Not little piggies
We don’t get fat and sick because we have turned into little piggies.
We get fat and sick because our modern food system does not feed our gut-brain which regulates our appetite and immune system.
The solution is to feed your gut-brain.
We cannot do this for you – there is no magic pill, but we can show you how.
It is not trivial, takes a bit of effort and must be done right but other people are doing it.
It is your body, your life and your choice.
Diabetes and insulin resistance
Insulin resistance is an evolved characteristic that ensures the brain has a continuous supply of sugars.
When sugars are in short supply insulin resistance restricts the flow of sugars to the muscles so sugars are available for the brain.
Insulin resistance is an evolved characteristic for our survival. If the brain dies we die. It is the way our intelligent control system keeps us alive.
When our intelligent control system is fully functional the system works fine. When our intelligent control system is not functional we get diabetes.
Our intelligent control system operates in our subconscious brain, we have no control or even know what it is doing but it regulates our bodies.
Temperature is a classic example of our intelligent control system at work, it makes us shiver when cold or sweat when hot, we have no control over it but it regulates our temperature to a fraction of a degree.
Our gut biome is a critical part of this intelligent control system, playing a major part in our appetite, how much and what sort of food we want to eat and also our immune system protecting us 24/7.
From the moment we are born, it is learning and adapting to the current conditions, as described in more detail later.
It works to keep us alive protecting us from both infectious and non-infectious diseases and can only be described as a marvel of the human body.
But, at times it fails and then we have serious problems.
Unfortunately, the importance of our intelligent control system is not widely recognised so we fail to feed and train it with disastrous consequences.
The modern diabetes epidemic is caused by failure to feed our gut brain so our intelligent control system no longer functions properly.
Eating a diet rich in vegetables may improve our gut-brain and intelligent control system but only if the vegetables are grown in soil containing the beneficial microbes.
This is well understood in enlightened scientific circles but unfortunately, the popular press is fixated with the calorie balance theory which is overly simplistic so we rely on magic pills or diets, which are highly profitable when the real problem is we are not caring for our intelligent control system.
Sadly we have switched from being Homo-sapiens to Homo-profitus.
Profit or Health
Our intelligent control system
I experiment. I breed microbes in the soil, grow plants in that soil and then eat them. I eat different foods and measure my blood sugar levels to see what happens.
We do not appreciate how sophisticated our bodies are.
We have an intelligent control system in our gut which regulates our appetite – what and how much we want to eat.
It works like the intelligent control software I used to write. It senses our blood sugar has an error, it looks at how rapidly it is changing and applies a correction, it looks at how well that correction worked, learns from that and creates a new correction.
I feed my gut-brain so I have an effective intelligent control system.
Piggy me
I look at my blood sugar reading and it is fine.
But then I am naughty and go to a restaurant and pig out.
I see that I get a blood sugar spike from eating naughty food but the microbes in my gut are here to look after me and protect me from my naughty habits.
They communicate with each other, just like in a computer to provide real intelligence.
They work out that something is wrong and make hormones to bring my blood sugar level down and within a couple of hours my blood sugar is back to normal.
Feed our gut-brains
All I have to do is feed my gut-brain and make sure it has the right microbes. There is nothing new about this, we evolved this way and we have been feeding our gut-brain for hundreds of thousands of years.
And then we stopped. Why?
Because our modern food system puts their profits ahead of our health.
But you and I can fix that.
Microbes breed like crazy, they make teenagers at a drunken party look like a pack of nuns.
There is no problem in breeding microbes all we have to do is to manage the conditions so the good bugs out-breed the bad bugs a process we call Eco-balance which again has been going on for millions of years.
That is what Gbiota is all about, it is a social movement that puts health before profits and shows people who want to live a long and healthy life how to feed their gut brain.
Read on – then sign up and join the movement.
The good gut bugs are here to protect us
Beneficial microbes, the good bugs, in our gut control our appetite and immune system leading to a long and healthy life.
Our modern food system is deficient in these, good bugs, so we have an epidemic of chronic non-infectious diseases – overweight, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.
Three out of four people will now die, prematurely from chronic diseases.
Our health system is creaking at the joints, not enough doctors and health care professionals, ambulances ramping outside overfull wards, billions of dollars spent on avoidable care and amputations.
All because we don’t have the protection of the good gut bugs.
We know how to fix it – we just have to do it.
Our intelligent control system
People often think our bodies are dumb and we get fat and sick because we eat too much.
Our bodies are very smart and we can see this by looking at the blood sugar level throughout the day.
Imagine that you are controlling your blood sugar level and have to keep the level within limits, you have two buttons one to increase blood sugar levels and the other to reduce it.
How, as an intelligent creature, would you manage those two buttons?
At night there is not much to do so just a little push on the down button is all you need.
But then in the morning, you know there will be a need for energy so you press the up button at wake-up time and the blood sugar levels rise.
We can see that our intelligent control system does exactly this our blood sugar rises between wake-up and breakfast.
Both you and our intelligent control system know that at breakfast time there is going to be a big surge in blood sugar levels as your body gets stuck into all that toast and marmalade so you are both on standby.
As soon as you see the blood sugar levels rising both you and your body’s intelligent control system start pushing the down button to bring the blood sugar level back under control.
Message – your body is smart not some dumb machine that works on a crude calories in calories out basis.
Of course, the basic laws of conservation of mass and energy apply so we have to eat to get fat and sick but the reason why we overeat is because we have are not looking after our intelligent control system not because we are little piggies.
Blood sugar and fat are pretty much interchangeable.
Before I even wake up in the morning my intelligent control system anticipates that I will need extra energy so it draws down on my fat stores so I have energy available.
When I get around to eating breakfast there is a surplus of energy so my intelligent control system stores some of this sugar as fat.
I used to write intelligent control software which had self-learning and anticipatory functions. Our intelligent control system seems to have these capabilities built in.
This is a natural human capacity. If we wake up and see a blue sky we may go and water the garden. We have learned that blue sky means a probability of being hot and dry so we anticipate a high water use by our plants.
If there are dark clouds we may put of watering for now.
This is a natural human capability so we need to assume that this is how our intelligent control system is managing our blood sugar and fat storage.
What we can say for sure is that the calorie balance theory, which looks as our body like a water tank, with flows in and out and the water level is determined by these flows is a simplistic model which is leading us to major errors.
This is serious as three out of four people die prematurely from a chronic disease which is caused by the wrong fat in the wrong place.
How have we got ourselves into such a mess?
We know how to breed the beneficial microbes, the good bugs. Just collect organic waste, mix with soil and volcanic rock dust, add inoculants, grow plants and eat them while fresh.
How do I know this, for a start I study the work of experts in the field like Professor Tim Spencer and Bill Bulsiewicz, but then I collect organic waste and grow gut-brain food.
Then I test it on myself.
I wear a continuous blood sugar monitor. If I eat modern food my readings go through the roof, I am not diabetic but would soon be if I just ate modern foods that are deficient in beneficial microbes.
So I eat gut-brain food adding it to my regular diet and see my reading drop down to healthy levels.
This is not rocket science – anyone can do it.
We can’t do it for you but we can show you how.
So why haven’t we fixed the chronic disease problem?
Most Governments have Health and Welfare departments whose job is to prevent these chronic diseases. Why aren’t they promoting that we all eat gut-brain food full of the good bugs?
It is a simple question of profits versus health and at this moment profits for big food and big pharma are winning while Governments stand back and procrastinate with busy work.
Market power
Profits! Big food and big pharma make a lot of money from the current system, they have immense marketing power to protect their profits while there is no money to be made showing people how to collect their kitchen waste to breed the good bugs and grow the plants that will feed the good bugs in our gut.
Join us
What can you do about this? Join the Gbiota movement for social change.
The first step is to register, stand up and show you care, the more people that show they care the better able we are to get people to eat gut-brain food.
You can join for free and read the many articles on food and health, later when you are convinced that all people should be eating gut-brain food you can learn how, we do ask people to contribute but it is a pittance and you will end up saving money (and maybe your foot).
We are a social benefit organisation, but it costs money to develop technology to learn how to grow gut-brain food and we have to cover our costs. If you can’t afford to contribute we have a needy membership for $1 for those that cannot afford to pay.
Join us and change the world so people can have a long and healthy life with a sustainable food system based on recycling waste.
