Gut health, the microbiome, and optimal nutrition for gastro-intestinal disorders - a replay episode with Dr Alan Desmond (NNP #68‪)‬ New Normal Project

In this episode of the New Normal Project podcast we replay a previous episode which featured Dr Alan Desmond (broadcast originally as episode 51).
Dr Alan Desmond is a gastroenterologist from the UK and is an expert on the gut, the microbiome, gut health, gut disorders like inflammatory bowel disease and bowel cancer, and optimal nutrition. Originally from County Cork, Ireland, Alan completed medical and specialty training in Cork, Dublin and Oxford and is now a Consultant Gastroenterologist in Devon in the South-West of England. With Stephen and David Flynn, of The Happy Pear, he created the Happy Gut course, a 6 week online course designed to help people eat well for their gut health. You can find Alan on Instagram at @dr.alandesmond.
Alan and I recorded this conversation in February 2019 when he was in Australia to speak at the Doctors For Nutrition conference. In it we covered Alan’s path to becoming a doctor; the microbiome, what it is and the effect of pre and probiotics; diseases such as bowel cancer, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease and coeliac disease; his 5 tips for improving your gut health; the importance of increasing fibre and decreasing processed food intake; how antibiotics can affect our guts; how eating a wholefood plant-based diet is likely to reduce colon cancer risk more than having screening tests; the beneficial role of a whole food plant-based diet in inflammatory bowel disease; and the 3 dietary questions he asks his patients.
Please enjoy this replay episode with Alan Desmond.
 
Live well, feel well, do well.
 
Andrew Davies
 
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About the New Normal Project podcast: The podcast is aimed to inspire and empower you to live your most plant-based, body-moving and mind-focused lifestyle, by hearing scientific evidence, experience-based information and real-life stories in the areas of the healthy lifestyle pillars such as nutrition, exercise, mindfulness, sleep, connection and purpose. You’ll hopefully glean insights to help you to consider making choices about your daily habits so you become more healthy, fulfilled and conscious.
Although I’m a doctor this is not medical advice, as I don’t know your personal circumstances or your health conditions. Please see this as information for you to consider, and then to read more about, so you can discuss it with your doctor.
 
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Links related to Alan Desmond
Dr Alan Desmond
Dr Alan Desmond’s clinic website
Dr Alan Desmond on Instagram: @dr.alandesmond
 
Links to people and resources (in order of mentioning)
Happy Pear
Doctors For Nutrition
Doctors For Nutrition Conference
Cancer Research UK
Prof Fergus Shanahan
Prof Eamonn Quigley
Australasian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
Gastroenterological Society of Australia
British Society of Gastroenterology
American Gut Project
NHS Eat Well Guide
EAT Lancet
Blue Zones Food Guidelines
Happy Gut course
Happy Gut Guide
Dr Denis Burkitt
Article “Evolving role of diet in the pathogenesis and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease” in Gut journal
Rich Roll
Nathan Pritikin
Dr Dean Ornish
Dr Caldwell Esselstyn
 
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New Normal Project podcast (NNP #22) with The Happy Pear
New Normal Project podcast (NNP #51) with Alan Desmond
New Normal Project podcast (NNP #64) with Jeff Lester
New Normal Project podcast (NNP #65) with Andy Ramage
New Normal Project podcast (NNP #66) with Neal Barnard
New Normal Project podcast (NNP #67) with John Orchard
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New Normal Project website
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New Normal Project on Instagram: @newnormalproject
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