Food for a healthy gut
If you looking at this web I assume you are interested in your health and understand that you just cannot be really healthy unless you are eating healthy food.
You are probably aware you are low in Magnesium because the majority of the population are low in Magnesium.
If you are a female you probably also realise that you could be low in iron.
If you are male then you may not have caught up with the sniggering that if you are a sexually active male that one night of happy frolicking can deplete your zinc reserves. That is bad as zinc is important to our immune systems.
But the choice is not just between Covid or a happy night. You can ingest more zinc together with all the other minerals that are essential for health.
But these shortage of minerals are something new – there used to be plenty of minerals in our food and we evolved with them over hundreds of thousands of years. So what changed?
My next post will explain more.
Is there a food crisis?
The supermarkets are full of food – how can there be a food crisis? OK there are people who do not have enough food but that is because of equity and food distribution, but we are growing enough food. The problem is we are growing too much of he wrong sort of food and not enough of the right sort.
Is the food we eat making us healthy? There is a big difference between health span and life span. We may be living longer life span has increased significantly but health span is dropping.
Why is that?
We need food for energy, basically for fuel. The majority of the food we eat we burn off just for energy – it is simply fuel. There is no shortage of energy food – the energy comes form the sun, the plants extract carbon dioxide from the air to make carbs. These are processed to make our modern foods full of sugars, fats and carbs – available in abundance.
But we need more than energy food (or fuel), we need food full of complex chemicals – minerals, nutrients, vitamins etc to replace our body parts as they wear and age. These are lacking in our modern food system. Many people supplement there diet with pills which works after a fashion but is expensive.
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But the real crisis in food to feed our brains. Yes brains – we have two brains – one in our head and the other in our gut. Our gut is a genuine brain with trillion of cells talking to each other, like in a super computer.
Our head brain and gut brain talk to each other through the vagus nerve to form our intelligent control system which manages our bodies.
They need to be fed and we are just not feeding our intelligent control system – this is the real food crisis.
Our intelligent control system is much smarter than we have given it credit for. It senses if we are getting the right amount of the right sort of food.
If it senses we are not getting the right sort of food it will send out hormones to make us feel hungry and eat more. If we are just eating fuel food – sugars, fats and carbs we will just eat more of the same and get fat and sick and our health span will drop.
On our modern diet people in middle age have reached the end of their health span – they may live for a lot longer but they will not be healthy.
Even young adults are beginning to reach the end of their health span.
This web site is about how to increase our health span and that means eating the right sort of food. We need food rich in minerals and the complex chemicals to replace our body parts but most important of all we have to feed our intelligent control system which manages our body.
Our intelligent control system manages our appetite, the replacement of body parts and our immune system – we simply cannot be healthy without feeding our gut and head brain.
That is easy – we just have to eat fresh plants grown in nutrient rich, biologically active soil.
These plants are full of both the essential nutrients and the living biota which forms our gut brain, they are natural pre and pro biotics.
This is what the Gbiota technology is all about.
They must be fresh – as soon as they are picked the beneficial biota start to die – within twenty four hours the levels may have halved.
There are many people across the globe who are using the Gbiota technology to grow these plants in their home garden and it works really well. They can just go down to their garden and pick the plants and eat them straight away.
But not everyone has the land, time and skills to grew their own food and it is just not possible with the supermarket system to have food that fresh.
That is why we developed the Gbiota Biobox system.
We are campaigning to persuade the home growers to become community growers.
They literally grow the soil in their gardens – put the soil into boxes and grow plants.
The boxes are light enough to be economically transported to people in the local community, the plants – often baby greens as they are the most tasty and nutritious, are grown in the boxes just requiring watering.
The boxes are simply swapped for a fresh box when needed. This is not a charity but a sustainable and economically viable alternative food system.
The growers are not just providing a community service they are receiving a regular additional income while the customers have a regular supply of fresh food with worrying about the supply chain having a hitch.
To make this work we have both a private social media site and e-commerce facility built into our web so people can order their boxes in advance.
The first step is to register on this social media site – the Gbiota team can then support you through this new way of growing and supplying gut food.
This web is split into a number of sections
food – is packed with articles on food and health
growing – is for the growers showing how to grow food to feed our gut brain (nb growers are expected to conform to certain standards to use the Gbiota™ name, register as a Gbiota grower and pay the subscription fee)
community – Gbiota is more than a technology – it is a social movement so we can all eat better
shop – this is where growers and consumers can buy and sell on line
We are busy upgrading this site – this is the end of the new front page – but we are still leaving the old front page for now (dont worry you can still see it here – there is so much information on this site we are trying to make it easier to navigate).
I want to meet you
If you live in cloud cuckoo land you may believe that there will be a continuous supply of healthy food way into the future. Dream on.
But if you live in the real world you will see we are on a high speed train heading straight for a cliff and that cliff is a major food crisis where the supermarkets are full of food loaded with sugars, fats and carbs which will make us fat and sick.
But no real food.
If you are like most people you will think that the magic ‘they’ will fix it. They being the Governments, some mega corporation or some techno brain breeding meat in a test tube.
But out there – somewhere – is one person – a combination of paradigm buster and entrepreneur with a bit of spirit who sees that we can have a real food system that will make us healthier and cost less by learning from evolution – and that is the Gbiota system. That person will be prepared to take action to make that happen.
Unlike most people they have a longer attention span than a few seconds and will start by reading about the Anthropocene here.
I would really like to make contact with that person – please email me at colin@gbiota.com
This is a Gbiota Biobox.
The soil is full of beneficial microbes living and breeding in the organic matter in the soil.
These microbes enter the plant which we eat to form our Gut biota, our gut brain, which acts as the intelligent control system for our bodies. It decides if we have have eaten enough of the right sort of food and tell us when to stop eating.
Our modern inert food is why we are so much fatter than our ancestors.
The soil is filled with rock dust which we cannot absorb, but the microbes break it down into complex chemicals we can absorb. These go to replace our body parts as they age and wear.
Our gut brain also controls much of our immune system protecting us 24/7 from infections. Our gut brain is one of the most important yet neglected organs in our bodies.
All you have to do is to turn the swivel pipe drain to drain the box so the compost tea in the box does not go putrid, reapply to the plants and refill the box through the inlet tube.
When finished just swap for a new box. So easy
You need to eat the leaves before the beneficial microbes die, just pick and eat, make into a smoothie, add to a sandwich or roll or just top your normal meal.
Far better and much cheaper than any pill.
To learn more about food and how it affects our health read here
To learn more about how to grow plants that will make us healthy read here
To learn how to participate in the Gbiota healthy food movement read here
We live in an age where peoples concentration is measured in seconds – for that surviving section of the world who are prepared to sit and read a serious article about how to survive the Anthroprocene read here
We are told that modern food is healthy – and it is true it is full of sugars, fats and carbs which give us energy. But it is dead, sterile, lifeless and we need those beneficial microbes and they are just not there.
This is a bad thing.
Bad things happen when good men stand by and do nothing – Abraham Lincoln
Not having enough real gut health food to eat at an affordable price is a bad thing.
Modern food makes us overfull but under nourished. Healthy food is grown in soil full of beneficial biota and minerals.
How do we change things for the better?
It is simply the power of the wallet. One person going into a supermarket has no buying power.
Form a group then you have real buying power and can buy directly from growers who are committed to growing healthy plants in healthy soil.
It is healthier and costs less.
We have the technology of growing healthy soil – that is what this web site is all about but to benefit from this technology people need to join or form their own local food buying group.
First step simply register that you want to buy real food grown in living soil in our community area – it costs nothing and you can make contact with other people who want to eat healthy food grown in real soil – we call them biofoodies and growers committed to regenerating their soils.
You get healthy food and have priority to food when things go bad – growers have a stable customer base so can invest in their soils – everyone wins. Just take the trouble to join and participate in a community food group
The Gbiota teams is here to help you set up and run these groups – we do it because bad things happen when good men (and women) stand buy and do nothing.
If you, and your grand kids and their grand kids want to eat healthy food then join the Gbiota social movement. One person can do nothing – a community of like minded people can make thing happen.
Join the Gbiota social movement here.
Signs of a healthy gut – Good and Bad bugs
Say the words micro-biome, micro-biota, bugs or germs and most people think of bad things that must be exterminated.
The fact is that there are good bugs, they are on a skin, hair, nose, mouth, our gut and even our brain. We are totally dependant on them and simply could not exist without them.
Microbes have a short life and breed like crazy. If we get the conditions right the good bugs will simply out breed the bad bugs.
The basic principle underlying the Gbiota technology is to have a food system where we create the right conditions where the good bugs out compete and out breed the bad bugs so we can have a long and healthy life.
Here are our choices –
Option 1
We can stay with our current food system where we chop down the last bits of remaining forest for land which we destroy with chemicals so we can grow crops to feed to animals locked in cages and covered in their own shit which end up polluting our rivers.
The food is full of fats, sugars and carbs so we get fat and sick and may have a leg chopped off from diabetes and will end up decrepit before we die young.
We destroy the soil so our grand kids never get to eat real food and all this so mega corporations can make mega profits.
Chemical industrial agriculture is a major source of green house gases but far worse – it is destroying the soil on which all life depends.
That is the cost of doing nothing and why ordinary people like you and me need to act.
We cannot leave it to the profit motive for us, our grand kids and their grand kids to have healthy food. It is up to us to act. Bad things happen when good men (and women) stand by and do nothing.
Join the Gbiota community food movement here.
Option 2
Or we can eat fresh fruit and vegetables grown in living nutritious soil maintained healthy by recycling organic waste and manures. We can live a long and active life into old age and our grand kids and their grand kids can eat real food.
But we have to take action starting with just three action points.
First –
we have to read and watch the videos to understand the basics of how food affects our health here.
If we want to develop a deeper we can go to food and videos.
Second –
we must show that we are committed to a healthy and sustainable food system by saying this is me and I am committed to supporting growers that regenerate their soil to give me healthy food by buying from them.
If you are a grower whether just a home, community or commercial grower, then you can invest in regenerative growing.
This is the power of the wallet, or many wallets – far more powerful than any mega-corporation.
The solution is just so simple – just form a group and buy directly from growers dedicated to regenerating their soils.
You do this by registering here – it costs you nothing but shows your commitment.
Third-
you must tell your friends so they join the movement for growing food in a sustainable way that will keep us healthy.
I am powerless to change the food system, you and me together will still have little impact but if we can create a social movement of real food for the community we can make that change so our grand kids and their grand kids can eat real food.
What next for community growing?
Join the Gbiota club –
The Gbiota club is a private social media site. You have to be a member to see what other members are doing, post and share information and chat.
It is a totally free community service, your information is confidential within the club and we expect members to respect social norms.
There are four categorises –
Biofoodie – means you just want to buy Gbiota food from a local grower. By registering you are telling potential local growers that you are a potential customer. It costs money and time to set up Gbiota beds so if people don’t register there will be no growers.
Home grower – means you just want to set up your own Gbiota beds or Bioboxes for personal use only.
Community grower – means you are not running a commercial business but are supplying your local community typically with a financial exchange.
Commercial grower – means you want to set up Gbiota beds and sell plants or Bioboxes to your local community.
Join the Gbiota club hereOur gut health controls our body – it needs to be fed gut food
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