Naomi Devlin
Boosting Gut Health & Immunity
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- £150.00
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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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Lessons
What You’ll Learn
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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.
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.
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.
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
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Common Questions
Answers to the most common questions about learning with us.
Our online classroom is designed to help you learn from experts in a collaborative, social environment alongside a small group of learners.
Each lesson combines expert-led videos with optional assignments, giving you the opportunity to apply what you’ve learned and share your work with others. You can take part in ongoing discussions, ask questions, exchange feedback, and learn from a community of like-minded people from around the world.
By learning together in a small, supportive group, you benefit not only from expert guidance but also from shared ideas, perspectives, and experiences—helping you stay engaged and retain what you learn.
You can start your course at any time within 12 months of purchase. Once you begin, you’ll have lifetime access, so you can revisit lesson videos and notes whenever you like.
Courses are designed to fit around your schedule, allowing you to learn at your own pace. Each lesson video is typically 30–40 minutes, and we recommend around an hour for each assignment.
Both Peer and Expert options give you full access to the course content, including lesson videos, downloadable notes, assignments, and a collaborative online classroom with up to 20 learners. You’ll also have lifetime access to revisit the material at any time.
The Expert option includes everything in Peer, plus personalised assignment feedback, direct messaging with your expert tutor, and a certificate of completion.
With the Expert option, you can interact directly with your tutor throughout the course. You’ll typically have one week per lesson to ask questions and receive feedback on your assignments, with as much interaction as you need during that time.
Your tutor access begins when you enter the classroom and follows the course schedule (for example, a four-lesson course usually runs over four weeks). If you need more time or support, our team is here to help.
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