We don't just teach you to bake. That would be just too boring.
What we teach you is to be an activist without evidence of a framework puts you in danger of being an ineffective anarchist.
We know that the task of building a just food system is also complex and urgent. We have to build a new food system together.
We support positive change by teaching you to use our evidence-based Baking as a Lifestyle Medicine approach. So, our systems change programme is about enabling collective action by sharing knowledge and facilitating mutual support to some of the most challenging social and environmental problems we face today together by making good bread accessible to all.
In the video below, we asked Vanessa to explain BALM in 3 minutes. She explains that it is a unique approach to optimising bread for optimal nutritional value whilst creating connections between each part of the system, from soil to slice, building a community, and researching the impact that this approach to bread has on our physical and mental health.
Lifestyle medicine is a medical approach that uses evidence-based behavioural interventions to prevent, treat and manage chronic disease.
This is an evidence based approach. Lifestyle medicine is a medical approach that uses evidence-based behavioural interventions to prevent, treat and manage chronic disease.
BALM Protocol is the framework for our multidisciplinary team of experts to teach you how to bake, eat and share bread as as Lifestyle Medicine.
You will become familiar with the Baking as Lifestyle Medicine Protocol as key to the teaching at The Sourdough School. You will discover how baking sourdough can nourish your gut microbiome, and improve your physical and mental health.
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Please click here to find out more about how we teach you to bake eat and share bread, and how in joining you can change the world. ..
Vanessa Kimbell
& The Sourdough School & Club Team
All reasonable care is taken when writing about health aspects of bread, but the information it contains 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.
