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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IBS and the gut micro biome

Diet-induced dysbiosis of the intestinal microbiota and the effects on immunity and disease

IBS and the gut microbiota

Intestinal permeability- a new target for disease prevention and therapy

Importance of the gut micro biome

The microbiome revolution

Wheat and inflammation

Whole grain wheat consumption reduces inflammation in a randomised controlled trial on overweight and obese subjects with unhealthy dietary and lifestyle behaviours: role of polyphenols bound to cereal dietary fibre

Polyphenols and the gut micro biome

Interaction between phenolics and gut microbiota: Role in human health

Gut microbiota and dementia

Human gut microbiota: the links with dementia development

Gut brain axis

Microbiota Modulate Behavioral and Physiological Abnormalities Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Diet and the gut microbiome

The role of the gut microbiota in nutrition and health

Dietary fibre and the gut microbiome

A Dietary Fiber-Deprived Gut Microbiota Degrades the Colonic Mucus Barrier and Enhances Pathogen Susceptibility

Inulin and gut health

Introducing inulin-type fructans

Fibre and FODMAPS

Low-Digestible Carbohydrates in Practice

Inulin and constipation

Effect of high performance chicory inulin on constipation

1900's French Digestive system picture.

Gastrointestinal Microbiota in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Their Role in Its Pathogenesis and Treatment

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