Naomi Devlin

Boosting Gut Health & Immunity

£45
Level: Peer






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The difference between Peer & Expert levels

Both Peer and Expert levels provide:

  • Video lessons led by an expert tutor
  • Downloadable lesson notes
  • Practice assignments
  • Group learning in a 20-student online classroom
  • Lifetime access to videos, notes, and classroom

The Expert level additionally includes:

  • Personalized feedback and coaching from your tutor
  • Private messaging with your tutor
  • Certificate of completion
Level: Peer

Course overview

Nutritionalist Naomi Devlin teaches you how improve your gut health and boost your immunity by feeding your gut microbiome with beneficial foods on a daily basis.

The key to great gut health is embracing diversity and you'll discover how to include more delicious and easy prebiotic foods and probiotic ferments in your diet.

You'll learn about polyphenols, how they help to keep us healthy, where to find them and how can you get more in your meals. Naomi will also explain prebiotics, the food our gut microbes love to eat! She’ll look at the whole range of prebiotics that you need for robust gut diversity. You'll learn about the digestive system and about beneficial gut bacteria.

You'll then dive into fermented foods, and find a probiotic ferment that’s right for you and your gut. (You'll find once you get your sour tooth, you’ll crave fermented food!)

Good digestion is all about efficiently breaking your food down so you can get the most benefit from it. She’ll round the course off by looking at plant enzymes, stimulating your own digestive juices and ways to prepare food that maximise nutrient benefits without compromising on taste.

You'll learn:

  • which foods can help boost your gut health
  • about using prebiotics, probiotics, polyphenols in gut health
  • how to make ferments
  • anti-inflammatory and immune system boosting foods

The course includes:

  • 4 on-demand video lessons - presented by Naomi Devlin and River Cottage
  • lifetime access to the videos, notes and interactive class
  • flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
  • downloadable lesson notes
  • practical gut health assignments and recipes (with tutor feedback available)
  • access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop
  • small interactive online classroom - chat online to students from around the world and share your creative ideas

Independent Cookery Schools Association approved

This course has been approved by the Independent Cookery Schools Association (ICSA), recognising the highest standards of training.

Time to complete the gut health course:

Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 14 hours 25 minutes to complete including:

  • Video lessons: 2 hours 25 minutes in total
  • Course notes: 30 minutes per lesson
  • Your gut health recipe assignments: at least 2 hours per lesson
  • Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson
  • Tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes per lesson

You'll need:

Your lesson notes will include the full details of the ingredients you'll need, but you will be making fermented food and baking gut friendly treats, so you'll need standard kitchen equipment.

Ready to get started?

Just add the course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Naomi on your gut health assignments.
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Lesson summary

Medicine foods: Probiotics and bitter things
We’ll start by learning what the terms probiotics and the gut microbiome mean and how microbes can positively affect gut, immune and brain function. We’ll learn about the benefits of fermented food and make a simple kraut out of seasonal vegetables and a probiotic drink – kvass. Then we’ll look at why it’s important to include bitter food in our diets, how to make it palatable without losing the benefits and explore the sources of bitterness – bitter leaves, herbs, spices, coffee, tea, chocolate, citrus zest and dark greens.
Prebiotics and diversity: The food our gut microbes love to eat
We’ll learn about the foods that our beneficial gut microbes love and which foods encourage less beneficial microbes that can cause ill health. I’ll demonstrate a simple prebiotic curry base that can be adapted for meat and veg curries. You'll learn how to make quick honey pickles, crushed potatoes with a garlicky dressing and a rainbow slaw.
Anti-inflammatories to soothe the immune system and boost cell function
Foods rich in polyphenols are great for supporting normal cell turnover and soothing the immune system. We’ll find out where to look for polyphenols and how to eat more of them. I’ll demonstrate a raw carrot dressing & beetroot cream dressing Beneficial fats are also highly anti-inflammatory, so we’ll make dukkah and gomasio to include seeds and spices in meals and some black sesame crackers to get more gut friendly linseed and chia seed into our diets.
Treats for your gut and tastebuds too!
We all crave treats, and our gut is no different! Using the sweetness of dried fruit, seeds, nuts, spices and dark chocolate, we’ll make some gut friendly bars to pop in a lunchbox or enjoy with your afternoon tea. Less is more – we'll look at getting more flavour and beneficial ingredients into sweet or treaty things. They should also include fibre, polyphenols and prebiotics. I will demonstrate Happy Gut Tiffin, kale crisps (with kimchi or mushroom powder) and Peanut butter crumble topping

Choose how you want to learn

Expert-level

Develop your learning further with marked assignments and personal tuition:

  • Start the course whenever you like
  • Tutor access for personalised assignment feedback & coaching
  • Certificate of completion and CPD learning hours
  • Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
  • Lessons with expert videos & notes
  • Group chat & direct message with tutor & classmates
  • Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom

Peer-level

Get the most from shared knowledge and community study:

  • Start course whenever you like
  • Practise what you learn with your peers
  • Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
  • Lessons with videos & notes
  • Course assignments
  • Group chat & direct message classmates
  • Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
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meet the expert

Naomi Devlin

Nutrition expert and unashamed foodie teaching at the River Cottage Cookery School.

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Why choose Learning with Experts?

Start whenever it suits you, and immerse yourself in motivational lesson tutorials with expert guidance.
Enhance your learning and personal growth with lesson assignments. Each course includes an optional assignment at the end of every lesson.
Drop a friendly message or respond to your assignment feedback. Our world-class experts are just a click away, ready to help you!
Stay informed about your own progress and those of your peers, and take joy in celebrating achievements along the way.
Chat and share ideas with passionate communities of learners from around the world.

Frequently asked questions

What’s the difference between PEER and EXPERT levels?

At Peer and Expert level, you get access to the same core content and features:

  • Video lesson tutorials led by your expert tutor
  • Downloadable lesson notes
  • Option to practise what you learn with lesson assignments
  • Group learning within an online interactive classroom of up to 20 classmates
  • Lifetime access to videos, notes and classroom

If you choose Expert level, you get all of the above plus the following:

  • Personalised assignment feedback and coaching from your expert tutor
  • Opportunity to interact with your expert tutor through a private messaging system
  • Certificate of completion.
What is an online classroom?

Our online classroom has been developed to allow you to learn from our experts in a sociable environment alongside up to 20 other students. After each video tutorial led by your expert, you will be encouraged to practice what you have learned with optional assignments - these can be seen by the other students in your class, who are free to share their own thoughts and questions with you.

You will be encouraged to take part in an ongoing class discussion where you can discuss ideas, post images or work, and comment on each other’s assignments. It’s a great way to learn from other like-minded people who share your passion from all over the world.

This means not only do you benefit from people who are outstanding in their field, but also from a close-knit group of like-minded people whom you can learn alongside. Group learning has shown to greatly improve not just the experience of studying, but also how well you retain the knowledge, and we have built our classroom experience around this fact.
When can I start my course and how long will it take?

You can start your course any time within 12 months after receipt of your purchase confirmation email. Once you start, you’ll have lifetime access — meaning you can revisit the lesson videos and notes whenever you want.

Our courses are designed so that you can study at your own pace, some prefer to binge learn while others like to spread their studying over a longer period of time - it’s completely up to you. To give you a rough time frame, each lesson video is approximately 30-40 minutes long, and we recommend that you spend around an hour on each assignment.
How often can I speak with the Expert?

If you opt for the Expert version of your course, the time you have to interact with your tutor is limited to course length. You will have one week per lesson to chat to your tutor and to have your assignments marked, and during this period you can ask them as many questions as you would like.

To find out the length of each course, head to the product page and look at the Course outline to see how many lessons it contains. e.g. a four lesson course assumes that you will have completed the assignments within four weeks.

Your tutor interaction period will start as soon as you enter the classroom. If you find that you are struggling to complete the assignments in the allocated time or you wish to put this function on hold, just get in contact with one of the team via the support button and we will help you out.
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