The essence of life

Everyone has an intelligent control system, it manages our breathing so we have enough oxygen, our heart rate so our muscles have adequate energy, our immune system, our temperature and most importantly our appetite.

This is the result of over a billion years of evolution and is one of the wonders of the world. If we have a fully functioning intelligent control system we can look forward to a long and healthy life, if it malfunctions we may get fat and sick and if it stops working we die.

It could be called the essence of life yet we have very little understanding of how it works. We can observe the result of its actions which gives us some idea and recently humans have developed intelligent control systems for their machines which gives a further insight into how it may work.

Appetite

Unlike breathing and drinking, appetite is very complex, we need a whole range of foods, food for energy which is relatively simple but we need a complex array of nutrients to build and replace our body parts.

Our intelligent control system can sense if we are short of specific nutrients and learns over time which foods supply those nutrients and then sends out a complex spectrum to make us crave those particular foods.

Fat or skinny

Some people are fat while others are skinny. We change throughout our lives, babies are born chubby, but when they learn to walk they lose their baby fat and are skinny until adolescence when the sexes diverge in their fat distribution.

These variations continue into midlife with men developing wobbly tums and women developing wobbly bums until in old age we revert back to being skinny.

But what drives this process?

Genetics play a part but research with twins shows this is not as strong as we may think. Fat people may have fat kids so we may think but they also share a similar lifestyle.

It seems that how we train our intelligent control system has a major influence. Without thinking we train our intelligent control system to learn that certain foods do certain jobs and can create a hormone spectrum to crave those particular foods. It is much more complex than a single hormone that makes us crave food and another hormone that makes us feel full and stop eating.

The role of hormones

Whether we are fat or skinny is decided by our intelligent control system and implemented by creating hormones to control our appetite.

True if we get fat it is because of what we eat and what we want to eat is driven by our intelligent control system sending our hormones.

We may try to override our intelligent control system but this is rarely successful long term.

But we can train our intelligent control system so it sends out the appropriate hormonal spectrum.

We learned this from observing people who have been deprived of food for a period. When food becomes available our intelligent control system decides we need to store more fat. A restrictive diet only makes things worse.

To bring weight back to normal we have to re-train our intelligent control system by a nutrient-rich diet.

Mostly our intelligent control system works in our subconscious which we do not control but we can use our conscious brain to retrain our intelligent control system.

Our gut microbes

Even more surprising is that the microbes in our gut, which are not part of us, form part of our intelligent control system.

These microbes communicate with each other to form swarm or group intelligence.

We have known for a long time that we can make fat people skinny and skinny people fat by changing the species of microbes in their gut.

The epidemic of chronic disease

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

These have existed for a long time but been relatively rare – but now the scale has reached epidemic proportions.

We may be tempted to blame the abundance of highly processed foods which are full of sugars and fats blended to the bliss point and containing addictive additives.

No way can we defend these but they are not the prime cause of the epidemic of chronic diseases.

A functioning intelligent control system will create the hormones that make you stop eating, even if your diet is highly processed foods.

But if your intelligent control system is not functioning then you will overeat, regardless of what you are eating.

The root cause is a lack of the beneficial microbes which form part of your intelligent control system – your gut-brain.

That is simply solved by feeding your gut-brain by eating plants grown in soil where the beneficial microbes are breeding.

This is simple, anyone can do it even if they have no growing experience and live in an apartment.

It just needs a Gbiota biobox.

 

Gbiota what? The essence

The microbes in our gut have swarm intelligence, which regulates where and how much fat we store. It produces a complex array of hormones which regulate our appetite.

Microbes breed and die rapidly in a state of dynamic equilibrium, which extends from the soil where the microbes naturally breed to the plants, the animals that eat the plants and the animals that eat the plant eaters.

This is a system which has evolved over billions of years and is the basis of all life on earth until humans changed the system, which has led to an epidemic of chronic disease, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.

We know how to resolve this. Beneficial microbes in the soil need a combination of nutrients, water and air which can be achieved by making the soil breathe by circulating what we call soil blood in a series of pulses flooding the soil to expel stale air and draining to suck in fresh air, what we call flood and flush.

This is a simple and inexpensive process which can be applied in the long term and on a large scale to create a new industry of gut-brain food, but in the short term by people growing their own gut-brain food. The process is so simple and inexpensive that it can be done at home even by people with no growing experience living in an apartment.

However, this requires a wide acceptance by the population of the need to modify our food system.

But is it no good just telling people. Logic is not enough; people are strongly influenced by what other people think, so acceptance has to reach a critical mass with people seeing other people they trust adopting the technology before widespread adoption occurs.

This requires the early adopters, the entrepreneurial thinkers who are prepared to pioneer a new technology and so reach this critical mass.

These pioneers are critical for our species in developing a sustainable, healthy food system for the future. Humans are the most successful creature on the planet because we are both intelligent and naturally cooperative, prepared to invest in the long term benefit of our communities.

Join me in becoming a healthy food gut-brain pioneer. Email me here.

Our intelligent control system

The intelligent control system which lives in our subconscious and gut brains is one of the wonders of the world. It regulates our breathing and heart rates, our temperature, our immune system and our appetite.

It enables us to do amazing things: catch balls, ride bikes, and carry a cup of coffee up a flight of stairs while talking on our mobile phones. It does this without us even being aware that it is working away in our subconscious.

We have known of its existence for two hundred years but had little understanding of how it works, we still don’t but with modern computers and engineering control systems we are beginning to get a glimpse of how it might work.

This is more than academic interest; the biggest health problem across the globe is the explosion of chronic or non-infectious diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia, which is the result of failure to feed our gut brain.

Our gut has trillions of cells of thousands of species that communicate with each other to provide what we call swarm intelligence which we see in insects and birds but it controls our appetite so we eat the right amount of the right sort of food.

This is an area where we do have an understanding and know how to resolve the damage resulting from chronic diseases.

But we have to do this we have to abandon simplistic ideas that these problems can be resolved by slogans saying eat less and exercise more which are part of the current folklore. These ideas have to be accepted by the population as a whole and not just a few isolated experts.

How do we do this, not by complex statistical double-blind tests which just confuse people, but by ordinary people eating gut-brain food and seeing for themselves that it does work in real life and particularly importantly showing their friends and contact that it works.

This is the way that we will combat the harm and cost of chronic disease and is something that everyone can participate in so chronic diseases can become part of history like the black death is now part of history.

The Technology Scam

Technology should work for the benefit of the community, not make a few people incredibly rich.

I sort of created a character I call Mary, a single mum living in a flat with three kids and two jobs struggling to pay the bills, living off fast food and going to bed exhausted. I say sort of because she is actually a real person but her name is not Mary. (Not telling)

She is beginning to put on a bit of weight and does not want to end up diabetic like her sister Sue.

Mary is the person who needs this technology and the Marys of this world are going to be the people who get this technology accepted – not some Ph. D in biology who talks a totally different language to Mary.

My job is to convince these Marys that they can use this technology, persuade her to try it and when it works for her hope that she will show her friends.

I can explain all the benefits and try and convince her how easy it is but she won’t believe me. This is my job, I am a trained and respected researcher in this area so she thinks it may be easy for me but it won’t be easy for her.

I can relate to this. I have a bit of an issue with wobbly heights – they scare me.

So an expert bungee jumping instructor can tell me how safe it is, they get hundreds of people a day doing it and they go for weeks without anyone being killed so statistically it is relatively safe.

I am no more convinced by the expert bungee jump instructor than Mary is convinced by me.

But if I could convince a few Marys to try it and they found it worked and was actually easy and inexpensive then these early Marys would soon convince many more Marys and we would halt the current epidemic of chronic diseases.

Not because these Marys are experts but because they are not experts and it works for them.

That is the way that we will slash the horrifying number of eight million people having a limb unnecessarily amputated from diabetes.

Hello Marys – email me so we can chat. Do it for yourself and all the other Marys you will help.  Read my article about “A compassionate society”  there is more to life than selfish greed.

Breed beneficial gut microbes at home

A healthy gut is essential for health as it manufactures the hormones which regulate our appetite so we don’t get fat and sick.

Beneficial microbes start in the soil. You eat plants grown in soil with the essential microbes while fresh before the microbes die.

You can easily do this even if you live in an apartment by buying most of what is required – containers, potting mix, seeds, etc from your local shops.

You will need to learn how to breed the beneficial microbes by creating the right conditions, which you can do by registering as a home grower and buying a starter or inoculant kit that provides the initial microbes.

People breeding beneficial gut microbes at home is a new concept, and our role is to guide you through the process, which is straightforward but must be done right. We do this by email and video conferencing and our many articles on this website.

There are over three hundred articles and a similar number of videos but when we make contact, we can guide you through the process of becoming a successful beneficial gut microbe breeder.

But the first step is to register for our Newsletter, and if you decide this is for you introduce yourself so we can walk you through the process of breeding beneficial gut microbes at home.