The Sourdough School

BALM – Proven as one of the healthiest approaches to bread in the world.

Based in the walled gardens of Dr. Vanessa Kimbell's beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire, UK, we tutor individuals and train bakers and healthcare professionals in Baking as Lifestyle Medicine (BALM). Personalising bread to your lifestyle, gut microbiome, and unique genetics for optimal health—tailoring fermentation, fibre, and diversity so that your daily bread becomes the foundation of your health.

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Our in House Nutritionist – Venetia Mitchell

One of the key members and tutors of The Sourdough School team is Venetia.  With a passion for helping people make positive changes and through her own personal experience, she firmly believes that food along with the right lifestyle and environment are excellent medicines.

Venetia’s training is based on the functional medicine model where she tailors dietary and lifestyle recommendations, using an evidence-based, personalised approach to healthcare. Venetia recognises, as the latest science identifies, we all individuals with our own unique gut microbiota and therefore, there is no such thing as one size fits all. She specialises in the gut-brain axis to build resilience with age and works alongside individuals who wish to enhance cognitive performance, mental wellbeing and prevent neurodegeneration.

Venetia works as Research Assistant to Vanessa Kimbell and is one of our in-house Nutritionists here at The Sourdough School. Venetia finds adventure and fun in baking where her focus is on diversity and colour for optimal gut and metabolic health. She particularly enjoys milling the botanical blends, knowing full well what goodness that brings.

Venetia lives in London and works online with individuals across the UK, as a Partner & Senior Clinical Practitioner at Peach Health.

Qualifications and accreditations: MSc, BSc (Hons), NTPD, mBANT, CNHC, IFMCP

Anyone who would like a direct consultation with Venetia please email [email protected] or book a free discovery call with Peach Health here.

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All reasonable care is taken when advising about health aspects of bread, but the information that we share is not intended to take the place of treatment by a qualified medical practitioner. You must seek professional advice if you are in any doubt about any medical condition. Any application of the ideas and information contained on this website is at the reader's sole discretion and risk.

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