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How to stay fit and healthy while feeding 8 billion people
How to prevent people having their legs chopped off from diabetes and more
Summary
We all want to live a long and healthy life and that means eating healthy food.
Our gut brain is like the captain of a ship it is the intelligent controls system which regulates our bodies.
The modern epidemic of non-infectious diseases is largely caused by the wrong fat in the wrong place because our intelligent control system is not working simply because we are not feeding it gut brain food.
Our modern food system based on a mono culture of chemical industrial agriculture is producing energy food in abundance. Tons of energy food at Hungry Jacks, nothing wrong with that – good energy food – but it stop there.
It is very mediocre in supplying the nutrients and minerals needed to replace our body part as they age and wear.
But it totally fails to provide the food to feed our gut brain which has led to an exponential growth in non infectious diseases.
Our medical system can do an amazing job in curing us when we get sick but it does to seem to see its role as preventing non-infectious diseases.
Surely prevention is better than cure (it is certainly a lot cheaper and more pleasant).
Don’t get me wrong – it did a memorable job of fighting infectious disease like Covid but when it come to preventing non-infectious diseases like diabetes – not on the agenda so sad to say it is everyone for themselves.
I can put all these technical and materialist arguments forward and they are technically correct. But we live in an age where humans seem so arrogant and think they can override the laws of nature which is clearly false.
This has led to a society which as best is not very satisfying to live in and worse is highly stressful.
I have to admit that to grow plants and breed the creatures from the tiniest to the friendly worms and watch the birds inoculate the soil is immensely satisfying and is what really drive me to put the energy I do into this project.
That is what this web site is all about – how to grow food that will prevent non infectious diseases and have fun doing so.
Gut Brain Food
Well intentioned specialists give us a lot of advice on what makes a healthy food, what they tell us may be true but is only part of the story and misses the key point which is that we have a gut brain, which has evolved over thousands of years to protect us and keep us healthy.
We are dependant on our microbes but they are also dependant on us and they go to great lengths to protect us. Our gut brain is a highly sophisticated system with thousands of different species communicating with each other and the truth is we really have no idea of how it works, but we do know that we need to feed it real gut brain food, learn to train it and learn to listen to what it is telling us.
Most of the food we eat is burned for energy, we just burn carbon and hydrogen to release energy. If we are into chicken wings and chips it is not the disaster that we are told as long as we listen to our gut brain and only eat enough to provide us with the energy we need.
We know that most people are short on magnesium, that women tend to be low in iron and men low in zinc. But our gut brain tells us when we are low.
If you have wondered around the kitchen thinking I want something but I am not sure what then that is you gut brain talking to you
That is what this web site is all about – how to feed our gut brain so it can look after us, learn to train it and listen to what it is telling us.
That is the way to a long and healthy life without giving up chicken wings and chips it that is your thing.
Food science
But there are eight billion people on this earth all needing to eat.
There are numerous scientific papers published on food and health, many are summarised on this web but the fact remains that we have a gut brain which regulates what and how much we want to eat and how much and where we store fat in our bodies.
Science has established correlations between the species of microbes in our gut and appetite and fat storage but these are purely correlations. There are thousands of species of microbes in our gut which communicate with each other to create what we can think of as a super computer.
But the reality is that we really have no idea of the code which drives this super computer in out gut.
We just know it is critical for our health and is highly sophisticated having evolved over many thousands of years.
Unfortunately, with our modern food system, we have stopped feeding our gut brain the food that our gut brain needs which has led to a range of non infectious diseases like heart attacks, stroke, dementia and diabetes.
We may not know how it works but we know how to grow food that will feed our gut brain. It is easy, inexpensive and virtually anyone can do it.
Does it matter that we do not understand how our gut brain works?
Think on this – a three year old kid can learn to ride a bike – a few spills on the learning process but they are soon up and away.
Now the science of how a bike stays up is extremely complicated involving gyroscopic couples and a self balancing system – very few people understand it and we certainly don’t teach our three year old kid to rid a bike by explaining about gyroscopic couples.
They just get on and learn by doing.
Right at this moment the results of not feeding our gut brain are horrendous, every eight seconds someone has a limb amputated from diabetes and this is largely avoidable and dementia is a terrible end of life – the reason is we have not learned to manage our ignorance.
If you want to read more about how to feed your gut brain then just read on – but it does go on and on – it is a complex issue which can only be simplified so much without loosing meaning.
But if all you want to do is to avoid getting fat and sick and having your leg chopped of from diabetes then just email me at colin@gbiota.com telling me a bit about your situation and I will see what I can do to help you by directing you through this rather complex web site and set you on the road to growing your own gut food.
I am a real person, my wife Xiulan is a medical doctor became diabetic and nearly had her food amputated from diabetes from well intentioned but misguided advice from our medical advisers who did not appreciate the art of managing ignorance relying on drugs rather then getting to the root cause and feeding the gut brain.
The paradigm we have use so successfully in fighting infectious diseases is simply not working for fighting non-infectious diseases – we need a new paradigm.
She still has her foot and may be we can save yours as well.
Managing ignorance and an introduction to unkunks
Some very clever and well intentioned scientists thought they could produce enough food using chemistry, and they were right – the world produced more than enough food.
But these chemicals killed of many of the microbes which turned out to be essential for health, they make minerals in the soil bio available for the plants, they digest our food and more important they power our gut brain which regulates our bodies, how much we want to eat and where and what sort of fats we store.
People who talked about the importance of these beneficial microbes were dismissed by the experts as green nutters.
Without these beneficial microbes there was an epidemic of non-infectious diseases like heart attacks, strokes, dementia and the fasted growing disease diabetes which leads to someone having a leg amputated every eight seconds.
My wife, Xiulan a medical doctor became diabetic, her foot started to turn black and the doctors were talking about amputation.
I am an innovator and used to fighting paradigms so I decided I was happy to become labelled a green nutter and work out how to breed beneficial microbes to make soil teaming with microbes and nutrients to grow plants that would enhance the gut brain.
And it worked – she still has both her legs.
I run this web site to show other green nutters how they can breed beneficial microbes and avoid having their leg chopped off.
Yes I know it is long and the world expects instantaneous results and I well know that it could do with a bit of editing but I have to decide whether to spend my time refining the system by running experiments or perfect the web.
I am now eighty three, still fit and healthy and I know I am not going to get rich from showing people how to grow gut food – but that is not the point – success is measured by how many legs I can avoid being amputated.
I pay for all my experiments from my pension fund and try and cover at least some of the costs by making this a subscription site but $5 seems to me pretty cheap to save a leg.
The powers that be still seem to regard me as a green nutter but if I can persuade enough people to save their leg being amputated they may actually take notice of me and I will have achieved a major paradigm shift.
So if you feel you can put up with being classified as a green nutter just email me colin@gbiota.com
Preface
This is not an entertainment site – it is to prevent people having their legs amputated from diabetes.
The epidemic of diabetes is at the root, not a medical problem but a food problem. We are not feeding our gut brain which regulates our appetite, how much and what type of food we want to eat and where and how much fat we store.
This is not going to be changed by some wonder drug but by fixing the root cause, and feeding our gut brain.
Almost anyone can grow their own gut brain food, it is easy and is based on breeding beneficial microbes in waste organics so it costs very little – but you have to do it yourself.
This is serious and there is a lot of information to get over so get I straight down to business without the sales huff and puff which saturate the modern web.
For an introduction to the Gbiota technology of growing gut food whatch these four short videos
Diabetes prevention trial – the how
How we think
I needed a totally outlandish title because we live in an age of the three word slogan and real life is more complex and needs a bit more mental effort.
We are facing an epidemic of non-infectious diseases which is serious and getting worse. This is the most serious health issue we are facing yet the harsh reality is that we are floundering in combating this health threat.
Don’t believe me, you can look at the statistics which show that the explosion in non infectious diseases or you can just walk around the local shopping centre and look at the number of wobbly bums and tums, all candidates just waiting for some non infectious disease to strike.
We are loosing this war so it is time to stop and think about how we think. I write this article about how to think about non-infectious diseases so we can lead a happy life, fit and active but we are not going to win this war if we carry on as we are.
But who is going to stop and read what I suspect will end up as quite a long article which starts off with what looks like a lot of waffle words about how we think.
But every eight seconds some unfortunate soul has limb amputated from diabetes.
This is man made and largely avoidable but we are not going to change this if we just carry on with the same old thinking which has so spectacularly failed.
Varying confidence in our medical system
In my life I have had several major operations, I smashed by leg in a car crash when I was in my twenties and later in life needed a complete knee replacement with a foamed titanium knee joint with UHMW polyethylene bearing.
Totally transformational, I walk several kilometres each morning and have total confidence in the medical team that performed those operations.
Big tick and thanks.
I am not diabetic, I should be because I am a natural pig, I love food and will eat anything and everything that is put in front of me but my wife Xiulan is a fussy eater and is diabetic.
She is a medical doctor, a respected surgeon so I should have no need to worry. But I have been with her on her diabetic path reading everything I could on diabetes and how she was managed by the medical profession
It is a horrifying example of system failure. Our grossly overworked general practitioners just do not have time to keep up to date with the latest developments.
They seem to have no option but to sit there with a pad to subscribe some drug or other (on a trial and error system) or write a referal to some specialist who may have a high degree of expertise in their speciality but lives in their specialist silo without the functional links to other specialists.
Why listen to me?
I am not a medical doctor so why should anyone listen to me?
Non-infectious diseases, like diabetes, are not just a medical problem – they are the result of many factors – social stemming from the community, how our food is grown and distributed, our genetics some people like my wife are prone to diabetes other like me seem to be resistant and can be walking rubbish bin consuming anything in site that looks like food with no harmful effects.
We are not going to solve diabetes or any of the other non infectious diseases by a narrow minded approach of hoping for some magical pill which will cure diabetes.
What I bring to the party is knowledge of the process of innovation which is about creating change. I do have a track record here being selected as among Australia’s top innovators by the Institute of Engineers for my pioneering work on computer aided engineering which literally changed an industry.
But how does innovation actually work to create change.
How innovation actually works
There is a popular image of some totally brilliant scientist working away in the lab for months on end, totally focused on her specialist area, and eventually leaping about saying Eureka I have solved it and the world is changed.
That does happen but it is rare.
In the real world innovations occur by bringing together a whole bunch of seemingly unrelated technologies, which in isolation are pretty useless, but which can be made to work together to provide a genuine benefit.
That was certainly true of my innovation in computer aided engineering. The real grunt work was done by scientists who can genuinely be described as brilliant scientist like Newton, Leibniz, Pascal who developed the calculus, numerical methods, and the theory of fluid flow.
I was competent enough in all these areas and had the luck to be around at the birth of the computer industry and realised we could now solve problems numerically we had never been able to do before – it was the bringing together of these separate technologies that created the change and literally changed an industry.
We see this time and time again, Steve Jobs and the mobile phone must be the classic example. Steve recognised that there was a whole bunch of technologies, the touch sensitive screen, WiFi, the graphical user interface and combined all these together in a small enough device that could be carried in a pocket and combining this with a dramatic change in marketing strategy to create an industry we can love or hate but certainly changed he world.
This is the nature of innovation – it takes a first tier of a few brilliant minds working in their specialist silos then a second tier who may not achieve the brilliance of the specialist in their silos but are competent enough in multiple disciples to create an integrated offering which is practical enough to change the world.
Changing the world for non-infectious diseases
Some very clever brains have been working on how to combat non-infectious disease by developing some magic super pill. This has been going on for over fifty years and in all that time non-infectious diseases have grown almost exponentially and no magic super pill has emerged.
Realistically it is very unlikely that this magic super pill will ever emerge. A drug is simply not addressing the root cause of the problem which lies in food and how our bodies react to food.
That will need us to bring together a bunch of technologies from how we grow, transport, and cook our food and an understanding of how food works in our bodies. But they also need to understand how society actually works and can adapt to change – that is called change marketing.
Why the focus on diabetes
There are many non infectious diseases, the biggest killer is heart attacks, strokes and dementia are the most debilitating, diabetes is a nasty disease in its own right but it leads to many other complication – amputation of the lower limb and loss of sight are the most dramatic.
But is does have one feature we can exploit – we can measure blood sugar levels and get an immediate understanding of whether the approach is working or not.
It is a bit difficult to design an experiment to see if changing diet for a thirty year old will have any effect on the risk of dementia or heart attacks many decades later when it is a bit late for change.
But all these diseases have a common thread, the wrong sort of fat in the wrong place so if we can refine a technology to prevent diabetes and get results in as little as four months and there is a good chance it will be beneficial for all non-infectious diseases.
The Essence
There is a global epidemic of non-infectious diseases. Superficially this is caused by the wrong fat in the wrong places and people blame the high fat and sugar in our modern diet. But that is not the real reason.
Over thousands of years we have evolved a gut brain which carefully regulates what and how much we want to eat and where we store fat in our bodies. That worked incredibly well until we stopped feeding our gut brain and tried to resolve the problem with drugs rather that fixing the real problem and feed our gut brain.
That is incredibly easy to do, we can save our kitchen scraps and other organic waste, let the worms, soldier fly larvae and other creature of the soil turn this into soil teaming with beneficial microbes and nutrients. Any one can do it, even people living in a flat and it cost very little.
Baby greens and herbs are quick and easy to grow and can be used to supplement regular meals with gut brain food.
But there is a lot of money in supplying drugs and we have a do nothing public service who are quite happy to sit back and leave it to the drug companies.
I have spend many decades developing the best way of regenerating soil to grow gut brain food.
I do it because I like messing around with compost and soil, I feel converting waste, (which would otherwise end up as green house gasses), into real food and saving people from having their legs chopped off from diabetes is worth while.
To be honest it is much more fun than playing bingo – but there is no money in it to run a major promotion to compete with the billions spent by the food and drug industries.
So all I can do is to say to people who visit my web – tell your friends just how easy and beneficial for health growing a few plants and eating really fresh really is and it may save them having their leg chopped off from diabetes. Just tell them to contact me at colin@gbiota.com and I will advice them how to grow their own gut brain food.
Grow your own gut food
This web site shows how to grow plants which will make us fit and healthy.
For the last ten thousand years, since we developed agriculture and started to live in cities we have got sick and died from infectious diseases.
We have used all our technology, both medical innovations such as anti biotics, with engineering technology constructing sewers and clean water systems and in agriculture with chemicals to fight these harmful infections.
And we can be proud of our success, based on science and technology, as sickness and death from infectious diseases has dropped dramatically.
The result was an explosion in the human population, in my life time the global population has trebled – amazing.
But that created a new problem – how to feed all those extra mouths.
Scientist like Norman Borlaug came to the rescue with the green revolution, which along with chemical fertilisers, improved agricultural machinery and the adoption of mono-culture led to a dramatic increase in food production by a factor of 4.3 – far greater than the increase in population with a factor of 3.
We are producing ample food, enough to feed the entire world – the fact that there are people still starving is due to issues of equality and distribution.
Plenty of food, life span was increasing dramatically. Everything looked great.
But it was not. Something unexpected happened an increase in non-infectious diseases – heart attacks, strokes, dementia and the fastest growing disease of all – diabetes.
The increase in life span plateaued coupled with a reduction in health span – how long we remain fit and healthy.
To understand what happened we have to know about unks and unkunks.
Unks and Unkunks
Science is the art of managing knowledge, engineering the art of managing ignorance.
Science is the art of managing knowledge leaving the art of managing ignorance to the engineers and technologist who struggle to apply the science to benefit the community.
They have to battle the world of unks and unkunks.
Unks are things we know we don’t know and engineers can take steps to manage these. That magic term safety factor is not a safety factor at all but an ignorance factor.
But unkunks are much more dangerous, these are the unkowns that we don’t know about and catch us out big time.
Beneficial microbes
The unkunk that caught out all those hard working scientist and technologist trying to protect us from those infectious diseases was that they had no idea how totally dependant we are on beneficial microbes.
We need beneficial microbes in the soil, particularly the fungi, to break down the rock to release the nutrients and make them bio-available.
But we also need the beneficial microbes that live in our gut. They talk to our head brain to provide an intelligence control system which regulated our bodies.
If we do not feed our gut brain it sends our signals, in the form of hormones and electric signals so we feel hungry and overeat and store the wrong sort of fat in the wrong places.
This fat is at the core of a whole range of non-infectious diseases – heart attacks, strokes, dementia and the fastest growing of these modern diseases diabetes.
Norman Borlaug caught by an unkunk
We can’t really blame Norman Borlaug. This was way before the time when we had DNA testing machines and had any real understanding of how important our gut biome really is.
But the result has been a disaster on a monumental scale.
We have made great progress in medical science extended our lives and increased our food supply to feed the increased population – major achievements without doubt.
But the price we have paid for the Unkunk is a dramatic increase in non-infectious diseases with people dying in bulk from heart diseases and strokes and suffering from dementia and the side effects of diabetes – the fastest increasing disease on the planet resulting in some unfortunate soul having a limb amputated every eight seconds.
But now we do know so it is time for action – and that is just what we are not doing.
Myths that linger on and on
If you think I am a bit emotional about this then you are right. My wife is a medical doctor, a surgeon who is fanatical about everything being clean and tidy. I see some couples attract because they have much in common while others attract because they are opposites. We are opposites.
She is fastidious and likes everything clean and tidy while I could feature in a feature film as Mr. Messy – what greater pleasure is their in life than shovelling a pile of chicken shit onto my veggie patch.
She became diabetic, I am sure because of her diet, and her foot started to turn black and the doctors were talking about amputation.
I suspect that she would have followed her medical colleagues advice but I am a bit OCDish and wanted to find out what was the real cause of diabetes which is essentially fat clogging first the muscles and then the pancreas so it no longer makes insulin.
That is where I learned about the importance of our gut brain and how it regulated.
The calorie paradigm
At that time the conventional wisdom was that fat was caused by excess calories, unfortunately that paradigm still lingers on despite being effectively debunked by events in Holland in the second world war.
The dutch people were being starved but after the war when food became available again they put on a lot of weight.
Their gut brain, which controls appetite had effectively been trained to store any fat that became available so it made the people hungry so they overate. True they got fat because they were eating too many calories but the real cause was their gut brain telling them to eat more.
Time and time again people go on a simple calorie restriction diet, loose weight in the short term but in the long term end up fatter than ever.
The calorie myth still lives on and is a major factor in all these non-infectious diseases when the real cause is we are not feeding our gut brain.
Feeding our gut brain
Norman Borlaug and his compatriots who developed modern farming technology were largely using a chemical based technology.
Feeding our gut brain needs a largely biology based technology. We need to be able to breed the beneficial microbes while controlling the breeding of the harmful microbes.
That is very much an engineering problem of getting the conditions right so the good bugs out breed the bad bugs.
We need to do that in the soil but before I talk about soil let me have a quick chat about how our bodies work.
How our bodies work
You can see how this works by looking at how our bodies work. Our bodies are full of microbes, most live in our gut but there are what I call nascent microbes floating around right throughout our bodies even in places where they could potentially cause harm if they could breed to become a population.
But we have blood continuously flowing throughout our bodies. This blood picks up oxygen from our lungs, food from our gut and a whole range of complex chemicals from our organs like the liver, thyroid, gall bladder, hypothalamus, pituitary, parathyroids, adrenals, ovaries, testes etc. to replace our body parts as they age and wear.
Pretty complex stuff is our blood.
Our blood is also part of our immune system, checking out any stray microbes it may find in its journey. It may decide that it is just a tourist and leave it alone or it may stick a label on it saying ‘baddie’ and along comes the blood police force and baddie no more.
With diabetes if the blood stops flowing to the extremities then the baddies take over, the limb turns black and the conversation turns to amputation.
Plants also have an immune system which you can confirm by chopping a bit of a healthy plants and watch it go rotten or you can Google plant immune system and spend the next couple of week becoming an expert on the plant immune system.
But is has much in common with our human immune system effectively dealing with the nascent microbes.
How soil works
Statisticians will spend hours trying to work out whether some small change, say 20% is statistically significant or not.
In the last fifty year the incidence for diabetes has increased by a factor of fourteen (based on estimated rather than confirmed cases when the increase is only a factor of twelve).
The response is not to debate whether that is statistically significant but to say ‘bloody hell – what is going on here’.
And the answer lies in the soil so it is more than worth our time to consider how soil has changed.
Let’s look at how soil works in the nature. If has much in common with how our bodies work.
Plants have an immune system just like us.
Soil does not have organs like us but there are trillions of creatures which do a similar job.
There is a continuous supply of fresh organic matter falling from the trees above or animals pooping away. At first this forms what we call labile or fresh compost which is not good for the plants as it is full of toxins and growth inhibitors.
Gradually this gets broken down and the microbes, particularly the fungi break down any minerals to make them bio available. The plants are continuously exuding sugars they make by photosynthesis which both feed and attract beneficial microbes.
The plants extract moisture from the soil which in turn means that more liquid is brought into the root zone.
When it rains the root zone is flooded but not with pure water but what I like to call soil blood because it is working in a similar way to our blood.
When the rain stops and the plants take moisture out of the soil fresh air is sucked in around the roots.
This flood and drain system with soil blood is the basis of the Gbiota system.
Beneficial microbes breed in the decaying organic material and enter the plants, may be in small numbers as nascent microbes ready to explode in numbers when we eat the plants.
Soil blood
The Gbiota system works by circulating a yukky brown fluid which is commonly called compost tea but I like to think of as soil blood flushing around the root zone.
There are a number of ways of doing this depending on scale but the simplest method involves using a storage box ($10 from the local Reject shop) and a couple of Buckets ($2) and pouring the water into a flower pot and letting it drain out into another bucket.
Just save up all the kitchen scraps, add a bit of rock dust and inoculant and go through this simple flushing operation twice a week. Almost anyone can do it even if they live in a flat with no garden, although a garden is nice place to play with soil blood.
Pretty simple and a potentially inexpensive way of saving thousands of legs being chopped off.
Test not debate
It is a long time since I was at University studying engineering but in the morning we had lectures on all sorts of things from thermodynamics, strength of materials, metallurgy, fluid flow, statistics etc but in the afternoon we had lab work.
It was drummed into me that engineering often meant taking decisions and making designs without complete knowledge (Unks)and that meant managing ignorance. The message was not to spend an eternity on some useless debate but set up a test and measure.
So having developed a system of feeding our gut brain and avoiding my wife having her leg chopped off (statistically an n of one which is not significant) it seemed to me that the next step was to set up a proper test to show that this actually works in the real world and is a viable, economic and socially acceptable solution.
So I prepared a research strategy where we could recruit a statistically significant number of people who were diabetic or just having problem with unexplained weight gain, who were prepared to grow their own gut food and measure their blood sugar levels.
A very simple and basic community research project.
The Enthusiastic Stage
I sent my proposal off, in a state of high enthusiasm, to the various organisation involved with diabetes, the local Universities, and my local MP.
I thought there was a danger they may think I was some sort of green nutter so I did point out that I had a track record of being a pioneer of CAE computer aided engineering, used the computer to solve the complex coupled non-linear equation of fluid flow, set up a company which became the leading exporter of technical software from Australia and went on (after I sold the company) to be worth $A500million and I was selected as one of the top one hundred innovators by the Institute of Engineers.
I thought with a background like that someone would actually take notice, particularly as every eight second someone has a limb amputated from diabetes and the cost of diabetes to the Governments is running in the billions of dollars, let alone the personal costs.
The lead balloon
It would be wrong to say I got zero response although it is pretty close, just no reply at all.
The only comment was that there were already companies who were manufacturing pro-biotics to enhance gut health so why was I messing around trying to grow plants as natural pre and pro biotics.
I thought about replying with the argument that these artificial pro-biotics only have a few species of microbes whereas a healthy gut has up to a thousand species which work together as a system (even though we have no idea how they work as a system – a big unkunk), that a pro-biotics was useless without an ongoing consumption of pre-biotics and that these pills were costing $100 a shot wheres growing naturally was using organic waste which would otherwise be going to landfill to make green house gases.
But I watch the news and realised that would be a total waste of time.
Watch the news
I am an avid news watcher, starting with the Drum, then SBS, ABC, then 7.30.
What I find really scary is the underlying cause of autocratic governments and the rise of populism which is the dissatisfaction with the way democracy is (not) working.
Governments are simply not working as they should but giving power to the powerful multi-national corporations, which is why I was so perturbed by the comment that there were drugs which could enhance the gut brain.
Taking drugs is not the solution, the root cause is deficiency in our food system, we should be feeding our gut brain from food not drugs.
And the reason is the do nothing, don’t rock the boat attitude.
Look at Robodebt. A senior top level civil servant on an $800,000 year salary knew Robodebt was wrong but did nothing. Then there is the PWC scandal, these are no one offs, it is endemic in the system and it is undermining the democratic system.
We see this in the comedy show Utopia which I do not watch.
Not because it is not funny, I am sure it is but it is too close reality. If I watched it I am sure my blood pressure would rise blowing by head off to the roof, scattering blood and brains all over the ceiling and leaving my widowed wife to bribe some tradie to clear up the revolting mess. Not good.
Am I turning into a cynic?
I am a trusting soul, just give me a pat and I will wag my tail, but there are some facts which no one can dispute.
Fact number 1 is that diabetic drugs, where you have a buyer for life are some of the most profitable drugs in the business worth billions of dollars. Anything that prevents people becoming diabetic would be detrimental to their profits.
Fact number 2 is that these mega companies have major influence over our institutions.
Fact number 3 is these institutions have very little interest in the technology I have developed to avoid people becoming diabetics.
Just facts – draw you own conclusions.
People worry about AI I am more worried about GS
AI Artificial Intelligence
GS Genuine Stupidity
So what to do?
DIY
I can see little option but to try a do this test myself.
But for that I need volunteers who are diabetic or better still pre-diabetic as we are into prevention rather than cure and recruit them as volunteer guinea pigs.
All they have to do is to grow their own gut food, and I can coach them through that phase, and monitor their blood sugar levels.
The only possible risk I can see is that if they are already on diabetic pills they may need to change or reduce their medication to avoid their blood sugar dropping too low (Hypoglycemia). They should talk to their doctor about joining this project and to monitor their blood sugar during the trial (which should last about four months).
Growing gut brain food – getting started
Every eight second some unfortunate soul has a limb amputated from the side effect of diabetes with the thick blood not be able to travel through the fine capillaries so our feet and legs turn black as they go rotten requiring amputation.
So we need to develop the new technology of growing our food so we control the harmful microbes which make us sick and kill us but enable the beneficial microbes which regulate our bodies to breed so we don’t suffer from these non-infectious diseases.
We don’t need to change all our food. Most of the food we eat, the sugars carbs and fat, are just used for energy. As long as we don’t gorge ourselves that’s fine.
We also need some food to replace our body parts as they age and wear, that has to be full of nutrients.
But what we really need is to add to our diet food that feeds our gut brain which regulates our appetite and where and how much fat we store. That is the critical component we are missing. We just need to supplement our normal diet with about 5% of gut brain food.
That is what the gbiota technology is all about, breeding beneficial microbes in the soil, which enter the plants and then our gut brain while controlling the harmful microbes.
My aim has been to create a growing system where people can grow their own gut food at home, even if they live in a flat with no garden or at least buy gut food from a local grower while it is still fresh.
If you relate to this drop me an email at colin@gbiota.com and tell me a bit about your situation.
For an introduction to the Gbiota technology of growing gut food whatch these four short videos
Diabetes prevention trial – the how
The punch line
So to the punch line, if you, or you know of someone who may be willing to participate in this trial can you please ask the them to email me on colin@gbiota.com
Soil blood
The Gbiota system works by circulating a yukky brown fluid which is commonly called compost tea but I like to think of as soil blood flushing around the root zone.
There are a number of ways of doing this depending on scale but the simplest method involves using a storage box ($10 from the local Reject shop) and a couple of Buckets ($2) and pouring the water into a flower pot and letting it drain out into another bucket.
Just save up all the kitchen scraps, add a bit of rock dust and inoculant and go through this simple flushing operation twice a week. Almost anyone can do it even if they live in a flat with no garden, although a garden is nice place to play with soil blood.
Pretty simple and a potentially inexpensive way of saving thousands of legs being chopped off.
Test not debate
It is a long time since I was at University studying engineering but in the morning we had lectures on all sorts of things from thermodynamics, strength of materials, metallurgy, fluid flow, statistics etc but in the afternoon we had lab work.
It was drummed into me that engineering often meant taking decisions and making designs without complete knowledge (Unks)and that meant managing ignorance. The message was not to spend an eternity on some useless debate but set up a test and measure.
So having developed a system of feeding our gut brain and avoiding my wife having her leg chopped off (statistically an n of one which is not significant) it seemed to me that the next step was to set up a proper test to show that this actually works in the real world and is a viable, economic and socially acceptable solution.
So I prepared a research strategy where we could recruit a statistically significant number of people who were diabetic or just having problem with unexplained weight gain, who were prepared to grow their own gut food and measure their blood sugar levels.
A very simple and basic community research project.
The Enthusiastic Stage
I sent my proposal off, in a state of high enthusiasm, to the various organisation involved with diabetes, the local Universities, and my local MP.
I thought there was a danger they may think I was some sort of green nutter so I did point out that I had a track record of being a pioneer of CAE computer aided engineering, used the computer to solve the complex coupled non-linear equation of fluid flow, set up a company which became the leading exporter of technical software from Australia and went on (after I sold the company) to be worth $A500million and I was selected as one of the top one hundred innovators by the Institute of Engineers.
I thought with a background like that someone would actually take notice, particularly as every eight second someone has a limb amputated from diabetes and the cost of diabetes to the Governments is running in the billions of dollars, let alone the personal costs.
The lead balloon
It would be wrong to say I got zero response although it is pretty close, just no reply at all.
The only comment was that there were already companies who were manufacturing pro-biotics to enhance gut health so why was I messing around trying to grow plants as natural pre and pro biotics.
I thought about replying with the argument that these artificial pro-biotics only have a few species of microbes whereas a healthy gut has up to a thousand species which work together as a system (even though we have no idea how they work as a system – a big unkunk), that a pro-biotics was useless without an ongoing consumption of pre-biotics and that these pills were costing $100 a shot wheres growing naturally was using organic waste which would otherwise be going to landfill to make green house gases.
But I watch the news and realised that would be a total waste of time.
Watch the news
I am an avid news watcher, starting with the Drum, then SBS, ABC, then 7.30.
What I find really scary is the underlying cause of autocratic governments and the rise of populism which is the dissatisfaction with the way democracy is (not) working.
Governments are simply not working as they should but giving power to the powerful multi-national corporations, which is why I was so perturbed by the comment that there were drugs which could enhance the gut brain.
Taking drugs is not the solution, the root cause is deficiency in our food system, we should be feeding our gut brain from food not drugs.
And the reason is the do nothing, don’t rock the boat attitude.
Look at Robodebt. A senior top level civil servant on an $800,000 year salary knew Robodebt was wrong but did nothing. Then there is the PWC scandal, these are no one offs, it is endemic in the system and it is undermining the democratic system.
We see this in the comedy show Utopia which I do not watch.
Not because it is not funny, I am sure it is but it is too close reality. If I watched it I am sure my blood pressure would rise blowing by head off to the roof, scattering blood and brains all over the ceiling and leaving my widowed wife to bribe some tradie to clear up the revolting mess. Not good.
Am I turning into a cynic?
I am a trusting soul, just give me a pat and I will wag my tail, but there are some facts which no one can dispute.
Fact number 1 is that diabetic drugs, where you have a buyer for life are some of the most profitable drugs in the business worth billions of dollars. Anything that prevents people becoming diabetic would be detrimental to their profits.
Fact number 2 is that these mega companies have major influence over our institutions.
Fact number 3 is these institutions have very little interest in the technology I have developed to avoid people becoming diabetics.
Just facts – draw you own conclusions.
People worry about AI I am more worried about GS
AI Artificial Intelligence
GS Genuine Stupidity
So what to do?
DIY
I can see little option but to try a do this test myself.
But for that I need volunteers who are diabetic or better still pre-diabetic as we are into prevention rather than cure and recruit them as volunteer guinea pigs.
All they have to do is to grow their own gut food, and I can coach them through that phase, and monitor their blood sugar levels.
The only possible risk I can see is that if they are already on diabetic pills they may need to change or reduce their medication to avoid their blood sugar dropping too low (Hypoglycemia). They should talk to their doctor about joining this project and to monitor their blood sugar during the trial (which should last about four months).
Growing gut brain food – getting started
Every eight second some unfortunate soul has a limb amputated from the side effect of diabetes with the thick blood not be able to travel through the fine capillaries so our feet and legs turn black as they go rotten requiring amputation.
So we need to develop the new technology of growing our food so we control the harmful microbes which make us sick and kill us but enable the beneficial microbes which regulate our bodies to breed so we don’t suffer from these non-infectious diseases.
We don’t need to change all our food. Most of the food we eat, the sugars carbs and fat, are just used for energy. As long as we don’t gorge ourselves that’s fine.
We also need some food to replace our body parts as they age and wear, that has to be full of nutrients.
But what we really need is to add to our diet food that feeds our gut brain which regulates our appetite and where and how much fat we store. That is the critical component we are missing. We just need to supplement our normal diet with about 5% of gut brain food.
That is what the gbiota technology is all about, breeding beneficial microbes in the soil, which enter the plants and then our gut brain while controlling the harmful microbes.
My aim has been to create a growing system where people can grow their own gut food at home, even if they live in a flat with no garden or at least buy gut food from a local grower while it is still fresh.
If you relate to this drop me an email at colin@gbiota.com and tell me a bit about your situation.
For an introduction to the Gbiota technology of growing gut food whatch these four short videos
Diabetes prevention trial – the how
The punch line
So to the punch line, if you, or you know of someone who may be willing to participate in this trial can you please ask the them to email me on colin@gbiota.com
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