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Baking as Lifestyle Medicine

Our small club is run from The Sourdough School and is the alternative way to learn if you cannot attend a course in person. Learn from Dr Vanessa Kimbell how to make the healthiest bread in the world and improve digestion, boost your mood, and connect with a supportive community that’s passionate about baking for better health.
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LIVE: Lifestyle Medicine Sessions with our In-House Health Professionals & Guests – 7pm Mondays

The Lifestyle Medicine team

Pauline Beaumont
Venetia Mitchell
Venetia Mitchell
dr alex davidson bowel cancer
Dr Alexandra Davidson

 

The session is at 7 pm (London time) on Mondays for 45 minutes.

This is a members-only service, where Club members have the opportunity to ask our amazing Sourdough School in-house team and guests questions about mental health, nutrition, physical health & and tactics for Baking as Lifestyle Medicine via a live Zoom session.

This is a members-only service.  Click here and remember to save the Zoom meeting details in your calendar.

Pre-submit questions in advance. If you miss any of the sessions, you can watch and catch up in our archive page.


Pauline Beaumont, In-House Psychological Wellbeing Expert. There are many things we can do to help ourselves psychologically (including of course, making sourdough bread), whether we have mental health problems or not. Taking a psycho-educational approach, Pauline is happy to answer questions about the techniques and strategies that can lead us to understand ourselves better and then to be able to make more adaptive choices in our lives. You might want to ask questions about ways of helping to counter low mood, anxiety in its many forms, low self-esteem, perfectionism or procrastination – not an exhaustive list but the sorts of struggles many of us, and those close to us, will face in our lifetimes.

Please note: For legal reasons, we are unable to offer personal medical advice in accordance with our Terms and Conditions of business.

(with the exception of UK school holidays and bank holidays)

Click here and remember to save the zoom meeting details in your calendar.

Syllabus for Sourdough Club Prescription Membership

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Total Time: 1 hours and 30 minutes

LessonLesson TypeTime (mins)What you will learn
1The sessions dates are below and are at 7pm (London time) on Mondays for 45 minutes.Live Clinic45

Weekly Schedule

AUTMMN TERM SPRING TERM SUMMER TERM
16th January - Natalie 24th April - Natalie
23rd January - Vanessa 1st May - BANK HOLIDAY (no live)
30th January - Pauline 8th May - BANK HOLIDAY (no live)
6th February - Venetia 15th May - Venetia
13th February - HALF TERM (no live) 22nd May - Pauline
20th February - Natalie 29th May - BANK HOLIDAY (no live)
27th February - Alex 5th June - Natalie
6th March - Pauline 12th June - Alex
13th March - Natalie 19th June - Venetia
20th March - Alex 26th June - Pauline
27th March - Venetia 3rd July - Natalie
3rd April - EASTER BREAK (no live) 10th July - Venetia
10th April - EASTER BREAK (no live) 17th July - CANCELLED
24th July - Pauline

How to join Monday Live sessions

Join Zoom Meeting https://://us02web.zoom.us/j/83284259461?pwd=amQwaXU4U0RCbnBHNlNwZDJkZEpVZz09/j/83284259461?pwd=amQwaXU4U0RCbnBHNlNwZDJkZEpVZz09

Meeting ID: 832 8425 9461 Passcode: 536474Or, dial by your location: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc683x6yf0

 

 

2Baking as Lifestyle Medicine LibraryBackground Knowledge

Our monthly Baking as Lifestyle Medicine topics:

January - A New Year, Satiety & Weight Management
February - Heart Health
March - Fibre & Bowel Cancer Awareness
April - Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
May - Polyphenols & flavonoids, how we eat bread
June - Sharing bread & pizza
July - Digestibility. Celiac disease, Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity (NCGS)
August - summer break - no lives
September - Sourdough September, the gut microbiome
October - Mental Health
November - Diabetes, Blood Sugar Management & Mood
December - Gut microbes

3Dr Alex Davidson, In-House GP and Medical Director.Live Clinic45

Dr Alex Davidson, In-House GP and Medical Director. Alex is also trained as a Functional Medicine practitioner. The core of Alex's work uses evidence-based medicine holistically to get to the root cause of disease.

4Coaching as Lifestyle Medicine (CALM)Background Knowledge

Coaching as Lifestyle Medicine (CALM)

Please note: Natalie's life coaching topics follow this schedule below:

Natalie Vernon-Dier, In-House Life Coach certified in health, fitness and nutrition, specialising in mindset, self-care and goal setting. See the schedule below.

16th January: Letting Go part 1 - physical and mental decluttering for abundance (download PDF's via the links)

20th February: Letting Go part 2 - letting go of the past, including habits and toxic relationships

13th March: Self love and self care - dealing with the most common limiting beliefs

24th April: Mindset Makeover - different types of mindset and neuroplasticity

5th June: Wellness and vision boarding - assessing your wellness and planning your dream life

3rd July: Inspired action - how to set goals for success and take action to achieve them

 

5Venetia Mitchell, In-House NutritionistBackground Knowledge

Venetia Mitchell, In-House Nutritionist. Venetia is able to discuss all areas of nutrition, particularly in relation to the health benefits of wholegrain & sourdough. In addition, other areas of physiology in relation to nutrition would be gut health, brain & mental health and immunity.

6Catch you if you missed a session Background Knowledge

Don't worry you can catch up with the session here.

7Baking as Lifestyle Medicine & The Bread ProtocolBackground Knowledge

How our Bread Protocol supports Baking as Lifestyle Medicine - this is also considered to be a Nutritional psychiatry approach

Groundbreaking evidence has demonstrated that diet has a significant impact on mental health. This area that we subscribe to as part of lifestyle medicine is known as Nutritional Psychiatry.

There is some good evidence to suggest that bread and other foods rich in complex carbohydrates may have a positive effect on mental health. For example, a study published in the Journal of Nutrition found that people who consumed more complex carbohydrates, such as those found in wholegrain bread, had a lower risk of depression and anxiety than those who consumed a diet low in complex carbs. And another study, published in the Journal of Public Health Nutrition found that people who ate a diet high in whole grains, including bread, had a lower risk of developing depression and anxiety compared to those who ate a diet low in whole grains.

We work holistically using the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine to examine the relationship between bread and mental health. It’s about understanding the relationship between complex carbohydrates and mental health. We know that diet is just one of many factors that can impact mental health, and that a healthy diet is just one aspect of overall mental health and well-being, so we aim to look at every aspect of baking for wellness.

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.

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