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Key takeaways
- Mindset Health has launched Gut-Brain Therapy, a podcast adapting each monthly HCP webinar into an audio episode.
- Each episode is a clinician translating evidence on disorders of gut-brain interaction into real clinical practice.
- The format lets you learn during a commute or between patients, rather than in a seated hour.
- Episode one features Dr. Omar Khokhar on managing IBS from a gastroenterologist's perspective.
A new way to keep up with gut-brain evidence
We've started adapting our monthly HCP webinars into a podcast, Gut-Brain Therapy, so the clinical education travels with you – on the commute, between patients, or on the drive to clinic.
There's a gap in clinical education that journals and guidelines don't fill. A trial tells you a gut-brain approach works for IBS; it doesn't tell you how a colleague actually fits it into a Tuesday afternoon consult – when to raise it, how to frame it for a skeptical patient, where it sits alongside the dietary and medical care already underway.
That messy middle, between a published result and real practice, is where most of the day-to-day clinical skill lives, and it's the hardest part to learn from a page.
It's also the part clinicians rarely get to observe in each other. Managing disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBIs) is often a fairly solitary business – you develop your own way of explaining things and seldom get to sit in while a respected peer works through the same problem differently.
Adapting the webinars to audio is a way to open that window: a chance to hear how experienced clinicians reason through diagnosis, framing and management, in their own words.
Peer insight into managing DGBIs
Evidence in context
- Each episode is a practitioner translating research into a workflow – not restating findings, but showing how those findings change what they say and do with patients. You hear the reasoning, not just the conclusion, which is what you draw on when a similar case is in front of you.
Peer insight you'd otherwise never access
- Hearing a colleague handle the "is this all in my head?" pushback, or explain visceral hypersensitivity in plain language, is effectively borrowing a communication approach that's been refined over hundreds of consults. It's the kind of tacit knowledge that normally only transfers by sitting in someone's clinic.
Practical, just-in-time prep
- Because it's audio, it fits the gaps a seated study session can't – including the drive to clinic before you see a patient you know you'll need to have this conversation with. It works as a refresher you reach for when you need it, not only as formal learning.
Closing a common knowledge gap
Underneath all of this is a simple aim: many clinicians are genuinely unsure what gut-directed approaches involve, or how they fit alongside medical and dietary care. That uncertainty makes it harder to discuss the option accurately with patients, whatever you ultimately recommend. The point of the series isn't to push a conclusion – it's to give you a clear, credible picture of the evidence and how peers apply it, so you can speak about it with confidence.
How to listen to Gut-Brain Therapy
The podcast can be found on:
Apple Podcasts
Spotify
YouTube
Amazon Music
New episodes publish as each webinar is adapted, so subscribing means the latest clinical conversations reach you without having to go looking. If you've missed a recent session – or simply learn better by ear – it's the easiest way to stay across the gut-brain evidence base and how your peers are applying it.
The first episode
Episode one features Dr. Omar Khokhar on managing IBS and gut-brain disorders from a GI's perspective – including a simple at-home way to demonstrate visceral hypersensitivity and why some people perceive normal digestion as symptoms. An upcoming episode adapts our SIBO webinar with Rebecca Coomes, with more to follow the webinar roster.
Listen and subscribe at https://linktr.ee/gutbraintherapy
Frequently asked questions
How do the Gut-Brain Therapy podcast and monthly webinars differ?
The Gut-Brain Therapy podcast oadapts each monthly HCP webinar into an audio episode, so the clinical content is the same – the format just lets you listen rather than watch. Webinars suit a seated session with slides and live Q&A, while the podcast fits learning into a commute or the gaps between patients.
What is a disorder of gut-brain interaction?
Disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBIs) are conditions like IBS where symptoms arise from altered communication between the gut and brain rather than structural or organic disease. The Rome Foundation reclassified this group from "functional" disorders to reflect the central role of gut-brain signaling in symptom generation.
How does gut-directed hypnotherapy work for IBS?
Gut-directed hypnotherapy targets the heightened gut-brain signaling that drives visceral hypersensitivity, helping recalibrate how the nervous system interprets normal digestive sensations. Clinical trials have found it as effective as the low FODMAP diet for managing IBS symptoms, without changes to what the patient eats.
Is gut-brain therapy an alternative to medication or dietary management?
Gut-brain therapy is positioned as complementary to medical and dietary care, not a replacement, consistent with the integrated-care approach recommended by ACG and NICE. It addresses the gut-brain component of symptoms alongside whatever pharmacological or dietary management a clinician already has in place.
How do I explain visceral hypersensitivity to a patient?
Visceral hypersensitivity is best explained as the gut's signaling being turned up too high, so that normal digestion is perceived as pain or discomfort. Framing it this way validates that symptoms are real and physiological, which helps move past the "it's all in your head" misconception.
Where can clinicians find education on managing gut-brain disorders?
Clinician education on gut-brain disorders is available through Mindset Health's monthly HCP webinars and the Gut-Brain Therapy podcast, which adapts each session into audio. Both feature gastroenterologists and dietitians discussing how they apply the evidence in everyday practice.
