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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Prevention better than cure
The gut is a highly sophisticated organ that does much more than digest food. It forms part of a real brain which controls our bodies, particularly our appetite, what and...
Solving the food crisis
The world is suffering a food crisis, not in quantity – we are actually producing more food than the world needs – but in the quality that will lead us...
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 ears scientist were puzzled about some...
Food matters
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...
Health starts in the soil
Health starts in the soil
What science tells us
Let us look at what science can tell us about life as though our lives depend on it – as they do. Back to the start The earth is some...
Gbiota meaning
Ask me what Gbiota is all about and I would reply the survival of our species. You may think that I would be talking about climate change, the degradation of...
Gbiota intro
Welcome to gbiota.com the technical web for the Gbiota movement which is focused on improving gut health by growing plants in biologically active, nutrient rich soils. We have tried to...
Future of food
We are the first generation in history which decides whether we are a healthy people living on a healthy planet or let short term greed lead to our destruction. Here...
Diabetes gut food project
We are experiencing a dramatic increase in diabetes. Fifty years ago just 1% of the population were diabetic but this has increased to 14% and is steadily increasing. We think...
Growing Gut food
ou can read latest newletter under new posts (free) The new industry of growing natural pre and pro biotics Background We know that there are trillions of cells in our...
Food for Gut Health
The Gbiota club is a community of people that wants to enhance their gut micro-biome by eating plants grown in soil teaming with beneficial microbes, minerals and nutrients. Members can...
Food for health
Historically four out of every five people died before their natural age from an infectious disease. Both medical science and our food system has responded by finding better ways of...
Community food
Growers breed beneficial microbes in organic matter in the soil, also adding rock dust which is broken down by the microbes into accessible minerals forming nutrient rich biologically active soil....
Welcome to worm pooh
Health and life span We all have to eat and what we eat determines our health and life span. Thanks to medical science our life span has been increasing, no...
Food and the gut biome
The bulk of the food we eat is just burned for energy. We are really just a walking talking thermodynamic machine just like any other thermodynamic machine from a steam...
Health starts in the soil
Every day we here stories of doom and gloom about food, price hikes from floods and droughts, problems with the supply chain from Covid, lack of nutrients and beneficial biota...
Action plan
Our gut brain is the key to good health. Consumer get fresh veggies which act as gut food which is genuinely healthy at an affordable price, growers get paid for...
Bit of a mess
Unless you are a total hermit you can’t have missed that the world is in a bit of a mess – Covid, bush fires, floods droughts and food shortages. When...
Community growers
If you looking at this web I assume you are interested in your health and understand that you just cannot be really healthy unless you are eating healthy food. You...
Time travel
The aim of the Gbiota technology is to replenish our gut with living beneficial biota and the food it needs to thrive. Gut biota has a short life so it...
Why Gbiota boxes
Our gut brain consists of trillions of cells which communicate with eat other and send out signals saying we need to eat more of this or that or simply stop...
I am a person
The aim of the Gbiota technology is to replenish our gut with living beneficial biota and the food it needs to thrive. Gut biota has a short life so it...
Bioboxes basics
The aim of the Gbiota technology is to replenish our gut with living beneficial biota and the food it needs to thrive. Gut biota has a short life so it...
The paradigm shift
In the wonderful world of food the established paradigm, based on chemistry, has been incredibly successful. In my life time, incredibly short on a geological time scale, we have increased...
Gut health
We have two brains, one that lives in our head and another we can call Gertrude that lives largely in our gut. They both work in the same way with...
Gut biology basics
The purpose of the Gbiota local food movement is to help people set up viable, ethical, and sustainable businesses supplying their local community with gut food. To understand why this...
Local gut food
It is about breeding beneficial biology in the soil and in the guts of the creatures that live in the soil. This biology enters the plants which we eat together...
Community food
Let me tell you a story about food. In our modern society all we seem to want as adults is a catch phrase ‘Make plum pudding tasty again’ or better...
Gut health
Our gut is one of the most important organs in our body – made up of trillions of cells that communicate with each other – it has real intelligence –...
Mother bed
Gbiota beds were developed to grow plants to feed our guts. Technically they have been successful but may be a bit complex for many people, particularly pregnant ladies and mums...
Action plan for gut health
People don’t get fat and sick simply because they just happen to eat too much, they get fat and sick because their gut brain is not working as it should...
Alice
Our gut is not strictly part of us and we, or rather our mum, has to make it for us from the food she eats and feeds us as a...
ecobalance
Why our gut brain is so important Our gut is one of the most important organs in our body. It contains trillions of cells which communicate with each, like in...
Gbiota box story
Over hundreds of thousands of years we have evolved a gut brain that automatically looks after us, without us even thinking about it – and it does it much better...
Opportunity
We all have to eat and the way we are currently growing our food is slowly but inevitably destroying our planet’s ability to grow the food we need. We are...
Introduction to Gbiota
This web is a bit different. We are not trying to sell you something – there are not special offers – buy now before prices jump – or any of...
Gbiota boxes
The purpose of GBiota beds is to breed beneficial biology in the soil. This biology enters the plants growing in the soil so when we eat the plants they act...
Immune
There are many plants in traditional medicine which are claimed to strengthen our immune system. There has been genuine scientific research into some of these plants which support these claims...
Delta
I am urgently looking for people or organisations to help improve the communities gut health and hence immune system by manufacturing and distributing Gbiota boxes. This delta virus is a...
updateAug21
This is an update on the practical side of making and managing Gbiota beds. I assume you are familiar with the previous publications and videos available under videos, blogs and...
Anthropocene
What should I eat so I am fit and healthy – what can eight billion people eat so they are fit and healthy and what will my great grand kids...
Overview
How gut food will enhance our gut biology and immune system – overview
Index
post written to link to key articles on growing plants to feed our gut
What food does
I start with what food does which explains the various jobs that food does in our bodies and how innovation has dramatically increased the overall supply of food – far...
Food and innovation
food and innovation which has led to the wrong development of the wrong sort of food and a two tier society of haves and have nots – which is intrinsically...
Principles of Gbiota beds
Gbiota beds grow plants to enhance our gut biology – here is the basic principles of how they work
Spreading the benefits of Gbiota beds
how to implement this technology – spreading the benefits of Gbiota beds so that the whole of society can benefit
Food and becoming adult
Our bodies have an inbuilt intelligent control system which regulates all aspect of our bodies including our appetite. The wide variety of species of micro biology in our gut is...
Greta Foodberg
In this article I show how Greta Foodberg and I are going to change the world’s food system. The good news it you only have to read the first and...
Feed your gut brain
Feed your gut brain My interest is how to grow plants that improve our gut brain – one of the most vital organs in our bodies and the key to...
Our gut brain
Modern food contains a surplus of energy food (fats and sugars) but is sadly lacking in the complex chemicals needed to regenerate our bodies. Our bodies sense this lack, sending...
Adapting to the food crisis
Learning how to adapt to the food crisis is the most important skill we can teach our kids. That means understanding how the world is changing then helping them change...
School Garden Project
In our gut are a huge number of micro organisms which talk to each to create an intelligent system – our gut brain. This gut brain controls our appetite, supports...
Health and life span
how food affect health and life span
The essence
Our guts do much more than help us digest our food. Our guts are part of the system which acts as an intelligent control system regulating our appetite, what and...
Dis-enabling
Yesterday the world changed. New Zealand has an explosion of new Corona cases. NZ was a beacon of hope. This shows just how contagious this virus is and how we...
Alernative food
Nutrition must be one of the most controversial, topics on the planet. Go on line and an ocean of confusing and contradicting views fuelled by inscrutable scientific data, dogma powered...
fresh food revolution
For consumers it will mean fresh produce full of the essential mineral, phytonutrients and beneficial biology which leads to a healthy gut biology which controls our appetite and immune system.
Tipping
We know that the current ‘fat in the wrong places’ epidemic (diabetes, dementia and obesity) has only occurred in the last fifty years and there was no such epidemic when...
Food for health
Do we really want our kids to grow up fat and diabetic, mums need to be eating food that feeds their gut biology, that’s what this story is all about.
Food basics
Do we really want our kids to grow up fat and diabetic, mums need to be eating food that feeds their gut biology, that’s what this web site is all...
Food for health
Gbiotafood was developed to provide the trace minerals and beneficial biology essential to health but missing in our modern food system.
GBiota Green Smoothies
Dietary advice can appear to be totally confusing with so many different opinions low fat, low carb, low meat, low eggs etc. Some people will never get fat and sick...
Letter From China: Fermented Food, Gut Health, and Why We Age So Differently
I came to China to look for better ways to make fermented foods that support gut biology, because gut biology is a…
What an Ordinary Chinese Town Reveals About Diet, Gut Health, and Aging Well
This article describes careful observation — “gawking” — in Jiangkou, an unremarkable town in inland China, and what it reveals about health,…
Diabetes and the Eco-Village: Wicking Beds, Minerals, and Practical Recovery
Type 2 diabetes is when insulin struggles to move sugar out of the bloodstream and into the muscles and organs. This article…
Reversing Type 2 Diabetes the Yangtou Way
Many people are told Type 2 diabetes is permanent and will only worsen, but that message is often wrong. This article explains…
Stay at Our Gbiota Village: Practical Support for Diabetes Recovery
Spend a few weeks at our Gbiota village and improve your chances of reversing Type 2 diabetes. You will be supported by…
The Future of Agriculture: Adapting Farming to Climate Change
This article is based on a talk Colin Austin — inventor of the wicking bed — gave during a China tour in September 2009.…
The Healthy Food Association: Growing Together for Better Health
This article introduces the Healthy Food Association, a non-profit community focused on improving health through nutrient-rich, biologically active soil and home-grown food.…
How Urban Agriculture Can Combat Hidden Hunger
This article is a summary of Colin Austin’s 2014 Shanghai–Wuhan talk on wicking beds and why “more food” is not the same…