Sometime I write serious technical article in a formal style, but George wanted to know everything. He was more interested in how I though rather than what I thought. Does not sound very different but actually is.

So just pretend that George and I have had a very nice meal and a few glasses of red and are just having a nice old chat about the state of the world and innovation in particular.

In my last article I wrote about my fictitious character Mary, poor single mum with three kids and three jobs to pay off her exorbitant rent. If anybody needs a healthy gut it is Mary.
The microbes that make up our gut breed like crazy but they also have a short life so the practical solution is for Mary to have a Gbiota box in her apartment growing plants which she can pick and eat while fresh.
But that was just not possible until George came galloping over the horizon on his white horse.
In my last article I explained how Mary can meet up, and George, being a decent sort of guy, is willing to help Mary. My job is to explain to George the simplest way of doing this.

Mary is my fictitious single mum with 3 kids and three jobs to pay off the exorbitant rent.
She knows enough about gut biology to recognise that a healthy gut would help her cope with her stressful life and is important for her kids health but she just does not have time to read a lot of technical stuff or the energy or room to set up a botanical garden in her apartment.

I wrote this document just for Mary to help her get going into the wonderful world of gut health.

It seems there are many people who understand the importance of gut health and how the trillions of cells made up from thousands of species talk to each other to form our intelligent control system which among other things controls our appetite so we naturally want to eat the right amount of the right sort of food and hosts and trains much our our immune system.

So there are many motivated people that understand the importance of gut health and see the solution is the apparently simple way of eating plant grown in soil teaming with beneficial microbes and nutrients.

So what is the hang up?

Well let me introduce you to Mary, she is a single parent with two kids, living in an apartment and has three jobs to pay for the exorbitant rent.

Actually Mary is a fictitious person I made up up to help me focus my thinking on how to help the people that really need helping but in real life I know many Marys.

However simple I try and make the technology and the documentation there is just no way that Mary can set up and run her own Gbiota bed, for a start her Landlord is not going to be happy with her having piles of compost and manure in her flat.

But here is what she can do

My frustration

I am tearing my hair out with frustration (fact).

Which would you choose a long life, fit and healthy and free of disease or die young sick and fat. As every eight second someone has a limb amputated from diabetes there is no need to answer.

To have a long and healthy life needs a healthy gut (fact).

Our gut is a brain which controls our appetite, how much and what sort of food we need to eat and hosts much of our immune system (fact).

Right now you are successfully breeding beneficial microbes in your gut. That is good because most people want to live a long life, be strong, fit and healthy and avoid diseases and that needs a healthy gut.

You don’t need to be a post doc in microbiology to breed gut microbes, you are doing it right now, your cat, dog and budgy do it and your great, great grandmother did it without even knowing they were doing it but it really helps you do it much better if you have a basic understanding of ecological balance.

The aim of the Gbiota club is to improve gut health by breeding beneficial microbes in a special soil, called Wickimix, to grow plants which act as natural pre and pro biotics.

Our gut does much more than help digest our food, together with our head brain it acts as an intelligent control system which subconsciously manages many body functions, particularly our appetite and our immune system.

Poor gut health leads to being overweight with all the attended health issues such as diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.

What is the Gbiota project?
The Gbiota project is to enhance our gut microbiome by eating plants grown in a medium (Wickimix) where beneficial microbes that enhance our gut biome breed.

At this moment the members of the Gbiota club are largely dedicated gardeners with land who are prepared to spend the time and energy learning how to manage the total process of growing both Wickimix and plants.

But everyone has a gut which acts as an automated control system subconsciously managing critical functions such as appetite and the immune system.

Energy food
It varies a bit from person to person but about 80%, certainly the bulk, of the food we eat is just burned off as fuel for energy or warming. (Unless you are a lizard, in which case you need to sit on a rock in the sun), your body will automatically control your temperature for you without you having to think about it.
White, black, yellow, red, green or purple, living in an arctic igloo or tropical rain forest hut our bodies are automatically controlled to within a fraction of a degree. Unless some nasty bug gets past your immune system when it will turn up the thermostat to roast it.

Our gut brain, made up from trillions of cells and thousands of species, which communicate with each other and has real intelligence is one of the truly amazing systems on this earth.
Yet we have, unknowingly set out to destroy it, why? Now here is a story that needs to be told.

Is it feasible that a couple of $8 plastic boxes could contribute to the worlds biggest health issue – excess fat in our bodies which lead to multiple health problems and the major sustainability problem of degradation of our soils on which our food production is based?
Interesting story – let start with the basics.

All life is totally dependant on microbes, they break down the minerals in the soil forming complex chemicals essential for life. They are part of our bodies particularly in our gut where they from a real brain with intelligence which controls much of our bodily function, particularly appetite. We need the good bugs.

For many years now I have been promoting the importance of gut biology and how we can simply and cheaply improve our gut biology by growing plants in soils teaming with beneficial microbes and nutrients.
These are not just my views but are based on studying many leading researchers in the field.

Health starts in the soil Half the western population is suffering from some chronic or long term illness. The ultimate cause can be traced back to a poor gut health which is a result of our modern chemical industrial food system which admittedly produces vast...

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We are living longer – our life span is increasing, but our health span – how long we stay fit and active is decreasing – why?
The answer lies in our gut brain.
If our gut brain senses that we are missing crucial nutrients in our food it will send out signals, like the hunger hormone ghrelin, telling us to eat more and if our food is low in those critical hormones and microbes, it will keep on making as hungry so we eat more until we get fat and sick.
We get fat and sick simply because our gut brain is telling us too keep on eating because we are lacking critical nutrients – not because we are little piggies.

Wicking beds can be modified to breed the beneficial biota in the soil, which enters the plants then our gut brain using the plants as natural pre and pro biotics (as we have done for thousand of years before modern chemical industrial agriculture).
Our gut brain is really important for our health but has sadly deteriorated over time leading to an epidemic of chronic (long term) diseases. Our gut brain acts as an intelligent control system which makes us want to eat the right amount of the right sort of food.

I started to write this as a welcome message for people joining the Gbiota social movement but it got a bit off track, but I had fun writing it and you may have fun reading it so I am sticking with it.
Pretend you are some creature from way out there is space and had never seen water, if a three year old kid can pretend, then so can you.
You are welcomed into some friendly humans house

Here is a plan of how we can make healthy gut brain food readily accessable for all the community.

Has the world gone crazy? Wars, food shortages, floods and droughts, prices through the roof, epidemics, the internet – one of the most important innovations of our era has sunk to become the home of mass manipulation to sell us things that don’t work or we don’t need, just to make some mega corporation or wealthy individual even richer.

Key points
When I am creating a project I find it useful to make a list of the key points. I have done this with the Gbiota project but I asked myself why keep this hidden so I am publishing this here.

We live in the digital age where we seems to expect that any problems can be solve by a few minutes search on the internet. If you think this is the way to feed eight billion people food that will keep them healthy – (so they don’t get fat and sick and have their legs chopped off from diabetes) – and all in the middle of climate change with floods and droughts and a global political system which is decidedly wobbly – then you are wrong and this is not the site for you.
Life wasn’t meant to be easy.
But I have prepared a series of posts which analyse the key issues to develop a plan and appropriate technology to solve this horrendous problem.

The Gbiota Community
An online community where groups can chat, exchange information – particularly on preferred plant species which are suited to the locality and season.

You can share information on plants, food and cooking with people from the same locality or further afield.

A safe non-commercial space to network and find like minded people.

What’s this Gbiota stuff all about? Well it is pretty simple. This is my great grand daughter Elowen, she has no idea what gut biota is but she knows she needs a good old suck to build up her gut biota from her mum, my grand daughter. But she will grow up and ask...

Join the Gbiota club I believe everyone in our affluent world should have access to healthy food at an affordable price, specifically, nutrient-dense food that improves gut health. The Gbiota system aims to make this a reality. Why gut health matters Our gut is one of...

Join the Gbiota movement The Gbiota movement is communities setting up a local food networks to enhance gut biology They recycle waste food and organic material to create soil in ecological balance so the beneficial biology dominate The Gbiota social movement The aim...

In my life time the worlds population has increased three fold (actually 3.47) and they all those mouths have to be fed.

We have seen the massive increase in agricultural productivity – the green revolution, pioneered by Norman Borlaug and now often slanged as chemical industrial agriculture.

Join the Gbiota club I am inviting you to join the Gbiota club. I can and do put forward the logical reasons to join, it is essentially community supported agriculture - buyers support growers and get the benefits of nutritious food grown under carefully controlled...

News flash for Gbiota club members
When the virus has gone, as it surely will, the world will be a very different place. People will understand that the best protection against the next virus, which again will surely come, is to have a population with a healthy immune system.

I have this vision of people setting up micro farms to provide nutritious food that enhances their gut health for their family and local people. This is my plan to make that happen but first how did I get into gut health?

My interest is in how to grow plants which improve gut health.

The Gbiota club is simply an informal group of people who want to change the way we grow our food so it increases our health span, recycles the mountains of waste food and we want to do this in a cooperative way.

Newsletter of the GBiota club

Nutrition is among the most controversial, opinionated yet critical topics on the planet.
We are suffering from an epidemic of diabetes, obesity with it’s associated heart attacks and dementia which still dwarfs the deaths for the Corona virus.
Health before profits.

We hope you feel satisfied from eating the food prepared to feed you but what about those trillions of cells in your guts that look after you. They communicate with each other to provide real intelligence - your gut brain - which controls your appetite, monitoring if...

 What is the Gbiota club? Our guts are made from trillions of cells which communicate with each other to form an intelligent system - there really is a gut brain. This communicates with our head brain to form an intelligent control system which manages our bodies and...

Corona virus special call We urgently need growers of Gbiota food What is the Gbiota club? The aim of the Gbiota club is to make Gbiota food readily and widely available at an affordable price. Gbiota food is essential to feed our gut biology

The aim of the Gbiota club is to make Gbiota food readily and widely available at an affordable price.

Gbiota food is essential to feed our gut biology which forms part of our intelligent control system.

When you join the Gbiota club you get a stronger gut, immune and hormonal system by eating real food grown in nutrient rich biologically active soil. We are a social movement which out community health ahead of profits.

Colin Austin, recognised as among Australia’s top innovators, is using the internet to fight the diabesity epidemic with Gbiota food.

It is now universally recognised by researchers, doctors and nutritional just how important gut biology is to our health.

I want my grandchildren to live in a society where everyone, regardless of their financial state, have access to food which will make them healthy. It is simply not a good society where a small number of people have inordinate wealth while other people cannot afford to eat properly.

I am a real live person, not some computer or avatar. I do the things that normal people do, potter around in my garden, go for bush walks and the beach, tease my grand kids and all that normal stuff.

Soil is created by biological action but the wide spread use of chemicals and mechanisation is slowly but persistently destroying the soil on which human life depends.