The Gbiota project
Colin Austin© 14th February 2024
Collaborating partners
I am writing this to recruit collaborating partners, who share similar views, to join the Gbiota project.
What is the Gbiota project?
With all the developments in medical science, hygiene, automation and, production (including food) we should all be enjoying the golden years of humanity living long, healthy, and affluent lives.
But we are not, and if you don’t see that then my question is ‘What the heck are you smoking?’
In the last fifty years, we have seen dramatic changes to the global health scene with an epidemic of chronic, non-infectious diseases particularly overweight, diabetes, heart attacks, and dementia.
The personal cost to the community is massive with reduced health spans and diabetic complications particularly amputations which occur every eight seconds globally.
The financial cost to the health systems is equally massive, measured in trillions of dollars globally.
This is man-made, we need to understand what causes it and fix it. The Gbiota project is to gather like-minded spirits together and do just that – fix it.
What are the underlying causes?
First, we need to understand the underlying causes, you don’t fix a flat tire by charging the battery.
The underlying cause is our modern diet, which is not feeding our gut-brain, which is the control system for our bodies.
We can eat all the energy food we like, and do massive amounts of exercise but that is all a waste if we don’t fix the control system which regulates our bodies.
We may call it homeostasis but it is the driver of our bodies that controls and regulates everything.
We don’t have to pussy around with words, if we want to enjoy a long life, fit and healthy we have to fix our control system – our gut-brain.
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Further information is available on my web www.gbiota.com. This is a subscription site but you can access using the name guest@gbiota.com and password Goodbugs10!
The basic
for some million years humanoid-type creatures have had a healthy gut-brain by eating plants grown in living soil full of beneficial microbes and nutrients.
They certainly had a healthy gut-brain so diabetes was not an issue but they had no idea about all the harmful microbes so life was not all that great dying young from some infectious disease.
The basics are simple create healthy soil by breeding beneficial microbes in soil full of organic matter and minerals, grow plants in this, soil and eat them while fresh before the beneficial microbes die – easy they have been doing that for some million years, but here comes the catch, do that without also breeding harmful microbes which will make us sick or kill us.
Wait – one more thing – we have to do that in a way that is cheap and easy enough for everyone to benefit.
Core technology
There is no problems with the technology. We know how to do it, we have been doing it for years – it is a mature technology.
The core of the technology is simple – to breed beneficial microbes in a mix of soil, organic waste, minerals, and inoculants. Then load this soil into Gbiota boxes which are used to grow plants that can be harvested while fresh.
This is a simple and inexpensive process. The critical issue is that the conditions must be carefully controlled so the beneficial microbes out-breed and out-compete the harmful microbes, what we call Eco-balance.
This is based on the Wicking bed system I pioneered some twenty-five years ago but using pulsed circulation of what is commonly called soil solution but we refer to as soil blood as it is fulfilling the same function as blood in the human body eg transferring a mix of nutrients, air, and living organisms around the body.
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Adoption- the good news
The problem, as in most innovative technologies, is not the technology but the adoption phase.
We have two things going for us and two obstacles we have to overcome.
In our favour is that this is a simple technology and inexpensive – actually it is cheaper than buying fruit and veg from the supermarket.
Further, the results are obvious, there is no need for great long scientific debates interpreting complex statistical analysis. If someone incorporates Gbiota gut-brain food into their diet within a month their gut biota will have changed and they just feel better.
If they are diabetic and want more scientific evidence they can monitor their blood sugar levels.
But the first obstacle is simply to get people to try it then they can make up their mind. If they already have a super effective gut-brain or there is something in their DNA so their gut-brain will never work properly there may be no change.
But the aim is just to get people to try eating gut-brain food for a month.
There are a few people, who are convinced of the potential benefits, and will go to the trouble of setting up their own Gbiota beds but that does require a bit of dedication. They exist but they are rare.
Adoption – the hurdles- expression of interest
For people to try it there needs to be growers who can supply Gbiota boxes.
We need to establish a grower network. But it takes time and money to set up the Gbiota beds so growers, quite reasonably want to know there is a market for their boxes.
To convince the growers we have to set up a system where we identify potential consumers and ask them to create an ‘expression of interest’ basically saying you create the boxes and I intent to buy.
Simultaneously we have to create a potential grower base who again has an intent to set up a gbiota box production system.
The mechanics of this are already set up, we just need to promote this expression of interest system.
The growers
The basic aim is to set up a global network of local growers, probably existing growers in the organic, permaculture, and hobby farm areas who already have good skills and understanding of regenerative soil management.
These would create the growing mix which we call Wickimix which they would place into Gbiota boxes, which are essentially refined Wicking boxes, seeded and plant grown to when they are ready for harvesting.
Consumers would harvest and eat the plants while fresh, before there is significant degradation of the beneficial microbes, so enhancing their gut biota which forms part of the intelligent control system.
This regulates our bodies, particularly where and how much fat is stored, which is the underlying cause of the modern chronic disease epidemic.
When the plants have been eaten the boxes are swapped for fresh boxes.
This enables the growers to run viable and profitable businesses offering living plants, full of beneficial microbes and trace minerals which the conventional food system cannot deliver.
For the consumer, there is the expectation of a longer health span free of the current hardship of chronic diseases.
Adoption – the hurdles – hyper marketing
The food, pharmaceutical, and supplement industry is huge and largely unregulated.
They spend billions of dollars on very skilfully produced manipulative marketing with an emphasis on the technical sophistication of their products.
By contrast, we have what looks like a very simple technology breeding bugs in organic waste, (actually making sure you breed the beneficial microbes without breeding the harmful ones is equally smart but not impressive) but is still inexpensive.
It is based on the system that has evolved over millions of years and we know is effective, it is only recently since we adopted synthetic approaches, that it has stopped working.
So we are promoting a technology that is inexpensive and effective, which may sound like a marketer’s dream but is actually a problem. People naturally ask the problem ‘How can something so cheap work?’
Organisational structure
This could end up as a massive global operation with significant changes to our food system. This would be too large to be handled by any one organisation.
Even if that were possible it would not be desirable, we are all aware of the defects in economic structure which arise from Neo-monopolistic structures.
The aim is that the production capabilities would be managed by local independent organisations – the classic local farmer.
However, there is a need for community education and promotion.
Currently, this is dominated by mega companies in the food, pharmaceutical, and supplement industries.
This is subject to varying levels of Government control but there is little doubt that there is significant manipulative advertising or dubious products.
The thinking is that there should be coordinated umbrella marketing on behalf of local growers.
This can readily be financed by a royalty on the existing multi-vendor web site www.pickandeat.shop which is run by Gbiota but is currently functional but dormant.
Similarly there would be a pooling of technology among the growers which is already highly active in with the gbiota.com web site.
A further web site gbiota.club offers social media and geolocation with privacy protection for gbiota members.
It is very much hoped that consumer education would aided by collaboration from the Universities, research institution and Government agencies.
Action plan
However laudable the aims we must recognise that the starting position is that the majority of people are eating a diet that leads to the current chronic disease epidemic and is powerfully propelled by a highly effective advertising campaign from companies wanting to sell their products.
However, Gbiota has been running a promotional campaign focused on those interested in gut health.
The overwhelming response clearly shows the widespread awareness of the importance of the gut biota.
However in terms of numbers, which run into thousands per day, this may be successful this is not resulting in concrete results.
Interest and awareness may be high but people are not improving their gut health which is what this project is all about.
For that, we need to have growers who can deliver physical products eg Gbiota boxes with plants growing in Wickimix.
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