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The new industry of growing natural pre and pro biotics

Background

We know that there are trillions of cells in our gut which communicate with each other to create a real brain, which working with our head brain, creates an intelligent control system regulating our bodies.

In particular our appetite and how much fat we store, and whether we clog up our arteries, brain and pancreas which leads to the most rapidly expanding disease of our era – diabetes where every eight seconds some unfortunate soul has a limb amputated.

We know that if we change the species in our gut we can totally change how this intelligent control system works making fat people skinny and skinny people fat.

You don’t need a scientific survey to realise this is one of the major health issues for the community, just walk into any shopping centre and see the number of wobbly bums and tums and the number of people in wheel chairs.

Changing the communities gut biome is critical to a healthy society.

This is a two stage process, first we need the technology which is based on solid science and can be applied on a large scale and secondly we have to change public awareness in an era of misinformation and public distrust.

The micro-biome pathway

The first question is where does our gut biome come from in the first place, we know that initially it comes from mum at birth but that is not an answer – where does mum get her gut biome?

The answer may appear to be from the soil but there is little correlation between the biome in a typical soil sample and our guts. But if we look at the biome in the rhizosphere there is a clear connection.

We know that plants exude sugars from their roots to attract and feed specific species and the rhizosphere in a healthy soil is full of larger creatures, worms, soldier fly larvae, maggots and let us not forget the birds pooping away and they all have guts like us.

There is a pathway from the rhizosphere, into the plants and then into our guts which determine our gut biome. This pathway has been tested over millions of years so we know it works.

Modern industrial farming – the death of the gut biome

Unfortunately this pathway has been decimated by modern chemical industrial farming.

But we cannot simply go back to the traditional system;-

firstly it not only bred the beneficial microbes but also harmful ones which meant that most people died from some infectious disease and secondly there are now some eight billion people that need feeding.

This is the situation appreciated by Colin Austin, an innovator who pioneered computer simulation and was recognised by the Institute of Engineers as among the top one hundred innovators in Australia for his pioneering work.

The Gbiota system

He has developed the gbiota system which breeds beneficial microbes in waste organic material, which would otherwise go to tips to produce green house gases, and a system of flood and drain so the soil actually breathes ensuring that delicate balance of a combination of air, water and nutrients where the beneficial microbes can out breed the harmful ones.

The resultant soil can then be used to grow food plants at scale and an economic price which can achieve this objective of changing the communities gut biome.

At the very least this could save thousand so of limbs being amputated but it could have greater impacts on improving the communities overall health.

Creating a new industry

At a practical level what we are really trying to achieve here is creating a new industry of growing plants as natural pre and pro biotics.

The end product may look like a cabbage but is very different to the cabbage you can buy at the supermarket wrapped in a plastic bag, instead it is a bunch of beneficial microbes that is wrapped in a cabbage. Something very different.

This new industry will have many players but let us hope they form a very different type of industry based on community benefit rather than creating Neo-monopolies to maximum profits which is the curse of the modern age.

We already have players who support this vision, the next player we would like to join is a potential Ph. D student who shares this vision and has a relevant expertise such as micro-biology.

We understand the realities of life and will takes steps to ensure the necessary funding.

Please contact me at colin@gbiota.com

 

 

The misinformation age

We live in the misinformation age. Later I will take a general view of the damage caused by misinformation but let me start with a specific case – amputations from diabetes.

Diabetes is important, it is the fasted growing disease of modern times and every eight seconds some unfortunate soul has a limb amputated.

Let me work through on a step by step basis.

Diabetes leads to high blood sugars which makes the blood more thick and viscous so it cannot get through the fine capillaries feeding our extremities so they simply go rotten and have to be amputated.

Next step – why do we get diabetes? The first stage, which often goes unnoticed is that we become resistant to insulin which is the hormone which controls blood sugar but then our pancreas, which makes the insulin, becomes clogged with fat and can no longer make insulin.

Next step – and this is where things go wrong – why does our body store excess fat? The misinformation is that this is simply due to us eating too much sugary fatty food so the solution is to go on a calorie restricted diet. It is true that eating too much sugary fatty food is not healthy but it misses the  step ‘why do we eat to much sugary fatty food’

Next step – why so we eat too much sugary fatty food? We have an intelligent control system, made up of our gut and head brains which control our bodies including our appetite. If our intelligent control system decides we need to store more fat it will send out hormones to make us hungry and is is almost impossible to defy these hormones over time.

Next step – how do we manage our intelligent control system so it stops us storing excess fat? Answer – training and gut composition.

Our intelligent control starts to learn the minute we are born. If we cut our food intake so there is not enough food we are teaching our gut brain that it needs to store food – excessively restrictive diets are teaching our gut brain to make as fat – exactly the opposite of what we want.

Our gut brain is made up of trillions of microbes which are foreign to us. If we have the wrong sort of microbes they will make us fat but we can simply change our microbes by changing the type of food we eat.

Next step – why are we eating the wrong sort of food?

OK it is time to go general. Diabetes is just one of the many illnesses that is the result of poor food and storing excess fat. The big killers of our era are heart attacks, strokes and dementia and they all have the common theme of food that makes us store the wrong sort of fat in the wrong places.

We live in the era where we have the greatest access to information the world has ever experienced – the internet. But we are also living in the era where power has migrated to global corporations who have more power and money than even a medium sized country and they are ultimately motivated by power and money.

They have more power and money than many Governments and by comparison an isolated consumer has negligible power.

They are extremely good at manipulative promotion so we buy what will make them the most money. In the case of food that is sugary fatty foods. It is virtually impossible for them to provide the fresh food with the beneficial living microbes we need in our gut – they just die before they are even on the shelves.

Next step – what can we do about it?

We are not totally helpless we just need two things. We need information and we need the technology of growing the food that will make us healthy.

That is where the Gbiota movement comes into play. Gbiota is a social benefit organisation, we rely on people volunteering their time and sometimes money to make sure the public has access to the proper information. We cannot supply the world with food that will make people healthy and avoid getting fat and sick but we can give them the information on what to eat and how to grow it.

We simply do not have the money to run massive advertising campaigns but we can be more effective by relying on real people to tell their friends about the Gbiota movement and persuade them to join the movement.