12-Week Course Schedule & LIVE session topic

You will be emailed, when you purchase this course, an invitation to attend a live session on a Monday at 6pm for 12 weeks

These sessions will start from the 12th January 2026

This is the first-ever course that posts out bread and that transforms the simple act of eating bread into a structured, empowering practice. Combining microbiome science lifestyle medicine, and nutrigenetics to reconnect food, body, and the wider food system, your course is a combination of podcasts, infographics, and lectures and a 12 week self assessment that empowers you to understand bread and the way it impacts you.

12-WEEK LEARNING SCHEDULE
Baking as Lifestyle Medicine in Action
This isn’t just a subscription. It’s a conversation — between you, your body, your microbes, the soil, the farmers, and the people who’ve shaped this bread. Each week you’ll receive not just a loaf, but a lesson. You’ll be asked to check in — not just with the system, but with yourself. This is about learning to nourish, to notice, and to connect. You are not a passive participant. You are the connector. This is the system, and you will learn that you are at the heart of it.

WEEK 0: BASELINE SELF-ASSESSMENT & BIOHACKING BREAD 
Focus: How do you feel — physically, emotionally, digestively — before you begin?
Lesson: You can’t measure change without knowing where you started. This self-assessment will help you track what shifts over the next 12 weeks.
Action: Download and complete the baseline form before your first delivery. You will have a 30 minute video on biohacking bread and you ill learn how scoring your symptoms each week on your chart  is your anchor.

WEEK 1: WELCOME, STORAGE & HOW TO BEGIN
Focus: A loaf is arriving — and with it, something more
Lesson: This week is about starting gently. Learn how to store, slice, and enjoy your bread. If you’re histamine- or blood sugar-sensitive, this guidance matters more than ever.
Action: Slice and store your loaf. Take a quiet moment to notice how you feel. If you’d like to share a photo or reflection, tag @sourdoughclub or @vanessakimbell on Instagram.

WEEK 2: TOLERANCE TRAINING & DIGESTIVE AWARENESS
Focus: Eating slowly, kindly, consciously
Lesson: This week isn’t about restriction. It’s about respect — for your body, your digestion, your nervous system. Especially if you’re rebuilding tolerance after antibiotics, IBS, or histamine issues.
Action: Sit down. Breathe. Eat slowly. Reintroduce a more fibrous or gluten-containing slice, and notice how your gut responds. Jot down what you learn. This is you, learning to listen.

WEEK 3: SEQUENCED EATING & MEAL COMPOSITION
Focus: It’s not what you eat — it’s how and when
Lesson: The order you eat your food affects blood sugar and microbiome health. Eat your greens and dressing first, add protein and fat, then your bread. Making a vinegar is part of this week’s practice.
Action: Make a simple vinegar dressing. Create a sequenced plate using one of my recipes — perhaps the dal, curry, or probiotic butter salad — and eat mindfully. Share your plate if you’d like: @sourdoughclub / @vanessakimbell.

WEEK 4: THE SIX PILLARS OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE
Focus: Bread as a tool for real change
Lesson: The six pillars — nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, connection, and reducing harm — are more than theory. You’ll begin to see how one loaf touches every part of your life.
Action: Share your bread with a friend. Dance to a song you love. Eat a slice in the evening and feel how it helps you sleep. Say no to something ultra-processed. Say yes to nourishment. This is participation.

WEEK 5: SOIL – SEED – STARTER
Focus: Where your nourishment begins
Lesson: Before this bread reached your plate, it began as a seed in living soil. That cycle continues in your starter — and in your gut.
Action: Learn the name of your farmer or miller. Think about the story in each slice. This is food with roots.

WEEK 6: FLOUR & MILLING METHODS
Focus: Stone-ground, slow, and full of life
Lesson: you will learn how most flour is lifeless. This isn’t. Discover how stone milling preserves nutrients and why flour integrity matters to your microbes — and to the people growing your grain.
Action: Compare a commercial flour with your Botanical Blend. Feel it. Smell it. Think about what you’re feeding — not just yourself, but your gut garden.

WEEK 7: FIBRE & DIETARY DIVERSITY
Focus: 30 plants in a single loaf — and counting
Lesson: Fibre feeds your microbiome. Polyphenols shape it. Diversity sustains it. This is how we rebuild resilience.
Action: Add more plants to your plate this week. Make a symbiotic meal — a dal, a curry, or one of my probiotic butter salads — and count how many different ingredients you’re feeding your gut.

WEEK 8: THE MICROBIOME & MENTAL HEALTH
Focus: Mood, microbes, and the messages between
Lesson: Your microbes don’t just digest food. They talk to your brain. They modulate mood, emotion, and cognition. This week we focus on that quiet dialogue.
Action: Count how many new diverse foods you’ve eaten this week. Just count. And reflect on how you’ve felt — physically and mentally.

WEEK 9: SYMBIOTIC & MINDFUL EATING
Focus: Food synergy — not just ingredients, but relationships
Lesson: The bread works best in context — alongside fermented foods, bitter greens, seasonal veg, and mindful pauses. This is eating as ecosystem.
Action: Build a symbiotic plate. Sit down. Eat with attention and appreciation. If it feels right, share it with someone — or with me, @sourdoughclub.

WEEK 10: DIGESTION & TOLERANCE PRACTICE
Focus: Calming the gut, feeding with care
Lesson: If you’ve been sensitive to gluten, fibre, or fermentation, this week is about building back gently. Understanding your vagus nerve, chewing slowly, and giving the body what it needs — not what it fears.
Action: Eat a slightly more complex meal or slice. Sit. Chew. Breathe. Track how you feel. This is gut training, not gut testing.

WEEK 11: GENETICS, NEURODIVERGENCE & FAMILY HISTORY
Focus: The blueprint behind the bread
Lesson: Our genes — MTHFR, B-vitamin pathways, neurodivergence — all influence how we respond to food. And our bread can support these needs, when baked with care.
Action: Talk to someone in your family about health history. Consider what you’ve inherited — and what you might prevent. Reach out to someone neurodivergent and reflect on how food can support their wellbeing.

WEEK 12: BAKING, ACTIVISM, CONNECTION & SOCIAL CHANGE
Focus: This is more than bread
Lesson: What you’ve learned isn’t just personal. It’s planetary. This is bread as activism — as connection — as a form of social medicine.
Action: Share your bread. Share what you’ve learned. You’re not just eating differently — you’re living differently. And you are now part of something much bigger. Dr Kimbell will leave you with a formula and chat about how you can bake this yourself at home or continue with a bread subscription.