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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Annette Swift

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Location: United Kingdom

Profession: Home Baker

About

I browse alot and came across a sourdough starter and wanted to have ago it sounded creepy with microbes fermenting and used to bake bread instead of using yeast. I followed Chad Roberts of Tartine and practised practised and practised. During Lockdown that’s what I did and it was wonderful

I love everything about it and the thought it is good for you blew me away. I like to eat with butter and like to give one away as I can’t eat it all haha
I give to friends family and workmates. Also people at my place of worship as I am one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Love eating bread with a good cheese.

My Work

I live at my home, Liverpool

Passionate about Baking as Lifestyle Medicine

This is all too wonderful. I am realising that we are what we eat and I wish I could persuade others of the importance of our intake. My son has just been diagnosed with either colitis or Crohns. My husband has Crohns and sadly passed it on genetically. He has yet not had it confirmed as to which. NHS is in such a mess he is still waiting.

My Community

Our area is classed as an underprivileged area (expressions used in papers) etc but seem kind and generous people.

How I use BALM Protocol

If I get the privilege to graduate I would like to pass on what I have learned

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Enrollment Status: 3 Enrolled

Online Course: BALM Certificate - 2022

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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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