The Sourdough School

Centre of Research & Education in Nutrition & Digestibility of Bread & the Gut Microbiome

The bread that you eat every day has a powerful, influence on both your phyical and mental health. We teach a groundbreaking, evidence-based approach to bread to nourish your gut microbiome and support health. Our courses are open to wide range of people, including bakers and healthcare professionals to learn how to bake and eat beautiful bread as lifestyle medicine. "Vanessa’s work on sourdough and the gut microbiome is changing the way we think of food, health and baking.” - Tim Spector
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Digestion

a slice of sourdough showing the nutrition via the crumb stucture

This category provides articles with information and explanations of the benefits and nutritional advantages of baking sourdough.

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Could eating sliced white bread be as dangerous for your health as smoking?

Does sourdough support the gut microbiome?

Is white bread healthy?

Sourdough and a balanced Immune system

Why is it that I can digest sourdough bread and not commercial bread?

Can you really eat bread if you have IBS?

Sourdough & IBS: could adding aniseed help?

What is the healthiest bread?

Is sourdough healthy?

Is sourdough the healthiest bread for the gut microbiome?

Sourdough Bread & Diabetes

Can baking & eating sourdough help lower stress?

Bread, Inflammation and the gut microbiome

Acrylamide in Sourdough – Does Baking Your Bread Darker Cause Cancer?