Creating an Alternative Food System
Nutrition must be one of the most controversial, topics on the planet. Go on line and an ocean of confusing and contradicting views fuelled by inscrutable scientific data, dogma powered...
Truth vs Misinformation About Food
We live in an age of unbridled information, much of it conflicting so how do we know what it true and what is false – and why does it matter?...
How Life Works
The Two Great Synergies Life is powered by the sun. Plants use sunlight to combine carbon from the air and hydrogen from…
Three Functions of Food
We often classify food by nutrients — carbohydrates, fats, proteins — but it is more useful to understand what food actually does…
Food and Innovation: How Modern Agriculture Changed Our Health
Innovation is often associated with digital technology — phones, electric cars, and automation. But one of the largest shifts has been…
The Principle of Gbiota Beds
The aim of the Gbiota system is to restore and maintain a healthy gut by growing plants that act as natural pre-…
Adapting to the Food Crisis
The food crisis is not about empty shelves; it’s about food that’s energy-dense and nutrient-poor. That mismatch makes us heavier, sicker, and…
History of Food
From Rocks to Soil About a billion years ago, microbiology began breaking down rock, releasing mineral sand forming soil. Plants grew, provided…
Understanding food
The Modern Health Crisis Obesity and diabetes have become widespread in just the last fifty years. The cause lies in how our…
Food Basics
“Do we really want our kids to grow up fat and diabetic? Health starts in the soil—and in the gut.” Why this…
Food for Thought
Feed our brains, our head brain and our gut brain and they will look after us. “Health starts in the soil—and in…
Blue zones
Feed our brains, our head brain and our gut brain and they will look after us. In parts of the world known…