Why are some people fat and others skinny?
Do fat people live longer than skinny people?
Does it matter anyway or should we just enjoy life?
Can we do anything about it?
I can’t answer all these questions, all I can do is give you the facts as I understand them.
We need to store some fat, that is what our bums are for, and it is healthy to store some fat in our bums.
But the wrong fat in the wrong place is the underlying cause of the modern epidemic of non-infectious diseases.
For the individual, this means a shorter life span and, probably more important, a much shorter health span.
Globally, this is the world’s biggest health cost to our health system.
I think these matters and is why I run this website. There is a lot of information here, but this is the essence.
For a long time, we were told that people got fat because they consumed more calories than they burned. This is not the reason why we get fat. It is true that to get fat we do have to consume more calories than we burn, but it is not the reason why we get fat.
We get fat because we have an intelligent control system which regulates our bodies.
If we consume more calories than we consume, then our intelligent control system is perfectly capable of disposing of the excess in our pooh.
If it decides there are deficiencies in our diet it will generate hormones which will make us crave food that will overcome that deficiency.
If it decides that there are no deficiencies, it will create other hormones that say you are full, stop eating. We can override those hormones, but that is our decision.
Modern biochemistry has advanced rapidly in the last few years, so we understand all the complex chemicals we need and, on average, how much of each we need. We have the tests to reveal any deficiencies and can readily buy supplements to correct those deficiencies
But, our intelligent control system is continuously monitoring our bodies, can detect any deficiency and learns (or more precisely, we can train it to learn) which foods will correct for that deficiency.
But our intelligent control system does this far more effectively.
But, and this is the crux of the matter, for our intelligent control system to work effectively, we need
1) The right microbes in our gut, which is an integral part of our intelligent control system. This is easily fixed by eating the right food
2) We need to regularly feed our gut microbes so the beneficial microbes prevail
3) We need to train our intelligent control system, which we do by eating the right food from the minute we are born and onwards
All simple and inexpensive. You just have to take your health into your own hands and do it.
Here we show you how.
Obvious – but wrong
We are told that if we want to live a long and healthy life and avoid the dangers of the modern epidemic of chronic disease, we should eat less and exercise more, but it does not seem to work. People who go on strict diets seem to end up fatter, while people who eat what they fancy seem to be perfectly healthy.
What is going on?
The calorie balance theory says that if we eat more calories than we burn that we will get fat. It sounds so simple and obvious – how can it possibly be wrong?
It may be true of a water tank, if you put more water in than what you take out, the tank will eventually overflow, the equivalent of getting fat.
But we are much smarter than a dumb water tank. We have a highly sophisticated control system that regulates our bodies.
It is not just one organ but a collection of our gut, which has
– microbes which communicate with each other to form intelligence,
– our subconscious head brain, which learns that a slice of cheesecake will lead to a rush of dopamine in our bodies, which makes us feel good,
– our conscious brain, which decides whether to stretch out our arms and scoff the cheesecake,
– a complex array of sensors throughout our bodies
– a communication system of hormones, manufactured by our gut brain and an electric communication system.
See, quite an upmarket system.
If it decides that we need to store fat, for example, if we have been deprived of food for any length of time, as in a war or from an extreme diet, it sends signals to our gut to manufacture hormones to make us crave food.
We get fat because our intelligent control system decides that we need to store more fat not because we are little piggies and stuff ourselves.
If we want to avoid getting fat and avoid becoming yet another statistic in the chronic disease epidemic we have to do three things.
– make sure we have a healthy gut with the right species of microbes
– train our subconscious head brain so it knows what foods work for us
– make sure we eat enough of the right sort of foods so there are no deficiencies
Although it may seem obvious that the solution to getting fat and avoiding chronic diseases is to eat less that is just wrong.
We need to eat more, but not just more sugary fatty foods but foods which will ensure that our intelligent control system recognises that we have all the nutrients that we need when it sends out signals to out gut saying “body full – send out hormones to stop eating”.
Our intelligent control system is the result of a million years of evolution and is smart. Treat it nice and it will look after you and tell you what foods to eat – so simple – so effective.
Don’t look after your intelligent control system and life will be short and miserable.
Change your gut microbes
Gbiota aims to help people change their gut microbes so they can expect to lead a long and healthy life and less at risk from the modern epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.
While genetics plays a small part, the microbes in our gut dominate whether we expect to live a long and healthy life or be fat and part of the modern epidemic of chronic diseases.
We have known for a long time that it is simple to change the microbes in mice – they eat each other’s pooh. We can make fat mice skinny or skinny mice fat.
We can change the microbes in humans but it is more difficult. We need to eat food which both contains the beneficial microbes and the nutrients that feeds the beneficial microbes so they continue to breed in our gut.
Breeding beneficial microbes is easy, they breed like crazy starting within twenty minutes of being created, but there are two problems we need to overcome.
The first problem is that we have to breed the beneficial microbes without breeding the harmful microbes which make us sick. We do this by carefully controlling the conditions so they favour the beneficial microbes so they out-compete and out-breed the harmful microbes.
The second problem is that while microbes breed very rapidly, they live in a state of what we call dynamic equilibrium. The microbes appear to be the same but they are the children or grandchildren of the original microbes.
They breed and die equally rapidly, so you need eat plants containing the beneficial microbes shortly after harvesting.
That means you have to grow the plants yourself and pick and eat.
I am sorry about that but that is just the way of the world.
We solve both of these problems with the Gbiota bio-boxes which control the conditions to favour the beneficial microbes and make it easy for people to grow the plants themselves, even if they have no garden or growing experience.
We can’t do it for you, you have to do it yourself. It is your body and you make the choice.
What we can do is show you how to do it and supply living starter soil in which the beneficial microbes are already breeding.
Our intelligent control system
We all want to live a long and healthy life.
Our health depends on the intelligent control system that regulates our bodies, and the microbes in our gut are a critical part of this system.
But they are not us, we have a synergistic relationship with them. They keep us alive, and we keep them alive.
If we get fat, it is not simply because we eat too much. Our gut microbes, rightly or wrongly, decide that we need to store more fat and create hormones which make us crave food, so we overeat and get fat.
The wrong fat in the wrong place is the cause of the modern epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, heart attacks, diabetes and dementia, so I suggest that you read the following story about the history of gut microbes.
No microbes – no life
For the first three billion years on Earth, there was no life and no microbes.
Just a dead rock whizzing around the sun.
No microbes – no life. Pretty simple.
Microbes appeared
Then, a billion years ago, microbes appeared, maybe from an asteroid, and life exploded.
The microbes broke down the rocks to produce soil, plants grew in the soil, then animals ate the plants, and other animals ate the animals that ate the plants.
Microbes breed incredibly fast, and the children of microbes are not identical to their parents, so soon there were hundreds of thousands of different species of microbes.
We still have only a limited understanding of this multitude of microbes, but we do know, for sure, that there are beneficial microbes – the good bugs, which lead to a healthy life and harmful microbes – the bad bugs, which make us sick.
Humans arrive
Humanoid creatures evolved some million years ago. There were very few of them, so they lived in isolated communities, so the harmful microbes which make us sick, or kill us, were not too much of a problem.
Agriculture
Then we developed agriculture, which gave us a secure source of food, so we developed cities with people living in close proximity.
These created good conditions for the harmful microbes to breed, so disease and plagues were a major issue.
Modern technology
But humans are inventive creatures, pioneers like Janssen and Leeuwenhoek developed the compound microscope, leading to Louis Pasteur’s understanding of microbes and how they can make us sick.
This understanding led to a wave of technology to reduce infectious diseases being developed. Some were clearly beneficial. Who can debate the benefits of clean drinking water, louse-free bedding, sewage systems, antibiotics, etc.
But as happens so often with technology, the benefits are immediately obvious, but the negatives appear later. I very much doubt that when Stevenson took that ride on the first commercial train, the rocket, he was too much concerned about climate change.
Similarly, our modern food system with its highly productive use of synthetic fertilisers and convenient, highly processed leading to supermarkets full of tasty food loaded with energy may seem a wonder.
The unexpected result is a degradation of the microbial distribution in our guts.
Microbes matter
Microbes play a critical role.
They breed in the soil and break down the rocks to make the nutrients bio-available for the plants that we eat.
Some microbes enter our gut, where they continue to breed. They communicate with each other to create real intelligence, our gut-brain, which regulates our appetite.
Working with our head brain, they learn which foods are beneficial and supply critical nutrients.
If we are deficient in these nutrients, the gut-brain will create hormones so we crave the food that supplies those nutrients and if we are satisfied, it will create hormones so we feel full and satisfied and stop eating.
In ages past, we had no idea about microbes. By random chance, some of the food we ate would contain the nutrients and beneficial microbes, but harmful microbes bred profusely so most people died before reaching their natural life span.
But we learned about the harmful microbes and changed the conditions, improved the way we grew our food, better hygiene with sewage and clean water systems and increased our life span.
But we had not only killed off the harmful microbes but had killed off the beneficial microbes which regulate our bodies. We lowered our gut’s ability to regulate our bodies.
Our intelligent control system recognised the deficiencies and sent out hormones for us to eat more. We accumulate excess fat and as the wrong fat in the wrong place is the underlying cause of chronic or non-infectious diseases, we created the modern epidemic of chronic diseases.
We now need to enter a third stage where we learn to control the conditions so the beneficial microbes out-compete and out-breed the harmful microbes.
This is what Gbiota does, we show people how to control the conditions in both the soil and in the food we eat so the beneficial microbes triumph.
Learning how to do this has been a long and expensive road. But we are a community benefit company, our aim is to benefit the community, not to make unjustified profits at the expense of the community.
Neither are we a charity so we need to cover our costs. Much of the information we supply is free for anyone with an interest to study how food works in our bodies, but we do charge for the more detailed information on how to control the conditions.
If interested you can read about Community benefit companies in the article ‘Changing the system’.
Recent posts
Will it work?
I may be a woke greenie concerned about the communities well being but I read a lot.
One morning I was having my after breakfast read, this time “I’m So effing hungry” by Dr. Amy Shah when I was hit by a bomb shell if you are a pessimist or a light bulb moment if your are an optimist.
You see for years I have been working on the problem of chronic disease, or more specifically why eight million people a year have a limb chopped off from diabetes.
Changing the system
We all want to live a long and healthy life, free of disease. That depends very much on the food we eat.
We need food for energy. Our modern food system provides us with abundant energy food.
We need to build and replace our body parts as they age and wear. This requires many complex chemicals which need a broad spectrum of nutrients and vitamins. Our modern food system barely scrapes a pass.
Gut-brain food
We need food to feed and replenish the microbes in our gut. Our modern system fails here.
What does Gbiota do?
Gbiota enables people to breed beneficial microbes at home under controlled conditions so the beneficial microbes out-breed any harmful microbes.
To live a long and healthy life you need beneficial gut microbes.
It is easy, beneficial gut microbes breed incredibly fast, doubling every twenty minutes 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128……….. 4722366482869645213696 at the end of just one day.
This is not something weird or new. While you have been reading this, you will have grown a few thousand beneficial microbes in your gut without even thinking, or even knowing that you have been growing beneficial microbes.
Innovation
In my case, necessity came from my wife, a medical doctor, who developed diabetes. It got progressively worse to the point where her foot was turning black, and our medical advisers were saying that she needed to have her foot amputated.
Having a foot chopped off is not something you want to make a hobby of, so that created the necessity – how to stop people from having a leg chopped off from diabetes.
This was not just a personal issue; eight million people a year suffer from a diabetic amputation, which costs, on average, about $40,000.
Where we are at
There is a story about a couple touring in Ireland who got lost. They ask a local how to get to Dublin, the reply is ‘If you want to get to Dublin I wouldn’t start from here’
Well, this is where I am at.
My wife, a medical doctor, became diabetic, her foot started to turn black, and our medical advisers told us they needed to amputate her foot.
I have been recognised as one of Australia’s leading innovators, I built up Australia’s leading exporter of technical software, which gave me funds to develop high-risk technology.
Gbiota overview May 25
Necessity is the mother of invention
In my case, necessity came from my wife, a medical doctor, who developed diabetes. It got progressively worse to the point where her foot was turning black, and our medical advisers were saying that she needed to have her foot amputated.
Having a foot chopped off is not something you want to make a hobby of, so that created the necessity – how to stop people from having a leg chopped off from diabetes.
This was not just a personal issue; eight million people a year suffer from a diabetic amputation,
Managing ignorance
The world is in a state of quiet conflict between those who care about their fellow humans and their future and the anti-woke destructors.
The battleground is food that keeps us healthy.
We have an abundance of food, modern technology has increased, (and continues to increase), the production of energy food faster than the increase in population but it is failing to produce the food that sustains our gut microbes which control our bodies, particularly our appetite.
Without a functioning control system, we are like a high performance car with a drunk at the wheel.
Intelligent Control
Everyone has an intelligent control system, it manages our breathing so we have enough oxygen, our heart rate so our muscles have adequate energy, our immune system, our temperature and most importantly our appetite.
This is the result of over a billion years of evolution and is one of the wonders of the world. If we have a fully functioning intelligent control system we can look forward to a long and healthy life, if it malfunctions we may get fat and sick and if it stops working we die.
Change
The Gbiota technology is about how to grow food for better health.
The Gbiota movement is about creating supporting clusters of cooperative people for better health.
A bit of a mess
If you have not noticed at the moment the world is in a bit of a mess.
Humans are the most successful creatures on the planet because we are intelligent and naturally cooperative but that seems to have been overtaken by short-term greed by a few.
Cooperative societies are far more pleasant to live in but that has become too woke.
Gut-brain food industry
Why we need a gut-brain food industry
The world needs a gut-brain food industry.
colinaieeBefore you write me off as some sort of nutter let me tell you that fifty years ago, when computers were clunky mainframes coded by punched cards I predicted that virtually every technical product would be designed using Computer Aided Engineering.
Most people thought I was a nutter.
I was a pioneer of Computer Aided Engineering and was eventually proved right and recognised as one of Australia’s leading innovators.
A compassionate society
Life is good, we are living longer and the supermarkets are full of healthy food.
Sounds great but is it true?
My daughter, when she was about seven taught me a valuable lesson. She said she believed in Father Christmas because if she stopped believing she may not get any presents.
But the other kids around her told her that Father Christmas was not real and it was mum and dad that bought the presents so she stopped believing.
There is a very real problem with our food.
Understanding your gut-brain
We show the process of
– breeding beneficial microbes in organic
– growing plants in this soil using the flood and flush system so the soil breathes and soil blood (like our blood) is regularly circulated
– the microbes enter the plants which we eat to form our gut biome
– the microbes sense if the available food is deficient, when it will send our hormones to make us crave the missing food, and if there is sufficient send out other hormones so we feel satisfied and stop eating.
It worked well until we changed our food system to produce hygienic but inert foods.
Innovation is a funny business
Let us look at the story of food and health.
In the past, and that means going back a million years to the first humanoids there was no epidemic of chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, heart attack and dementia.
These are all caused by the wrong fat in the wrong place and we had evolved a very effective system in which our gut would sense if there were any deficiencies in our diet and send out a hormone complex so we craved the needed food. When satisfied it would send out other hormones saying stop eating you are full.
Good microbes
You can grow the good gut-bugs at home in containers, gbiota baskets – even if you live in an apartment with no garden and no growing experience.
You grow plants which lead to a healthy gut-biome. You change your gut biota by diet – eating plants grown in soil teaming with beneficial microbes and eaten shortly after picking while fresh. We show you how.
If you are a grower we can help you set up a good business supplying gbiota baskets to customers wanting to grow their own gut-bugs and be fit and healthy.
Food Change
For the first few billion years the earth was just a barren rock.
Then microbes appeared, they broke down the rocks and made soil which led to plants flourishing.
Next came animals that ate the plants which were full of microbes so some microbes ended up in the guts of these animals
These microbes digested the animal’s food, manufacturing the spectrum of complex chemicals the animals needed and regulating appetite, sending out specific hormones to make the animals hungry f when they were low in a particular food and yet other hormones so they would stop eating when full.
Managing Change
The third mega-change
If you think the world is going through a difficult period you are right. We are going through our third mega-change and managing this change is not going to be easy.
But we can learn from looking at the two previous mega changes.
Mega change no 1 – Fire and cooking
The biggest change was the use of fire for cooking over a million years ago.
The results were dramatic – more nutrients led to bigger brains and smaller guts.
Fire changed us humans creating a new, very different creature.
Humans became the dominant creature.
hormones
Hormones that control our appetite
Superclinics
We are facing an epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.
In the real world people just carry on with their normal life until their health deteriorates to the point where they need to go to a doctor who tries to cure them.
This is at great personal burden to the individual and financial cost to our health system.
Prevention is better than cure.
I am suggesting setting up a network of prevention super clinics.
The basic cause of chronic disease is deficiencies in our diet, specifically beneficial gut microbes and trace minerals.
Integration trials
Surely the aim for any community is for its members to live a long and healthy life.
Yet we are not doing that well with well over half the population suffering from some form of chronic disease, maybe just a bit podgy, maybe in fear of having a limb amputated from diabetes or worse of all dementia, sitting in a chair, covered with blanket to hide that you have just peed your pants and wondering who those pesky kids are who keep on calling you granddad.
Ignobels
I have created this section for health professionals.
This may seem a little odd as I have no medical qualifications apart from being married to a medical doctor, who became diabetic, her foot turned black and our medical advisers were talking about amputation, but we changed her diet and she still has both feet.
But I am not a drongo, I am an engineer I was selected by the Institute of Engineers as one of Australia’s leading innovators for my pioneering work in Computer Aided Engineering.
Health Professionals
Why is it that some people are fit and healthy, enjoy a long health span with hardly a visit to the doctor while despite the sophistication of modern medical research does the epidemic of chronic diseases continues to increase causing a great deal of personal grief and costing health systems trillions of dollars?
Why is it that some people are slim, fit and healthy and others are fat and sick?
Maybe it is time to take a moment out of the rush of modern living and have a deep think.
Health span or Epidemic
Why is it that some people are fit and healthy, enjoy a long health span with hardly a visit to the doctor while despite the sophistication of modern medical research does the epidemic of chronic diseases continues to increase causing a great deal of personal grief and costing health systems trillions of dollars?
Why is it that some people are slim, fit and healthy and others are fat and sick?
Maybe it is time to take a moment out of the rush of modern living and have a deep think.
Change for the better
Gbiota, at its core, is still about paradigm shifting but the scale of the battle is just so much bigger. Chronic diseases are the biggest health problem across the globe.
Being overweight is everywhere, don’t bother about statistics just go to the local shopping centre.
Diabetes is the most rapidly expanding disease with eight million people a year suffering from a limb amputation, heart attacks are the most common cause of death and at eighty-five
Intelligence
Our gut-brain comprises trillions of cells which communicate with their neighbours to create swarm or group intelligence which regulates our bodies – our intelligent control system.
If our gut brain feels satisfied it will send out hormones which make us feel satisfied.
GLP-1 is the active ingredient in drugs like Ozempic, Seaglitude and Wegovy.
This is a naturally occurring hormone which our body produces automatically to tell us we are full and should stop eating. Our bodies, specifically our gut, normally produce this for free.
But our modern diet, dominated by ultra-processed food is deficient in the foods to feed.
Taste, hunger and healthspan
Is humanity in danger of extinction? Probably not.
Is our modern comfortable lifestyle in danger of extinction? Definitely yes and it is happening right now.
Can we do anything to avoid this? Yes – but it takes a bit of effort to understand the problem and do something about it.
What is the biggest problem? Food – there is plenty of food – that is not the problem – modern food is making us fat and sick. We need food that will lead to a long and healthy life.
Is this a technical problem? No – we know how to by growing food.
Gut health
There are trillions of microbes of thousands of species in your gut. Each cell can communicate with its neighbour to create swarm intelligence which controls our bodies, including our appetite.
If we have a healthy gut we can look forward to a long and healthy life.
Gut bugs are easy to breed, they breed like crazy So why isn’t everyone breeding their own gut bugs?
Because there are bad bugs which also breed easily and make us fat and sick.
So how can we breed the good bugs without breeding the bad bugs?
The Health Myth
Across the globe people are getting fat leading to an epidemic of chronic diseases. Here is why and what we can so about it.
In our gut, we have trillions of microbes of thousands of different species.
We know about swarm or crowd intelligence from studying swarms in nature, in birds, bees, and insects – particularly ants and bees and of course that freak of nature slime moulds.
Each insignificant microbes or cell can communicate with its neighbours, our head brain, and an array of sensors throughout our body to form our intelligent control system which regulates our bodies.
Fake food
An Introduction to the Gbiota Movement for a Healthier Future
With eight billion people on Earth, food production has dramatically increased, yet humanity now faces two significant threats: climate change and the degradation of soil due to industrial farming practices.
His has led to an epidemic of of chronic diseases linked to poor nutrition. The key to combating both lies in an often-overlooked factor—microbes.
This article dives into the intricate world of gut biota and its influence on health, weight, and disease prevention. It highlights Gbiota technology, a sustainable system aimed at breeding beneficial microbes
Health Challenge
Ask around “What is the biggest health challenge?” no not dinosaurs, you are likely to get the very short answer “fat” for the simple reason that the wrong fat in the wrong place is the underlying cause of chronic diseases – obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.
This is a problem across the globe affecting billions of people and costing Government trillions of dollars in health care costs.
So how are we going to fix this – for a start Governments should stop telling people to eat less, that has never worked and never will, is technically wrong.
Your choice
We are at a crossroads and have two options.
In option one we can live in a society dominated by marketing hype, where we buy health bars full of sugars and fats because they are promoted as healthy, where we spend a thousand dollars a month to take drugs like Ozemic in an attempt to get slim but find that after a year our bodies have acclimatised so they no longer work.
It takes little effort but costs a lot of money and we destroy the natural resources of the Earth.
In option 2 we live in a circular economy where we respect the Earth.
Gbiota introduction
What is Gbiota?
Gbiota is a social movement that aims to create a thriving, sustainable society with a food system designed for long, healthy lives. It emphasizes recycling over depleting Earth’s resources and prioritizes community well-being over corporate profits. In essence, it envisions a society that is equitable and enjoyable to live in—both now and for future generations.
Organics save us
Modern food is that it may be hygienic, triple wrapped in plastics, but it is inert lacking the microbes which form our gut-brain which regulates our appetite so we overeat and get fat and sick from chronic diseases – overweight, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia caused by the wrong fat in the wrong place stemming from overeating.
Why we overeat
Why do we overeat? Because of the lack of beneficial microbes in our gut. That regulate our appetite.
Modern food may be hygienic but it is deficient in the essential beneficial microbes.
Introducing the Gbiota technology
The Gbiota technology breeds beneficial microbes in “Wickimix,” a specially enriched soil, for growing nutrient-packed plants that enhance your gut biota that supports natural appetite regulation, combats chronic diseases, and fosters overall well-being.
We want to make this as widely available as possible to all people and here is our plan.
We train and license skilled growers.
They load a mix of organic waste, minerals, and inoculants into raised garden beds together with open mesh Gbiota baskets, like supermarket baskets, and plant with a spectrum of plants.
Welcome
Thrive and survive
The microbes in our gut form an integral part of the intelligent control system which regulates our bodies and is vital for health. In the past, these came naturally from the soil and the guts of creatures in the soil via the plants we ate.
Our modern food system may be hygienic but is inert and does not feed or replace these essential microbes.
This deficiency is the underlying cause of all modern diseases – overweight, diabetes, heart attack and dementia – the big killers of our modern era.
Changing the Health Paradigm
We are living longer, thanks to major advances in medical science.
In the past people died, often when young, from infectious diseases now we die predominantly from chronic or non-infectious diseases with three out of four people dying from a chronic disease.
We are in the midst of an epidemic of chronic diseases – overweight, diabetes, heart attacks, strokes and dementia.
Medical science may keep us alive for a long time but far worse is that we may live for a long time with poor health. Our life span may be increasing but our health span is not.
Mind and body
We are living longer, thanks to major advances in medical science.
In the past people died, often when young, from infectious diseases now we die predominantly from chronic or non-infectious diseases with three out of four people dying from a chronic disease.
We are in the midst of an epidemic of chronic diseases overweight, diabetes, heart attacks, strokes and dementia.
Medical science may keep us alive for a long time but far worse is that we may live for a long time with poor health. Our life span may be increasing but our health span is not.
Game changer
As a celebrated engineer recognized for his groundbreaking work in Computer Aided Engineering, Colin’s expertise in adaptive systems sparked a revolutionary idea: What if chronic diseases like diabetes, obesity, and dementia stem from a malfunctioning intelligent control system within our bodies?
Drawing inspiration from swarm intelligence in nature—like the collective behaviour of birds, insects, and even slime moulds – Colin realised the key wasn’t about fully understanding this intricate system. Instead, it was about nurturing it, much like feeding and training a loyal puppy.
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Our Intelligent control system
We eat food which contains a complex array of chemicals. These are converted into sugars for immediate energy, fats for longer-term storage, together with nutrients and vitamins to replace our body parts as they age and wear.
This is all done by our intelligent control system which regulates our bodies, including our appetite, deciding what and how much we need to eat.
We can see our intelligent control system in operation, moving fats from long term storage to sugars in our blood by monitoring our blood sugar levels.
Summary
Food is the key to health.
Junk food is tasty, convenient, inexpensive but not healthy.
Genuine organic food may be healthy but is very expensive.
But there is a third type of food which is both healthy and inexpensive, cheaper than junk food and healthier than organic food.
How can that possibly be? What is the catch? It takes a little effort to understand how food works in our bodies and to grow, or buy, this food takes a little effort, that is the cost of health.
This web is in two main sections.
Essence
Chronic diseases, overweight, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia are the major health issue of our time.
They are caused by the wrong fat in the wrong place.
Conventional thinking is that this is caused by eating more than we use, the calorie balance theory.
This theory I almost universally promoted and is the accepted norm.
It does explain how we get fat and sick but does not explain why.
Why is because we have an intelligent controls system which regulates our bodies. If it senses any deficiencies it will send out hunger signals so we eat more.
The Trial
We know that the world’s biggest health issue is the epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia and that these are caused by the wrong fat in the wrong place.
We think we know how to fix it, eat less and exercise more but we have been trying that for decades and we know for sure that it has not worked, people are getting fatter and diabetes is the fastest-growing disease on the planet.
We live in an age of hyper-activity. Everyone is heads down with busy work but maybe it is time to take a break and have a bit of a think.
Healthy food – intro
Junk food is tasty, convenient, inexpensive but not healthy.
Genuine organic food may be healthy but is very expensive.
But there is a third type of food which is both health and inexpensive, cheaper than junk food and healthier then organic food.
How can that possibly be? What is the catch?
Community Benefit
My wife Xiulan, a medical doctor and surgeon became diabetic, the
professional medical advice given to us was that diabetes is an irreversible chronic disease, it will steadily get worse, we will put you on progressively stronger medicines but eventually, you are likely to end up with insulin injections and you will probably die young from some complications arising from diabetes.
We accepted that advice as an honest attempt to make us aware of the harsh
reality.
But when her foot started to turn black we were advised that she would
probably need to have her foot amputated.
Ecosystems
We must create an ecosystem, a food ecosystem in which humans can thrive.
Charles Darwin taught us that creatures evolve to thrive in their local environment. Humans now have the technology to change our environment, we must use our technology to create an environment where humans can thrive.
Sure our immediate focus is combating the current epidemic, but we won’t do that with some-short term fix.
We have to create the ecosystem, the food ecosystem in which humans can thrive.
Join us in this community benefit movement putting people ahead of profits.
Chronic disease
Gbiota is a community benefit organisation aiming to prevent the current epidemic of chronic diseases, overweight, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.
These are all caused by the wrong fat in the wrong place.
We all have a highly sophisticated intelligent control system, our gut-brain, which regulates our appetite so we don’t overeat and get fat. It works incredibly well but we need to feed it gut-brain food – plants eaten while fresh, grown in soil teaming with beneficial microbes.gbiotabox
Gbiota shows you how to either grow or buy gut brain-food.
Health paradox
Chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia cause a great deal of personal distress and cost Governments billions of dollars.
They are very difficult to cure but can be prevented relatively easily and at low cost. But that requires a change in the way our Governments, our health systems, and society operate to one with a focus on prevention rather than cure.
The underlying cause of all chronic diseases is the wrong fat in the wrong place.
So how does the fat get in the wrong place?
The wrong fat in the wrong place is the underlying cause of all chronic diseases.
Prevention better than cure
Two-thirds of the population are overweight, the wrong fat in the wrong place is the root cause of all chronic diseases.
Diabetes is the fastest-growing disease with half a billion sufferers and eight million people a year suffering a limb amputation.
Heart attacks are the most common cause of death while dementia must be one of the most distressing diseases.
Health systems are creaking at the joints with not enough doctors and health workers.
A shortage of beds leads to Ambulance ramping.
Health – prevention first
Across the globe, we are suffering from an epidemic of chronic or non-infectious diseases.
We know that these chronic diseases are caused by the wrong fat in the wrong place and it is widely assumed that this is because we are eating too much sugary fatty foods.
While it is true that we do have to consume an excess of sugary fatty foods this is not the cause. How much and where we store fat is decided by our intelligent control system which regulates our bodies.
Society
Two-thirds of the population are overweight, the wrong fat in the wrong place is the root cause of all chronic diseases.
Health systems are creaking at the joints with not enough doctors and health workers.
A shortage of beds leads to Ambulance ramping.
Governments struggle to maintain an overstretched health system.
The costs to our health system are measured in billions of dollars – one of the highest costs to Governments worldwide.
Welcome as it may be spending more money on health is not the solution so what is the solution?
In one word prevention.
Food – we love it
Food – we love it. But it is making us fat and sick and growing it is destroying the soils and planet on which we all depend.
What has gone wrong and what do we do about it?
Some experts say it is because we eat too much so we should eat less and exercise more. Other experts say it is our modern food with too much fat and sugar.
The truth is so simple that no one believes it.
Our bodies have evolved to have an intelligent control system which says stop eating when you are full.
Prevention
Across the globe we are suffering from an epidemic of chronic or non infectious diseases. Three out of four people die prematurely from a chronic disease. The social and economic costs are massive stretching our medical resources to the limit and at high cost.
We know that these chronic diseases are caused but the wrong fat in the wrong place and it is widely assumed that this is because we are eating too much sugary fatty foods – the calorie balance theory.
While it is true that we do have to consume an excess of sugary fatty foods this is not the cause. How much and where we store fat is decided by our intelligent control system which regulates our bodies. The microbes in our gut are an integral part of out intelligent control system regulating our appetite and immune system.
Friendly bugs
Our bodies have an intelligent control system which regulates our bodies, particularly our appetite and immune system.
Our gut is an integral part of this control system. If we have the right blend of species in our gut we can expect a long and healthy life, if we have a poor blend of species we get fat and sick.
Welcome to Gbiota
We teach how to grow plants as pre and pro-biotics. That is the easy bit, understanding and applying the science of breeding beneficial microbes in a special soil, Wickimix largely made from organic and rock dust, and using the principle of Eco balance to create the condition so the beneficial microbes out-breed the harmful microbes.
Community Health
We are in the midst of an epidemic of chronic diseases, overweight, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.
They say eat less exercise more but that does not work.
Our gut-brain is part of our intelligent control system which regulates our appetite.
Our modern food system no longer feeds our gut-brain so we have to switch from the calorie balance paradigm to the intelligent control paradigm.
Changing paradigms is always a bloody affair with vested interest this will be particularly bloody.
The article ‘Community Health’ tells the story of this particularly bloody battle.
Jenny
Jenny, one of our Gbiota members asked a simple question. I am told that my answer is one of the most important articles on how to sustainably grow healthy food and combat the epidemic of chronic disease so I have made this available for public viewing under the creative Commons system – it can be copied and reproduced without further permission, just acknowledgement of source www.gbiota.com
The plan
There are two problems.
The short-term problem is that our current food system is deficient in the microbes which form our gut biome and essential minerals which have led to an epidemic of chronic or non-infectious diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.
The longer-term problem is our current food system relies on the exploitation of finite resources, particularly water, which is aggravated by climate change and shortages of key minerals which are being exhausted. Phosphorous is the most urgent.
Riddle
Look around the world and back over time and you will see the great riddle of three communities.
We see low tech communities with a poor food system, lack of hygiene and medical support where people die before their natural life from infectious diseases. This is clearly bad
We see rich high tech communities with a sophisticated food system, good hygiene and medical support and where people die before their natural life from non-infectious or chronic diseases.
invite
The Gbiota process of breeding beneficial gut microbes starts in the soil where the conditions are controlled so the beneficial microbes out-breed and out-compete the harmful microbes.
This is called Eco-balance which is how the world has worked for billions of years.
This is why you don’t find polar bears in the Sahara desert or antelopes in the Arctic. They each require their specific conditions to breed, if those conditions are met they successfully breed and become the dominant creature and if those conditions are not met they are out-bred.
Adoption
This web is in two parts, the easy bit and the really hard bit.
The easy bit
The easy bit is the technology. Healthy plants need a balanced combination of nutrients, water and air.
Nutrients are easy, all you need to understand is that organic waste, our basic input, already contains a lot of nutrients but will need topping up with essential trace minerals which are found in abundance in volcanic rock dust and you may need a bit of dolomite or calcium to balance the pH.
Applying technology
With all our modern technology and automated production capacity, we should only need to work a couple of days a week to have everything we need and live a healthy life right to the end of our natural life.
But we are not so what went wrong? There is nothing wrong with the technology – we just don’t know how to apply it for the benefit of the community.
disease
With all our modern technology and automated production capacity, we should only need to work a couple of days a week to have everything we need and live a healthy life right to the end of our natural life.
But we are not so what went wrong? There is nothing wrong with the technology – we just don’t know how to apply it for the benefit of the community.
Technology
I do hold this belief that technology should work for the benefit of the community and it is not. It may be making a handful of people rich beyond imagination but are the benefits of this technology flowing through to the community – I think not.
Is it good that we develop technology so military people can sit in armchair comfort to kill women and children with remote-controlled drones?
Recycle
The global food crisis is not some threat for the future, it is here right now, it is not just about poor people starving in some remote country it is about people in rich countries suffering from chronic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.
It is man-man made, if you face having a leg amputated it is a direct result of the food crisis – the wrong sort of food from our modern food system.
Serious think about food
Has the world gone mad?
We have mega companies spending billions of dollars on advertising so we buy food that makes us fat and sick and die before our time.
Then we have other big companies that spend billions of dollars on advertising so we buy pills that are supposed to stop us getting fat and sick and dying before our time.
So I wrote a hip-hop E-book called ‘A serious think about food’. This hip-hop E-book is like
Think smarter
I want to sell you a concept. It is free you don’t have to pay me anything but you do have to think seriously about it for five minutes and getting anyone to devote five minutes to thinking is a challenge in these modern times.
There are a number of steps to this thinking, the first one is the difference between conscious and subconscious thinking.
Food paradigm shift
Food paradigm shift I have decided to include this in my hip-hop dynamic book even though I probably should not as I wrote this in a state of fury so you may be better to use the skip button above. The Internet Advising Industry seems to think that the entire world...
Thrive and survive
At the start, the earth was just a dead inert rock. Then the microbiota appeared, we don’t know from where, but they broke down the rocks making the nutrients in the rocks bio-available creating soil. Plants grew capturing energy from the sun, then animals and life on earth exploded.
Humanoid creatures appeared but they were small and puny. They developed a gut, full of trillions of biota which communicated with each other to provide intelligence, just like a modern computer, which regulated what and how much they wanted to eat and also taught their immune system.
Smart young girl
There is a nice story about a smart young lady who stalled her ageing car on a busy road.
Try as she might she could not get the car started and soon there was a monster traffic jam. The man in the car behind started to blow his horn in a furious rage, she did not know what to do so she went to the car behind and said very politely “Excuse me, sir, would you like to try and start my car while I sit in your car and blow the horn”.
Soil blood
Last updated 8th August with section on foliar irrigation
Our basic inputs are organic waste, manure and volcanic rock dust. All cheap, readily available and sustainable.
The microbes, particularly the fungi, break down the rock dust making a whole spectrum of minerals bio-available while also enhancing our gut health.
This is all embedded in the soil blood which is full of a broad spectrum of both minerals and living creatures. If allowed to become stagnant this would soon become a stinking mess full of harmful pathogens.
Breeding Wickimix
Last updated 8th August with section on making Wickimix in Gbiota boxes
Wickimix is simply a growing medium, soil teaming with life and nutrients and is central to the Gbiota system.
It has been produced in Wicking beds by a technology which is now well-matured and stable and is described in the numerous articles listed below.
But while straightforward it does involve pumps and various irrigation technologies which are well suited to an experienced grower who could supply Wickimix as a growing medium, in clean skin boxes ready for planting or even better …..
Tim Spector
It is well known that our gut biota plays a major roles in our health. Many researchers, such as Tim Spector, Professor at Imperial College, London explains this in his book Food for Life.
Microbes breed and die incredibly fast. Within twenty minutes a new microbe will start to breed but will die after maybe seventy hours. The population continues but the individual microbes die.
Enhancing gut health
This was made as a page by a professional graphics designer, I am republishing as a post as I like the graphics
Food not pills
A million years ago the first humanoids appeared, they had a food Eco-system based on eating plants from living soils. These microbes bred in the soil, protected them and they thrived and became us.
Then we changed our food Eco-system, started eating sterile food, we felt unsatisfied, overfed but undernourished, stressed and angry.
Library
List of all articles
Real food
Ever think about what food is doing to your body? There are foods for energy, replace parts as they age and wear and to feed our gut.
There is more than enough energy food in our modern diet, replacement food is marginal but gut food is seriously lacking yet is the most important.
Let me tell you a story.Ever think about what food is doing to your body? There are foods for energy, replace parts as they age and wear and to feed our gut.
Making a Gbiota box July 24
Update on how to make Gbota boxes July 24
Gbiota overview
Pick and eat plants grown in living soil – that is the way to feed your gut-brain which controls your appetite and how much fat your body stores.
The wrong fat in the wrong place is the underlying cause of the modern epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.
This article is an overview of how the Gbiota system works.
Our intelligent control system
We all have an intelligent control system that regulates our bodies. How it works is one of the great mysteries of life. It is not one single organism but is a collection of sensors, intelligence, hormones and electric signals which work together as an integrated system.
If we see a pretty girl offering pieces of cheesecake it will make us feel hungry, if we smell the morning fresh air in a forest it will make us want to get up and walk, if we hear the sound or rhythmic drumming we will want to move our body in synchrony.
The essence
Describes the underlying principles of the Gbiota movement
My teddy
The heartless massacre of ordinary people by powerful militia and the possibility of World War 3 cannot go unnoticed.
Neither can the waves of hungry refugees moving across the globe looking for a safe place to live.
We could say that is just ‘The News’ but look at one of the wealthiest countries in the world, good old Australia. Homeless people sleeping under bridges because there are not enough houses while we have plenty of land while the builders who could build more houses are going bankrupt.
The Great Food War
Will the power of mega-corporations that control our food system reign supreme leaving the community fat and sick and destroying civilisation as we know it as the supply of essential minerals is exhausted or will the community rise up and unite so common sense prevails?
Let me start with the story of the mouse and the elephant.
Growers wanted
Growers wanted
At this moment Gbiota is used by a pretty determined bunch who are prepared to the bother of making their own Gbiota beds and boxes. However, it is now clear that while there are many people who want to have the health benefits of eating Gbiota food the majority of people just want to have a box delivered to their home.
Feed your gut brain
We need the right sort of microbes in our gut to be healthy. The microbes in our gut communicate with each other to form our intelligent control system which regulates our bodies, particularly how much and what sort of food we want to eat.
Community benefit
My wife Xiulan, a medical doctor and surgeon became diabetic, the professional medical given to us was that diabetes is an irreversible chronic disease, that will steadily get worse, we will put you on progressively stronger medicines but eventually, you are likely to end up with insulin injections and you will probably die young from some complications from diabetes.
Does it work
Overweight, diabetes, heart attacks, and dementia all have a common underlying cause – the wrong fat in the wrong place.
This is not because we have turned into little piggies and overeat, it is because our modern chemical industrial food system is deficient in phytonutrients and beneficial microbes.
Getting started
How to grow gut brain food and live a long and healthy life
Making a Gbiota box
Here I extract the key points from the many previous points and collect into one spost
Save 100,000 legs from diabetic amputation
I have set myself the target of saving 100,000 people from a diabetic leg amputation before the end of 2025.
I know how to do this, I am an engineer and engineers take the best available science and turn this into a practical solution.
But that is not enough, I am also an entrepreneur and entrepreneurs ensure that this practical solution is adopted.
I have a track record I was a pioneer of computer-aided engineering and built up a multi-million dollar company from my back bedroom which ensured that my pioneering technology was adopted globally.
Food crisis
Food is one of the major threats to humanity, not an absolute lack of food – we produce more than enough energy food, carbs, fats and sugars, to feed the entire world now and well into the future.
Right now our food is deficient in essential minerals but even more important is food to feed out gut-brain which regulates our appetite and hosts much of our immune system.
Across the globe people are getting fat and sick, and it is not simply because we overeat. The real reason is that our gut-brain senses these deficiencies, decides we need to store more fat and sends out signals so we overeat.
Your turn
How to reduce 8 million amputation
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Why we get fat
We get fat because our gut-brain says so
Not little piggies
We don’t get fat and sick because we are little piggies and stuff ourselves with chicken wings, chips and ultra-processed foods.
We get fat because we have deficiencies in our diet, this is sensed by our intelligent control system, our gut-brain, which regulates our bodies.
Sensing problems it hits that big red alarm bell sending out messages – hormones and electrical signals – saying we have an emergency, eat more food and store it wherever possible.
Eco-balance
Humans have evolved to be naturally not fat – it is not good in the survival stakes. Our bodies naturally sense when we are full and our gut manufactures hormones which make us feel full and stop eating.
So-called obesity drugs, like Ozempic, are humans attempt to simulate the actions of our natural hormones.
But modern food is deficient in both certain trace minerals and more importantly the microbes that form our gut-brain.
Compost – Bin or Bury?
It is just a sad fact of life that our modern food system is not working the way it should, which means reduced health span (the length of time we are fit and healthy – not the same as life span) and is the underlying cause of the modern epidemic of chronic of non-infectious diseases.
The underlying cause is the wrong fat in the wrong place which raises the question of why our bodies should store fat in the wrong places – or simply, why do we get fat?
The common answer, from both the lay public and experts in the field, would be that we eat too much and that is simply not consistent with the facts.
Food, health and wealth for all
I present a plan that will lead to a better life so we and our grandkids can live a happier and healthier life – the plan is about future food which affects us both physically and physiologically.
Right now we are facing a health crisis, both physical and psychological, from deficiencies in our food system. In the future we face an even greater crisis from climate change, degradation of our soils, and exploitation of nutrients.
Why we need to act
People across the globe are suffering an epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks, and dementia. It is the biggest health threat facing humanity (See Survival).
The underlying reason for this epidemic of chronic diseases is the wrong fat in the wrong place.
Everybody has an intelligent control system that regulates our bodies.
It is a combination of our head and gut brains.
We cannot change our head brain, but we can train it and may change how it is expressed (Epigenetics) essentially we are stuck with it.
But we can change our gut brain, simply by what what we eat.
Gbiota boxes – made easy
Developing a simple Gbiota box for people living in apartments has been the focus of my development work – Why?
The world is very different to when I was born. Back then infectious diseases were the biggest health issue. We were obsessed with germs, they had to be eliminated at all costs and adopting a chemical approach, swapping manure with chemical fertilisers, toxic sprays and antibiotics we have been successful in killing them.
Survival
Humans are the great survivors. We are the dominant species on Earth, spreading across the globe to every corner of the Earth that is vaguely habitable.
Now we are under threat, what could possibly be a threat to this great survivor species? To answer that we have to ask what makes us so good at surviving.
We are not naturally well equipped, we don’t have big teeth or claws like a tiger, we cannot run fast like an antelope and we don’t even have the reaction time of a fly.
Map
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