Prevention Super Clinics

Colin Austin 12 March 2025 Published under the Creative Commons system so may be reproduced without further permission, just acknowledgement of source.

Fighting the chronic disease epidemic

Across the globe, we are facing an epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.

Whether we approve or not what happens in the real world is that people just carry on with their normal life until their health deteriorates to the point where they need to go to a doctor who tries to cure them.

This is at great personal burden to the individual and financial cost to our health system. Chronic diseases inflict the most damage to community health and are a major financial cost.

Prevention is better than cure.

Prevention depends on understanding the root causes of the epidemic.

Changes in our food production system

One of the best videos explaining the changes in our food system is by David Trood of The Weedy Garden

Organics is an unfortunate name as the underlying principle is how all food has been grown for over a billion years, until we changed it.

A complex array of soil creatures, microbes and fungi break down the rocks to make them bio-available for plants and then animals that eat the plants.

These microbes end in our gut, they communicate with their neighbours to create real intelligence and work with our head brain to form the intelligent control system which regulates our bodies, particularly our appetite by creating the hormones which make us feel full or hungry.

Watch video here https://gbiota.com/2025/03/14/hormones/

The hormones work at the subconscious level and are extremely powerful.

Our sub-conscious brain is what enables us to do amazing things like catch balls and ride a bike.

We may try and control what and how much we eat by going on a diet but this is at the conscious level and is typically only effective for a period of time, our hormones almost always win.

The change in our food system to relying on inert fertilisers has resulted in a loss of the beneficial microbes that form our gut-brain and is the underlying force behind the epidemic of chronic diseases.

This is why we need to change our gut biota – by diet – to combat the epidemic.

Our intelligent control system

At the core of all chronic diseases is the wrong fat in the wrong place. Our gut has trillions of cells which communicate with their neighbours to create genuine intelligence which then forms part of the intelligent control system which regulates our bodies.

If our intelligent control senses deficiencies in our bodies it will send out hormones to make us hungry so we overeat, and alternatively, when it thinks we are satisfied, it will send out other hormones so we feel full and stop eating.

This is a very powerful system operating at the sub-conscious level; we have no control over it and attempts to override this in our conscious brain are rarely successful long term.

We have to work with, rather than against, our intelligent control system.

Prevention super clinics

I am suggesting setting up a network of prevention super clinics.

Prevention super clinics would be run by a qualified dietitian, following the existing protocols but integrating a much wider range of services.

They would certainly have close working relations with a suitably trained grower to breed the beneficial microbes in soil containing both organic and mineral waste using the appropriate protocols.

This soil is referred to as Wickimix and can be sold directly to keen gardeners but is more likely to be incorporated into growing baskets for wider use.

These baskets, with growing plants, may be bulk delivered to a place where the clients may visit regularly such as a gymnasium or health food cafe or store.

It needs to be recognised that the life span of the beneficial microbes is short so the plants need to be consumed shortly after picking.

While these may be separate businesses they need to follow protocols, and the dietitian has both and integrating and supervising roles.

Making organic style food widely available

I think there is no debate that organic food, rich in nutrients and microbes, is beneficial for health however, it tends to be expensive and the microbes only have a short life after picking.

The Gbiota basket/box system means that people, even if they live in an apartment, can have organically grown plants growing in their home at minimum cost ready to harvest.

Personal anguish and money.

Before you reject the idea that this is adding an extra expense to the system, this would save a great deal of personal anguish and money.

The basic cause of chronic disease is deficiencies in our diet, specifically beneficial gut microbes and trace minerals.

With the appropriate protocols, you can breed beneficial gut microbes in organic waste at a relatively trivial cost.

Growers can have a truckload of volcanic rock dust, a waste product from quarries, delivered to their door at about $10 per tonne. This contains all the trace elements needed, it just needs the soil microbes to make it bio-available in our food, which costs a fraction of buying pills and contains a wider and better-balanced spectrum.

Further information

My website gbiota.com contains many articles and videos on food and health. there is a special section for health professionals accessed from the home page and you can contact me directly at colin@gbiota.com