Bad things happen

There is a saying that bad things happen when good men stand by and do nothing.

Right now, bad things are happening, so we need good men (and women) to act. I will tell you how later.

The state of the world

But for now, just look at the state of the world. Decent, ordinary people, women and children, are being slaughtered in bulk with the aid of modern arms.

Bad, but things get even badder.

Mis and dis information are destroying the structure and confidence in our society.

Bad, but things get even badder.

Refugees across the globe are escaping from their native countries, looking for security, damaging both the countries they leave and try to migrate to.

Bad, but things get even badder.

People need a home where they feel safe and secure. We know how to build homes, but our political system blocks our ability to build at scale.

Bad, but things get even badder.

We all need to eat food that leads to a long and health life, yet we have a food system full of sugars, fats and salt but deficient in essential microbes and trace minerals and which makes us fat and sick and creating the modern epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks, cancer and dementia.

The scale is overwhelming, three out of four people die from a chronic disease, diabetes is the fastest growing of all diseases with eight million people a year suffering from a limb amputation.

It is true there have been remarkable improvements in diabetic drugs but the first approach should be to avoid becoming diabetic is the first place.

This is not expensive, it actually costs less than buying highly processed food.

The emphasis should be on prevention using simple and inexpensive technology that works rather than complex technologies, that at best, reduce the damage when disease becomes established.

Sadly, there is little reward for prevention while cure is highly profitable.

Microbes – essential for life

But worst of all, it is destroying our ability to produce the critical components needed to grow our food, such as the right amount of water and nutrients, but in particular, the microbes which recycle nutrients and also live in our gut and control our bodies.

We know how important these microbes are. For three billion years, there were no microbes and no life on Earth. Then, a billion years ago, microbes appeared, leading to the proliferation of life and eventually us.

Life cannot exist without these microbes. But there are beneficial microbes that are essential for a healthy life, and those that make us sick or kill us.

We have proved very effective at killing microbes, but we need the technology of breeding beneficial microbes, without breeding harmful microbes.

That is where the Gbiota technology comes in.

Capability profiles

Everyone has their own capability profile; some people are good at many things, while others are very good at some things and pretty useless at many others.

I fit into the second category. I am a natural innovator, I have been recognised as one of the top leading innovators by the Institute of Engineers, but I am pretty useless at many other things, including marketing.

Breeding beneficial microbes

I set myself the task of creating the technology of breeding beneficial microbes by recycling organic waste, but without breeding the harmful microbes.

A critical technology, but useless if not widely applied, which means bringing a new technology to market.

Technology, useless without wide adoption

I, like many people, am suspicious of the honesty of many marketing companies, but after much frustration, I found a marketing company that clearly understood ethics and the need for food that keeps people healthy.

Gbiota – a social benefit organisation

Gbiota is a social benefit organisation, our prime focus is to benefit the community by ensuring a healthy food system, but like any organisation, we need to generate money to pay the bills.

I therefore asked Mediamortar and their associate company, Explanate, to prepare a report on how we could best make this technology widely available.

In the spirit of openness, which is part of being a community benefit organisation, I have decided to make this report available to those interested in participating in the social benefit project.

You can read it here.

At the start I said I would tell you what I am asking. In this era of mis and dis information and marketing hype, people naturally distrust anything they are told, particularly if it is on their screen.

But people do believe what they hear from a trusted friend, so I am asking people to try the system and eat food produced using the Gbiota system, see for themselves that it actually works and then tell their friends.

 

Why are some people fat and others skinny?

Do fat people live longer than skinny people?

Does it matter anyway or should we just enjoy life?

Can we do anything about it?

I can’t answer all these questions, all I can do is give you the facts as I understand them.

We need to store some fat, that is what our bums are for, and it is healthy to store some fat in our bums.

But the wrong fat in the wrong place is the underlying cause of the modern epidemic of non-infectious diseases.

For the individual, this means a shorter life span and, probably more important, a much shorter health span.

Globally, this is the world’s biggest health cost to our health system.

I think these matters and is why I run this website. There is a lot of information here, but this is the essence.

For a long time, we were told that people got fat because they consumed more calories than they burned. This is not the reason why we get fat. It is true that to get fat we do have to consume more calories than we burn, but it is not the reason why we get fat.

We get fat because we have an intelligent control system which regulates our bodies.

If we consume more calories than we consume, then our intelligent control system is perfectly capable of disposing of the excess in our pooh.

If it decides there are deficiencies in our diet it will generate hormones which will make us crave food that will overcome that deficiency.

If it decides that there are no deficiencies, it will create other hormones that say you are full, stop eating. We can override those hormones, but that is our decision.

Modern biochemistry has advanced rapidly in the last few years, so we understand all the complex chemicals we need and, on average, how much of each we need. We have the tests to reveal any deficiencies and can readily buy supplements to correct those deficiencies

But, our intelligent control system is continuously monitoring our bodies, can detect any deficiency and learns (or more precisely, we can train it to learn) which foods will correct for that deficiency.

But our intelligent control system does this far more effectively.

But, and this is the crux of the matter, for our intelligent control system to work effectively, we need

1) The right microbes in our gut, which is an integral part of our intelligent control system. This is easily fixed by eating the right food

2) We need to regularly feed our gut microbes so the beneficial microbes prevail

3) We need to train our intelligent control system, which we do by eating the right food from the minute we are born and onwards

All simple and inexpensive. You just have to take your health into your own hands and do it.

Here we show you how.

 Obvious – but wrong

We are told that if we want to live a long and healthy life and avoid the dangers of the modern epidemic of chronic disease, we should eat less and exercise more, but it does not seem to work. People who go on strict diets seem to end up fatter, while people who eat what they fancy seem to be perfectly healthy.

What is going on?

The calorie balance theory says that if we eat more calories than we burn that we will get fat. It sounds so simple and obvious – how can it possibly be wrong?

It may be true of a water tank, if you put more water in than what you take out, the tank will eventually overflow, the equivalent of getting fat.

But we are much smarter than a dumb water tank. We have a highly sophisticated control system that regulates our bodies.

It is not just one organ but a collection of our gut, which has

– microbes which communicate with each other to form intelligence,

– our subconscious head brain, which learns that a slice of cheesecake will lead to a rush of dopamine in our bodies, which makes us feel good,

– our conscious brain, which decides whether to stretch out our arms and scoff the cheesecake,

– a complex array of sensors throughout our bodies

– a communication system of hormones, manufactured by our gut brain and an electric communication system.

See, quite an upmarket system.

If it decides that we need to store fat, for example, if we have been deprived of food for any length of time, as in a war or from an extreme diet, it sends signals to our gut to manufacture hormones to make us crave food.

We get fat because our intelligent control system decides that we need to store more fat not because we are little piggies and stuff ourselves.

If we want to avoid getting fat and avoid becoming yet another statistic in the chronic disease epidemic we have to do three things.

– make sure we have a healthy gut with the right species of microbes

– train our subconscious head brain so it knows what foods work for us

– make sure we eat enough of the right sort of foods so there are no deficiencies

Although it may seem obvious that the solution to getting fat and avoiding chronic diseases is to eat less that is just wrong.

We need to eat more, but not just more sugary fatty foods but foods which will ensure that our intelligent control system recognises that we have all the nutrients that we need when it sends out signals to out gut saying “body full – send out hormones to stop eating”.

Our intelligent control system is the result of a million years of evolution and is smart.  Treat it nice and it will look after you and tell you what foods to eat – so simple – so effective.

Don’t look after your intelligent control system and life will be short and miserable.

Change your gut microbes

Gbiota aims to help people change their gut microbes so they can expect to lead a long and healthy life and less at risk from the modern epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.

While genetics plays a small part, the microbes in our gut dominate whether we expect to live a long and healthy life or be fat and part of the modern epidemic of chronic diseases.

We have known for a long time that it is simple to change the microbes in mice – they eat each other’s pooh. We can make fat mice skinny or skinny mice fat.

We can change the microbes in humans but it is more difficult. We need to eat food which both contains the beneficial microbes and the nutrients that feeds the beneficial microbes so they continue to breed in our gut.

Breeding beneficial microbes is easy, they breed like crazy starting within twenty minutes of being created, but there are two problems we need to overcome.

The first problem is that we have to breed the beneficial microbes without breeding the harmful microbes which make us sick. We do this by carefully controlling the conditions so they favour the beneficial microbes so they out-compete and out-breed the harmful microbes.

The second problem is that while microbes breed very rapidly,  they live in a state of what we call dynamic equilibrium.  The microbes appear to be the same but they are the children or grandchildren of the original microbes.

They breed and die equally rapidly, so you need eat plants containing the beneficial microbes shortly after harvesting.

That means you have to grow the plants yourself and pick and eat.

I am sorry about that but that is just the way of the world.

We solve both of these problems with the Gbiota bio-boxes which control the conditions to favour the beneficial microbes and make it easy for people to grow the plants themselves, even if they have no garden or growing experience.

We can’t do it for you, you have to do it yourself. It is your body and you make the choice.

What we can do is show you how to do it and supply living starter soil in which the beneficial microbes are already breeding.

 

 

Our intelligent control system

We all want to live a long and healthy life.

Our health depends on the intelligent control system that regulates our bodies, and the microbes in our gut are a critical part of this system.

But they are not us, we have a synergistic relationship with them. They keep us alive, and we keep them alive.

If we get fat, it is not simply because we eat too much. Our gut microbes, rightly or wrongly, decide that we need to store more fat and create hormones which make us crave food, so we overeat and get fat.

The wrong fat in the wrong place is the cause of the modern epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, heart attacks, diabetes and dementia, so I suggest that you read the following story about the history of gut microbes.

No microbes – no life

For the first three billion years on Earth, there was no life and no microbes.

Just a dead rock whizzing around the sun.

No microbes – no life. Pretty simple.

Microbes appeared

Then, a billion years ago, microbes appeared, maybe from an asteroid, and life exploded.

The microbes broke down the rocks to produce soil, plants grew in the soil, then animals ate the plants, and other animals ate the animals that ate the plants.

Microbes breed incredibly fast, and the children of microbes are not identical to their parents, so soon there were hundreds of thousands of different species of microbes.

We still have only a limited understanding of this multitude of microbes, but we do know, for sure, that there are beneficial microbes – the good bugs, which lead to a healthy life and harmful microbes – the bad bugs, which make us sick.

Humans arrive

Humanoid creatures evolved some million years ago. There were very few of them, so they lived in isolated communities, so the harmful microbes which make us sick, or kill us, were not too much of a problem.

Agriculture

Then we developed agriculture, which gave us a secure source of food, so we developed cities with people living in close proximity.

These created good conditions for the harmful microbes to breed, so disease and plagues were a major issue.

Modern technology

But humans are inventive creatures, pioneers like Janssen and Leeuwenhoek developed the compound microscope, leading to Louis Pasteur’s understanding of microbes and how they can make us sick.

This understanding led to a wave of technology to reduce infectious diseases being developed. Some were clearly beneficial. Who can debate the benefits of clean drinking water, louse-free bedding, sewage systems, antibiotics, etc.

But as happens so often with technology, the benefits are immediately obvious, but the negatives appear later. I very much doubt that when Stevenson took that ride on the first commercial train, the rocket, he was too much concerned about climate change.

Similarly, our modern food system with its highly productive use of synthetic fertilisers and convenient, highly processed leading to supermarkets full of tasty food loaded with energy may seem a wonder.

The unexpected result is a degradation of the microbial distribution in our guts.

 

Microbes matter

Microbes play a critical role.

They breed in the soil and break down the rocks to make the nutrients bio-available for the plants that we eat.

Some microbes enter our gut, where they continue to breed. They communicate with each other to create real intelligence, our gut-brain, which regulates our appetite.

Working with our head brain, they learn which foods are beneficial and supply critical nutrients.

If we are deficient in these nutrients, the gut-brain will create hormones so we crave the food that supplies those nutrients and if we are satisfied, it will create hormones so we feel full and satisfied and stop eating.

In ages past, we had no idea about microbes. By random chance, some of the food we ate would contain the nutrients and beneficial microbes, but harmful microbes bred profusely so most people died before reaching their natural life span.

But we learned about the harmful microbes and changed the conditions, improved the way we grew our food, better hygiene with sewage and clean water systems and increased our life span.

But we had not only killed off the harmful microbes but had killed off the beneficial microbes which regulate our bodies. We lowered our gut’s ability to regulate our bodies.

Our intelligent control system recognised the deficiencies and sent out hormones for us to eat more. We accumulate excess fat and as the wrong fat in the wrong place is the underlying cause of chronic or non-infectious diseases, we created the modern epidemic of chronic diseases.

We now need to enter a third stage where we learn to control the conditions so the beneficial microbes out-compete and out-breed the harmful microbes.

This is what Gbiota does, we show people how to control the conditions in both the soil and in the food we eat so the beneficial microbes triumph.

Learning how to do this has been a long and expensive road. But we are a community benefit company, our aim is to benefit the community, not to make unjustified profits at the expense of the community.

Neither are we a charity so we need to cover our costs. Much of the information we supply is free for anyone with an interest to study how food works in our bodies, but we do charge for the more detailed information on how to control the conditions.

If interested you can read about Community benefit companies in the article ‘Changing the system’.

 

 

 

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