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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.

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.

The gut is a highly sophisticated organ that does much more than digest food.

It forms part of a real brain which controls our bodies, particularly our appetite, what and how much we eat, how much and where we store fat and helps to train our immune system.

Eating food that started in healthy soil increases the chance of a long and healthy life and avoiding modern diseases which result from synthetic soils and foods.

Healthy soils were created over thousands of years but in the last fifty years we have been destroying these soils by synthetic chemicals – this is a threat to the survival of our species.

Taking pills and supplements is not the solution – we need to eat real food.

The world is suffering a food crisis, not in quantity – we are actually producing more food than the world needs – but in the quality that will lead us to expect a long and healthy life free of the modern diseases obesity, diabetes, heart attacks, dementia, etc.
This is not going to be solved by the Mega Corporations that control our food system or even the Governments we elect to safeguard our interests.
It is going to be solved by people saying I want to live a long and healthy life and not have my leg chopped off from diabetes.

What is the best pro-biotic ever, in fact the only one that really works for sure?
Answer human breast milk.
Puzzled scientists
For many ears scientist were puzzled about some weird stuff in breast milk that was indigestible by the baby – then it clicked that this was to feed the babies microbes.

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.Gbiota overview

Health starts in the soil

Let us look at what science can tell us about life as though our lives depend on it – as they do.

Back to the start
The earth is some four billion years old, which is a very long time. Just dead inert rock the only living life was microscopic organism we call microbes, we don’t know whether they came as the earth was formed of shortly after.

Very slowly they started to break down the rocks to form soil but that was a very slow process without energy to power the breakdown

Ask me what Gbiota is all about and I would reply the survival of our species. You may think that I would be talking about climate change, the degradation of our soils or even some new plague.
And certainly I will talk about those – but later. First I have to talk about what Gbiota is really about.
Charles Darwin and the survival of the fittest
And to start I will talk about Charles Darwin – one of the worlds great lateral thinkers.

Welcome to gbiota.com the technical web for the Gbiota movement which is focused on improving gut health by growing plants in biologically active, nutrient rich soils.

We have tried to make the actual growing of the plants as simple and inexpensive as possible so virtually everyone has ready access which you can do by following the practical guide lines on this web.

We are the first generation in history which decides whether we are a healthy people living on a healthy planet or let short term greed lead to our destruction.

Here we show how we can recycle organic waste to grow soil to grow plants which will feed our gut brain which regulates our appetite – what we want to eat and how much and where we store fat.

We are experiencing a dramatic increase in diabetes. Fifty years ago just 1% of the population were diabetic but this has increased to 14% and is steadily increasing.

We think the fundamental reason is poor gut health. Our gut is not just another organ it contains trillions of cells which communicate with each other, like in a computer, to provide genuine intelligence. It controls our appetite and where and how much fat we store in our bodies.

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The new industry of growing natural pre and pro biotics
Background
We know that there are trillions of cells in our gut which communicate with each other to create a real brain, which working with our head brain, creates an intelligent control system regulating our bodies.

In particular our appetite and how much fat we store, and whether we clog up our arteries, brain and pancreas which leads to the most rapidly expanding disease of our era – diabetes where every eight seconds some unfortunate soul has a limb amputated.

How we got fat wrong
Every eight seconds some sad soul has a limb amputated from diabetes. What makes this so terrible is that this largely avoidable if the latest medical thinking were widely applied.

The Gbiota club is a community of people that wants to enhance their gut micro-biome by eating plants grown in soil teaming with beneficial microbes, minerals and nutrients.

Members can be either growers or consumers (biofoodies). The biofoodies use Gbiota Wicking boxes which enable them to grow plants with minimal effort even if they live is apartments. These Wicking boxes have two compartments – one for water and the other for the growing medium -a type of soil called Wickimix which they can buy from the growers.

Historically four out of every five people died before their natural age from an infectious
disease. Both medical science and our food system has responded by finding better ways
of killing these pathogens. While largely successful we have also inadvertently reduced
the number of beneficial biota which has led to an upsurge in non-infectious diseases such
as diabetes, heart attack and dementia.
We have learned the hard way that we are totally dependant on these beneficial biota.

Growers breed beneficial microbes in organic matter in the soil, also adding rock dust
which is broken down by the microbes into accessible minerals forming nutrient rich
biologically active soil.
This soil is placed into Bioboxes which are seeded and plants grown. The microbes and
minerals enter the plants we eat. The boxes are supplied to customers who harvest and
eat the plants full of living microbes to enhance the gut brain which controls appetite,
manages replacement of body part as they age and wear and host much of the immune
system.

Health and life span
We all have to eat and what we eat determines our health and life span.

Thanks to medical science our life span has been increasing, no thanks to our modern food system our health span, how long we remain fit and healthy has been decreasing.

Water- that weird substances
Water has many weird properties apart from being one of the few substances which expands when it freezes so ice floats and pipes burst.

The bulk of the food we eat is just burned for energy. We are really just a walking talking thermodynamic machine just like any other thermodynamic machine from a steam engine to a rocket ship.

We are also a warm blooded creature so we need fuel just to keep us warm. It has been estimated that 80% of the food we eat is simply burned as fuel.

It is dead simple – we just burn carbon and hydrogen to give of carbon dioxide, water and lots of energy. It really does not matter what the food is, sugar, carbohydrates, fats or whatever – it is just energy.

Wet and windy Melbourne

Some fifty years ago in the mid 1970’s I lived just outside wet and windy Melbourne in nice block with a creek running through the centre. In winter there was plenty or rain but in summer we would get those hot northerlies off the desert which would dry everything out.

I made a dam and fitted a pump to take the water to the top of the block were it would run down a series of channels I made based on the Key line principles. Worked fine but the channels were a right pain in moving the block so I put some pipe with holes into the channels and buried them to give me a flat surface.

This is remarkably similar to the modern Gbiota beds.

Every day we here stories of doom and gloom about food, price hikes from floods and droughts, problems with the supply chain from Covid, lack of nutrients and beneficial biota leading to diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.

It all sounds pretty miserable so why not do something about it. Here we are focused on solutions.

Our gut brain is the key to good health.

Consumer get fresh veggies which act as gut food which is genuinely healthy at an affordable price, growers get paid for what they like doing while the Gbiota team provide the technology of growing gut food.

Growers breed beneficial microbes in organic matter in the soil, also adding rock dust which is broken down by the microbes into accessible minerals forming nutrient rich, biologically active, soil.

Unless you are a total hermit you can’t have missed that the world is in a bit of a mess – Covid, bush fires, floods droughts and food shortages.
When the price of an iceberg lettuce rises from $2 to $13 then you have to notice. OK the price has now dropped down to $7 so everything is going to be OK – no that is just because they are shipping them in from miles away. Things are bad and are going to get worse.
I thought I would Google to see how much carbon dioxide was emitted in the recent bush fires – 700 million tons – compared that with a total emission from Australia of 500 million tons. My going to the shops on my bike rather than driving my car is not going to have much impact on that – however good it may make me feel that I am making a contribution.
So what can I do that will have an impact, particularly to the food crisis and the wobbly food chain?

If you looking at this web I assume you are interested in your health and understand that you just cannot be really healthy unless you are eating healthy food.

You are probably aware you are low in Magnesium because the majority of the population are low in Magnesium.

If you are a female you probably also realise that you could be low in iron.

If you are male then you may not have caught up with the sniggering that if you are a sexually active male that one night of happy frolicking can deplete your zinc reserves. That is bad as zinc is important to our immune systems.

If you live in cloud cuckoo land you may believe that there will be a continuous supply of healthy food way into the future. Dream on.

But if you live in the real world you will see we are on a high speed train heading straight for a cliff and that cliff is a major food crisis where the supermarkets are full of food loaded with sugars, fats and carbs which will make us fat and sick.

But no real food.

You can go to the supermarket and buy energy food, loaded with sugars, fats and carbs at a reasonable price.

But try and buy fresh vegetables, what they call fresh is days or weeks old by which time most of the goodness has long gone.

If you are a keen and skilled gardener you can grow you own and just pick and eat so it is genuinely fresh.
But what happens if you don’t have land, skills or time. That is where Gbiota Bioboxes come in to play.

Fresh fruit and vegetables growing at home and buying directly from the grower at a lot lower cost and with a reliable supply chain.

Iceberg lettuce – was $2 now – if you can find one $13.
lettuceThe food crisis is here and it is here to stay. Don’t be deluded that after the floods have gone and Putins war is over everything will go back to normal – it won’t.

The Gbiota movement focus is how to grow food, in a sustainable way that we, our grand kids and their grand kids can eat food that will make them healthy.

We don’t sell food, or anything, we just provide the know how – the growing technology for those people want to buy or grow food that will make them healthy.

The aim of the Gbiota technology is to replenish our gut with living beneficial biota and the food it needs to thrive.
Gut biota has a short life so it is important to eat plants while there are fresh, which means shortly after harvesting.
The Gbiota Biota Biobox system allows almost everyone to have the health benefits of genuinely fresh food with the beneficial biota even if they have limited space, growing expertise or time.

Our gut brain consists of trillions of cells which communicate with eat other and send out signals saying we need to eat more of this or that or simply stop eating as we are satisfied.

The aim of the Gbiota technology is to replenish our gut with living beneficial biota and the food it needs to thrive.
Gut biota has a short life so it is important to eat plants while there are fresh, which means shortly after harvesting rather than they have not yet gone rotten – very different things.

The aim of the Gbiota technology is to replenish our gut with living beneficial biota and the food it needs to thrive.

Gut biota has a short life so it is important to eat plants while there are fresh, which means shortly after harvesting rather than they have not yet gone rotten – very different things.

People with a garden and the skills and the time can set up their own Gbiota beds and have fresh food every day but the Gbiota Biota box system allows almost everyone to have the health benefits of genuinely fresh food with the beneficial biota.

In the wonderful world of food the established paradigm, based on chemistry, has been incredibly successful. In my life time, incredibly short on a geological time scale, we have increased food production by a factor of 4.3 – just totally stunning. At the centre of this success is nitrogen – we learned the chemistry of how to capture nitrogen from the air to make fertilisers and whoom! food production just went through the roof. But there is a problem ….

We have two brains, one that lives in our head and another we can call Gertrude that lives largely in our gut.
They both work in the same way with trillions of cells which can communicate with each other like a super computer so they have intelligence and can learn.

The purpose of the Gbiota local food movement is to help people set up viable, ethical, and sustainable businesses supplying their local community with gut food.

To understand why this is important we need to understand about gut biology or Gbiota.

It is about breeding beneficial biology in the soil and in the guts of the creatures that live in the soil. This biology enters the plants which we eat together with a plentiful supply of the food to feed the biology.

These may all be packed inside a cabbage but the cabbage is purely the packaging for the biology.

It is not about selling cabbages, or selling anything for that matter, it is about showing people how they can grow the beneficial biology by recycling waste.

Recent heavy rains, and the accompanying crop damage, has shown us the need to modify our growing systems to adapt to extreme weather.
A much more serious issue is that in the midst of the saturation bombing of the digital and social media era we seem to think that we can happily live in a world of virtual reality divorces from actual reality.

We need to rethink food. In my life time, which is minuscule in comparison with how long humanoids have been on this earth, the global population has increased but a factor of three – totally unprecedented in human history – but food production has increased by a factor of 4.3 – at least in calorie terms that’s almost 50% faster than the increase in human population.

Let me tell you a story about food. In our modern society all we seem to want as adults is a catch phrase ‘Make plum pudding tasty again’ or better a photo on their smart phone with a catchy caption.

Our gut is one of the most important organs in our body – made up of trillions of cells that communicate with each other – it has real intelligence – our gut brain – which controls much of our body functions.

You simply cannot be healthy without a healthy gut and that means you have to feed it and that is what Gbiota food is all about.

Gbiota beds were developed to grow plants to feed our guts. Technically they have been successful but may be a bit complex for many people, particularly pregnant ladies and mums who determine gut biology for our future life.
Everyone should be able to access healthy gut food at an affordable price so we need to develop a new system for distributing gut food. Experienced growers, either amateur or profession will set up full scale Gbiota beds to grow Gbiota soil.

People don’t get fat and sick simply because they just happen to eat too much, they get fat and sick because their gut brain is not working as it should – so then they end up eating too much.

The purpose of GBiota beds is to breed beneficial biology in the soil. This biology enters the plants growing in the soil so when we eat the plants they act as natural pre pro biotics as well us providing valuable nutrients but key point of Gbiota beds is to provide us with the beneficial biology.

This is an update on the practical side of making and managing Gbiota beds. I assume you are familiar with the previous publications and videos available under videos, blogs and growing in the menu.
The major developments are the use of the compost tube to give better and faster composting and the conversion of the school bed from Wicking bed to a Gbiota bed and the use of a solar powered pump.

What should I eat so I am fit and healthy – what can eight billion people eat so they are fit and healthy and what will my great grand kids be able to eat so they are fit and healthy.

Gbiota beds grow plants to enhance our gut biology – here is the basic principles of how they work