Infant Nutrition and Lifelong Immunity: Nutrition and Human Milk
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
Release Date: 05/18/2026
Cardiometabolic Medicine: Advances in Prevention and Therapy
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In the final episode, Naveed Sattar explores the future of cardiometabolic medicine, from novel therapies and AI-driven risk prediction to integrated care pathways and the next generation of preventative strategies for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Timestamps: 0:56 – Novel interventions 2:10 – Digital health and AI 4:17 – Integrated care 5:26 – Future directions 7:11 – Naveed's prediction
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Cardiometabolic Medicine: Obesity, Ectopic Fat, and Cardiovascular Risk
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In Part 2, Naveed Sattar discusses obesity, ectopic fat, and cardiovascular risk. Learn how imaging and biomarkers are improving risk identification, why metabolic dysfunction matters beyond BMI, and how GLP-1 therapies are reshaping obesity and cardiovascular care. Timestamps: 0:56 – Ectopic fat 11:44 – Metabolic dysfunction 13:42 – GLP-1 receptor agonists 19:05 – Mechanistic insights 21:31 – Societal issues
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Cardiometabolic Medicine: Understanding the Diabetes–Heart Disease Connection
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
Naveed Sattar joins host Catherine Glass to explore the complex relationship between diabetes and cardiovascular disease. From hyperglycaemia and inflammation to diabetes onset age and risk prediction, this episode examines the mechanisms and evidence shaping cardiometabolic care today. Timestamps: 0:55 – Diabetes to heart disease 4:35 – Age of onset 6:21 – Statins 09:01 – Epidemiological insights 12:29 – Improving risk prediction
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Quickfire: Cardiometabolic Medicine
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In this rapid-fire episode, Naveed Sattar answers key questions on diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, prevention, and emerging therapies. From precision medicine and GLP-1 receptor agonists to lifestyle interventions and research advice, this concise episode provides expert insight into the future of cardiometabolic medicine.
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Sex Differences in Alzheimer’s Disease: Risk Factors and Biomarkers
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In this first deep dive, Rachel Buckley joins host Catherine Glass to explore how Alzheimer’s disease risk can be detected before symptoms appear. From blood-based biomarkers like p-tau217, to AI-driven models of cognitive resilience, the episode examines how risk, progression, and protection can be better understood and predicted over time. Timestamps: 00:00:57:11 – Phosphorylated tau and amyloid-PET 00:08:15:05 – Biomarkers, risk, and progression 00:11:18:04 – Brain resistance and cognitive resilience 00:15:23:23 – AI biases
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Quickfire: Sex Differences in Alzheimer's Disease
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In this rapid-fire episode, Rachel Buckley answers key questions on Alzheimer’s disease, covering sex differences in risk, early predictors of progression, brain resilience, and the most actionable prevention strategies. A concise overview of the evolving science behind personalised Alzheimer’s care.
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Combatting Food Allergies in Children: Guidelines and Inequalities
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In the final episode, host Saranya and Helen Brough examine the key gaps in allergy care across prevention, diagnosis, and long-term management, and how these challenges impact families in practice. It explores barriers to early peanut introduction, highlights inequalities in allergy care and the populations most affected, and looks at how digital tools, education, and outreach could help improve access to evidence-based care. Timestamps: 00:43 – Gaps in allergy care 04:07 – Early peanut introduction ...
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Combatting Food Allergies in Children: The Skin Barrier
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In Part 2, we explore the role of the skin barrier in food allergy development, from how environmental allergen exposure can drive sensitisation to whether early skincare can help prevent disease. Drawing on studies such as SEAL and recent European eczema guidelines, it also tackles common misconceptions and parental concerns, including topical steroid withdrawal and how best to provide reassurance. Timestamps: 00:54:02 – Skin allergen exposure 03:50 – Optimising the skin barrier 06:46 – Proactive treatment of...
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Combatting Food Allergies in Children: Paediatric Peanut Allergies
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
Helen Brough joins the Saranya to reflect on her work in paediatric food allergy, from personal experiences that shaped her career to landmark studies like LEAP, EAT, and ProNuts that transformed prevention and management. This episode explores early allergen introduction, evolving approaches to treatment, and what’s driving the rise in food allergies in children. Timestamps: 00:53 – Raising children with atopy 02:18 – Antibiotic exposure at birth 03:08 – Prevention of...
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Quickfire: Combatting Food Allergies in Children
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In this short rapid-fire episode, Helen Brough answers key questions on food allergy, covering common triggers, peanut allergy myths, early allergen introduction, and whether allergies can be outgrown. It also touches on immune development, common mistakes, biomarkers, and future breakthroughs.
info_outlineAzad explores the biological complexity of human milk and its role in shaping infant immunity. From immune-active components to variation in milk composition, this episode examines how early nutrition programs long-term health outcomes.
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02:30 – Milk composition explained
05:20 – Immune components role
08:10 – Variation in milk
10:40 – Growth and outcomes