Not little piggies

Deficiencies not surplus

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.

This has led to an epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia which all have the underlying cause of the wrong fat in the wrong places.

The conventional medical advice to reduce overweight is to go on a calorie- restricted diet which works in the short term. But it is training our gut-brain that it needs to store more fat so longer term, when the calorie-restricted diet begins to pale, ends up making us store even more fat.

Feed our gut-brain

The solution is to feed our gut-brain with gut-brain food, a combination of fibre which is simple, and the beneficial microbes which power the intelligent system in our gut.

The trillions of cells in our gut communicate with each other acting like our internal supercomputer which help regulate our bodies.

Breeding these beneficial microbes is a challenge, it is easy enough to breed microbes – they are a randy lot – the challenge is to breed the beneficial microbes without breeding the harmful microbes. This is what the Gbiota technology is all about.

Eat fresh

But it is even more difficult as microbes have a short life, a microbe hour is equivalent to a human year so we only have seventy to eighty hours to eat this gut-brain food.

This can only be done by growing your own gut-brain food or getting a cooperative local grower to grow for you. It simply cannot be done with the extended transport time in our modern food distribution system.

This means a change in the way our food system works, but this is perfectly manageable as gut-brain food is easy to grow, even for people living in a flat, and anyway only needs to make up about 5% of our total diet.

Paradigm shift

A far bigger challenge is creating this paradigm shift in the way we think about food from one of restricting calories to one of avoiding food deficits.

This is made even more difficult by the billions of dollars spent in manipulative, but effective advertising by the food, drug and supplement industries and the advice from our respected medical professionals of eat less and exercise more.

Motivation

I feel highly motivated to change this for the simple reason that my wife, a qualified medical doctor and surgeon is diabetic, her foot started to turn black and the medical advice was that she needed to have her foot amputated.

Had we followed our medical advice she would almost certainly have had her foot amputated but we changed her diet to include gut brain-food and she still has both her feet.

Eight million amputations per year

Eight million people (which if you get overwhelmed by the big numbers that float around our modern world is an awful lot of real people). It has become my mission in life to reduce that number.

Think about this – every eight seconds someone has a limb amputated from diabetes, think how much better the world would be if we could just make that one every minute, or even one every hour – possible but how can we make it happen?

Making it happen

We know how to grow gut-brain food. The critical factor is moisture level, the soil must be just moist enough so the beneficial microbes will breed but not too wet when the harmful microbes breed.

My professional expertise was in computational fluid flow, which involved solving complex coupled non-linear equations which I assure you is not going to become the latest craze among modern teenagers so Taylor Swift does not have to lose any sleep. But it did mean that I was selected as one of Australia’s leading innovators.

But it does mean that I understand how water moves through the soil and plants and I also understand how Ecosystems work – that is the essence of the Gbiota technology.

 

We know how – but how to apply

So technically we know how to grow gut brain-food but technology is useless unless it is applied for the benefit of the community.

So how do I get this message out to the wide world and save people from having their legs chopped off from diabetes?

Even if there was a way I could tell those eight million people who are going to have a limb amputated they are unlikely to believe me, I am an engineer, not a medical doctor.

Show not talk

Let me tell you it is a waste of time writing long technical articles full of facts.

Sad to say facts are very much out of fashion but people will believe what they see with their own eyes.

Fortunately, it is very easy to see if eating gut-brain food works, if you are diabetic you can see this with your blood sugar reading and if you are not diabetic you can feel those food cravings disappear and you lose weight.

Start small and grow fast

So what I have to do is persuade a small group of people to grow their own gut-brain food, see for themselves the benefits and, this is the key bit, show their friends and contacts so they start eating gut-brain food and then they show their friends and contacts.

You don’t have to be brilliant at mathematics to know about exponential growth 2 4 16 256 65,536 4,294,967,296 that’s the adult population of the world in 5 clicks.

Form groups

But to get this to work we need a way that people can form groups and communicate with each other – that is why I have formed the Gbiota club where people can make contact with other people in a similar situation and share information and experiences.

If interested please drop me an email at colin@gbiota.com