The Sourdough School

BREAD COURSES || NUTRITION TRAINING || DIGESTION ANALYSIS || PERSONALISED BREAD

Learn to bake, eat, and share the healthiest bread in the world. Discover how to bake as Lifestyle Medicine from the walled gardens of Dr Vanessa Kimbell’s beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire in the UK, where we train healthcare professionals, teach bakers, and support individuals to bake personalised bread using nutrigenetics and gut health assessments.

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

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Use of sourdough lactobacilli and oat fibre to decrease the glycaemic index of white wheat bread

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Impact of whole grains on the gut microbiota: the next frontier for oats?

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Different Oat Ingredients Stimulate Specific Microbial Metabolites in the Gut Microbiome of Three Human Individuals in Vitro

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Beta-Glucans Improve Growth, Viability and Colonization of Probiotic Microorganisms

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Balancing Herbal Medicine and Functional Food for Prevention and Treatment of Cardiometabolic Diseases through Modulating Gut Microbiota

beta glucan and diabetes

Effects of breakfast cereals containing various amounts of beta-glucan fibers on plasma glucose and insulin responses in NIDDM subjects

Oat polyphenols

Dietary Polyphenols, Inflammation, and Cancer

Beta glucans and obesity

Beta Glucan: Health benefits in obesity and metabolic syndrome

oats beta glucans reduces glucose and insulin levels

Muesli with 4 g oat beta-glucans lowers glucose and insulin responses after a bread meal in healthy subjects

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