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Proven: This podcast will change the way you think about bread episodes
- 47 min
- 1 hr 2 min
- 34: Week 12 Activism, Connection and Social ChangePodcast Intro Spotlight
Meet the voices joining us in this episode:- Jo Feakes — a trusted, fully qualified Nutritional Therapist based in the UK, with over a decade of clinical knowledge. Jo empowers clients with real food, personalised science, and a warm, practical approach to health.
- David Wright, The Breaducator — a third-generation baker, academic, and author of Breaking Bread: How Baking Shaped Our World. His words remind us that bread is never just bread—it carries values, history, and the power to define what we stand for.
- Mike Key, known for Eating Your Environment, who’s lived—and eaten—radically by traversing Iceland on a traditional Inuit diet. His experience brings a profound, environmental lens to how we nourish our bodies.
- Our Proven Bread Students, shining human stories in this journey:
- Lucy, whose life changed at a dinner table simply by tasting bread with soul — she felt unquenchable desire to learn to make it with intention.
- Jenny, who gifted us with rose-petal vinegar, and shared how her own hands and heart became part of the bread’s living story.
These voices frame a conversation that isn’t just about food—it’s about health, story, activism, and connection.1 hr 31 min - 35 min
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About Proven: This podcast will change the way you think about bread
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Baking as Lifestyle medicine (BALM) follows the journey of how Vanessa developed and evident based approach to nourishing bread. guest have been part of the work at The Sourdough School, and support the Baking as Lifestyle Medicine Protocol sharing how good bread is the foundation to good gut health and mental health.
Presented and Produced by Dr Vanessa Kimbell, Founder of The Sourdough School. From soil to slice, this podcast explores how bread – when made properly – can nourish both body and mind. With a focus on mental health, we dive into the science of fermentation, the gut microbiome, and nutrigenetics,.
Guests span the entire bread-making system – from wheat breeders, farmers, millers, and bakers to doctors, nutritional psychiatrists, and gut health specialists – brought together to explore the impact of bread in depth.
This is a multidisciplinary, evidence-based, and unapologetically disruptive podcast, featuring some of the world’s leading experts sharing their insights.
A knead-to-know conversation, grounded in science, this podcast redefines bread as lifestyle medicine – transforming the way we approach our most fundamental food.
What you’ll learn, as you listen in, is that your daily bread isn’t the problem. When done right, it’s a delicious and powerful part of the solution.