Bariatric surgery

I'm your host, Ellie Breacher, registered nutritionist, and today I'm joined by registered dietitian, Nicola Ludlam-Rayne, to answer the question, have we become so obsessed with eating healthily that we've actually made nutrition more confusing than it needs to be? From fearing ultra-processed foods and chasing a perfectly clean diet to the huge rise of a Zenpick and Manjaro, it can feel almost impossible to know what advice to trust.

With over 17 years of experience in the NHS and private sectors, Nicola specializes in weight management and bariatric surgery, and she's the best-selling author of How Not to Eat Ultra Processed.

We're cutting through the noise around UPFs, food fear, and clean eating before getting into the rapidly changing world of weight management, including GLP-1 medications and bariatric surgery.

Consider this your weekly dose of Monday morning health inspiration to kickstart the week ahead.

Whether you're sipping your morning matcha, commuting to work or heading out for a walk, I know you'll enjoy listening to this conversation with Nicola as much as I enjoyed having it.

I just want to highlight and underline everything you've just said.

So important.

But before GLP-1s, bariatric surgery was one of the main medical interventions available for severe obesity.

So today we're gonna start with the basics.

What actually is the gut microbiome? What does it do? And why does that even matter? And then we're gonna dig into what researchers are learning about its relationship with obesity, with GLP-1-based medications and metabolic and bariatric surgery.

And maybe one of those interesting-- one of the most interesting questions could be, could that relationship actually work both ways? Could obesity treatment change our microbiome while our microbiome may actually play a role in how well our bodies respond to treatment?

And as always, at Weight and Measure, we focus on the science, so we're gonna be careful about what we actually know, and we have got a great guest for you who has spent a...

They hear us, and s- you know, sometimes they're here for us too.

But I, I mean, I'm all about learning about this, especially 'cause I'm someone who's reached for mult- multiple modals of treatment in my obesity journey.

I might be using an OMM now, but in the past, I've reached for metabolic and bariatric surgery.

I've had actually a few procedures.