The Best Gut Health Podcasts
Ten shows worth your commute, ranked. We checked that every one of them is still publishing, looked up who is actually behind the microphone, and printed what each has to sell you.
Every "best gut health podcasts" list we could find has the same problem: none of them check whether the shows still exist. Between them, the lists currently ranking on Google recommend four podcasts that have stopped publishing — one of which released its last episode in March 2021, five years ago, and is still being recommended on pages badged 2026.
So we did the boring work. We opened every show’s own feed and read the date on the most recent episode, which is printed beside each entry below. We looked up the hosts rather than repeating their biographies. And we wrote down what each show sells, or who pays for it, because several of the best shows in this field are made by people who also sell supplements, memberships or testing — which does not make them bad, but is something you should know while listening.
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Number 1: The Gut Health Podcast
Kate Scarlata MPH, RDN Megan Riehl PsyDThe best all-round gut podcast being made right now, and the only one on this list that is gut-specific, clinician-led and free of any supplement business. Scarlata is a dietitian who has spent her career on the low-FODMAP diet; Riehl is a GI psychologist at the University of Michigan, which means the show covers the part of digestion most others skip — the brain-gut side, the food fear, the anxiety that builds around eating when your gut is unpredictable. They book real specialists and let them talk.
Start here What’s Really Behind IBS-D? Causes, Triggers, and TreatmentsWorth knowing: Individual episodes carry pharmaceutical sponsorship — Salix and Ardelyx, both of which make IBS drugs — disclosed on air at the top of the episode. Scarlata also sells books and courses.
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Number 2: Butts & Guts
Scott Steele MD, colorectal surgeonA hospital podcast, in the good sense: no sponsor, nothing to sell, and episodes short enough to finish on a walk. Steele is a colorectal surgeon rather than a gastroenterologist, so the show leans surgical and procedural — fistulas, colorectal cancer, what actually happens in an operating room — which makes it the clearest thing available if you are facing a procedure and want to know what it involves before you go in.
Start here FiberMaxxing: The Truth About Fiber, Your Gut Microbiome and Digestive HealthWorth knowing: No commercial conflict found — no supplement sales, no sponsorship, institutional guests. The cleanest show on this list on that measure.
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Number 3: ZOE Science & Nutrition
Jonathan Wolf Lay hostThe biggest show in this space and, on production and consistency, the most polished. Its real asset is the scientific bench it can call on — Sarah Berry, Professor of Nutritional Sciences at King’s College London, and Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology there, appear constantly and are genuinely good at explaining research. Wolf is not a scientist and does not pretend to be; he is a good interviewer who asks the question you were thinking.
Start here How to reduce your heart disease, dementia and cancer risk with 12 everyday high-fibre foodsWorth knowing: The show is made by ZOE, hosted by ZOE’s chief executive, and its recurring experts are ZOE’s chief scientist and scientific co-founder — while the company sells a paid testing programme. Separately, in March 2026 the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority upheld a ruling that a ZOE advert for its Daily30+ supplement was misleading, having described a product containing chicory root inulin and nutritional yeast as "just real food".
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Number 4: The Mind-Gut Conversation
Emeran Mayer MDMayer is a professor at UCLA and one of the people who built the modern gut-brain field, and the show is the most intellectually serious thing on this list. It is less "what should I eat" and more "here is what the research actually shows about how your gut and your brain talk to each other" — including a genuinely fascinating episode on the first clinical trial of psychedelics for IBS.
Start here Psychedelics for IBS: Inside the First Clinical TrialWorth knowing: Guest selection is uneven: the show has twice hosted a spiritual leader rather than a scientist, and one episode asking whether probiotics work was answered by the chief scientific officer of a probiotic company.
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Number 5: The Gut Insiders
Will Bulsiewicz MD, MSCI Chuck Carroll Co-hostThe newest show here and the most listenable. Bulsiewicz is a gastroenterologist who has spent years learning how to explain this material to people who are not doctors, and it shows — episodes are short, specific and answer the question in the title rather than circling it. If you want a gut doctor talking directly about constipation, GLP-1 drugs or whether a supplement is worth it, this is the most efficient version of that.
Start here A Gut Doctor Ranks 6 “Leaky Gut” Supplements (Most Are Hype)Worth knowing: Bulsiewicz founded a supplement company, 38TERA, in 2024, and the show runs episodes ranking supplements. He is also US medical director at ZOE. Both are worth knowing when a product comes up.
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Number 6: Microbiome Medics
Siobhan McCormack GP Sheena Fraser GPTwo British GPs, affiliated with the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine, working through the microbiome literature with the researchers who produced it. The guest list is the selling point — actual academics from UC Davis and Newcastle rather than the usual podcast circuit — and the episodes are long enough to get past the headline version of a finding.
Start here Defining Gut Health: Moving Beyond the BuzzwordsWorth knowing: One recent guest was the founder of a postbiotic company. Otherwise no commercial conflict found.
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Number 7: The Gut Show
Erin Judge RDN, LDNThe most thorough IBS and SIBO show going, and the one to reach for if that is specifically your situation. Judge is a dietitian who books the actual researchers — the Cedars-Sinai SIBO people, GI physicians working on elemental diets — rather than talking around the subject. It runs in seasons, and season nine ended in March.
Start here Elemental Diet & SIBO UpdatesWorth knowing: Judge runs a virtual dietitian practice and sells a paid membership, and the show’s sponsors are IBS and SIBO products aimed at the same listeners. Disclosed, but worth holding in mind.
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Number 8: Bowel Moments
Alicia Barron Peer host Robin Kingham Peer hostThe best patient-community show about inflammatory bowel disease, and it earns its place for something the clinical shows cannot do: it is made by people who live with this, and it sounds like it. The hosts are not clinicians and do not claim to be — but they bring credentialed GI specialists on, and the conversations go to the parts of chronic illness that a clinic appointment never reaches.
Start here Meet John C. — From Ulcerative Colitis To Building A Stool Tracking DeviceWorth knowing: Lay hosts, so treat it as community and lived experience rather than clinical authority. No supplement sales, no conflicts found.
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Number 9: Gut Podcast
Philip Smith Consultant gastroenterologistThe podcast of the BMJ journal Gut, produced with the British Society of Gastroenterology, in which the editor interviews the authors of papers the journal has just published. This is the highest evidence tier available in podcast form and it is refreshingly short. It is also made for gastroenterologists, so expect no hand-holding — which is exactly why it belongs here if you want the research undiluted.
Start here Western diet-associated colorectal cancerWorth knowing: A peer-reviewed journal podcast. No commercial conflict.
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Number 10: Visceral: Listen to Your Gut
GI Research Foundation UChicago MedicineMade by the GI Research Foundation with physician-scientists from UChicago Medicine, with a different presenter each time. The institutional backing is as good as it gets and the episodes are tightly focused on inflammatory bowel disease. The catch is the schedule: two episodes in 2026 is barely a publishing rhythm, so treat this as an archive to dip into rather than a show to follow.
Start here Perianal Crohn’s Disease: Challenges, Treatments, and HopeWorth knowing: One earlier episode was produced with pharmaceutical sponsorship, disclosed on its page. No host sells anything.
Four shows to stop recommending
These are still being listed as current gut-health podcasts across the web. None of them has published in a long time. They are all worth a listen as archives — several are genuinely good — but do not subscribe expecting anything new.
| Show | Last published |
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| The Gut Loving Podcast | March 2021 |
| SIBO Made Simple | March 2024 |
| The Gutology Podcast | February 2025 |
| The Gutbliss Podcast | May 2025 |
How we checked
Recency was read from each show’s own publishing feed, not from a podcast directory. That matters more than it sounds: directory pages routinely display the wrong year for recent episodes, and on two shows we checked, a listing was a full year behind what the publisher’s feed actually said.
It also keeps working after we publish. The ages beside each show are worked out when you load the page rather than typed in, and for shows whose feed we can read they are re-checked from that feed twice a day — those are the ones marked "checked automatically". If a show here stops publishing, its entry says so by itself within a few months, without us touching anything. A list that grades other lists on staleness should not need us to remember.
On credentials, we looked each host up rather than repeating what a show description said — and it is worth being straight about the limits of that. Some credentials can be confirmed at an authoritative source: a hospital publishes its own surgeons, a university publishes its own professors. Others cannot be checked without a manual lookup, because the registers concerned — the UK’s General Medical Council among them — do not allow it. Where a qualification rests on a host’s own account of it, we have said so rather than dressing it up. And where a host holds no clinical credential in this subject at all, which is true of several good ones, the page says that too.
We have not printed listener numbers or download counts anywhere on this page. Those figures are either self-reported by the show or modelled by a third party, and neither is checkable.
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Nobody paid to be on this list and there are no affiliate links on this page. Podcasts are educational listening, not medical advice — a show cannot know your history, and none of the people on this list is your clinician.