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 us healthy.
We have an abundance of food, modern technology has increased, (and continues to increase), the production of energy food faster than the increase in population but it is failing to produce the food that sustains our gut microbes which control our bodies, particularly our appetite.
Without a functioning control system, we are like a high performance car with a drunk at the wheel.
The quality of our food matters and it is deficient in gut-brain food.
Survival
Species go extinct because of food. A few million years ago dinosaurs were by far the most successful creature on the planet. They had dominated the world for many millions of years.
Then out of the blue came an asteroid that wiped them out. It only killed a very few from the impact but it created a dust storm which blocked out the sun so the plants did not grow and the dinosaurs died from a broken food system.
Today we face a similar crisis, not a lack of food but a lack of food that controls our bodies, particularly our appetite.
We see a warning shot from the modern epidemic of chronic diseases but this is just the start. Chronic diseases have the common feature of the wrong fat in the wrong place and that starts with a failure of our control system which regulates where and how much fat we store.
The microbes in our gut are a critical part of this control system, but where do they come from? From the creatures of the soil the worms, ants, beetles, nematodes etc which are the world’s recyclers. They breed the microbes in their gut by recycling organic waste.
We only survive as a species by courtesy of the recyclers.
They are, or at least should be an integral part of our food system but we are destroying them.
This may seem a trivial issue but it determines whether the human species survives and thrives or goes the way of the dinosaurs – not a spectacular end just a slow deciduous decline if the woke destructors have their way.
The mild-mannered caring people of the world must win this conflict.
Microbes and swarm intelligence
The microbes in our gut communicate with each other to form swarm or group intelligence – our gut-brain.
Our gut-brain monitors all the food we eat and the effect it has on our bodies.
This information is shared via the Vagus nerve with our head brain which learns and remembers.
Our gut-brain monitors our bodies looking for deficiencies. If it finds a deficiency it will access our head brain to find out what foods will satisfy that deficiency then send out a complex hormone mix so we want to eat that particular food.
If it finds that we have all the food we need it will send out hormones to tell us we are full so we no longer want to eat.
For the gut-brain to work effectively it needs the right balance of microbes.
These come initially from mum at birth and breed inside our gut and later from the food we eat.
Our food needs to contain a fresh supply of microbes of the right species and food to feed the existing microbes.
Microbes breed very fast but also die very fast, they exist in a state of dynamic equilibrium with old microbes being replaced by new microbes.
We need to eat fibre to feed the existing microbes so they can breed in our gut.
We need to refurbish our microbes by eating plants growing in soil where the microbes are breeding.
Species matter
The species of microbes that breed in the soil depend on the conditions. If the conditions are favourable the beneficial microbes will out breed and out compete the harmful microbes. If the conditions are unfavourable harmful microbes which make us sick will out breed and out compete the beneficial microbes.
Eco-balance
This is called Eco-balance – creating a stable Ecosystem which is in a state of stable balance.
The conditions are a balance of nutrients, water and air.
Nutrients come from was decaying organic matter and plants. Living plants exude nutrients from their roots with different species of plants exuding different nutrients which attract and feed different species of microbes.
Traditionally we ate food that was full of organic waste and ate plants so we naturally had a broad spectrum of microbes.
Infectious vs non-infectious disease
This meant that generally, we had a broad spectrum of beneficial microbes but because there was no control of the conditions there were times when harmful microbes out bred the beneficial microbes. The result was that most people died from infectious diseases, particularly the young.
In recent times we have changed our food system from one relying on organic waste as the source of nutrients by adopting a system of mono-culture so the spectrum of microbes is reduced.
We no longer predominantly die from infectious diseases but die from non-infectious or chronic diseases obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.
Three out of four people now die from a non-infectious disease. Diabetes is the fastest growing disease with over eight million people having a limb amputated.
But this is just the start.
Rectification
We can rectify this by growing plants in soil with favourable conditions – the correct balance of nutrients in the form of organic waste, and the correct balance of air and water.
Water only moves through the soil when it reaches a critical point often referred to as field capacity when the surface tension forces in the soil balance gravity.
The field capacity of most soils it too high for breeding the optimum spectrum of microbes.
The field capacity of the soil depends on the pore size of the soil.
The creatures of the soil have the secondary benefit of boring through the soil creating flow channels and the microbes they exude lead to the soil aggregating which further increases the porosity of the soil.
The Air and Water Balance
We can achieve a favourable balance of air and water by having a soil with an open pore structure and a process of flooding the soil and then allowing the soil to drain.
When the soil is flooded stale air is expelled and when it drains fresh air is sucked into the soil. We are making the soil breathe.
As the soil drains, we can catch the drainage and recycle. We call this soil blood as it is circulating nutrients air and microbes.
Our modern food system lacks these beneficial microbes so the plants have a very low microbial density and the time from harvest to eating means that any beneficial microbes will have died.
Later the microbial vacuum will be replaced by harmful microbes – it will have gone rotten.
There is a big difference between having beneficial microbes and not gone rotten.
Local v centralised
This process of breeding beneficial microbes is difficult to do on an industrial scale but is very easy for people to do at home, even if they have no garden or growing experience. Just grow plants in Gbiota boxes and use the flood and flush system.
This has many advantages other than enhancing our gut microbes particularly it is a lot cheaper than our modern remote growing system and it naturally recycles organic waste which would otherwise end up as greenhouse gases and food is always available in times of crisis.
Gbiota boxes can be readily made from boxes available at any hardware store together with regular potting mix and seeds.
It does however need a starter or inoculant kit containing a spectrum of beneficial microbes which is easily purchased online and will need replacing preferably twice a year – the microbial Ecosystem is delicate.
