BJSM Podcast

Do I really need this test, treatment or procedure? What are the downsides? What happens if I do nothing? And are there simpler, safer alternatives?   Dr. Ray Moynihan (@raymoynihan) joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (@ddfriedman) to discuss the growing problem of overdiagnosis and overtreatment, and what is being done to wind back the harms of too much medicine.       Ray is an Australian academic, author and award-winning health journalist who completed his PhD on overdiagnosis in 2015 at the Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice at Bond University in Australia, where he is also a senior research fellow. Having reported across print, radio, television and social media, Dr Moynihan has worked at the ABC TV’s investigative program, Four Corners and the 7:30 Report, and The Australian Financial Review. He has also developed an impressive body of academic work published in the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, PLOS ONE and the BMJ.   Dr. Moynihan has won several awards for his investigative journalism, and his book ‘Selling Sickness’ (2005) was described in the New York Times as a “compelling case” and has been translated into a dozen languages. His fourth book, ‘Sex, Lies & Pharmaceuticals’ was released globally in 2010 and generated widespread interest internationally.   Dr Moynihan hosts the very popular podcast, ‘The Recommended Dose’, that is produced by Cochrane Australia and co-published by the BMJ. https://soundcloud.com/therecodo   In this 25 minute conversation, Dr Moynihan explains the drivers of too much medicine and addresses:        embracing healthy scepticism in healthcare        the threat of too much medicine to our health        the problem with diagnostic labels        his ground-breaking discovery of a dangerous new disease        what clinicians should do to practice ‘just the right amount’ of medicine (Goldilocks Principle)

We were thrilled to catch up again with Dr Andrew Murray, the recently appointed Chief Medical Officer to the PGA European Tour, European Tour Performance Institute, and Ryder Cup Europe. He is universally known for his work promoting physical activity for health, his ultra-endurance challenges, and for leading the ‘Golf and Health project’. In this podcast he covers everything from the health benefits of golf, how to produce a consensus statement, the WHO’s GAPPA, to how to overcome various factors affecting knowledge translation #Gold Various papers/resources are referred to throughout the podcast, links to which can be found below: http://bjsm.bmj.com/lookup/doi/10.1136/bjsports-2018-099509 http://bjsm.bmj.com/lookup/doi/10.1136/bjsports-2018-099771 The relationships between golf and health: a scoping review https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/1/12 Previous BJSM podcast on Golf & Health: https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/andrew-murray-1 The World Health Organization’s Global Action Plan for Physical Activity: Prof Fiona Bull https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/the-world-health-organizations-global- action-plan-for-physical-activity-prof-fiona-bull?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/bjsm-1 It is time to replace publish or perish with get visible or vanish: opportunities where digital and social media can reshape knowledge translation https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2017/11/17/bjsports-2017-098367 We hope you enjoyed the podcast – get in touch with us via social media if you have any questions for @docandrewmurray

Contrary to the long held contention that low fat diets are best for people with type 2 diabetes (DM2), the totality of current evidence suggests that low carb diets are at least as effective in ameliorating metabolic health in DM2. In fact, low carb seems to be somewhat better, particularly in the short to medium term, although the evidence is of moderate certainty.   On this week’s episode Prof Hanno Pijl (@HannoPijl) and dr Esther van Zuuren (@Ezzoef) join Dr Aseem Malhotra (@DrAseemMalhotra) to discuss the most appropriate diet for people with DM2   Hanno Pijl is an internist-endocrinologist and professor of Diabetology at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) In Leiden, The Netherlands. He co-authored over 250 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals, primarily related to obesity and type 2 diabetes. He has been a member of the Dutch Health Council (standing committee on nutrition) from 2008-2016. He currently co-chairs the Dutch Innovation center for Lifestyle Medicine (www.nilg.eu), a joint effort of LUMC and the Dutch Organisation of Applied Science (TNO) focusing on lifestyle interventions in health care.   Esther van Zuuren is a dermatologist at the Leiden University Medical Centre, but apart from that and more relevant for now is that her expertise lies in Evidence Based Medicine. She has been with Cochrane for almost 20 years, has held the position of Key Editor and Methods editor for Cochrane Skin group for several years and conducted over 30 systematic reviews on a wide variety of topics. Furthermore, she is member of the GRADE working group, is a Recommendations Editor for DynaMed Plus (clinical evidence-based reference tool for clinicians) and Associate Editor for Systematic Reviews for the British Journal of Dermatology   In our 20 min conversation we discuss   Efficacy of low fat versus low carb diets in the treatment of type 2 diabetes The method of weighing the certainty of evidence we used in our systematic review of the literature Dietary recommendations for people with type 2 diabetes https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/108/2/300/5051863

Did you know that the worldwide prevalence of obesity nearly tripled between 1975 and 2016? In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults and more than 340 million children were classified as overweight or obese. At the individual level and in our modern, obesogenic world, weight gain has become the norm—the biological and social path of least resistance. On this week’s podcast, Dr Sandro Demaio (@SandroDemaio) joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (@ddfriedman) to discuss childhood obesity and public health nutrition policy. After recently leaving his role as the WHO’s medical officer for NCDs and Nutrition, Sandro was appointed the CEO of EAT , a non-profit startup focused on food and sustainability. Formerly an Assistant Professor and Course Director at the University of Copenhagen’s School of Global Health, and a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, Sandro regularly shares his knowledge and ideas at international conferences, universities and public events. He founded the PLOS Global Health Blog, NCDFREE and festival21, and is currently a bestselling author and TV host. http://sandrodemaio.com/about In this conversation, Sandro addresses the following topics:        Our current state of obesity        Policies needed to address childhood obesity        Sugar-sweetened disease and the sugar tax        Role of the clinician in addressing the obesity pandemic   Further reading: Renzella, Jessica A., and Alessandro R. Demaio. "It’s time we paved a healthier path of least resistance." (2018): bjsports-2017. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2018/03/07/bjsports-2017-098805 Murphy, Lisa, and Alessandro R. Demaio. "Understanding and removing barriers to physical activity: one key in addressing child obesity." (2018): bjsports-2017. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2018/01/18/bjsports-2017-098546 Demaio, Alessandro. "A lifeSPANS approach: Addressing child obesity in Australia." Health Promotion Journal of Australia (2018). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hpja.44 Demaio, Alessandro, and Alexandra Jones. "The true price of sugar-sweetened disease: political inertia requires renewed, strategic action." The Medical Journal of Australia 209.2 (2018): 1. https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2018/209/2/true-price-sugar-sweetened-disease-political-inertia-requires-renewed-strategic Beale, Anna L., and Alessandro R. Demaio. "Non-communicable disease risk factors: a call for primary care clinicians to act and to refer. Brief intervention, not silent abdication." (2017): bjsports-2017. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2017/10/05/bjsports-2017-098475

Is saturated fat good or bad? But doesn’t it cause cardiovascular disease? And what about the guidelines? On this week’s episode, Dr. Zoë Harcombe (@zoeharcombe) joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (@ddfriedman) to discuss the takeaways from The BMJ’s Food For Thought conference 2018 (https://www.bmj.com/food-for-thought) and the demonisation of dietary fats. Zoë has a PhD in public health nutrition. The full title of her thesis is: “An examination of the randomised controlled trial and epidemiological evidence for the introduction of dietary fat recommendations in 1977 and 1983: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis“. She researches in the fields of nutrition, diet, dietary advice, diet-related health and obesity and writes and talks about these topics daily - http://www.zoeharcombe.com/ In this 30 minute conversation, Zoë discusses:        The strength of evidence in nutrition research        Facts about dietary fats        Our current understanding of saturated fat        Does saturated fat cause cardiovascular disease?        Are universal dietary guidelines feasible?   Further reading: Forouhi, Nita G., et al. "Dietary fat and cardiometabolic health: evidence, controversies, and consensus for guidance." BMJ361 (2018): k2139. https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k2139 Harcombe, Zoë. "Dietary fat guidelines have no evidence base: where next for public health nutritional advice?." Br J Sports Med 51.10 (2017): 769-774. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/10/769 Harcombe, Zoë, Julien S. Baker, and Bruce Davies. "Evidence from prospective cohort studies does not support current dietary fat guidelines: a systematic review and meta-analysis." Br J Sports Med 51.24 (2017): 1743-1749. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/24/1743.info Harcombe, Zoë, et al. "Evidence from randomised controlled trials does not support current dietary fat guidelines: a systematic review and meta-analysis." Open Heart 3.2 (2016): e000409. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4985840/ Harcombe Z US dietary guidelines: is saturated fat a nutrient of concern? Br J Sports Med Published Online First: 14 August 2018. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2018-099420 https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2018/08/14/bjsports-2018-099420 Malhotra, Aseem, Rita F. Redberg, and Pascal Meier. "Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition, the risk of which can be effectively reduced from healthy lifestyle interventions." (2017): bjsports-2016. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/1111

Did you know that a regular bottle of Gatorade contains 34g of sugar? That’s over 8 teaspoons of sugar! The WHO recommends that  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29735573

This heavyweight podcast is sure to be a knockout! On this week’s episode, sports medicine physician Dr. John Neidecker (@DrJohnNeidecker) joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (@ddfriedman) in the ring to discuss the hot topics in combat sports today.  Dr. Neidecker is a physician for USA Boxing and USA Taekwondo, and is the vice president for the Association of Ringside Physicians (ARP) (http://www.ringsidearp.org/), an international non-profit organisation dedicated to the health and protection of boxers and mixed martial artists. He serves as the ARP certification committee chair, enabling physicians to become certified in ringside medicine, and currently practices at Orthopedic Specialists of North Carolina. Dr. Neidecker is also the lead author of the ARPs Consensus Statement on concussion in combat sports that was recently published in the BJSM. In this 20 minute conversation, Dr. Neidecker explains the current medical practices and controversies in combat sports, and addresses the following topics:        concussion management in combats sports        return to fighting protocol        common injuries in combats sports        weight cutting        ethics of combats sports   Further reading: Neidecker, John, et al. "Concussion management in combat sports: consensus statement from the Association of Ringside Physicians." Br J Sports Med (2018): bjsports-2017. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2018/07/26/bjsports-2017-098799 McCrory, Paul, et al. "Consensus statement on concussion in sport—the 5th international conference on concussion in sport held in Berlin, October 2016." Br J Sports Med (2017): bjsports-2017. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/11/838 Crighton, Ben, Graeme L. Close, and James P. Morton. "Alarming weight cutting behaviours in mixed martial arts: a cause for concern and a call for action." (2015): bjsports-2015. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/8/446 Association of Ringside Physicians Releases Consensus Statement On Weight Management in Professional Combat Sports (2014)  http://www.ringsidearp.org/resources/Documents/Position%20Statements/Weight%20Management% 20in%20Professional%20Combat%20Sports.pdf

Fresh off ‘BJSM Podcast World Cup’ victory, superstar physiotherapist Dr. Alison Grimaldi returns for what is sure to be another chart-topping podcast.  On this week’s episode, Dr. Alison Grimaldi (@alisongrimaldi) joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (@ddfriedman) to discuss the results from her latest clinical trial – the LEAP trial - that was recently published in the BMJ. https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k1662     With 25 years of clinical experience and particular expertise in the management of hip, groin and lumbo-pelvic pain and dysfunction, Alison is Principal Physiotherapist at Physiotec in Brisbane, Australia, and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. Alison also has a special interest in the assessment and optimisation of lumbo-pelvic and lower limb biomechanics for running, change of direction and all weight bearing sports. She is currently involved with research studies through the University of Queensland and University of Melbourne. https://dralisongrimaldi.com/ Alison explains the clinical significance of the findings from the LEAP trial and shares some practical physiotherapy tips for clinicians helping patients manage gluteal tendinopathy pain. She discusses:        Treatment options for managing gluteal tendinopathy pain      Load management for gluteal tendinopathy        Specific exercises for gluteal tendinopathy Alison continues to publish, present and provide practical workshops for other health professionals, and will be coming to Vancouver in September 2018 for her hip and groin pain masterclass! https://www.eply.com/DrGrimaldi-2018 You can listen to Dr. Grimaldi’s previous BJSM podcast on treating lateral hip pain here: https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/dr-alison-grimaldi-with-practical-physiotherapy-tips-on-treating-lateralhippain?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/bjsm-1

After listening to this one, you may want to think twice before reaching for that next bottle of kombucha! On this week’s podcast, microbiome expert Dr Patrick Hanaway joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (@ddfriedman) to discuss the implications of the gut microbiome for athlete health and performance. Dr Hanaway is a family physician who has served as the Director of Medical Education for the Institute for Functional Medicine, as well as the Medical Director at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. He is also a past president of The American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. He is currently the Director of Research at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine (https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/functional-medicine), and practices at his clinic (http://www.familytofamily.org) in Asheville, North Carolina. In this 20 minute conversation, Dr Hanaway shares how clinicians can apply our current understanding of the gut microbiome in their clinical practice, and addresses the following topics: · What is the gut microbiome? · Microbial diversity throughout the life cycle and its relationship with different disease states · The relationship between different diets/foods/macronutrients and the gut microbiome · The effects of different types of physical activity on the gut microbiome · The role of probiotics in sport

In this podcast Katie Marino speaks to Jack Forsyth. Jacky Forsyth (@JackyForsyth) is a senior lecturer at Staffordshire University. She is a lead organiser of the Women in Sport and Exercise Conference. In this podcast Katie Marino (@krmarino1) speaks to Jacky about the difference in the amount of research done on exercise in women compared to exercise in men, and why we need to correct this imbalance. The research community needs to strengthen and promote research on women in sport and exercise, with the goal of optimising women’s athletic success and increase their participation rates. The Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network (WISEAN) is mentioned in the podcast. It is a research-orientated interdisciplinary group that focuses on: Generating high quality, impactful research into women in sport and exercise (WISE); Collaborating and sharing resources; Increasing the visibility of WISE issues and Research mentoring. If you would like to join this network, please email claire-marie.roberts@uwe.ac.uk or J.J.Forsyth@staffs.ac.uk To keep up to date on WISEAN and the Women in Sport and Exercise Conference follow WISEAN on Twitter (@WISE_AN)