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PERSONALISED BREAD. BAKE WITH THE HANDS OF AN ARTISAN AND THE MIND OF A CLINICIAN

Reduce Bloating · Improve Gut Health · Balance Blood Sugar · Ease IBS · Manage Gluten Sensitivity — Baking As Lifestyle Medicine. Set in the walled gardens of Dr Vanessa Kimbell's beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire, we run workshops, and our flagship course for practitioners is The Diploma in Personalising Bread. Book in for a chat today.

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To change the system, you have to understand the system.

2016 Sandor Katz spent three weeks at The Sourdough School with the team, teaching and sharing his incredible knowledge of fermentation.

Our Community Spans across many disciplines.  The things all our contributors have in common is a belief in sharing knowledge of how to support both physical and mental health and supporting the environment is key to a sustainable and equitable future.

In addition to the in-house team of Lifestyle Medicine health experts and bakers, Each part of the syllabus on both  the clinical module of Baking as lifestyle Medicine (BALM) Diploma and The Baking  Certificate is supported by esteemed individuals teaching their area of expertise. This incredible generosity brings unique insights and expertise from many esteemed guest contributors, who have provided knowledge, lectures, conversations, and research and have supported the change as part of the social activism and systems change program.

 

Social Justice

Our work on supporting social justice through the democratisation of bread has only just begun. Last year we awarded three times our turnover in scholarships and bursaries.

This year our graduates are socially prescribing BALM to their patients, and none of this would have been possible without some of the world's leading experts donating their time, sharing their knowledge, and contributing to the conversation.

 

Dr Nitu Bajekal

Dr Nitu Bajekal 

daniel leader

Daniel Leader

Our In House Psychological Wellbeing Expert Pauline Beaumont

Oncologist Professor Robert Thomas

Dr Elisabeth Philipps – Neuroscientist & Nutritionist

David Zilber

David Zilber

Adam Pagor

Baker – Adam Pagor

Michael James

Wheat Specialist, Dr Andrew Wilkinson

Dmitry Alexeev

Dmitry Alexeev – Russian Microbiologist & Gut Microbiome Specialist

Director Dayna Brackley

Psychiatrist Professor David Veale

Natalie Vernon-Dier, In-House Life Coach

Claire Watson – Teaching Support Assistant To Dr Kimbell

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