ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Beyond the Symptoms is an interview series by Live UTI Free (LUF) that explores the science, solutions, and stories behind pelvic health, UTIs, and chronic urinary infections.
Host Melissa Kramer engages in deep conversations with leading medical experts, researchers, and healthcare innovators who share breakthrough insights beyond conventional diagnoses and treatments.
Each episode uncovers cutting-edge research on biofilms, embedded infections, antibiotic resistance, and innovative diagnostic approaches while examining how these conditions impact quality of life. Whether you're a patient navigating recurrent UTIs, interstitial cystitis, or chronic pelvic pain, a healthcare practitioner seeking evidence-based approaches, or a curious mind interested in women's health advocacy, this podcast provides actionable information about complex pelvic health conditions.
Episodes feature world-renowned urologists, urogynecologists, researchers, and patient advocates sharing clinical insights and practical strategies.
Explore our comprehensive resources at liveutifree.com, find additional studies at linktr.ee/liveutifree, watch video interviews on YouTube (@LiveUTIFree), and join our supportive community on Instagram (@liveutifree).
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 25 days
Average audio length:
52 minutes
Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United States
37 episodes
since Feb. 4, 2025
episodic
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Painful urination and pain during sex can signal endometriosis or a urinary tract infection, and the two are often mistaken for one another. In this episode of the LUF Podcast, host Melissa Kramer, PhD, speaks with Christine Metz, PhD, a professor at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at…
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Could a virus found in your toilet water be the future of UTI treatment? In this episode of the LUF Podcast, host Melissa Kramer, PhD, talks with Esme Brinsden, Project Coordinator at the Phage Collection Project, a citizen science initiative based at the University of Southampton in the UK. Esme b…
The bladder doesn't work in isolation. In this episode of the Live UTI Free podcast, host Melissa Kramer, PhD, talks with Intimate Health Specialist and Nutritional Therapist Kate Waters about the gut-bladder-vagina connection, the role of diet in recurrent and chronic UTIs, and why the nervou…
Catheter-associated UTIs (CAUTIs) don't follow the same rules as uncomplicated UTIs, and most patients are never told why. In this episode, host Melissa Kramer, PhD, talks with microbiologist Dr. Ana Flores-Mireles of the University of Notre Dame about how catheterization changes the bladder e…
If you've been stuck in a cycle of recurrent UTIs that antibiotics can't seem to clear, this episode is for you. Melissa sits down with Professor Bogoña Heras and Dr. Jason Paxman, structural biologists from La Trobe University in Australia and co-founders of BioBreak Therapeutics. They s…
Standard urine cultures have dominated UTI diagnosis for over 70 years, yet they were never designed for this purpose. In this episode, Melissa speaks with Dr. Malcolm Starkey, a scientist at Monash University who leads the Urinary Tract Disease Research Group, about why current testing misses infe…
A clinical trial that defines chronic UTI and tests a treatment protocol designed around it has been a long time coming. In this episode of the Live UTI Free podcast, host Dr. Melissa Kramer sits down with Dr. Kiran Gill and Dr. Harry Horsley to talk through the EAT-UP trial, a new UK-based phase 2…
What if your bladder isn’t working against you, but trying to tell you something? In this episode of the Live UTI Free podcast, host Melissa Kramer sits down with Julia Anditsch, founder of Die Blase (German for “The Bladder”), an international bladder health platform based in Germany and Austria, …
If you’ve ever been told your urine test came back negative but you know something is wrong, this episode is for you.
Host Melissa Kramer speaks with Professor Jenny Roan, Head of the Centre for Urological Biology at University College London (UCL), to get into the science that most people living w…
Can stress really trigger chronic UTI symptoms? In this episode of the Live UTI Free Podcast, host Melissa Kramer speaks with Dr. Aparna Taylor about the connection between stress, the nervous system, inflammation, gut health, and chronic UTI symptoms.
Dr. Taylor explains why stress is not just abo…
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