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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Gut brain axis

Nutritional Modulation of the Intestinal Microbiota; Future Opportunities for the Prevention and Treatment of Neuroimmune and Neuroinflammatory Disease

Inter-relationship of the Intestinal Microbiome, Diet, and Mental Health

Inter-relationship of the Intestinal Microbiome, Diet, and Mental Health

Neonatal development of gut microbiota

Priming for health: gut microbiota acquired in early life regulates physiology, brain and behaviour

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Targeting the Microbiota, from Irritable Bowel Syndrome to Mood Disorders: Focus on Probiotics and Prebiotics

Autism and gut microbiota

Gut to brain interaction in Autism Spectrum Disorders: a randomized controlled trial on the role of probiotics on clinical, biochemical and neurophysiological parameters

Gut Microbiome Feelings of the Brain

The Gut Microbiome Feelings of the Brain: A Perspective for Non-Microbiologists

Stress & the gut-brain axis

Stress & the gut-brain axis: Regulation by the microbiome

Depression and gut microbiome

The gut microbiome and diet in psychiatry: focus on depression

The Central Nervous System and the Gut Microbiome

The Central Nervous System and the Gut Microbiome

Anxiety and gut microbiome

Gut–brain axis: how the microbiome influences anxiety and depression

Gut microbiome and mental health

Mental Health: Thinking from the Gut

Gut microbiota and dementia

Human gut microbiota: the links with dementia development

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