Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Jay Pasricha, Chair of the Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Arizona, USA and Bo Konings, final year medical student and researcher at the Translational Research Centre for Gastrointestinal Disorders (TARGID), KU Leuven University Hospitals, Leuven, Belgium, on the paper "Gastrointestinal syndromes preceding a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease: testing Braak’s hypothesis using a nationwide database for comparison with Alzheimer’s disease and cerebrovascular diseases" published in paper copy in Gut in November 2023 and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/11/2103 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).