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.
That is where I come in. I am 84 years old, fit and healthy, and spend my time reading a range of scientific papers and conducting speculative research to find better ways of growing food – the sort of experiments that no self-respecting funding agencies would support so I pay for myself.
Most of my experiments fail, that is what is meant by speculative, I just hide them so no one sees but occasionally one works or at least leads to a new way of thinking. That is the prize.
It is a formula that has worked well for me and has led to me being recognised as one of Australia’s leading innovators.
The aim is simple, to find a way to feed the eight million(and growing) people on Earth sustainably so they live a long and healthy life.
I do this for my great-grandkids and I am happy for the rest of the world to come along for the ride.
I try to integrate all this expertise into a simple system, which I call the Gbiota system because the focus is on breeding a healthy gut biota. This could help all people live a long and healthy life, maybe your great-grandkids.
I invite you to join me in this journey, just sign up to join the Gbiota movement, it is free, or better still join as a paying member, set up your own Gbiota beds and demonstrate that this is a technology that really works. We live in a world of disinformation so no one believes anything so show them for real that this works.
Follow me, there are no guarantees, I have no idea what is waiting around the corner but following me will increase your chances.
There are hundreds of articles on this web that I have written over the years and it is confusing (it confuses me and I wrote them) so I have invented what I call a Hip-hop Ebook which is really just a collection of posts on a particular theme.
My first Ebook is called ‘Serious thinking about food’ which lists a suggested reading sequence, but you have no need to follow that, just Hip-hop about as you please, but at least you have a list of the relevant articles. (It is on the menu as E-book).
I made this diagram to illustrate a concept, it is based on real data, as far as it is available.
As you can see there are two lines, the red one for infectious diseases, which we know a lot about and are right, and the green one for non-infectious diseases which we think we know a lot about but sadly are wrong.
What I have done is looked at global data and which vary throughout the world so I have picked out the region where the epidemic is most severe and looked for information on the percentage of people who were affected, eg seriously ill or died.
I go back a million years when humanoid creatures first appeared on Earth. I have no actual data, and the batteries on my time machine are flat, but I can look at modern members of the ape family to take a guess – not very scientific but until the batteries are charged the best I can do.
Some two hundred thousand years ago the first humans appeared as hunter-gatherers. There are still modern day hunter-gatherers we can study and we know they are intelligent and take care of their health by eating a broad spectrum of healthy food and not contaminating the soil with sewage so were a pretty healthy bunch.
Ten thousand years ago we started to grow much of our food from agriculture, largely growing grains which provided us with a lot of energy food but was low in the essential trace minerals and vitamins needed to replace our body parts as they wear and age.
But we still collected wild herbs so at first it was not too bad but there was a gradual decline in health with the combination of increased population density and poor sanitation led to a steady decline in health and ever-increasing cases of infectious diseases.
This reached a peak with the black death in 1347 which wiped out 50% of the population in seriously affected areas and even higher is some cases.
After that, we gradually improved sanitation and medical science but there were still serious outbreaks of cholera and flu. The worst case (not shown as it was highly localised) was the construction of the Panama Canal where up to 80% of the imported labourers died.
We all know about the modern epidemics but with modern medical science and hygiene, they are not as damaging as previous epidemics.
But all those years suffering from these horrendous infections have given us an instilled fear which has led to even worse consequences – non-infectious diseases.
Non-infectious diseases
The main non-infectious diseases are obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.
Let me put this in perspective, these non-infectious diseases are a far bigger cause of ill health and death than any infectious disease. The biggest killer is heart attacks but diabetes is the fastest growing. The half a billion people with diabetes dwarfs the 7 million people who have died from Covid. Every year 8 million people have a limb amputated from diabetes.
They are largely man-made (yes meaning that man’s failure to properly understand the issues has resulted in the best part of 8 million people having a limb amputated).
What we need is a system where we can breed the beneficial microbes without breeding the harmful ones. To feed the 8 billion people on earth it must be able to operate at scale and at a low cost.
That is why the Gbiota technology was developed and is described in detail on the web. It works very well, no one is claiming it is trivial but it can certainly be used by anyone, even if they live in a flat as long as they are prepared to put the effort into reading the directions.
You can read all the articles about food and health for free but you do need to sign up and click the notify me of new posts button.
When you have reached the point that you want to start using the technology you need to sign up as a full member which will give you access to the growing section and also receive on line support online and by video conference.
Note this is an abridged version of a longer article which you can read here
