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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Use of Sourdough in Low FODMAP Baking

Effects of Sourdough on FODMAPs in Bread and Potential Outcomes on Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients and Healthy Subjects

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No effects of gluten in patients with self-reported non-celiac gluten sensitivity after dietary reduction of fermentable, poorly absorbed, short-chain carbohydrates

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Pilot Study: Comparison of Sourdough Wheat Bread and Yeast-Fermented Wheat Bread in Individuals with Wheat Sensitivity and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

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Randomised clinical trial: low-FODMAP rye bread vs. regular rye bread to relieve the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome

Fructans in NCGS

Fructan, Rather Than Gluten, Induces Symptoms in Patients With Self-reported Non-celiac Gluten Sensitivity

Mechanism and efficacy of dietary FODMAP restriction in IBS

Sourdough and IBS

Wheat and the irritable bowel syndrome – FODMAP levels of modern and ancient species and their retention during bread making

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Dietary intake of inulin-type fructans in active and inactive Crohn’s disease and healthy controls: a case–control study

Dietary fibre and sourdough rye bread

Content and Molecular-Weight Distribution of Dietary Fiber Components in Whole-Grain Rye Flour and Bread

Triggers of IBS symptoms

Dietary Triggers of Abdominal Symptoms in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Randomized Placebo-Controlled Evidence

High and low FODMAP foods

Fructans and Free Fructose content of Common Australian Vegetables and Fruit

Fibre and FODMAPS

Low-Digestible Carbohydrates in Practice

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