Growing food to feed your gut brain
Colin Austin 19th June 23
Technology – benefiting the community
The difference between humans and the Dodo is that humans are a bit better at adapting to change. But since James Watt developed a functioning steam engine right up to the latest in artificial intelligence or quantum computing we seemed to have been a bit overwhelmed.
It would seem to me axiomatic that all those great advanced in technology should work for the benefit of humans overall rather than make a handful of mega corporations, and those who own or control them excessively rich.
Is this worth getting hot under the collar about? When it comes to food and health their can only be one answer.
Technology and health span
Just look at the facts, at the turn of last century the majority of people died from some infectious disease, but by a master piece of multiple technologies, medical science and hygiene we cut that down to just 3% (prior to Covid but that is just a blip in the graph).
Great you may say – that is the way technology should work. And your right.
But look a little deeper, the majority of people are not living a healthy life until they die of old age in their eighties and nineties. Our health span (how long we remain healthy rather than just alive) has been decreasing as we suffer from a range of diseases such as heart attack, strokes, dementia and, the fasted growing of them all, diabetes.
Every eight seconds some poor soul has a limb chopped off from diabetes, this is a totally modern phenomena and is directly caused by the way we have misused technology in growing our food and is largely avoidable.
Our intelligent control system
The basic reason is really very simple – fat. We have an intelligent control system in a combination of our gut brain and head brain which regulates our bodies. It controls our appetite and how much and where we store fat, replaces our body parts as they age and wear and trains our immune system.
Absolutely at the centre of what makes us healthy.
And the reason why we get fat and sick is our food system which just does not feed our gut brain.
Growing plants as natural pre and pro biotics
Right now, we have the technology to change that. It is to grow plants which act as pre and pro biotics by breeding the beneficial microbes in the soil making sure we have the conditions right so we breed beneficial microbes rather than the harmful ones that kill us.
That is what the Gbiota technology is all about and is available for any one to use. It can be done on scale at at minimum cost so why has that not become the norm?
Now there is an important question if ever there was one.
The answer is simple, very few people know about it and it is not in the financial interest of the mega corporation which dominate our food industry which is based on highly centralised systems of production. By contrast to grow plants as pre and pro biotics requires a local system where people can eat the plants shortly after picking and before the beneficial microbes die.
So what can we do about that?
Option 1 is just accept that every eight seconds someone has limb amputated from diabetes is a feature of modern life. Really?
Option 2 is to recognise that while we may think we live in the information age we actually live in the misinformation age where real facts are replaced by fake facts for power and money.
So what do we do – we create a community movement to inform those people who are being misinformed with real facts.
Independent research
I have spent years writing about this on my web www.gbiota.com I am currently fund raising to finance a Ph. D Student to conduct independent research conducting both lab research and above all community research on real people looking at the effects of people changing to a diet which includes some plants which have been specifically grown to act as pre and pro biotics.
We can measure blood sugar levels so we can immediately see if there is a benefit. I am trying to set up the Ph. D project a the University of Queensland so it is totally independent.
Unfortunately I don’t have a few billion dollars to run a mega educational project but you can help by simply telling your friends – both physical and on the web.
We may live in the misinformation age but people have adapted and listen to people they trust.
