Join the Revolution: the Fight for Human Health
This article introduces what I believe is the next major revolution shaping human health and survival: gut biology. While technology has transformed…
Dodging Diabesity: Practical Steps to Reverse Diet-Driven Disease
Diabesity is an umbrella term for the chronic diseases linked to diet, including diabetes, obesity, heart attacks, strokes, dementia, and a range…
Gbiota Adoption: Growing Food That Restores Gut Health
Chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and dementia have risen from affecting about 1 in 100 people to nearly 1…
Gutivars Strike Back: A Spielberg-Style Story About Gut Health and Diabetes
This article is written as a playful “screenplay for a film by Steven Spielberg,” but it carries a serious message. Diabetes and…
Reversing Diabetes by Health Farm Stays: The Future of Eco-Villages
Eco-villages can help reverse the epidemic of chronic diseases by doing what normal life often cannot: removing toxins, restoring gut biology, and…
The Choice Is Yours: Reversing Type 2 Diabetes with Food, Data, and Gut Health
Many people are told Type 2 diabetes is for life and will only get worse, but that is only part of the…
Shade Houses and Wicking Beds: An Easy Way to Grow Organic Vegetables
Growing vegetables through hot, wet Queensland summers is difficult because of heat, insects, weeds, disease, and heavy rain. This article explains a…
Safeguarding Future Food Supply with Wicking Bed Technology
This report explains how wicking beds can help safeguard future food supply by saving water, improving soil quality, using nutrients more effectively,…
Vision for Food Security, Water Shortages, and Climate Change
This vision outlines a practical way to improve food security, reduce water waste, and address climate change by capturing carbon from the…
The Next Great Change: Soil Carbon, Wicking Beds, and the Future of Food
This article looks thirty years ahead and argues that the next major shift in society will be driven by environmental services rather…
Why This Site Exists: Innovation for Future Generations
This site exists because I believe we have a responsibility to future generations to rethink how we use soil, water, and food…
Community Action on Water: Why Harvesting Small Rains Matters
Australia does not suffer from a lack of rainfall. What we suffer from is a failure to capture it. Most rain falls…
Harvesting Smaller Rains: Water Storage, Wicking Beds, and Anticipatory Irrigation
Droughts are part of Australia’s natural cycle, but we still waste the water that falls in the smaller rains. The volume is…
Anticipatory Irrigation: Using Timing to Save Water and Reduce Evaporation
Anticipatory irrigation is a practical, common-sense approach to watering crops more efficiently by working with rainfall, soil behaviour, and evaporation rather than…
The Origins of Wicking Beds: Lessons From Drought, Soil, and Water
Wicking beds did not begin as a backyard gardening idea. They emerged from practical work on food security during drought, where the…
The Vision for Wicking Beds: Origin, Purpose, and Soil Biology
Wicking beds are often described as a water-saving trick, but that misses the bigger point. Modern food systems are excellent at producing…
From Dirt to Living Soil: The Science Behind Soil BioPacks
Soil BioPacks were created to make soil biology practical for ordinary growers—so we can grow vegetables that are not just “big and…
Wicking Bed Liners Explained: Are Plastics Safe for Growing Food?
People often ask what lining materials are safe for wicking beds, especially when plastic films are involved. In this newsletter Colin Austin…
Wicking Beds and Nutrition: Why Soil Quality Matters More Than Water Saving
Gardening Australia recently showed how to build self-watering containers and asked people to focus on water saving. Colin Austin agrees the design…
Wicking Beds and Modern Diets: A Practical Path to Nutrient-Dense Food
Wicking beds are often promoted as a convenient way to save water and reduce the effort required to grow vegetables. While this…
Ying Yang Food Explained: Nutrient-Dense Growing for Better Health
Modern diets often deliver plenty of energy—fats, sugars, and refined carbohydrates—yet fall short on minerals, trace elements, vitamins, omega-3, and plant-based phytochemicals.…
Preventing Chronic Diseases with the Gbiota System
Chronic diseases like diabetes and heart attacks are not just medical problems – they are the end result of how we grow,…
Ying Yang System for Optimal Nutrition: Fresh Plants in Wicking Baskets
This month’s newsletter focuses on wicking baskets, also called the Ying Yang system. While the concept is simple, understanding why and how…
The Truth about Diet and Health: Insights from Colin Austin
This August 2014 newsletter explores how to separate reliable science from hype in nutrition and health. It highlights the importance of neurotransmitters,…
Fresh Vegetables Made Easy: Wicking Baskets for Health and Nutrition
The wicking basket system is revolutionising access to nutrient-rich, home-grown food. By providing a simple, low-maintenance way to grow fresh vegetables packed…
Grow Fresh Vegetables with Wicking Baskets and Beat Processed Foods
The Healthy Food Association is transforming access to nutrient-rich, home-grown food through the innovative wicking basket system. By simplifying cultivation and delivery,…
Taming the Hungry Beast: Understanding Sugar Addiction and Diabetes
High-fructose sweeteners and ultra-processed foods have created a powerful, addictive drive in many people — a “hungry beast” that drives overconsumption and…
The Rise of the Hungry Beast: How Processed Foods Drive Diabetes and Illness
Modern technology has transformed the world by boosting productivity, lowering costs, and giving us access to more food and products than ever…
How Home-grown Vegetables and Wicking Beds Can Help Prevent Diabetes
This newsletter reflects on the human cost of modern diets, particularly diabetes, and the importance of growing fresh vegetables in nutrient-rich soil.…
How Wicking Worm Beds Maximise Water Efficiency and Boost Plant Growth
This article explores the practical and biological principles behind wicking worm beds—a sustainable and water-efficient growing system. By creating an underground water…
Wicking Beds Under Construction: Beginner’s Guide to Reservoir Gardening
This practical guide walks you through building a wicking bed from groundworks to planting. It explains site choice, excavation, liners, reservoir construction,…
Open vs Closed Wicking Beds: How to Build the Right System
This article draws on practical instructions for building efficient wicking beds — whether open-in-ground or closed container types. It outlines how to…
Stones vs Organic Materials: Optimising Wicking Bed Performance
This article explores the development and functioning of wicking beds, comparing the use of stones and organic materials. Colin Austin explains the…
New Developments in Wicking Bed Technology
This article explores the latest developments in wicking bed technology, highlighting design innovations, soil improvements, and water management strategies. Modern wicking beds…
Weather and Wicking Beds: How Climate Impacts Gardening and Soil
This article explores how weather influences the performance of wicking beds. Drawing from Colin Austin’s research and field observations, it explains how…
The Complete Guide to Operating Modern Wicking Worm Beds
This article provides a detailed guide on operating modern wicking systems, from small garden boxes to large-scale beds. It explains setup, soil…
Soil BioPacks: Building Living Soil for Healthier Crops
This article introduces the Soil BioPack, a living ecosystem of plants, fungi, bacteria, worms, and minerals designed to regenerate soil and improve…
The Evolution of the Modern Wicking Worm Bed System
This article traces how the wicking worm bed developed from simple subsurface watering ideas into a practical, highly productive horticultural system. It…
Wicking Bed Support: Coaches, Services, and Local Guidance
This article gathers experienced gardeners, designers, and permaculture practitioners around Australia (and beyond) who offer advice, design, and construction services for wicking…
Sustainable Food Security Strategies for Local Communities
Food security is a critical challenge as climate change, soil degradation, and water scarcity threaten global food production. This article explores practical…
Solving the Food Crisis with Soil, Water, and Community Action
This article explores the global food system, highlighting the importance of healthy soils, sustainable water use, and the role of technology in…
Diabetes and Phytochemicals for Healthy Blood Sugar
Diabetes is a complex and potentially life-altering condition, but our diet — especially fresh, nutrient-rich vegetables and herbs — can play a…
The Science of Nutrition: Why Soil and Trace Minerals Matter
This article explores why many popular “health foods” and diet products — often promoted with flashy adverts and “scientific” claims — are…
The Biology Revolution: How Living Soils Transform Food Production
'The Biology Revolution' explains how working with living soils can transform food production. Healthy, biologically active soil improves nutrient availability, water retention,…
Homegrown Nutrition: Wicking Beds for Healthy Soil
Jung Chang, the author of "Wild Swans," highlighted health, belief, and belonging as keys to a good life. This article explains why…
How Soil, Food Quality, and Lifestyle Shape Modern Health
This newsletter explains why some wicking beds fail, why they may smell, and how soil biology, water balance, and nutrients affect plant…
Why Aeration Matters in Wicking Beds (and How to Improve It)
Healthy plant roots need both water and air. In wicking beds, water rises from a reservoir into the soil, but if the…
Understanding the Core Principles of Wicking Beds
Wicking beds work by keeping soil at a consistently moist level through capillary action, using an underground water reservoir instead of frequent…
Why Fine Soil Outperforms Stones in Wicking Beds
Using stones or coarse materials in wicking beds is often counterproductive. This guide explains why fine, organic-rich soils perform better, how proper…
Wicking Bed Soil vs Stones: Maximise Water, Nutrients, and Plant Growth
This article explains why using stones (or coarse sand) and cloth at the base of wicking beds — a common practice —…
Changing the Diabetes Paradigm
Colin argues that diabetes is not caused by genetics or fate, but by a modern food system that overwhelms our intelligent control…
Wicking Bed Technology Explained: Grow Nutrient-Dense Vegetables with Less Water
Wicking bed technology is a sustainable gardening method that saves water, improves soil fertility, and promotes healthy plant growth. Using an underground…
Dodging Diabesity
“Diabesity” is Colin’s word for the modern epidemic of diet-related disease – diabetes, obesity, heart attacks, strokes, dementia, leaky gut and more…
Soil Regeneration for Healthy and Sustainable Wicking Beds
This article argues that human health and soil health are intimately linked: modern food often lacks essential minerals and phytochemicals because soils…
How to Build Water‑Retaining Soil with Sponge and Wicking Beds
This article explores the principles of regenerating soil for vegetable growing using wicking bed baskets. It highlights how soil biology, water management,…
Personal Motives
This project is not an abstract health theory for me – it began with watching my wife battle diabetes, face possible amputation,…
Principles of a Gbiota Bed
The Gbiota bed is designed with a single purpose: to grow food in biologically rich soil so we can restore our gut…
Mk 11 Wicking Beds: Efficient Gardening for Vegetables
This newsletter explains the principles and practical use of Mk 11 wicking beds, a system designed to save water, recycle nutrients, and…
The Gbiota Project
The Gbiota project is about one simple idea: growing food in biologically active soil to improve our gut biology, restore essential nutrients,…
Preventing Chronic Diseases with the Gbiota System
Chronic diseases like diabetes and heart attacks are not just medical problems – they are the end result of how we grow,…
Mk 11 Wicking Beds for Nutrient-Rich Gardening
Wicking beds Mk 11 provide a practical, low-cost solution for growing nutrient-rich vegetables at home. By carefully separating air and water layers,…
The Gbiota Club
Why changing how we grow food may be the key to changing our gut biology — and our health. This is an…
Sponge Beds for Gardening: Create Fertile, Water-Retaining Soil
Sponge beds are a low-cost method for building biologically active, mineral-rich soil from poor parent material. They use recycled organic waste, staged…
How to Grow (or Buy) Healthy Food
Why our modern diet is failing us—and how real health begins in the soil. A Personal Story: Why Diet Matters When Xiulan…
Tips for Preventing Stinky Wicking Beds
This article explains why some wicking beds can smell bad and, more importantly, how to prevent or fix that problem. Stinky wicking…
Soils to Supply Essential Nutrients
This newsletter explains why healthy soil is fundamental to healthy food and healthy people. It shows how modern processed food is full…
WickiMix Manual: Practical Guide to Soil and Bed Management
The WickiMix system is a practical soil management method designed for wicking beds, sponge beds, and conventional garden beds. By combining living…
Soil Biology — The Key to Healthy Soil and Nutrition
This article explains why soil biology is the foundation of healthy, fertile soil — not just chemistry or texture. Living soil, alive…
Real Soil — Why Soil Life Matters for Our Health
This article argues that true human health begins with living soil. It explains how modern processed‑food systems, intensive farming and sterile soils…
WickiMix: A Practical Approach to Living Soil
This article presents the principles of “WickiMix” soil preparation for wicking beds in a clear and memorable way. It explains how combining…
Soils, Minerals and Biological Health
This article explains why truly “living soil” is essential to good health. It describes how trace minerals, soil biology and proper soil…
The Gbiota Club — Growing Soil, Food, and Human Health
The Gbiota Club helps people grow nutrient-rich food using living soils. Members learn practical gardening and wicking bed techniques, improve soil biology,…
Transforming Parent Soils for Healthy Growing
This article explains how to turn basic soils — like clay, sand, or potting mix — into fertile, living soils for gardens…
How Nature Creates Soil: Understanding the Journey of Soil Formation Across the Earth
Soil is the foundation of life, yet often overlooked. Modern agriculture treats it as inert, managed by chemicals rather than understood as…
Growing for Health: A Community Guide to Nutrient-Dense Food Production
Growing for Health: A Community Guide to Nutrient-Dense Food Production This document is a condensed and reorganised version of the “Xiulan” material:…
The Development of Wicking Beds through Soil and Water Systems
The Development of Wicking Beds through Soil and Water Systems This blog explains how wicking beds were developed and why they work…
Gut Biology from Food
Gut Biology from Food This article explores how healthy soils and biologically active plants support human gut health. The GBiota system combines…
Soils to Grow Food That Will Make Us Healthy
This article explains how healthy soil supports plants that provide essential nutrients and phytonutrients for human health. By understanding and enhancing natural…
Living Soils, Fungal Composting and Health
The food we eat has a dramatic effect on our health. In the modern food system, mega corporations heavily promote highly processed…
Phytonutrients
When I was about 5, I was a naughty boy. We were told that we were not allowed to pick apples from…
How I Grow Wickimix
WickiMix is grown based on the practical observation that good soil is formed in the root zone of specific plants. My aim is…
Why WickiMix?
Modern humans are the end result of millions of years of evolution. Our food was generally low in energy, high in fibre…
Soils for Wicking Beds
Many people think wicking beds are just to save water; the most important feature however is creating a mini ecology with a…
Health Starts in the Soil & Community Supported Agriculture
Human health begins in the soil that feeds our food and ultimately our gut microbes. Healthy, biologically rich soil creates healthy plants,…
Intelligent Control System & Blue Zones
Our intelligent control system, shaped by evolution and supported by gut biology, regulates appetite, fat storage, cravings and long-term health. Blue Zone…
Food for Health & Growing
The intelligent control system that manages appetite, fat storage and overall health depends on nutrients and soil-based microbes found in genuinely fresh,…
Breed Beneficial Gut Microbes at Home
Our intelligent control system depends on living microbes that originate in healthy soil. By learning how to breed and maintain these beneficial…
Gbiota Technology: Gut–Brain Food and Eco-Balance
Our intelligent control system relies on the biology of living soil — the microbes, minerals and ecosystem cycles that humans evolved alongside.…
The Essence of Life and Our Intelligent Control System
Our bodies are regulated by an intelligent control system that evolved over millions of years. This system manages appetite, fat storage, immunity,…
The Wicking – Gbiota Bed Story
For the past twenty years I have been working to change how we grow and think about food. I pioneered Wicking beds,…
Health Starts in the Soil Part 3
The trillions of cells in our guts do more than digest food. They form part of an intelligent control system that manages…
Bed Depths for Wicking Beds
Many people have asked about the depths of the beds. The rules are pretty simple. The reservoir zone should always be less than…
How Water Moves in Soil: Gravity, Flow & Biology
While the physical construction of the bed may not be so important it is essential to follow certain rules to ensure the…
How to Replenish Your Gut Microbes
The microbes in our gut are critical for our health but in an effort to feed the ever increasing population and avoid…
Food, health and sustainability
Our food should keep us healthy and be produced in a sustainable way. A couple of hundred thousand years ago, when we…
Soil for Wicking Beds: Biology, Minerals and Health
Healthy Plants vs Plants That Make Us Healthy The most common question I am asked is about soils for wicking beds. That’s…
Soil Biology: The Key to Healthy Wicking Soils
Soil biology is the key — my aim with WickiMix is to provide a concentrate and inoculant where people can create their…
Soil Journey: How Nature Creates Fertile Soil
Where to start regenerating soil? Well nature has been making soil for a few billion years so let us see what we…
Real Soil: Growing Healthy Food in Living Soil
I am a great believer in science, however I am concerned about the way science is used (or abused). Antibiotics must be…
Transforming Parent Soils for Healthy Wicking Beds
Parent soils, such as clay, sands and potting mixes can be transformed into soils suitable for wicking beds. Here we start by…
Types of Wicking Beds for Healthy Soil & Plants
Wicking systems rely on the attraction between soil and water so water (and nutrients) will rise up from a water storage to…
Why We Need to Change the Modern Food System
For the first few billion years the earth was just a barren rock. Then microbes appeared, they broke down the rocks and…
Energy and Regeneration in Wicking Beds
Food gives us energy and regenerates our bodies. Most commercial foods now contain a lot of energy or calories based on simple…
How to Replenish Your Gut Microbes
The microbes in our gut are critical for our health but in an effort to feed the ever increasing population and avoid infectious diseases we have adopted a food system...
The Gbiota Mission
The Gbiota technology breeds beneficial microbes in the soil. Plants are grown in the soil which when eaten, transports the microbes from the soil into our guts. The microbes in...
Breeding your own gut microbes
We may live in our cities of concrete and steel, but we are totally dependent on the Earth’s Ecosystem to survive. photosynthesisOur energy comes from the sun captured by photosynthesis...
Extinction or survive and thrive
The wrong fat in the wrong place is at the core of the modern epidemic of chronic diseases. Three out of four people now die from a chronic disease, which...
The Gbiota Story
The Gbiota Story
The Gbiota Mission
The Essence of Gbiota Breed beneficial microbes in living soil. Grow plants in that soil and eat them fresh so the microbes…
Will it work?
I may be a woke greenie concerned about the communities well being but I read a lot. One morning I was having my after breakfast read, this time “I’m So...
Changing the system
We all want to live a long and healthy life, free of disease. That depends very much on the food we eat. We need food for energy. Our modern food...
What does Gbiota do?
Gbiota enables people to breed beneficial microbes at home under controlled conditions so the beneficial microbes out-breed any harmful microbes. To live a long and healthy life you need beneficial...
Gbiota Overview
Necessity is the mother of invention In my case, necessity came from my wife, a medical doctor, who developed diabetes. It got progressively worse to the point where her foot...
The quiet conflict
The world is in a state of quiet conflict between those who care about their fellow humans and their future and the anti-woke destructors. The battleground is food that keeps...
A compassionate society
Life is good, we are living longer and the supermarkets are full of healthy food. Sounds great but is it true? My daughter, when she was about seven taught me...
Understanding your gut-brain
We show the process of – breeding beneficial microbes in organic – growing plants in this soil using the flood and flush system so the soil breathes and soil blood...
Innovation is a funny business
Let us look at the story of food and health. In the past, and that means going back a million years to the first humanoids there was no epidemic of...
Good microbes
You can grow the good gut-bugs at home in containers, gbiota baskets – even if you live in an apartment with no garden and no growing experience. You grow plants...
Food Change
For the first few billion years the earth was just a barren rock. Then microbes appeared, they broke down the rocks and made soil which led to plants flourishing. Next...
Managing Change
The third mega-change If you think the world is going through a difficult period you are right. We are going through our third mega-change and managing this change is not...
hormones
Hormones that control our appetite
Superclinics
We are facing an epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia. In the real world people just carry on with their normal life until their health deteriorates...
Integration trials
Surely the aim for any community is for its members to live a long and healthy life. Yet we are not doing that well with well over half the population...
Ignobels
I have created this section for health professionals. This may seem a little odd as I have no medical qualifications apart from being married to a medical doctor, who became...
Health Professionals
Why is it that some people are fit and healthy, enjoy a long health span with hardly a visit to the doctor while despite the sophistication of modern medical research...
Health span or Epidemic
Why is it that some people are fit and healthy, enjoy a long health span with hardly a visit to the doctor while despite the sophistication of modern medical research...
Change for the better
Gbiota, at its core, is still about paradigm shifting but the scale of the battle is just so much bigger. Chronic diseases are the biggest health problem across the globe....
Intelligence
Our gut-brain comprises trillions of cells which communicate with their neighbours to create swarm or group intelligence which regulates our bodies – our intelligent control system. If our gut brain...
Taste, hunger and healthspan
Is humanity in danger of extinction? Probably not. Is our modern comfortable lifestyle in danger of extinction? Definitely yes and it is happening right now. Can we do anything to...
Gut health
There are trillions of microbes of thousands of species in your gut. Each cell can communicate with its neighbour to create swarm intelligence which controls our bodies, including our appetite....
The Health Myth
Across the globe people are getting fat leading to an epidemic of chronic diseases. Here is why and what we can so about it. In our gut, we have trillions...
Fake food
An Introduction to the Gbiota Movement for a Healthier Future With eight billion people on Earth, food production has dramatically increased, yet humanity now faces two significant threats: climate change...
Health Challenge
Ask around “What is the biggest health challenge?” no not dinosaurs, you are likely to get the very short answer “fat” for the simple reason that the wrong fat in...
Your choice
We are at a crossroads and have two options. In option one we can live in a society dominated by marketing hype, where we buy health bars full of sugars...
Gbiota introduction
What is Gbiota? Gbiota is a social movement that aims to create a thriving, sustainable society with a food system designed for long, healthy lives. It emphasizes recycling over depleting...
Organics save us
Modern food is that it may be hygienic, triple wrapped in plastics, but it is inert lacking the microbes which form our gut-brain which regulates our appetite so we overeat...
Introducing the Gbiota technology
The Gbiota technology breeds beneficial microbes in “Wickimix,” a specially enriched soil, for growing nutrient-packed plants that enhance your gut biota that supports natural appetite regulation, combats chronic diseases, and...
Welcome
Thrive and survive The microbes in our gut form an integral part of the intelligent control system which regulates our bodies and is vital for health. In the past, these...
Changing the Health Paradigm
We are living longer, thanks to major advances in medical science. In the past people died, often when young, from infectious diseases now we die predominantly from chronic or non-infectious...
Mind and body
We are living longer, thanks to major advances in medical science. In the past people died, often when young, from infectious diseases now we die predominantly from chronic or non-infectious...
Game changer
As a celebrated engineer recognized for his groundbreaking work in Computer Aided Engineering, Colin’s expertise in adaptive systems sparked a revolutionary idea: What if chronic diseases like diabetes, obesity, and...
Summary
Food is the key to health. Junk food is tasty, convenient, inexpensive but not healthy. Genuine organic food may be healthy but is very expensive. But there is a third...
Essence
Chronic diseases, overweight, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia are the major health issue of our time. They are caused by the wrong fat in the wrong place. Conventional thinking is...
The Trial
We know that the world’s biggest health issue is the epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia and that these are caused by the wrong fat in...
Healthy food – intro
Junk food is tasty, convenient, inexpensive but not healthy. Genuine organic food may be healthy but is very expensive. But there is a third type of food which is both...
Community Benefit
My wife Xiulan, a medical doctor and surgeon became diabetic, the professional medical advice given to us was that diabetes is an irreversible chronic disease, it will steadily get worse,...
Ecosystems
We must create an ecosystem, a food ecosystem in which humans can thrive. Charles Darwin taught us that creatures evolve to thrive in their local environment. Humans now have the...
Chronic disease
Gbiota is a community benefit organisation aiming to prevent the current epidemic of chronic diseases, overweight, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia. These are all caused by the wrong fat in...
Health paradox
Chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia cause a great deal of personal distress and cost Governments billions of dollars. They are very difficult to cure but can be...
Prevention better than cure
Two-thirds of the population are overweight, the wrong fat in the wrong place is the root cause of all chronic diseases. Diabetes is the fastest-growing disease with half a billion...
Health – prevention first
Across the globe, we are suffering from an epidemic of chronic or non-infectious diseases. We know that these chronic diseases are caused by the wrong fat in the wrong place...
Society
Two-thirds of the population are overweight, the wrong fat in the wrong place is the root cause of all chronic diseases. Health systems are creaking at the joints with not...
Food – we love it
Food – we love it. But it is making us fat and sick and growing it is destroying the soils and planet on which we all depend. What has gone...
Prevention
Across the globe we are suffering from an epidemic of chronic or non infectious diseases. Three out of four people die prematurely from a chronic disease. The social and economic...
Friendly bugs
Our bodies have an intelligent control system which regulates our bodies, particularly our appetite and immune system. Our gut is an integral part of this control system. If we have...
Welcome to Gbiota
We teach how to grow plants as pre and pro-biotics. That is the easy bit, understanding and applying the science of breeding beneficial microbes in a special soil, Wickimix largely...
Community Health
We are in the midst of an epidemic of chronic diseases, overweight, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia. They say eat less exercise more but that does not work. Our gut-brain...
Jenny
Jenny, one of our Gbiota members asked a simple question. I am told that my answer is one of the most important articles on how to sustainably grow healthy food...
The plan
There are two problems. The short-term problem is that our current food system is deficient in the microbes which form our gut biome and essential minerals which have led to...
Riddle
Look around the world and back over time and you will see the great riddle of three communities. We see low tech communities with a poor food system, lack of...
Gbiota: Breeding Beneficial Microbes in Soil
The Gbiota process of breeding beneficial gut microbes starts in the soil where the conditions are controlled so the beneficial microbes out-breed and out-compete the harmful microbes. This is called...
Applying technology
With all our modern technology and automated production capacity, we should only need to work a couple of days a week to have everything we need and live a healthy...
Applying Technology
With all our modern technology and automated production capacity, we should only need to work a couple of days a week to have everything we need and live a healthy...
Technology
I do hold this belief that technology should work for the benefit of the community and it is not. It may be making a handful of people rich beyond imagination...
Become a Healthy Food Ambassador
The global food crisis is not some threat for the future, it is here right now, it is not just about poor people starving in some remote country it is...
Serious think about food
Has the world gone mad? We have mega companies spending billions of dollars on advertising so we buy food that makes us fat and sick and die before our time....
Think smarter
I want to sell you a concept. It is free you don’t have to pay me anything but you do have to think seriously about it for five minutes and...
Thrive and survive
At the start, the earth was just a dead inert rock. Then the microbiota appeared, we don’t know from where, but they broke down the rocks making the nutrients in...
Smart young girl
There is a nice story about a smart young lady who stalled her ageing car on a busy road. Try as she might she could not get the car started...
Gbiota Soil Blood, Flood-and-Flush Irrigation, and Foliar Spray
Last updated 8th August with section on foliar irrigation Our basic inputs are organic waste, manure and volcanic rock dust. All cheap, readily available and sustainable. The microbes, particularly the...
Breeding Wickimix
Last updated 8th August with section on making Wickimix in Gbiota boxes Wickimix is simply a growing medium, soil teaming with life and nutrients and is central to the Gbiota...
Tim Spector
It is well known that our gut biota plays a major roles in our health. Many researchers, such as Tim Spector, Professor at Imperial College, London explains this in his...
Enhancing gut health
This was made as a page by a professional graphics designer, I am republishing as a post as I like the graphics
Food not pills
A million years ago the first humanoids appeared, they had a food Eco-system based on eating plants from living soils. These microbes bred in the soil, protected them and they...
Library
List of all articles
Real food
Ever think about what food is doing to your body? There are foods for energy, replace parts as they age and wear and to feed our gut. There is more...
Making a Gbiota box July 24
Update on how to make Gbota boxes July 24
Gbiota overview
Pick and eat plants grown in living soil – that is the way to feed your gut-brain which controls your appetite and how much fat your body stores. The wrong...
The essence
Describes the underlying principles of the Gbiota movement
My teddy
The heartless massacre of ordinary people by powerful militia and the possibility of World War 3 cannot go unnoticed. Neither can the waves of hungry refugees moving across the globe...
The Great Food War
Will the power of mega-corporations that control our food system reign supreme leaving the community fat and sick and destroying civilisation as we know it as the supply of essential...
Growers wanted
Growers wanted At this moment Gbiota is used by a pretty determined bunch who are prepared to the bother of making their own Gbiota beds and boxes. However, it is...
Feed your gut brain
We need the right sort of microbes in our gut to be healthy. The microbes in our gut communicate with each other to form our intelligent control system which regulates...
Community benefit
My wife Xiulan, a medical doctor and surgeon became diabetic, the professional medical given to us was that diabetes is an irreversible chronic disease, that will steadily get worse, we...
Does it work
Overweight, diabetes, heart attacks, and dementia all have a common underlying cause – the wrong fat in the wrong place. This is not because we have turned into little piggies...
Getting started
How to grow gut brain food and live a long and healthy life
Making a Gbiota box
Here I extract the key points from the many previous points and collect into one spost
Save 100,000 legs from diabetic amputation
I have set myself the target of saving 100,000 people from a diabetic leg amputation before the end of 2025. I know how to do this, I am an engineer...
Food crisis
Food is one of the major threats to humanity, not an absolute lack of food – we produce more than enough energy food, carbs, fats and sugars, to feed the...
Your turn
How to reduce 8 million amputation
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Why we get fat
We get fat because our gut-brain says so
Not little piggies
We don’t get fat and sick because we are little piggies and stuff ourselves with chicken wings, chips and ultra-processed foods. We get fat because we have deficiencies in our...
Eco-balance
Humans have evolved to be naturally not fat – it is not good in the survival stakes. Our bodies naturally sense when we are full and our gut manufactures hormones...
Compost – Bin or Bury?
It is just a sad fact of life that our modern food system is not working the way it should, which means reduced health span (the length of time we...
Food, health and wealth for all
I present a plan that will lead to a better life so we and our grandkids can live a happier and healthier life – the plan is about future food...
Why we need to act
People across the globe are suffering an epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks, and dementia. It is the biggest health threat facing humanity (See Survival). The underlying reason...
Gbiota boxes – made easy
Developing a simple Gbiota box for people living in apartments has been the focus of my development work – Why? The world is very different to when I was born....
Survival
Humans are the great survivors. We are the dominant species on Earth, spreading across the globe to every corner of the Earth that is vaguely habitable. Now we are under...
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Newsletter 11 March 2024
“Colin, we know you are trying to persuade people of the benefits of eating healthy food full of living beneficial microbes, but we already know that, and what we want...