The Sourdough School

BALM – Proven as one of the healthiest approaches to bread in the world.

Based in the walled gardens of Dr. Vanessa Kimbell's beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire, UK, we tutor individuals and train bakers and healthcare professionals in Baking as Lifestyle Medicine (BALM). Personalising bread to your lifestyle, gut microbiome, and unique genetics for optimal health—tailoring fermentation, fibre, and diversity so that your daily bread becomes the foundation of your health.

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Movement is Improvement: The Therapeutic Effects of Exercise and General Physical Activity on Glycemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Whole grain consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all cause and cause specific mortality: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies

Effect of Dahi Containing Lactococcus lactis on the Progression of Diabetes Induced by a High-Fructose Diet in Rats

Effect of Dahi Containing Lactococcus lactis on the Progression of Diabetes Induced by a High-Fructose Diet in Rats

barley insulin sensitivity

Increased gut hormones and insulin sensitivity index following a 3-d intervention with a barley kernel-based product: a randomised cross-over study in healthy middle-aged subjects

The Role for Gut Permeability in the Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes – A Solid or Leaky Concept?

The Role for Gut Permeability in the Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes – A Solid or Leaky Concept?

Whole grain-rich diet reduces body weight and systemic low-grade inflammation without inducing major changes of the gut microbiome: a randomised cross-over trial

580. Sourdough bread - Starch digestibility and postprandial glycemic response

Sourdough Bread: Starch digestibility and postprandial glycemic response

Cinnamon

The Effect of Different Amounts of Cinnamon Consumption on Blood Glucose in Healthy Adult Individuals

Olive Oil and Metabolic Syndrome

Olive Polyphenols and the Metabolic Syndrome

Acute Effects of Three Cooked Non-Cereal Starchy Foods on Postprandial Glycemic Responses and in Vitro Carbohydrate Digestion in Comparison with Whole Grains: A Randomized Trial

Millet_Red Ferment Polyphenol

Health benefits of finger millet (Eleusine coracana L.) polyphenols and dietary fiber: a review

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Next-Generation Beneficial Microbes: The Case of Akkermansia muciniphila

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

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Resistant Starch: Promise for Improving Human Health

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A critical review on the impacts of Beta-glucans on gut microbiota and human health

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