or taken orally. IBS, or irritable bowel syndrome, is a diagnosis of exclusion, and treatment includes a different set of medication options and dietary advice. Experts from the Digestive Disea...

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March 22, 2023 25 mins

Advanced Practice Nurses and leaders in the field of ostomy care Janice Colwell, APRN, CWOCN, FAAN, and Marita Kametas, MSN, APN, FNP-BC, CMSRN, COCN offer need-to-know information about post-surgical life with an ostomy for IBD patients.

Jan Colwell speaks from over 40 years of experience as a wound, ostomy, and continence specialist, and is the director of the Ostomy Care Clinic at the University of Chicago Medicine; and Marita Ka...

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January 16, 2023 26 mins

In the latest episode of Visceral: Listen to Your Gut, Russell D. Cohen, MD, and Emily Dobrez, APN, discuss the ways patients can best manage their Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis using the latest available treatments. Listen now to episode 2: The Art and Science of IBD Treatment.

More information on treatment options from Dr. Cohen and Sushila Dalal, MD, is also available in this online video.

Written and produced by Anna Gom...

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In this podcast, we interview Dr. Eugene Chang, a national and renowned physician-scientist from the University of Chicago. In his lab, he and his team study the interactive relationship between intestinal microbes and the gut they live in, a relationship that is fundamental to our health. When the right balance is disturbed, the consequences can be catastrophic. Large shifts in the bacteria that make up the human microbiome (often...

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