Personalised Bread Consultations & Testing

Do you struggle with gluten intolerance, bloating, fatigue, or IBS symptoms after eating bread?

What if bread wasn’t the problem — but a powerful clue that could help uncover the root of your health challenges?

Over many years of teaching BALM (Baking as Lifestyle Medicine), my students kept on reporting significant health improvements and a clear pattern began to emerge.  When people who had difficulty digesting bread it was not just about the bread itself, but a reflection of an underlying imbalance in the body. Symptoms such as bloating, fatigue, or discomfort after eating bread, are clues to broader health issues issues with digestion, absorption, imbalances in nutrition, inflammation, or metabolic function.

Sourdough can help, but it is often just a part of of the solution. Through a functional medicine approach, I use your relationship with bread as a lens to explore what may be contributing to these symptoms on a deeper level.

By tailoring fermentation methods, ingredients, and nutritional strategies to your individual gut and nutrigenetic needs, we can often uncover patterns and imbalances that have previously not been understood, and address them. This process doesn’t offer a diagnosis — but what we do is  provide clinical insight and nutritional interpretation bringing clarity. We tailor a highly practical, proven food-based strategy and provide support that positively impacts your overall health by personalising the way you bake eat and share your bread for optimal health and wellbeing:

Rather than simply teaching you to bake, we focus on understanding how your body responds to food — considering digestion, nutrient absorption, and your individual health profile that can help with:

• IBS and digestive discomfort
• Fatigue and blood sugar imbalances
• Weight management and metabolic health
• Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
• ADHD, anxiety, and mood regulation
• Autoimmune conditions
• Cancer prevention and recovery support
• Mental health and overall wellbeing

By taking into account factors such as your methylation pathways, gut health, and genetics, we help you bake bread that supports your unique biology. This approach transforms bread into a personalised, therapeutic food — one that supports your digestion, energy, and mental wellbeing, and becomes a central part of your long-term, preventative, delicious and achievable health strategy you can share with your whole family.

 3 approaches to tailoring bread to your unique biology