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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bone broth

Is bone broth really good for the gut microbiome?

Learning Objective

You will learn about the health claims relating to bone broth and read research that offers a critical review on the subject.

Learning Outcome

You will understand the complexities involved in deciding whether or not bone broth is good for gut health.

Bone broth is both delicious and inexpensive. It is also a brilliant way to use all parts of a carcass efficiently, known as nose-to-tail eating. By making bone broth, we can consume parts of the animal that are high in gelatine, such as skin, tendons and other gelatinous parts of the carcass. But the studies I had read made me deeply sceptical about many of the health claims, and about the idea of incorporating bone broth into our menu at all.

A quick Google search brings up numerous medicinal claims on dozens of websites saying that bone broth is good for the gut. But when you delve a little deeper, there isn’t any robust scientific research regarding bone broth modulating the gut microbiome.

So where do all these claims come from?

To find out more about bone broth and get UNLIMITED access to the most comprehensive online library of video tutorials, recipes, experts and tips, subscribe now to The Sourdough Club.

Learn to make Sourdough and we'll send you a free starter to get you going. Start your journey today & discover why sourdough is the healthiest bread.

Find out more about how sourdough is the healthiest bread, and apply our 7 core principles to your baking to help your digestion & benefit your overall health & wellbeing. 

There is a world of information inside the club with core knowledge, so you learn to understand sourdough and a have whole community of bakers to support you.

It's alive with baking and conversations, with the latest research, tips, regular inspiring recipes and brilliant webinars, an interactive forum, book club, as well as discounts for members.  You also get updates with news to be in the know before anyone else about the latest books by Vanessa Kimbell, and courses at the Sourdough School.

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All reasonable care is taken when advising about health aspects of bread, but the information that we share is not intended to take the place of treatment by a qualified medical practitioner. You must seek professional advice if you are in any doubt about any medical condition. Any application of the ideas and information contained on this website is at the reader's sole discretion and risk.

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