The best pro-biotic ever

What is the best pro-biotic ever, in fact the only one that really works for sure?

Answer – human breast milk.

Puzzled scientists

For many years scientist were puzzled about some weird stuff in breast milk that was indigestible by the baby – then it clicked that this was to feed the babies gut biota.

Three years to get a healthy gut

Babies gut biota is important as the first three years of a child’s life pretty much sets their gut biota for the rest of their lives (OK we can change it a bit but it is not easy or pleasant unless you enjoy having a faecal transplant – someone else’s pooh poked up your bum).

Were different

Humans are a bit different to other creatures.

Human babies are pretty much helpless, admittedly they have a good pair of lungs for getting attention but they can’t run away from a tiger.

We take longer to mature than any other animal

We reach physical maturity in our late teens but our brain only reach full maturity in our mid twenties.

Breeding pairs stop effective breeding in their late fifties but live on for another twenty or more years still enjoying a bit of hanky panky.

Why should we hanky panky, or even live on, for so long after we stopped reproducing

Now nature does not do things for fun, so there must be some explanation for this odd behaviour.

Humans – the tribal animal

The answer is that we have evolved as a tribal animal (1 person 1 tiger – tiger wins, 100 people – 1 tiger people win).

We have evolved a society in which older people eg grandparents look after and care for the young, (normally their grand kids but we have evolved to look after kids – it is part of our nature).

Gbiota and our gut

So what is all this to do with Gbiota and our gut?

So let us look a the facts

* Babies need to form a healthy gut, as this will set their health for the rest of their lives.

* Babies are pretty useless and can’t even dig a hole, let alone grow plants.

* Babies get their gut biota during birth and later from breast milk.

* The most important people to have a healthy gut are ‘to be’ and ‘new’ mums.

* Plants grown in living nutrient rich soil full of beneficial microbes are natural pre and pro biotic but need to be picked and eaten before the microbes die.

* New parents are typically far to busy with the stresses of life trying to grow gut brain food.

* Grandparents are generally still fit and healthy and have evolved to care for their grand kids. (We hanky panky so we stay together as couples to fend for our grand kids – that is the way nature works).

This is where Gbiota boxes come in.

Young parent are often too busy to mess around making soil to grow the plants that will make them healthy.

Grand parents have the time and often the skills so can set up Gbiota boxes full of growing plants ready to harvest.

They just give these boxes to their pregnant, or nursing  daughter.

All she has to do it water the boxes and pick and eat the plants and when finished give the boxes back to mum or dad to replenish with a fresh box.

So simple, so effective and is cheaper than buying vegetables from the supermarket.

We all win – let’s party.

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